It is not possible to top up the balance through MTS, Beeline, T2 and Megafon accounts After midnight on April 1, replenishing the balance in Apple ID from a mobile phone account stopped working for subscribers, correspondents from Kommersant , RBC , and SotaVision were convinced. According to Kommersant, payment cannot be made through MTS, Beeline and T2 accounts.

Enterprises are doing this en masse due to falling demand for civilian products - only the defense sector is growing KamAZ management is considering a transition to a four-day working week from June 1 and a reduction in the production plan for 2026, RBC writes with reference to the company’s press service. This measure is being discussed due to a 40% year-on-year decline in sales of heavy trucks and pressure from remnants of Chinese equipment imported to Russia.

If the requirement is extended to technical schools, the army could be replenished by 76 thousand people At least 2% of students must enter into contracts with the Ministry of Defense - this was stated by the Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov at a meeting with the rectors of the largest Russian universities in early February, Faridaily writes , citing a friend of the rector of one of the Moscow universities who was present at the meeting, and a source in the leadership of

In the fall of 2025, an aspiring freelance journalist for a Russian publication, Matvey (name changed), turned to senior colleagues for advice. According to him, FSB officers contacted him and offered cooperation: to monitor people from the editorial office and report on what was happening. He refused. Matvey is not the only journalist who has faced recruitment attempts in the past few months.

The production facilities of the Khrunichev Rocket Center will be transferred from Moscow to Omsk, and the production of rocket engines will be moved from Khimki to Perm. The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov, announced this at a plenary meeting of the Federation Council, RBC reports . “The cost of industrial mass production in Khimki is becoming prohibitive, because there are a lot of overhead costs due to the 92 hectares of production capacity that are located there,” explained Bakanov.

A lot of bans have appeared in Russia lately. They also turn off mobile Internet, block social networks and VPN services, and force them to use the MAX messenger. What do people dislike most about this, how do they react, and where does the humor come from? Social anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova, author of the telegram channel “(Un)entertaining Anthropology,” talks about this. Why are they joking?