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23 storiesMadrid pensioner whose eviction sparked Spain housing protests dies at 87
Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Madrid tenant whose eviction set off mass protests over housing costs across Spain, has died, Russian outlets reported, citing the Madrid tenants' union. She died in a Madrid hospital after being evicted i…
Macron convenes emergency meeting over French student protests
French President Emmanuel Macron convened an emergency meeting with ministers on the evening of 6 October over nationwide student protests, with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and education minister Édouard Geffroy taking part. The protes…
Patriarch Kirill congratulates Putin on his 74th birthday
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus congratulated President Vladimir Putin on his birthday, with the text published on the Russian Orthodox Church's official website. Putin turns 74 on 7 October; the Kremlin said he would spend the day o…
Bear that entered Kyzyl park near amusement rides killed, Tuva police say
Police in Kyzyl, the capital of Russia's Tuva republic, killed a bear that appeared in the city's national park of culture and rest, in the area of the amusement rides. The regional interior ministry said on its VKontakte page that the anim…
Yakutia culls 188 brown bears that posed danger to residents
Yakutia's ecology ministry says 188 brown bears that posed a danger to people have been killed in the republic since the start of the year. As of 5 October, 345 decisions on regulating bear numbers had been issued in the region, covering 62…
French student protests leave 24 schools burned or looted, 400-plus shut
Protests by French high school students left 24 schools burned or looted and halted classes in 400 to 500 institutions nationwide, according to TASS, Kommersant and Vedomosti. The education minister, named by TASS and Kommersant as Édouard …
Bear injures elderly fisherman in Russia’s Irkutsk region
A bear attacked and injured an elderly fisherman in Russia’s Irkutsk region, also known as the Angara region, according to TASS, RBC and RIA Novosti. RBC identified the man as 81 years old. TASS reported he was taken to hospital with bite w…
Magadan authorities check reports of grave dug up at city cemetery
Authorities in Magadan are checking reports that a grave at a city cemetery was dug up. TASS reported officials are trying to establish whether a bear was responsible, and that no remains of a body or parts of a coffin were found. No result…
Police fire tear gas at student protest in Paris; Saint-Denis mayor affected
Police used tear gas at a demonstration by Paris pupils and high-school students on 6 October, with protesters throwing bottles and firecrackers at officers, according to RIA Novosti and TASS. RIA Novosti later reported that the mayor of Sa…
France student protests: Interior Ministry counts 250,000, organizers claim 450,000
Schoolchildren and students protested across France on Tuesday, with the Interior Ministry counting more than 250,000 participants nationally and 56,000 in Paris, while TASS reported nearly 260,000 overall. Organizers put the turnout much h…
France suspends lycée classes as high school protests enter third week
High school student protests in France reached their largest scale on 6 October, in their third week, with demonstrations nationwide and clashes with police in Lyon, Strasbourg and Rennes, RBC reported. A student union counted 450,000 parti…
France suspends lycée lessons as high-school protests hit 1,800 schools
Protests by high-school students in France on Tuesday affected around 1,800 lycées, according to RIA Novosti, while AFP, cited by TASS, reported that classes were suspended in nearly 900 senior schools — about a quarter of the country's tot…
Putin says theology helps preserve Russia's traditional values
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a greeting telegram to a theology conference that theology plays a role in preserving traditional spiritual and moral values and Russia’s ethno-cultural and linguistic diversity. According to Vedomos…
TV presenter Nadezhda Mikhalkova marries Yugra governor Ruslan Kukharuk
Television presenter and actress Nadezhda Mikhalkova has married Ruslan Kukharuk, the governor of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Yugra), according to the state news agency TASS and the business outlet RBC. TASS also said the couple had …
Blogger and biohacker Andrei Arbenin dies at 31
Blogger and biohacker Andrei Arbenin has died at the age of 31, according to RBC, which cited his supplement shop, Arbenin Shop. RIA Novosti also reported his death. Neither outlet gave a cause, place or further details in the material avai…
Kadyrov awarded highest order of Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia
Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has received the highest award of the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia — the Order named after the first Mufti of the Russian Empire Mukhamedzhan-khazrat Khusainov, first degree. TASS reported th…
Madrid court rejects immediate demolition of protesters’ camp
A Madrid court has rejected the immediate demolition of a protesters’ camp, according to reports from TASS and RIA Novosti. The head of the Madrid regional government, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is insisting on that measure, TASS said. Neither repo…
Request Made in Ingushetia to Check Family That Left Sick Child in Moscow
A request has been made in Ingushetia to check a family that left a sick child in Moscow, according to RIA Novosti and TASS. Both state news agencies reported the request but did not say who made it or provide the child’s condition.
Putin backs proposal for digital library of Russia’s ethnic languages
President Vladimir Putin has supported a proposal to create a single digital library of the languages of the peoples of Russia, according to the state outlets RIA Novosti and TASS. RIA Novosti reported the support on 5 October, and TASS sai…
Expert says when bear attacks will end; Buryatia mass bear appearances every 30 years
A game manager, Tyutrin, said mass bear appearances in Buryatia occur about every 30 years, the state news agency TASS reported. RIA Novosti reported that an expert had said when bear attacks will stop, but published no details of that asse…