Christelle Néant

If the third edition of the Russia-Africa summit, held on 28 and 29 October 2026 in Moscow, was a resounding success, crowned by the signing of an ambitious action plan for the next three years, France could not help but come and spoil it all with delusional accusations and threats of sanctions that smack of neocolonialism.

On Friday 23 October 2026, Russia announced the establishment of a ceasefire in the Kherson region starting on 27 October, in order to allow a humanitarian operation in the town of Aleshky, located on the left bank of the Dnieper, opposite the city of Kherson currently controlled by Ukraine.

Between celebrating a repulsive video depicting a war crime against Russian soldiers and the unscrupulous use of its own citizens as human shields, Ukraine is plunging into an uninhibited inhumanity, met only by the appalling silence of its Western sponsors.

The Moscow District Arbitration Court on Thursday dismissed Euroclear’s final appeal, upholding a landmark ruling that orders the Belgian depository to pay 18.2 trillion rubles (approx. €200 billion) in damages to Russia's Central Bank.

While Riga raises the spectre of a Russian invasion of the European Union (EU), the Latvian Prime Minister reveals all the horror of what European citizens would have to endure if that were to happen, namely no longer being able to drink their coffee in the morning with a good croissant.

The Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) and the TASS news agency have launched a video course for journalists and staff of agencies belonging to the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). Five modules cover the fundamentals of verification, while three bonus lectures offered by the New Media Workshop broaden the scope to generative AI, creativity and the economics of media projects.

On 4 October 2026, the Belgian television channel RTBF published an article with a terrifying headline: “Russia: a lab technician dies of plague, several hospitals placed in quarantine in Siberia”. Problem: RTBF threw the conditional and the principles of fact-checking in the bin, and the reality is much less sensational. Let us analyse the facts.