Nearly 700.000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the war in Ukraine and as of October, about 1.500 were killed or wounded every day; the figures appear in media reports quoting Sir Tony Radakin, UK Chief of Defence Staff, and Vladimir Putin

A Russian court has sentenced Google to pay a fine of $20.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000, a sum higher than the GDP of the entire planet, which amounts to $110.000 billion according to the IMF

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, President Putin's main political opponent before his death in prison last February, had written in his memoir that he would "die in prison"

The country celebrated on Monday 30 September the second anniversary of the illegal annexation of four Ukrainian territories, two of which were self-declared People's Republics at war with the central government