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Polish TV channel TVP Info reported the discovery of a Pin-Up office in Warsaw as part of an investigation into the activities of the online poker platform GGPoker. Journalists also reported on the participation of Pin-Up representatives in a partner conference in the Polish capital and mentioned the Russian Ivan Bryksin, whose name features in Ukrainian criminal proceedings linked to the activities of GGPoker/PokerOK.

The son-in-law of the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev – Otabek Umarov obtained citizenship of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in April 2023, when he held the position of deputy head of the presidential security service. During the same period, Uzbekistan's legislation prohibited servicemen of this service from holding citizenship of another country.

In the first nine months of 2026, 64 criminal cases were opened in Kazakhstan under Article 274 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the dissemination of knowingly false information. Of these, nine cases were sent to court.

A plant for the production of glass containers with a design capacity of 256 million units of product per year is planned to be built in Aktobe. The total volume of investment in the project will amount to 60 billion tenge.

The prosecutor's office of the Borodulikha district identified more than 30 violations during raids on the territory of the "Semey Ormany" forest fund. Among them are illegal felling of trees, violations of fire safety requirements and administrative offences by drivers.

The US Embassy in Moscow has issued a medical warning following reports of a suspected case of pneumonic plague in Russia's Irkutsk Region. Diplomats recommended that American citizens in the region follow the instructions of local authorities and avoid the affected medical facilities.

At the Mangystau Nuclear Power Plant (MNPP), the number of identified violations of industrial safety requirements rose from 20 in 2023 to 36 in 2025. The enterprise supplies electricity, heat and water to Aktau, other settlements and enterprises of the Mangystau region.

For January–August 2026, 261 military criminal offences were registered in Kazakhstan, and 363 people became their victims. Both figures turned out to be the highest since 2020, even in comparison with data for full years.

Tajikistan has begun receiving oil and petroleum products from Iran amid disruptions to Russian supplies, while Kyrgyzstan has agreed a proposal to establish a joint oil refinery. For Tehran, this opens up an additional sales market, but the volumes from Central Asia are not capable of replacing the main destinations of Iranian oil exports.

The discharge of mine water has been stopped on the territory of the Novo-Beryozovsky deposit in the village of Verkhneberezovsky, Glubokovsky district, East Kazakhstan region (EKR). The Department of Ecology for the EKR is preparing an unscheduled inspection to establish the circumstances of the incident.