When the court makes a decision in the criminal case today, he must sentenced the accused to deprive freedom, and not to torture or death as a result of the torture conditions of detention, as it was under Stalin (today, by the way, the anniversary of his death). But this is in theory. In practice, people often lose their health in conclusion, become disabled and die both in places of imprisonment and shortly after liberation. And political prisoners, as in Stalin's times, are the hardest.

Er-Riyad, February 18, 2025. The head of the RDPI Kirill Dmitriev poses to the photographer after Russian-American negotiations Reuters/ Maxim Shemetov/ Scanpix The Russian-American meeting at a high level in Er-Riyad was preceded by culouire negotiations.

High -voltage electricity transmission stations in the photo next to the AST frequency balance point (Augstspriegumu Tikls) in the coffin near the border with Lithuania, January 9, 2025 Gints IVUSKANS / AFP / Scanpix Today, the Baltic countries are completing their participation in the system of synchronization of energy networks with Belarus and Russia.

The United States is a country created by immigrants and constantly replenishing immigrants from all over the world. Meanwhile, the 45th and 47th President of the United States Donald Trump made a reduction in the scale of immigration, both illegal and legal-one of the main points of both of his electoral programs.

Warsaw, January 26, 2025, a participant in the protest against the re -election of Alexander Lukashenko for the post of president of Belarus holds a poster with the inscription "Elections of the clown in the circus" Marek Antoni Iwanczuk/Sopa Images Via Zuma Press Wire The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov once said that the presidential election in Russia is a “expensive bureaucratic procedure”.

On December 30, Republic-Weekly published a text by musician and activist Kirill Medvedev* about his experience of leaving Russia and subsequent return. Journalist Rimma Polyak wanted to respond to this publication, but not to argue with it, but to tell her own story of re-emigration. Polyak left Moscow long before the war, repressions and Putin’s presidency - in 1996, and returned before the onset of the 21st century. Now she continues to live in Russia. Here is her story.

Tomorrow, January 20, the inauguration of the elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, is due to take place in Washington. The excitement around this ceremony, traditionally held in the USA solemnly and magnificently, this time exceeded all limits. Almost the entire business elite of the country is going to visit it. “EVERYONE WANTS TO BECOME MY FRIENDS!!!” - the president-elect wrote on his own social network Truth Social.

Nowadays, different countries and events are so connected with each other that what is said and done in one part of the world is immediately reflected in the other. Our world is global, interpenetrating and interdependent. And we have one planet for all of us. And information knows no boundaries at all, and its availability in the modern world cannot be limited, no matter how hard politicians in different countries try. But they nevertheless try, making people's lives harder and worse.

During the year, Republic wrote more than once about new laws adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation. About their repressive nature. How these legislative acts violate human rights is contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the very spirit of the law. Now, on the eve of the New Year, we want to look at the work of the State Duma over the past year as a whole, in totality, in order to understand how the legislative branch influences the life of the country.

A familiar episode of the fight against COVID-19 in Shanghai, 2022 Cai Yang/XinHua/Global Look Press The coronavirus pandemic has left a heavy mark on the lives of all humanity. It turned out that we were not ready for such challenges. Although it was not a surprise to epidemiology experts, they knew and even prepared for them that large epidemics affecting millions of people would occur in the 21st century, but, nevertheless, the coronavirus pandemic took everyone by surprise.

The work of Russian legislators has long turned into a cruel farce. Back in 2012, the State Duma of the Russian Federation received the nickname “mad printer” for the fact that it passes new laws quickly and thoughtlessly, and in 2013, with the light hand of Vladimir Pozner, it began to be called the “State Fool”. But there is no limit to perfection; the State Duma continues to set new records for speed and senselessness in its work.

The relationship between Russian-language independent media and their sponsors is usually very opaque and confusing. Both sides avoid publicity and do not want to advertise their connections. Boris Zimin* is one of the few who finance media without hiding his name. But he also prefers not to disclose the amount of funding and the degree of his participation in the editorial policy of specific media outlets.

Plenary session in the State Duma Photo: State Duma website A totalitarian state seeks to control all aspects of not only public but also private life of a person. Therefore, the desire of the authorities to get into the bed and underwear of every citizen in the Russian Federation, rushing with giant steps into totalitarianism, is completely natural. And the fact that this political regime wants to take complete control over childbirth is doubly natural.

After Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, the radical feminist movement from South Korea 4B became very popular among American women, whose supporters are calling for a complete boycott of men. Shortly after the election results were announced, TikTok videos mentioning 4B were viewed hundreds of thousands of times, Google searches for him increased manifold, and one widely shared post-election tweet about the 4B movement received 450,000 likes and 21 million views.

On Tuesday, November 12, in the Tushinsky District Court of Moscow, Judge Olga Fedina read out the verdict in the case of “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). At that moment there were about 70 people in the courtroom.