The opposition party Tisza, led by Peter Magyar, is leading the parliamentary elections in Hungary: after processing 93.4% of the votes, it receives 138 of 199 seats. This is a constitutional majority, which allows decisions to be made without regard to other political forces. Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz party and its junior partner, the Christian Democrats, are in second place with 54 seats. In third place is the far-right party “Our Motherland”, 7 seats.

If an ethnic Hungarian, who had never left his native village in Ukrainian Transcarpathia, suddenly found himself in the capital of Hungary in the spring of 2026, he probably would not have immediately understood whether this was Budapest or Kyiv. The entire city is densely plastered with portraits of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

The net profit of the Gazprom Neft corporation by the end of 2025 amounted to 246 billion rubles, according to the company’s press release. This is 49% less than in 2024, when Gazprom Neft earned 479.5 billion rubles. Gazprom Neft's profits have fallen for the third year in a row, although the last time the corporation faced losses was back in 1999. In 2023, annual revenues of the parent company Gazprom fell by only 7%.

22 of the 30 most popular Russian applications from the RuStore and Google Play stores detect an enabled VPN on the device, experts from the RKS Global project found out , The Bell noted . 18 Russian apps send information about detected VPN use to their servers, from where it can be passed on to security forces upon request.

VPN services remain the main tool for Russians against censorship on the Internet. In this regard, the Ministry of Digital Development has been tasked with reducing the use of VPNs. We tell you what the new restrictions from the ministry may lead to and how they can be circumvented. What else have the authorities come up with? So what should the Russians do? Tax on international mobile traffic (currently in plans).

Putin sent him to the region as deputy envoy to combat floods Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD) Magomed Ramazanov has become the main candidate for the post of head of Dagestan, RBC and Vedomosti report, citing sources close to the presidential administration. One of RBC’s interlocutors claims that Ramazanov was sent to the embassy of the Far Eastern Federal District to prepare for the post of governor.

European Union countries have begun to more often purchase liquefied natural gas from the Yamal LNG enterprise, which is owned by the Russian Novatek, writes the Financial Times, citing data from the research group Kpler and the environmental organization Urgewald. In the first three months of 2026, the EU purchased 5 million tons of gas from Yamal LNG - 17% more than in the same period last year. European countries could spend about 2.88 billion euros on this.

Since the end of last year, there has been an active campaign in Russian universities to recruit students for the war with Ukraine. It has already changed several stages: first, students from top technical universities were recruited to serve in the disembodied troops, then those lagging behind on the verge of expulsion were recruited. Now everyone is called.

Vladimir Putin signed a law criminalizing “denial of the fact of genocide of the Soviet people.” The document was published on the portal of legal acts. The law added a line to the article on the “rehabilitation of Nazism” (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code): “denial of the fact of genocide of the Soviet people or approval of the genocide of the Soviet people.” Now this will be punishable by up to three years in prison.

The day before he was detained in a case of illegal use of personal data The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow placed Novaya Gazeta journalist Oleg Roldugin in a pre-trial detention center until May 10, a Mediazona correspondent reported from the courtroom. The investigation asked to send him into custody. At the trial, Roldugin asked for a more lenient measure of restraint, emphasizing that he did not want to hide abroad, and all media were taken away from him.

The FSB has received at its disposal seven pre-trial detention centers, which were previously located within the structure of the Federal Penitentiary Service, according to data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, which The Insider drew attention to. We are talking about Moscow pre-trial detention center-2 "Lefortovo", pre-trial detention center-3 in St.

He also participated in the development of new federal standards on this subject. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has become the editor-in-chief of new school textbooks on social studies for grades 9–11, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Education Olga Koludarova.

He was also accused of bribery through the Bamstroyput company, which Shoigu brought to the Ministry of Defense The 235th Garrison Military Court sentenced former Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense Pavel Popov to 19 years in prison in the case of corruption in the construction of the Patriot Park. TASS reports this. In addition, he was stripped of the rank of colonel general, state awards and fined 85 million rubles.

It will begin on the afternoon of April 11 and will last until the end of the day on April 12 Vladimir Putin ordered a truce with Ukraine from 16:00 on April 11 until the end of the day on April 12. This is stated on the Kremlin website. The statement said that Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov have already received orders to stop hostilities in all directions for this period.

The Supreme Court recognized the human rights movement Memorial and its regional branches as an extremist organization, a Beware News correspondent reported from the courtroom. The case regarding the recognition of Memorial has been classified as “top secret,” representatives of Memorial itself said . According to them, the organization with the name that appears in the lawsuit does not exist.