Ural Airlines announced the launch in Russia of a project to extend the service life of Airbus A320 family aircraft over 96 thousand flight hours on the basis of its own technical center. According to the press service of the air carrier, there are no analogues of such a comprehensive program in the country today. Experts fear that such repairs in centers not certified by the manufacturer may negatively affect the safety of their operation. Details .

More and more Russian companies are turning to the government for help amid a worsening economic situation. On Wednesday, the third such initiative in a week became known. Details. According to Bloomberg, a steel industry lobby group is seeking the elimination of the excise tax on raw steel and the mineral extraction tax on iron ore to compensate for the decline in profits. This step could cost the budget about 10 billion rubles ($129 million) per month, sources told the agency.

The TASS state agency published a message at night that the court decision to block Telegram from 2018 has not yet been canceled. This means that Roskomnadzor violated the law for six years by unblocking Telegram, says cyber lawyer Sarkis Darbinyan. Details. The Tagansky court decided to block Telegram on April 13, 2018. According to the court's reasoning decision published at the end of May, the messenger was obliged to provide the FSB with encryption keys, but did not do so.

A student started shooting at an Anapa technical school, where anti-terrorism exercises were taking place several months ago. A student at the Industrial College in Anapa started a shooting in the hall of the college, Kuban police reported. One person died. This college is just five months ago... pic.twitter.com/w6WjBiqfJs — Agency News (@agents_media) February 11, 2026 A student at the Industrial College in Anapa started a shooting in the hall of the college, Kuban police reported.

Russian air defense units use Telegram for coordination, and restrictions on the work of Telegram may affect the ability of the Russian military to shoot down drones flying to the rear, military telegram channels write. Roskomnadzor’s actions could indeed worsen the performance of Russian air defense, military analysts confirmed to the Agency. Details .

Director Konstantin Bogomolov asked Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova to relieve him of his duties as rector of the Moscow Art Theater School. Bogomolov stayed at his post for two and a half weeks. During this time, he managed to make public his vision of the school’s goals (one of them is educating patriots). However, under public pressure (found public expression in a letter from school graduates), he decided to leave his post.

The restrictions imposed by Roskomnadzor on Telegram are expected not to apply to one of the domestic forks of the messenger (the version that uses its source code), Kommersant reported, citing a source in the IT market. It is not reported which application we are talking about. But in the fall, advertisements for the Telega application began appearing on Telegram, promising to bypass blocking in Russia. As the Agency found out , it was created by former partners of VKontakte.