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The Government approved the National Competition Development Plan for 2026–2030

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Order No. 2816-r of October 8, 2025

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Order No. 2816-r of October 8, 2025

Improving the economic efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises and companies, preventing cartels, and ensuring equal access to public procurement—these and other objectives are reflected in the National Plan ("roadmap") for the Development of Competition for 2026–2030. The order approving it was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. A similar five-year plan, approved in 2021, expires at the end of this year.

The new roadmap consists of several sections dedicated to developing competition both generally and in specific economic sectors—agriculture, information technology and telecommunications, financial markets, healthcare, transportation, industry, trade, and tourism. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of information systems and digital services, which ensure the transparency of business processes and prevent unfair competition.

Thus, one of the objectives of the industry-wide block is the implementation of the Unified Information and Analytical System for Tariff Regulation in the work of regional government bodies overseeing state regulation of tariffs on goods and services. The Federal Antimonopoly Service will be responsible for this work. The deadline is December 1, 2026.

Another industry-wide initiative involves the launch of several new modules of the state information system for the prevention, detection, and suppression of agreements restricting competition (the "Anti-Cartel" State Information System). This goal has been set for the Federal Antimonopoly Service, which is scheduled to submit a corresponding report to the government in January 2029.

Efforts to promote competition in the agro-industrial complex also include the creation of a digital service for selecting agricultural land plots. Its launch is scheduled for 2028. This service is designed to make the land selection process transparent and competitive. The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Finance, and Rosreestr have been appointed responsible for its creation.

In the field of information technology and telecommunications, the roadmap calls for the creation of a portal containing information on supply and demand for innovative, high-tech products and technologies. Information on the demand for innovations, which should provide a significant competitive advantage, will also be used to develop markets for goods, services, and technologies. The Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media will prepare proposals for the creation of such a portal by December 2027. Furthermore, the Federal Antimonopoly Service will develop draft laws on antitrust regulation of marketplaces by January 2028.

In the industrial sector, proposals will be developed to ensure equal access for both dealers and independent service stations to information necessary for vehicle repair and maintenance. The Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Economic Development, and the Federal Antimonopoly Service will present their proposals in this area as early as October 2026.

Changes to public procurement envisage the completion of the digitalization of procurement appeal procedures for certain types of legal entities. By 2030, it is planned to transition to 100% electronic filing of such complaints, which will greatly simplify the ability of applicants to protect their rights. The Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Ministry of Finance, and the Treasury of Russia are responsible.

Regional roadmaps for promoting competition development over the next five years must be approved by May 1, 2026.

A separate theme of the National Competition Development Plan is international cooperation. This involves expanding ties with the antitrust authorities of BRICS and SCO countries through the exchange of experience and the development of coordinated approaches to antitrust regulation, including in socially significant markets.

Commenting on the approved plan at a meeting with deputy prime ministers on October 6, Mikhail Mishustin noted that the development of competition is a constant focus for the Government.

"It concerns not only increasing the availability of essential goods and services for people and businesses, but also expanding their supply and improving their quality through innovation. Without this, achieving the national goals set by the head of state is impossible," the prime minister emphasized.

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To the participants and guests of the Creative Code Russia forum

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The forum will be held on October 9-10 in St. Petersburg.

Dear friends!

Welcome to the Creative Code Russia forum in St. Petersburg.

Our country has great potential in the creative industries. And it is you—the talented and motivated people gathered at this large-scale event—who are its driving force. You generate breakthrough ideas, create innovative solutions, goods, and services that change lives for the better and enhance the country's global competitiveness.

The President has set the goal of increasing the share of creative industries in the national economy by 2030. To achieve this, it is necessary to build effective collaboration between the business community and regional teams. A comprehensive system of management and support for creative industries, taking into account their specific characteristics, must be developed in all Russian regions, and the conditions must be created for everyone to implement their projects and contribute to Russia's development.

I am confident that during the forum you will be able to discuss the most daring initiatives and exciting projects, conclude mutually beneficial agreements, and find answers to pressing questions.

I wish you interesting discussions and new ideas.

M. Mishustin

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The Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China arrived in the DPRK on a visit and to participate in celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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Pyongyang, October 9 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, arrived in the DPRK on Thursday on an official goodwill visit. He will also attend celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

Li Qiang will visit the DPRK at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the country's government.

Upon arrival, he declared that China and the DPRK are socialist neighbors, linked by shared mountains and rivers, as well as a deep, traditional friendship.

In recent years, thanks to the strategic leadership and personal efforts of General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping and General Secretary of the WPK Kim Jong Un, relations between China and the DPRK have gained new vitality, Li Qiang noted.

He recalled that in September, Kim Jong-un visited China to participate in events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un held another successful meeting and reached a number of important consensuses, charting the course for the development of bilateral relations.

Li Qiang noted that China is willing to work with the DPRK to implement the important consensus reached by the two leaders, strengthen strategic ties, maintain close exchanges and promote friendly cooperation between the two countries, so as to make greater contributions to peace, stability and prosperity in the region and the world at large.

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Israel intercepts second international humanitarian flotilla en route to Gaza

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JERUSALEM, October 9 (Xinhua) — An international humanitarian flotilla heading to the Gaza Strip was intercepted by the Israeli Navy in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday.

Civilian vessels attempted to break the naval blockade of Gaza for the second time after Israel intercepted the Sumud Global Flotilla last week. Over 470 volunteers from over 40 countries participated in that mission.

Israeli state television channel Kan TV News reported that the Navy took control of eight small yachts and a 68-meter cruise ship carrying about 100 Freedom Flotilla activists within 40 minutes on Wednesday morning.

According to a statement from the Foreign Ministry and TV reports, the ships and activists were taken to the port of Ashdod in southern Israel.

The ministry added that all passengers are safe and in good health and are expected to be deported immediately.

According to the organizers of the event, the volunteers on board included doctors, journalists, and activists. –0–

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Lightning: The first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement will come into force on Thursday at 12:00 local time /09:00 GMT/ – Egyptian TV channel

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Xinhua | October 9, 2025

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Lightning: The first phase of the Gaza ceasefire will come into effect on Thursday at 12:00 local time /09:00 GMT/ – Egyptian TV channel Lightning: The first phase of the Gaza ceasefire will come into effect on Thursday at 12:00 local time /09:00 GMT/ – Egyptian TV channel

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China's Hainan resort island reported strong duty-free sales during its "golden week" period.

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HAIKOU, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — Duty-free sales in southern China's island province of Hainan were strong during the eight-day National Day holiday, also known as "golden week," according to Haikou Customs.

Haikou Customs oversaw duty-free sales totaling 944 million yuan (US$132.5 million) from about 122,900 shoppers during the holiday from October 1 to 8, with per capita spending averaging 7,685 yuan, up 13.6 percent, 3.2 percent and 10 percent year-on-year, respectively.

To prepare for the peak holiday shopping period, the flagship duty-free store in Haikou, the capital of Hainan Province, organized various events, including food tastings and themed flash mobs, to offer a diverse shopping experience.

In June 2020, China released the Hainan Free Trade Port Master Plan, aiming to develop Hainan Island into a high-level free trade port with global influence by the middle of this century.

Thanks to this policy, the island province of Hainan has become a popular shopping destination for Chinese consumers, currently boasting 12 offshore duty-free shops.

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In China, during the 8-day holiday, the number of border crossings through checkpoints amounted to 16.34 million people.

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BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — The number of border crossings in China reached 16.34 million during the eight-day National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays that ended Wednesday, data from the National Immigration Administration showed Thursday.

According to official data, the average daily number of border crossings exceeded 2 million people, an increase of 11.5 percent compared to the same period last year.

During the aforementioned holidays, the number of border crossings through Chinese checkpoints by foreign citizens jumped by 21.6 percent to 1.43 million. A total of 751,000 foreign citizens entered the country, including 535,000 visa-free. Both figures increased year-on-year by 19.8 percent and 46.8 percent, respectively. -0-

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Domestic tourist flow in China during the 8-day holiday reached 888 million person-times.

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BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — China's domestic tourist arrivals reached 888 million during the eight-day National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays from Oct. 1 to 8, 2025, up 123 million compared with the seven-day National Day holiday in 2024, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said Thursday.

According to the department, domestic tourism expenditure nationwide from October 1 to 8 amounted to 809 billion yuan (about 113.8 billion U.S. dollars), an increase of 108 billion yuan compared with the seven-day National Day holiday last year.

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For a modern researcher, curiosity and scientific creativity, openness and interest in finding something new are critically important.

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At the end of the spring semester, announcements were made Results of the second competitive selection for the Russian Presidential Scholarship for postgraduate and adjunct studentsAmong the 500 winners of the all-Russian competition across all fields of science, five were representatives of the Department of Chemical and Biological Physics of the NSU Physics Faculty. This high recognition of the scientific achievements and potential of young scientists is a clear confirmation of the successful work of the department, which is closely linked to the leading research institutes of Akademgorodok. We met with Vitaly Georgievich Kiselev, Head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, to learn how the scientific work of undergraduate and graduate students is organized and what helps them achieve such significant results.

— Vitaly Georgievich, please tell us how students' research activities are conducted in the department. How does the interaction between students and their supervisors work during the dissertation preparation process?

We organize students' research work as soon as they join us and are assigned supervisors, starting in their third year of the Physics Department. Generally speaking, without a good supervisor, no matter how talented a student is, it's impossible to produce high-quality research. You can research a lot, but it doesn't always produce relevant scientific results. Sometimes, a top-performing student may be actively researching at first glance, but the task they've been assigned is no longer of interest to the scientific community. Conversely, an initially less bright student, under the guidance of an experienced professor, may even achieve meaningful results by the time they defend their bachelor's thesis, have good publications, and be the recipient of various scholarships and competitions.

Incidentally, the professionalism of a qualified supervisor lies primarily in formulating a promising research problem for a good graduate student. And, of course, it's important that they have a personal chemistry. We never impose a research topic or supervisor on our department's undergraduate and graduate students, but we do offer advice, monitor their progress, and assist when needed.

— Tell us about the research areas of your department.

Modern physics is a very broad science, ranging from elementary particle physics to medical applications (incidentally, all of this is studied at the graduate departments of the NSU Physics Department). Our field, chemical physics, studies the processes and phenomena that occur in matter at the scale of individual molecules. Its applications can be very diverse. At the molecular level, for example, combustion processes can be studied in detail. Our fellowship-holding graduate students, Yegor Sosnin and Andrey Cherepanov, are pursuing this research at the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Alexandra Borodulina and Arkady Samsonenko, meanwhile, are studying the properties of new molecular magnetic materials and magnetic phenomena that could be useful, for example, for information storage. Olga Bakulina is researching the microscopic structure of ionic liquids—salts melted at room temperature. All of them work at the International Tomography Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

We've discussed chemical applications, but the department's name also includes biology, and we have many such research areas. For example, Professor Sergei Andreevich Dzyuba's group (previous head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Physics at the NSU Faculty of Physics – Editor's note) has conducted many studies on the interaction of antibiotics with bacterial cell membranes. Olesya Anatolyevna Krumkacheva, a lecturer in our department and, incidentally, the Deputy Dean for Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Physics, also studies the structure of biomolecules using magnetic resonance spectroscopy. All of this is important for understanding specific biochemical processes in our bodies.

Furthermore, quantitative supercomputer modeling effectively complements experiments in modern science. In chemical physics, quantum chemical calculations are an important part of this, and we work directly on this with Nina Pavlovna Gritsan, the most highly cited professor in our department. The essence of these calculations is to describe the structure of matter at the molecular level using the laws of quantum mechanics. Modeling allows us to answer many questions, such as why some molecules are stable and others are not, how chemical reactions occur, why materials exhibit specific properties, and so on. This also requires significant resources; the costs are often comparable to those of an experiment, requiring significant computing power. The university is very helpful in this regard. For example, Vladislav Anatolyevich Kalyuzhny, head of the NSU Information and Computing Center, has literally never turned down a single specific technical request during our 15 years of collaboration.

— Is there a common trait or quality that unites successful graduate students in your department?

"For a modern researcher, in my opinion, three sets of qualities are particularly important. First, a good education—you need to be literate, confident in the basic methods and concepts, and familiar with the current state of your scientific field. Second, internal discipline and independence—that is, a graduate student must be prepared to work without additional prodding or detailed supervision; this must come from within. Third—and perhaps most crucially—is curiosity and scientific creativity, openness, and an interest in exploring new ideas. At a certain point in scientific work, the definition of the problem becomes the most important. Without personal creativity, a researcher will not be able to achieve significant success."

— What is most important for the successful scientific work of postgraduate students in your field of study?

All scientific directors are closely connected to their laboratories. The specific nature of the natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology) is that they, of course, rely on instruments. Scholasticism was practiced in the Middle Ages, and today, to study natural phenomena at their full extent, instruments are needed. A natural science institute cannot exist without them.

What educational and scientific resources does the department provide to postgraduate students to support them in competitions and grants? Are there plans to expand collaboration with research organizations to provide postgraduate students with more research opportunities?

— In all of the university's natural sciences departments—the Physics Department, the Faculty of Natural Sciences—collaboration with institutes plays a vital role. We are as closely intertwined as possible. Almost all of our department's faculty members are employees of academic institutes, primarily the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the International Tomography Center. The main facilities and instruments are located there. The university and institutes cannot exist without each other; we mutually reinforce each other. These are not casual compliments; this is how science and education work. University faculty and graduate supervisors are actively working scientists. In turn, the institutes receive undergraduate and graduate students who directly advance science. It is crucial that this collaboration is always constructive; it is the key to success.

— What advice would you give to young scientists starting their postgraduate career?

— Be as inquisitive as possible and open to everything new. Don't be shy about learning, and don't despair if something doesn't work out—it's absolutely normal, everyone has been there, including me.

________________________________________Thank you, Vitaly Georgievich, for your detailed answers! We congratulate your graduate students on their well-deserved scholarships from the President of the Russian Federation and wish them new scientific achievements!

Material prepared by: Ekaterina Mukovozchik, NSU press service

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UN chief welcomes ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Gaza

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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that he welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire and hostage release agreement in the Gaza Strip and urges all parties concerned to fully comply with the terms of the agreement.

All hostages must be released with dignity, a permanent ceasefire must be ensured, hostilities must end once and for all, and immediate and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid and essential commercial supplies to the Gaza Strip must be ensured, said A. Guterres.

He said the UN would fully support the implementation of the phased agreement and advance efforts to rebuild the devastated Gaza Strip.

“I urge all stakeholders to seize this important opportunity to establish a credible political path to ending the occupation, recognizing the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, and achieving a two-state solution that allows Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security,” he said. –0–

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