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Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on 6 October that Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to Turkmenistan on 8-9 October to attend the CIS Heads of State Council and the Caspian Environmental Summit, both held in the Awaza national tourist zone. Leaders of nine CIS states confirmed participation. The Kremlin press service said the leaders will review 35 years of cooperation and discuss priority areas, with documents planned on law-enforcement, humanitarian and information cooperation and foreign-policy coordination. On the first day Putin will meet Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, and on 9 October Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on 6 October that deploying a NATO military base and nuclear weapons on Lithuanian territory would mark a new round of escalating tension that Russia would be forced to answer. Russia 'will of course be forced to take all necessary measures to reliably ensure its own security', he said. He described the approach of alliance military infrastructure to Russia's borders and the deployment of nuclear weapons in a neighbouring state as 'a step towards escalating tension'. Lithuanian Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas had earlier said the country was ready to host a permanent US military base, and Lithuanian lawmakers backed a constitutional amendment lifting the ban on weapons of mass destruction and foreign bases.

According to RBC citing two sources familiar with the investigation, several days before the detention of Patriot Park director Igor Vasilyev, law enforcement detained his first deputy Sergei Fedosov and deputy director for operations Alexei Pavlyukov. The sources said Fedosov was charged with large-scale fraud, while Pavlyukov and Vasilyev face charges of large-scale bribe-taking. Moscow's Khamovniki District Court on 2 October remanded both in custody for two months at the investigators' request; the next day the alleged bribe-giver, Hermes CEO Yevgeny Mariev, was placed under house arrest. In December 2025 the park signed contracts with Hermes worth more than 1.4 billion roubles. The hearing on a preventive measure for Vasilyev was held on Tuesday 6 October.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on 6 October that Moscow registers reports that NATO is drawing up a plan for an attack on Russia and is working to prevent any threats from its western neighbours. 'We hear, but we keep our ears open; the main thing is we are doing the tasks the president set in the special military operation, not to allow any threats to the Russian Federation from our western neighbours,' he said. He recalled Vladimir Putin's words at the Valdai Club: an attack on the Kaliningrad region or any other Russian region would have 'one answer'. Lavrov said NATO is trying to expand its military presence into the Far East, South-East and North-East Asia, a point he raised with his East Timorese counterpart.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel on 6 October, ironically addressing EU leaders over pupil protests in France and urging them to speak up. 'So it is fine in Paris for police to beat their own children. What happened to the human rights concerns of the Elysee Palace? I do not hear Kaja Kallas and the other inhabitants of the beautiful garden, speak up,' she wrote. The French school protests began in September; by 4 October participants had wrecked or set fire to 24 educational institutions and another 400 to 500 had suspended operations, with 78 education staff injured. French police said 86,000 people took part in demonstrations on 6 October, while the CGT union estimated 260,000; police used tear gas, batons and special munitions.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with the Ctrl Z programme of Armenian news site Infocom that Armenia has not yet taken a final decision on the technology for a new nuclear plant and does not rule out the Russian option, nor other options. Interest in the plant is growing mainly thanks to new investment programmes, he said: for example, Amazon is ready to invest in Armenia, but they need a 1,000-megawatt station and a 24-hour stable 1,000-megawatt resource. Pashinyan said a year ago Armenia had a surplus of electricity and is now a country with a deficit, so it must consider both imports and domestic generation. Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev said in Yerevan on 29 September that the new unit should have a capacity of at least 1 GW and that a concrete proposal had been made for a 1,000-MW VVER-1000 unit.

The Bank of Russia added Sberbank and VTB to the register of digital depositories on its website; VTB was also included in the register of digital currency exchange operators. Besides the two banks, Volatri, Oblachnaya Infrastruktura and Atomize entered the digital depository register; besides VTB, the crypto exchange register includes Zefir, Sistema-Kripto and T-Invest Lab. The Central Bank explained that digital depositories may record and transfer digital currencies and digital rights, while crypto exchangers may buy and sell digital currencies on their own account outside organised trading. VTB deputy board chairman Vitaly Sergeychuk said access to trading is planned for November and December 2026.

Interfax reported that by 08:14 Moscow time December Brent futures on London's ICE Futures rose $0.58, or 0.58%, to $100.90 a barrel. The previous session Brent fell $1.93, or 1.89%, to $100.32. November WTI futures on NYMEX rose $0.46, or 0.51%, to $89.89, after falling $1.68, or 1.84%, to $89.43 in the previous session. Citing Kpler data, Middle East oil exports exceeded pre-war levels on four of the seven days of the last week of September, running at 19.5 to 22.5 million barrels per day against an average of 18 million bpd between March 2025 and February 2026.

The Irkutsk region office of Rospotrebnadzor said on 6 October that reports of an enhanced sanitary and epidemiological regime and strict restrictions in the region are untrue. 'A false message is circulating online; we report that the said document and information do not come from official sources and are untrue,' the statement said. The agency stressed that no such decisions had been taken and that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the region and the cities of Irkutsk and Shelekhov is calm. On 4 October the agency had reported a special set of measures after an employee of the Irkutsk anti-plague institute of Siberia and the Far East fell ill with pneumonia of unknown etiology; no microorganisms linked to her professional activity were found in her samples.

More than 11.6 million people have been vaccinated against flu across Russian regions, with the campaign ongoing, Rospotrebnadzor said on 6 October. The agency press service said over 688,000 cases of acute respiratory viral infections, flu and COVID-19 were registered in week 40 of the year, slightly below the previous week. Virological monitoring shows non-influenza viruses predominate at 98.5% of circulating respiratory viruses, including rhinoviruses at 53% and parainfluenza at 14.5%; influenza viruses account for 1.5%, with A(H1N1), B and C detected. The agency recalled that vaccination is one of the most effective protection methods.

The teenager who stabbed an ambulance crew in Moscow has been taken to a psychiatric hospital, Regnum was told by law enforcement services. The 17-year-old youth was taken to a specialised medical facility for people with mental disorders, a source told TASS. The young man is believed to be registered at a psychoneurological dispensary with autism; his mother was also taken to a special hospital and is registered with a psychiatrist. The incident occurred on 6 October in Moscow's Presnensky district; the boy's 36-year-old mother called the ambulance. According to preliminary information, he locked himself in the bathroom and, when medics tried to reach him, opened the door and attacked them with a knife. A paramedic and an orderly were hospitalised with cuts to the cheek and temple area.

Duty air defence assets intercepted and destroyed 868 Ukrainian armed forces drones overnight, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. The drones were neutralised over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver and Tula regions, the Moscow region, Crimea and the Sea of Azov, the ministry said. Interfax reported that 650 drones headed towards the Moscow region overnight, and Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said 185 drones were downed overnight across 16 municipalities.

Russian Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin chaired a headquarters meeting on 6 October on dealing with the aftermath of the attack on the Aframax Rio tanker off the Black Sea coast. The Transport Ministry press service said oil is still burning openly in the Black Sea; extinguishing can only begin once the fire intensity decreases and rescue vessels can safely approach the tanker. Available forces and means are sufficient, the ministry stressed. The Liberia-flagged vessel carrying oil was attacked by unmanned boats in the Black Sea on the evening of 6 October; its 23 crew members are all Indian nationals, all rescued, with no injuries reported preliminarily. Sirius mayor Dmitry Plishkin announced a temporary closure of beaches, and Sochi authorities also restricted access to city beaches and embankments.

Acting Bryansk region governor Yegor Kovalchuk said on 6 October that a civilian in the region died after stepping on an explosive device. The tragedy occurred in a forest near the village of Velya in the Zhukovsky district. A 47-year-old man in a forest near the village of Velya in the Zhukovsky district stepped on an explosive device and died on the spot from his injuries, the acting head wrote on the MAX messenger. He also reported more frequent remote drops of explosive devices by UAVs, mostly in fields, forests and forest roads. The devices arm on landing, detonate on contact, and also react without contact to metal objects within a radius of up to 1 metre. He urged residents to avoid forests in areas adjacent to the special operation zone.

Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Tuesday that a drone attack on the region left one person dead and six injured. According to preliminary data, six people were injured; in Pokrovskoye a man with shrapnel wounds was taken to hospital, and in Istra two residents of Yadromino and Gorki were hospitalised, one of them requiring surgery, Vorobyov wrote on MAX. Three more people needed medical help in the village of Lyakhovo in Domodedovo district. Unfortunately there is a fatality: in the settlement of Radumlya in Solnechnogorsk district a 20-year-old man was killed in the attack, the governor said. He added that work to deal with the aftermath continues and residents are receiving necessary help. Overnight 650 drones headed towards the Moscow region and 185 were downed across 16 municipalities of the region.

President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Tuesday opened the country's first Moscow electric battery cluster in the Tekhnopolis Moscow special economic zone, ahead of Moscow Industry Day. Moscow has already created 250 high-tech enterprises in the SEZ; today a new cluster opens, a battery cluster, the largest in the country and one of the most advanced in the world, consisting of two gigafactories, Sobyanin said. According to city hall materials, the cluster covers over 34 hectares and by 2030 will meet almost 70% of domestic market demand for modern storage batteries. At full capacity the two plants will produce up to 33 million battery cells a year, with total production area of about 200,000 square metres and more than 2,100 new high-tech jobs. Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev attended. Traction batteries account for about 35% of the cost of electric transport, the materials note.

The Russian government has approved a bioeconomy development strategy through 2036 providing for bio-regions, specialised territorial clusters, according to a government directive. The document says the key instrument for polycentric territorial development will be the formation of regional specialised territorial clusters. They will host modern bio-production and logistics infrastructure linked to obtaining and processing biomass on bioeconomy principles. Depending on natural, climatic and biomass conditions, agro-industrial bio-regions may appear in southern Russia, the Chernozem region, the Volga area and the Altai; maritime bio-regions in Primorye and the Murmansk region. In the Arctic, study and sustainable use of the region's biological diversity is planned, as are forest bio-regions. The document envisages a shift from extensive logging to intensive full-cycle biomass processing and the production of biocomposites and nanocellulose.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, the Nobel Committee announced on Tuesday, for key contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. Halzen was born in 1944 in Tienen, Belgium, and works at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The committee press release notes that in 1988 he proposed using the ice at the South Pole to detect neutrinos from high-energy processes in the distant Universe. His vision and scientific leadership were fundamental to the creation of the IceCube observatory in 2011, a block of ice of over a cubic kilometre beneath the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, with highly sensitive photomultipliers at depths of up to 2.5 km.

International competitions and the final of the Russian Parachuting Cup opened in Chechnya on 6 October, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. The events take place at the Goodsky parachute training centre of the Russian Special Forces University. A total of 126 athletes from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are taking part, including winners and medallists of Russian and international events and world and European championships and cups. The international accuracy landing competition is timed to the Russian president's 74th birthday, while the canopy piloting Cup final is dedicated to the memory of Chechnya's first president Akhmat-Hadji Kadyrov. Chechen deputy prime minister Akhmat Kadyrov said at the opening that the centre has become a modern platform for training athletes and holding top-level competitions.

Major Chinese marketplace Poizon (known in Russia as Dewu) has disclosed its Russian seller terms to Kommersant for the first time: the maximum commission does not exceed 29%, with premium sellers — assessed on a set of business metrics including contribution to total platform sales — eligible for rates from 19%; the rate depends on product category and cooperation model. Settlements follow a T+7 model, with weekly and monthly payout options also available. According to the Union of Marketplace Sellers, commissions reach 40–55% at Wildberries, 35–55% at Ozon and 30–55% at Yandex Market. Ozon said the rate stated in legal documents is nominal: over the first seven months of 2026 the average commission actually paid by Russian sellers was 1.54% of the price of goods sold. Yandex Market said the commission for clothing, footwear and accessories is 14%, against an average of 45–52% previously depending on the logistics model. RWB did not respond.

According to calculations from Ekopsi provided to Vedomosti, unmet demand for blue-collar workers will grow more than 2.5-fold by 2030, from roughly 1 million to 2.61 million people; even allowing for compensating factors, about one in ten jobs would remain unfilled. In 2024, demand stood at 24.52 million against 23.52 million employed, or 95.9% coverage. By the end of the decade demand rises to 24.97 million while supply falls to 22.36 million, cutting coverage to 89.5% and leaving a shortfall equal to 10.5% of total demand. Demography is the main driver: by 2030 the 30–34 cohort shrinks by 2.82 million, the 35–39 cohort by 3.41 million and the 60–64 cohort by 2.03 million. Only 28.8% of employed 20–29-year-olds are blue-collar workers, versus 40.2% among 60–64-year-olds. Holding labour productivity flat, economic growth would require about 2.86 million additional workers by 2030.

The St Petersburg Exchange, citing a presidential decree tightening control over information and statistics in the energy sector, has stopped publishing a number of data sets in its Oil Products section. These include the volume of contracts concluded for individual instruments where the underlying asset is gasoline or diesel (volume in tonnes and roubles, number of contracts), including the 15-minute delayed feed, contract-card data, archived gasoline and diesel sales plans, and the daily and monthly trading bulletins for the section, including archives. The exchange said the data will continue to reach trading participants via the Terminal workstation and information-service users under a confidentiality regime. The measures implement decree No. 686 signed by Vladimir Putin in September, which sets out the list of restricted energy-sector information.

The Russian government has issued a favourable opinion on State Duma bill No. 1136619-8, introduced in January by a group of deputies led by Deputy Speaker Aleksey Gordeyev and Agrarian Committee Chairman Vladimir Kashin. The amendments to the law on the circulation of medicinal products would require that a veterinary drug imported for registration in Russia and not previously registered there under the same international non-proprietary or grouping name undergo clinical trials only on Russian territory. The bill also adds provisions on automatic data exchange between state agricultural information systems to the laws on veterinary medicine, pedigree livestock breeding, safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals, and seed production. The government said provisions on transferring data from the unified federal system on agricultural land to other sectoral systems should be removed and set out in government acts instead; because the bill introduces mandatory requirements, it can take effect no earlier than 1 March 2027, versus the 1 September 2026 date proposed by its authors.

According to Autostat, Russian new passenger car sales fell 6.2% year on year in September 2026 to 115,100 units, while January–September volume reached 960,000 units, up 7.2% year on year. Lada led September with 28,400 units (+7.6%), followed by Haval at 13,400 (-19.6%) and Tenet at 12,400 (up 4.7-fold). For January–September: Lada 236,806 units (24.67% share, -0.4%), Haval 127,666 (13.3%, +16.4%), Tenet 101,136 (10.53%, up 37-fold), Geely 58,077 (6.05%, -6.9%), Belgee 42,977 (4.48%, +6.1%) and Changan 40,768 (4.25%, -19.5%). Dealers surveyed describe the market as stagnant: lending rates are high and NBKI data show car-loan application rejection rates near 70% over the summer; the suspension of subsidised car-loan and leasing programmes is expected to weigh on October, with forecasts of 110,000–118,000 units for the month.

At the CarX 2026 forum organised by Autostat, heads of the Russian divisions of the Chinese "big four" (GWM with its core Haval brand, Tenet, Geely and Changan) gave their 2027 outlooks. GWM strategy director Aleksandr Zubik said the base case is 4.2% growth in the passenger car and LCV market to 1.47 million units; the optimistic case, which the company considers unlikely, is 9.5% growth to 1.54 million; the pessimistic case is 1.39 million, a 1.7% decline. The base forecast for this year is 1.41 million. Tenet COO Ilya Perminov forecast about 1.35 million this year and 5% growth to 1.4 million next year. Geely sales director Aleksey Markov expects 1.3–1.35 million this year, while Changan CEO Aleksandr Kulagin expects 1.4–1.45 million next year against 1.35–1.4 million this year. According to Autostat, the four brands together took 33.2% of the passenger car market in January–September, with combined sales of 327,600 units. Executives cited the key rate and the Central Bank’s restrictions on lending to heavily indebted borrowers, exchange-rate dynamics and logistics costs, and the indexation of the utilisation fee from 1 January 2027.

According to a presentation by the Autostat analytical agency at the CarX 26 forum, imports of new passenger cars into Russia rose 25% year on year in January–September 2026 to 301,000 units, with Geely the leading brand and the Mazda CX-5 the top model. China was the largest source of new vehicles with a 70.9% share, followed by Kyrgyzstan at 18% and Belarus at 3.1%. Used car imports grew 4% over the same period to 334,300 units, with Toyota the most sought-after brand and the Toyota Corolla the leading model; Japan topped the used segment with 57.5%, ahead of China (25.2%) and South Korea (7.6%).

The yuan stood at 12.705 rubles on the Moscow Exchange at 19:00, down 4.9 kopecks from the previous close, as the ruble recovered losses after a sharp fall the previous day. The Finance Ministry had earlier announced that from 7 October it would increase foreign currency and gold purchases under the budget rule fivefold to 12.7 billion rubles a day; combined with the regulator’s operations, total Central Bank purchases rise to 12.1 billion rubles a day from the current 1.9 billion, taking their share of daily exchange turnover from about 1% to 7%. The Central Bank raised its official dollar rate effective 7 October by 78.07 kopecks to 85.7116 rubles and the euro rate by 69.64 kopecks to 96.0313 rubles. Because of the 1–7 October holidays in China, yuan settlements will only be processed on 8 October.

The Bank of Russia has added Sberbank and VTB to the register of digital depositories, with VTB also entered in the register of digital currency exchange operators. Alongside Sber and VTB, the depository register includes Volari, Oblachnaya Infrastruktura and Atomize, while the exchange register also lists Zefir, Sistema-kripto and T-Invest lab. VTB said it expects to open digital currency trading to a broad range of investors via VTB My Investments in November and through its own exchange desk in December 2026. Sber said on 5 October that it planned to launch its first crypto products on 1 December 2026, subject to the Central Bank’s decision and the readiness of subordinate regulations. The Central Bank explained that digital depositories may record and transfer digital currencies and digital rights and give clients access to identifier addresses, while exchange operators may buy and sell digital currencies on their own account outside organised trading. The law on digital currencies and digital rights has been in force since 1 September: non-qualified investors may buy only Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether USDT within an annual limit of 300,000 rubles through a single intermediary, while qualified investors face no product or amount limits; exporters and importers may use cryptocurrency for cross-border settlements without restrictions; after the transition period, liability for illegal intermediary activity takes effect on 1 July 2027.

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said at a briefing that the CIS has built a resilient financial infrastructure independent of external influence, with almost all mutual payments made in national currencies and their share in commercial operations between member states above 90%. He also noted that the North–South and East–West transport and logistics corridors are being upgraded. According to Vedomosti, Ushakov said Russia’s trade with CIS countries exceeded $110bn in 2025, with mutual trade up a further 12% in the first half of 2026.

A platform-solutions development model drawn up by the Trade expert group under the National Digital Platform Development Strategy to 2036 projects Russian online trade turnover reaching 33 trillion rubles by 2030, 2.3 times the 2025 level. It includes marketplace-enabled exports of 4–5 trillion rubles, equal to 5–6.3% of non-resource, non-energy exports against 3.3% in 2025. Online trade turnover was 13.2 trillion rubles in 2025 and is modelled to rise to 15.7 trillion rubles in 2026 (7.2 trillion in H1 2026). The contribution of internet trade to GDP rises to 3.5% from 1.9% in 2025, with marketplaces alone going to 2% from 0.4%. The Digital Platforms Association told Interfax the forecast implies average annual growth of about 20%, below the 34% recorded over 2016–2025, i.e. a gradual slowdown as the market saturates. Retail outlets connected to online sales channels are expected to rise from 211,000 to 400,000 and pickup points, including automated lockers, from 310,000 to 500,000; marketplace orders per capita per year may grow from 59 in 2024 to 120 by 2030.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at the Digital Solutions forum that Russia ranks first by growth rate among the twenty largest e-commerce markets and has held that position for a fifth consecutive year. He added that the turnover of digital companies grew by almost 20% over the year to reach 21 trillion rubles. The remarks were made at a plenary session of the forum; the methodology behind the ranking and the list of markets compared were not given in the speech.