Putin approved the blockades, the strike on Tuapse and Yekaterinburg, and the ban on Kitler the cat. “Terrible News” with Kirill Martynov

• A drone hit a house in Yekaterinburg. Fire at the oil terminal in Tuapse after an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces: a cloud of smoke for 300 kilometers, oil rains, an environmental disaster. Over 4 years, Ukraine struck Russia more than 35,000 times; we compiled an interactive map of military incidents.

• Putin, of course, ignores such news. But they still forced him to comment on the blocking. Have the ratings been declining for several weeks in a row? The President assures that everything is for the safety of Russians, which is threatened by Ukrainians. And the special services immediately pulled out an ace from their sleeve: they reported on the detainees who were allegedly preparing the murder of the head of Roskomnadzor on instructions from the Ukrainian special services.

• The spirit of Felix Dzerzhinsky is not only in the air of late Putinism. The FSB Academy is again named after him. And Zyuganov predicts a new year for Russia, 1917. Book business: redistribution of property or an act of new great terror?

These and other events are commented on in the latest issue of “Terrible News” by Kirill Martynov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe.