A module called “Unified Interface Component” (USC) has been created in the Unified Military Registration Register (URVU). It allows you to remove individuals from the register without a trace, depersonalize or replace their data with fictitious ones, cancel summonses sent to them and restrictions imposed (including a travel ban), or hide them from conscription lists.

One of the functions of the Unified Military Registry (URVU) is to prevent citizens from leaving the country during possible mobilization and to conscript them into the army. This follows from the technical documentation for the project and instructions the chief curator of the URVU from the government, Yulia Levitskaya, to which “Important Stories” gained access from a leak by one of the developers of the registry, the Micord company.

Other members of the brigade were detained in connection with arms trafficking The commander of the neo-Nazi detachment "Espaniola" Stanislav Orlov, known under the call sign Spaniard, was killed during his arrest at the dacha in the SNT "Flotsky" in annexed Sevastopol on December 4, ASTRA writes with reference to eyewitnesses and video from the place of detention.

Stormtroopers of the Russian Armed Forces have probably begun to carry out cavalry attacks on horseback, according to footage published by the 92nd separate assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It is alleged that the drone video captured the assault on the positions of the 5th battalion of this Ukrainian brigade. It is unknown where exactly the fighting took place.

Check facts Stories What We Learned from a Hacker Attack on the Russian Military Registry Developer Over the past three years, Russia has almost completed the development of a digital registry that can be used for a new and more effective war mobilization campaign, storing data on 25 million citizens who can potentially be drafted.

Has the military registration registry been hacked? An anonymous hacker group hacked not the registry itself, but the infrastructure of the Micord company, one of the key developers of the unified military registration register (URVU). This does not mean that hackers gained access to the registry - its data is not stored in Micord itself, but separately in a closed circuit.

2026 will be the first difficult war year for the Russian economy: it may face a banking crisis due to bad loans and sanctions against the oil and gas sector, writes the Washington Post. US sanctions against Lukoil and Rosneft have led to a government budget deficit. Russian companies may fail to repay up to 5% of corporate loans, the Central Bank said .

News WhatsApp is slowed down by 70–80% The most problems were recorded in Moscow Date: Dec 22 2025 As of today, the speed of WhatsApp has decreased by 70–80%, RBC writes , citing a source. The results of tests conducted by the head of the Internet Protection Society, Mikhail Klimarev, also show a 70% limitation in the operation of the messenger. Over the past 24 hours, users from many regions of Russia have reported problems with WhatsApp several thousand times.

Many employees of the Micord company, which is involved in the development of a unified military registration register (URVU), are skeptical about both work on the project and service in the Russian army, as follows from leaked correspondence within the team that studied “Important Stories.” “Ramil, I don’t want to go to ERVU, please don’t send me there,” the tester asked the general director of Mikord, Ramil Gabdrakhmanov. During the work on the ERVU, some of the employees left Micord.

Former Minister of Trade of the Moscow Region and co-owner of Gostiny Dvor Mikhail Khubutia was sentenced to one year probation for attacking his ex-girlfriend, businesswoman Yulia Van, with an ax. RIA Novosti writes about this with reference to the Odintsovo court. “The trial took place today! They were sentenced to 1 year probation. I hope the person realized and repented sincerely,” Wang commented on the court decision on her Instagram.

At least one of them was on the “council” that decided to start the rebellion (during which Yevkurov was taken hostage by mercenaries) At a gala reception in honor of the Day of Heroes of Russia in the Kremlin, Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov met with former commanders of the Wagner PMC. The photo was published in the telegram channel of the assault company “Vostok”, which is now led by one of them, Boris Nizhenok with the call sign Zombie (third from the right in the photo).

In Moscow, on Yaseneva Street, the head of the operational training department of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, was killed by blowing up his car. The information was confirmed by the Investigative Committee.

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What we learned about the military registration registry thanks to the hacking of the key developer of the system. "IStories" investigation