Human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkin - about the criminal case against her and why she repeats the path of Valeria Novodvorskaya In May 2023, the Buryat human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkin found out that she had a criminal case: she refused to testify against her client, a pensioner and one of the main oppositionists of Buryatia Natalia Filonova, who was accused of “beating” by a policeman ballpoint pen.

Krasnodar activist Alipat Sultanbegova was charged with “discrediting” the army. She announced this on her Twitter. “I love Russia more than all those who fabricated this case against me. From the very first day I opposed the war. And I will continue to do so! NO TO WAR!” Sultanbegova wrote. In the same post, she published a decision to open a criminal case.

The couple are convinced that this almost led to disaster - as was the case with Princess Diana Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle demanded that the Backgrid photo agency provide photographs that their journalists took in New York on May 16. That evening, the Duke and Duchess were at an event, after which they went to visit friends. On the way, they were pursued by the paparazzi - despite the fact that Harry and Meghan changed cars more than once.

How the Russian authorities are shaping the Upside Down language Journalist, candidate of philological sciences, member of the expert council of the "Word of the Year" competition Ksenia Turkova talks about how war and propaganda change the language. In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov last week gave an interview to the ATV channel from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Former mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman was sentenced to a fine of 260,000 rubles on charges of repeatedly “discrediting” the army. The reason for initiating the case was Roizman's use of the expressions "war in Ukraine" and "invasion of Ukraine" during a live broadcast with answers to viewers' questions on Youtube. As it became known later, the denunciation of Roizman was written by the Orthodox oligarch and founder of the Tsargrad TV channel Konstantin Malofeev.

The Kovrov city court fined taxi driver Yuri Stepanyuk under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for criticizing the war in Ukraine in a conversation with passengers on April 5. This was reported on the website of the court. Stepanyuk was fined 35,000 rubles. At the meeting, he admitted his guilt and repented of his deed, the report says.

How parents return the children to the family after they got to the shelter More than 80% of the pupils of orphan institutions in Russia are social orphans: they have parents or there are close relatives, but for some reason they cannot raise children. However, it also happens that children return to the family after they were taken from there. "Cold" tells the stories of families who fought for the return of their children and succeeded in this.

In Perm, the security forces came with searches to members of the Perm Memorial, Igor Averkiev, as well as Tatyana Margolina and Svetlana Makovetskaya. Both of them are also members of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia. The Memorial Society writes in its Telegram channel that the searches are connected with the initiation of a criminal case on the removal of the “Perm Memorial archive”.