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  1. Source tells Vlast newsletter that Putin welcomed late-October call from Finland’s president and Norway’s prime minister as a possible start of substantive talks with Europe · 2 outlets carry this story
  2. Mediazona names at least 350 Russian conscripts killed in Ukraine despite official Kremlin policy against sending them into combat
  3. Investigation finds Russia’s billboards featuring troops fighting in Ukraine include men with criminal convictions and soldiers accused of war crimes
  4. Russia has declared hundreds of hotels in occupied Ukraine ‘ownerless.’ Dozens have been taken over — but one Ukrainian hotelier is fighting back.
  5. Hundreds of cow carcasses reportedly burned near village outside Moscow following disease outbreak
  6. Russia’s trainspotters have spent years documenting the country’s railways. Amid the war, their hobby has put them in the crosshairs of the security services.
  7. Russia’s economy is suffering under the weight of war and sanctions. So why is the ruble still one of the world’s strongest currencies?
  8. Russia’s State Duma and Federation Council reportedly to cut administrative staff by 15%
  9. Russia moves to let airlines keep flying foreign-leased planes they never returned after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
  10. Zelensky says Russian strikes have damaged every power plant in Ukraine · 3 outlets carry this story
  11. ‘Everyone is just going to be thrilled’: Trump promises ‘big, beautiful agreement’ to end war in Ukraine
  12. Ukraine attacks Afipsky oil refinery in southern Russia
  13. Here’s what we know three days after the clash at a temporary base for the National Guard’s Azov Corps outside Kyiv
  14. Polish authorities detain a Russian woman and five Poles on suspicion of illegally supplying weapons components to Russia
  15. After condemning Latvia’s support for Kyiv, activist moves to Russia and is sent to fight in Ukraine, relatives say · 2 outlets carry this story
  16. Police in St. Petersburg disrupt letter-writing event for political prisoners
  17. In 1993, Novaya Gazeta reporters posing as a foreign buyer’s representatives were offered uranium pellets, plutonium plates, and a Soviet SS-20 nuclear warhead
  18. How Novaya Gazeta journalists tried to buy a nuclear warhead in 1990s Russia
  19. Altai beer maker asks Putin to hand it Coca-Cola’s former Russian business
  20. Finnish court sentences Russian captain to 3.5 years for deliberately damaging Gulf of Finland cables · 2 outlets carry this story
  21. Zelensky says he hopes a Democratic Congress will bring more U.S. support, while Moscow counts on Trump to keep up peace efforts · 2 outlets carry this story
  22. Russia is requiring employers to hire soldiers who fought in Ukraine. Meduza found they’re being recruited as kindergarten teachers, school psychologists, and even ballet dancers.
  23. Melania Trump meets with Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House · 7 outlets carry this story
  24. Ukraine jails two women who claimed soldiers were being held in a basement near Kyiv
  25. Teacher from Ukraine’s Kharkiv dies in Russian custody in occupied Crimea. She was arrested while visiting her parents.
  26. Ukraine releases bodycam footage from Komyshuvakha, where at least 42 people were killed in a Russian strike. The officer who filmed it was among the dead.
  27. US court drops criminal case against Russian scientist Kseniia Petrova, accused of smuggling frog embryos
  28. Two tankers headed to US under Trump-Putin diesel deal change course · 5 outlets carry this story
  29. Ukrainian drones strike Russia’s Ryazan region, with fires reported at oil refinery and Wildberries warehouse · 2 outlets carry this story
  30. Occupied Crimea extends school break as Ukrainian strikes leave the peninsula without power

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