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On 10 October presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that Vladimir Putin, in his call with Donald Trump, noted that the earlier understanding was to resume trilateral talks involving the United States and Ukraine immediately after the State Duma election, but that Kyiv — by launching a massive drone strike on Moscow, other cities and polling stations on the main day of voting — effectively destroyed the chance of an immediate resumption, and that Russia would now consider when the talks could resume. Ushakov added that Trump listened carefully to the Russian arguments and said he would have the relevant signals passed to the Ukrainian delegation, which is in Miami for contacts with American representatives. Compared with the 9 October report on the call itself, the new element is the explanation of the conditions for resuming talks.

Gazeta.Ru, citing RIA Novosti and law-enforcement sources, reports that Sergei Zakamorny, former head of the Defense Ministry’s forestry and nature-use department, has been arrested in Moscow on charges of taking a bribe on an especially large scale. The criminal case against him was opened on 8 October, he was detained the same day, and the next day Moscow’s Khamovnichesky court granted the request for his detention.

Interfax reports that US President Donald Trump told reporters in Washington on 10 October that Ukraine needs a new leader capable of striking deals, saying Volodymyr Zelensky could have ended the conflict with Russia many times but "chooses not to." He added that Zelensky wants to "create problems for the whole world" by striking Russian refineries, recalling that Washington had repeatedly asked Kyiv to stop such attacks.

Interfax reports that on 10 October in Washington Donald Trump said he had asked Volodymyr Zelensky without success not to hit Russian refineries, so as not to create a worldwide diesel shortage. "We told him: you can strike anything in Russia, but don’t touch the refineries, because that becomes a problem for the whole world," he said, adding that there were no other restrictions but Kyiv "went after diesel fuel specifically."

Gazeta.Ru reports that EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas said on X that EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on 12 October will approve the largest sanctions package against Russia since the Ukraine conflict began. She said suspending sanctions on Russian diesel would give Moscow extra revenue and that now is not the time to ease pressure, which Europe will not do; she added that the new restrictions will target Russia’s military industry. Citing diplomatic sources, the outlet says ambassadors have already agreed a list of 1,569 entries — 743 individuals and 826 organizations.

Kommersant, citing the Azerbaijani presidential press service, reports that President Ilham Aliyev met Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov in Baku on 10 October. The sides discussed developing cooperation between the two regions and noted the deep historical and fraternal ties between the Azerbaijani and Chechen peoples. Aliyev congratulated Kadyrov on successes in Chechnya’s socio-economic development, while Kadyrov called his trip "a visit to brothers, not neighbours" and expressed condolences over the December 2024 crash of the Baku–Grozny flight.

RBC reports that the Russian government press service announced on 10 October that the cabinet, implementing the agreements between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, has partially lifted the diesel export ban; the decision takes effect on 10 October and at this stage allows 500,000 tonnes of diesel to be supplied to the world market. The statement says Russian oil companies, in coordination with the government, will immediately start contracting deliveries with foreign counterparties. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the decision will not affect Russian consumers: diesel is produced from Russian crude at Russian refineries, and output is sufficient both to fully supply the domestic market and to deliver the stated volumes to the world market. The ban on diesel exports for non-producers has been in force since 31 January 2026, was extended to producers on 9 July and had previously been prolonged until 31 October 2026. New relative to the 9 October report is the formal government resolution and the specific 500,000-tonne volume.

RBC reports that Norilsk Nickel president Vladimir Potanin said in an interview with RBC TV that the authorities and business have passed the point at which the tax burden starts working against budget revenues, with a shortfall in investment dragging on growth. "Growth is low, so the tax base is shrinking while spending rises. Hence tension for the budget," he said, calling the investment shortage the key problem. Citing an Economic Development Ministry forecast, the report notes fixed-capital investment fell 2.3% in real terms in 2025, is expected to fall a further 5.4% in 2026 and to return to a marginal 0.2% growth only in 2027. Potanin said a heavier fiscal burden is acceptable in the current situation, but "only on money already earned, not on money business does not yet have."

RBC, citing a Federal Antimonopoly Service statement provided to TASS, reports that 93 fuel-price stabilization agreements have been signed between regional authorities and independent filling-station operators in 35 Russian regions; 20 of them were signed with companies owning more than 20 stations in the relevant region. Such agreements are in force in Voronezh, Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Belgorod, Kirov, Volgograd, Samara, Tambov and Vologda regions, in Mordovia, Tatarstan, Khakassia, Buryatia and Yakutia, and in Stavropol, Perm and Khabarovsk territories. The service said support for regions and independent operators remains one of its priorities.

Gazeta.Ru, citing RIA Novosti, reports that Deputy Health Minister Yevgenia Kotova said on the sidelines of an international health conference in Turkmenistan that over ten years cancer diagnostics in Russia have improved more than twofold, with early-stage detection exceeding 60%. She attributed the result to the national cancer-control project and said five-year survival rates are also rising, extending life expectancy. She singled out progress against childhood cancer, saying the WHO has recognised Russia as one of the leaders in that area.

Kommersant reports that the Belarusian State Committee for Standardization has banned the import and sale in Belarus of the Russian bagged tea Greenfield Buckwheat & Cocoabeans. The committee said the product failed safety requirements: tests found mould at 7,000 colony-forming units per gram against a permitted maximum of 100 CFU/g — a 70-fold exceedance — and also detected coliform bacteria in one gram of the product, which the Eurasian Customs Union food-safety technical regulation does not allow.

Interfax reports that the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday 10 October that air defense assets shot down two HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system rockets and 725 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over a 24-hour period.

Kommersant reports that the Russian Defense Ministry press service said on 10 October that Russian forces struck the "ATM UkrSibbank" data center in Kyiv with drones, the ministry saying Ukrainian forces used the facility to store intelligence data; the same statement said a dry cargo ship carrying military cargo to the port of Odesa was also hit. The outlet notes the ministry has regularly reported strikes on data centers in Ukraine since mid-September. Interfax published separate reports the same day on the strike on the Kyiv data center and on the cargo ship being hit in the Black Sea.

Interfax reports that the Belgorod region operational headquarters said on Saturday 10 October that in the village of Pervomaisky in Rakitnoye district, two drones detonated in the parking lot of an enterprise, with 12 cars sustaining varying damage.

Interfax reports that the Federal Air Transport Agency said on Saturday 10 October that temporary restrictions on accepting and dispatching aircraft had been imposed at Penza and Saratov airports, necessary to ensure flight safety; the same message also mentioned Saransk airport. Later in the evening RIA Novosti reported that temporary restrictions on accepting and dispatching aircraft were also introduced at Sochi airport, likewise to ensure flight safety.

Kommersant reports that Yandex has added to its services user agreement a list of force majeure circumstances releasing the company from liability, including drone attacks. Drone raids are described as circumstances beyond the parties’ will and outside their reasonable control that make proper performance of obligations impossible; the list also covers the consequences of military action, natural and sanitary threats, terrorism, major man-made disasters, and the adoption of authority acts making performance impossible. The outlet notes the agreement was updated after drone attacks on the company’s data centers in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and Kaluga on 8 and 9 October: no one was injured but infrastructure was damaged and a criminal case on a terrorist act was opened.

Kommersant reports that Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev said on 10 October that the company intends to go "to the end of the legal chain" in litigation with Finland, which terminated the contract for the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear plant. "I keep hoping that when the political clouds clear and these oddities in the behaviour of some EU countries pass, the Finnish government will return to this topic, just as the Bulgarian government is now returning to the idea of developing nuclear energy," he added. The outlet recalls that the project was an unbuilt single-unit plant in Finland: the construction application was filed in 2015 and in May 2022 the Finnish company Fennovoima terminated the contract, citing significant delays by Rosatom and the conflict in Ukraine.

Kommersant reports that Russian swimmer Yegor Kornev set a world record in the men’s 50m butterfly at the World Cup short-course leg in Tashkent, clocking 21.28 seconds and beating the previous mark of 21.32 set by Switzerland’s Noè Ponti at the 2024 world championships. The 22-year-old won a world title in the medley relay in 2025 and took three European Championship golds in 2026; the Tashkent meet ends on 10 October.

Gazeta.Ru, citing the Russian government, reports that the "Volcanoes of Kamchatka" national park has been created in Kamchatka Krai, incorporating the regional nature parks "South Kamchatka" and "Klyuchevskoy", home to the Klyuchevskoy, Mutnovsky and Gorely volcanoes. The government said the move will strengthen protection of landscapes and nature amid growing tourist numbers, raise safety levels and develop the necessary logistics and infrastructure. Citing the resolution on the legal information portal, the park will cover almost 890,000 hectares and fall under the Ministry of Natural Resources.

RIA Novosti reports that the Ryazan State Regional Theatre for Young Spectators announced the death on 10 October of its actor Vladimir Nikolayevich Baranov. The theatre noted 88 screen roles, including the Soviet film "Torpedo Bombers" and the series "Secrets of Investigation", "Bandit Petersburg", "Russian Ark", "Streets of Broken Lights", "Cop Wars" and "Ashes". No age or cause of death was given.

Compared with the previously reported fact that the insurance programme closes in sellers' dashboards on 13 October, what is new here is Ozon's interim workaround and the market's read on whether anyone will backfill it. Kommersant reports that Ozon is advising sellers to reroute supplies through pickup points and is discounting storage in remote regions — Siberia and Kazakhstan; the platform says it will keep looking for alternative instruments to financially protect goods in its warehouses, with other seller support measures unchanged. Lawyer Vladislav Kocherin argues other insurers are unlikely to take Ingosstrakh's place, since companies that insured such cargo are either withdrawing or raising rates; in his view, this kind of service for sellers will probably no longer exist. The article does not say whether the measures cover foreign-registered sellers, so applicability to Chinese sellers is unconfirmed.

Yandex's revised user agreement, published on 10 October, sets out circumstances that release the company from liability, listing drone attacks among force majeure events. Force majeure is defined as "extraordinary and unavoidable circumstances arising beyond the parties' will and outside their reasonable control that make proper performance impossible"; the list covers military action and terrorism including the use of UAVs and missiles, the aftermath of shelling and explosions, natural disasters, epidemics, mandatory evacuation, large-scale accidents at power and communications facilities caused by external factors, and government acts that prevent performance. Yandex told RBC the provisions are already established by law and by most services' terms, that the change merely harmonises wording and is clarificatory, and that it applies equally to both parties. Kommersant notes the revision followed drone strikes on the company's data centres in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and in Kaluga on 8 and 9 October. The article says nothing about effects on seller-facing services, so applicability to sellers is unconfirmed.

Compared with the previous issue, which recorded the ban running to 31 October, what is new here is that it has been partially lifted ahead of schedule. Deputy PM Alexander Novak told reporters that Russia is immediately beginning to lift diesel export restrictions earlier than planned; he said supply could reach 3 million tonnes a month in the medium term, that Russia is ready to supply 300,000 tonnes to the US market and other partners in October, rising to 500,000 tonnes in November and 1 million tonnes in December. He said Moscow views Washington's steps to stabilise the global energy market positively and is ready to coordinate further. He assured that Russian consumers would not be affected, since diesel in Russia is produced from Russian crude at domestic refineries, where output is sufficient to cover domestic demand. The article gives no estimate of the impact on Chinese sellers' logistics costs.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service press office told TASS that 93 fuel-price stabilisation agreements have been signed with independent fuel-station operators across 35 Russian regions; 20 of them were signed with companies operating more than 20 filling stations in their region. They cover the Voronezh, Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Belgorod, Kirov, Volgograd, Samara, Tambov and Vologda regions, the republics of Mordovia, Tatarstan, Khakassia, Buryatia and Sakha (Yakutia), and the Stavropol, Perm and Khabarovsk territories. The agreements are concluded under Government Resolution No. 662 to stabilise and restrain fuel-market prices. FAS said support for regions and independent operators remains a priority and that it will continue providing advisory and organisational assistance. The article gives no term for the agreements and says nothing about the effect on e-commerce delivery costs.

Nornickel president Vladimir Potanin said in an interview with RBC TV that the fiscal burden has reached a limit where it starts working against budget revenues; the key problem, in his view, is a lack of investment — fixed-capital investment in Russia fell 2.3% in real terms in 2025, is forecast by the economic development ministry to fall a further 5.4% in 2026, with only a modest 0.2% rise expected in 2027. He stressed the burden should be taken "from money already earned", not from money business does not yet have, arguing against taxes taken "in advance or on credit", and said the burden should be charged solely on profit rather than withdrawn from turnover, adding that he would like to return to the agreement reached two years ago on a tougher but stable, profit-oriented load. Interfax separately quotes him saying the finance ministry is making concessions and offering mitigations, with the main remaining disagreement over how the tax base is defined; he also noted the new tax would push some Nornickel projects to the right. The article does not address cross-border sellers specifically, so applicability is unconfirmed.

According to a document obtained by RBC, Rospotrebnadzor has banned the import and sale of a list of Georgian alcoholic drinks and beverages: the document states that, by decision of the Eurasian Economic Commission Council, a temporary sanitary measure has been introduced suspending the import and circulation of products that fail established organoleptic, physico-chemical and safety requirements. Named products include wine from Teliani Valley (JSC), wine from Tbilvino (JSC), wine and cognac from Brothers Askaneli (LLC), wine from Vainmen (LLC), beer from Georgian Beer Company (JSC), plus the Coca-Cola soft drink produced in Georgia and Nabeghlavi mineral water produced by Helsi Water; the products are to be withdrawn from sale. RBC said it sent enquiries to the watchdog's press office, AKORT and several chains. AKORT chairman Stanislav Bogdanov later told RBC the association had received the order and that its member chains had begun removing the products; Auchan also confirmed receiving the notice and pulling the goods. The article says nothing about the ban extending to marketplaces, so the effect on Chinese sellers is unconfirmed.

The State Committee for Standardisation of Belarus (Gosstandart) press office said that from 10 October the import, circulation and sale of the Greenfield Buckwheat & Cocoabeans tea-bag product are banned: the product showed excessive mould content and the presence of coliform bacteria, with mould exceeding the norm by a factor of 70, and was found non-compliant with the Customs Union technical regulation on food safety; goods on shelves must be withdrawn. Lenta.ru adds that the producer is the Russian company Orimi (Leningrad region) and the supplier into Belarus is Alfa-Distribyutsia LLC; the previous Belarusian import ban on Russian Greenfield tea was imposed in 2024 and lifted after the company submitted evidence of quality and safety control. The source gives no end date for the restriction and does not address Russian sales.

Kommersant cites marketplace consultant Gala Goldberg's estimate that profitability in the platform goods business is falling: she says a net margin of about 20% used to be achievable, while a law-abiding white seller can now count on roughly 10–12%. She says insurance cost is being built into the price facing the end buyer and many sellers are already raising prices; others sell at a loss to hold top positions in a category, which she argues cannot last, with all costs eventually landing in the final price. She adds that companies with several sales channels (Lamoda, Wildberries, Ozon, offline) have a more diversified risk package and many sellers are thinking about reducing dependence on the super-marketplaces. Lawyer Vladislav Kocherin adds from the underwriting side that insurers which previously covered such cargo are withdrawing or raising rates. The article gives no sample size or calculation method and does not distinguish Russian-registered from foreign-registered sellers, so applicability to Chinese sellers is unconfirmed.