Russian ports are burning, protests against “Stalinism”, Putin’s rating has fallen

“Terrible News” with Kirill Martynov

Every Saturday, Kirill Martynov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, comments on the most important events of the week in Russia and the world.

• Russia is running out of money for war. Putin called on the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to chip in for the army. At the same time, according to opinion polls, Putin’s trust rating is the lowest since the beginning of the war.
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs is going to sell the personal data of Russians, and also wants to prohibit older people from receiving calls from abroad . Absentee sentences - to journalists Valeria Ratnikova and Ksenia Luchenko. And also the FSB’s new “social experiment”: how to first create a case and then solve it?
• In continuation of the Oscars: Pavel Talankin was recognized as a foreign agent, and the film “Mr. Nobody against Putin” itself was banned in Russia. In the meantime, the distribution of foreign films in Russia is planned to be placed under the control of Kovalchuk or Gazprom.
• There is indeed an epidemic of foot and mouth disease in the Novosibirsk region - a local agricultural holding told Novaya Gazeta Europe about this. But why then are cows burned alive?
• Blocking news : there will be no rallies for Internet freedom, and the organizers are being called to the police. But schoolchildren from the Urals decided to organize their own protest at the doors of Roskadastre, confusing it with Roskomnadzor. The Ministry of Digital Development plans to strengthen blocking when the necessary equipment is purchased, and AI filtering is also introduced in RuNet.
• Cringe of the week: diocesan laser tag, gift socks with Trump, spermograms of bathhouse visitors and a man on a white horse in a store in Sochi.