The World Youth Festival will be held in Russia in 2024. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the decree, the government must find sources of funding for the event within three months, and also begin preparations for it, including through media coverage. The festival is scheduled for February-March 2024. The chairman of its organizing committee will be Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko.

The man in the recording says he didn't know he was flying over Russia A Ukrainian light aircraft crashed near the border in the Bryansk region , the FSB Border Service Directorate for the region announced . "The pilot (a Ukrainian citizen) who tried to escape to Ukrainian territory was detained by a border patrol," the statement said. The incident occurred near the village of Butovsk, and no one was hurt.

In a booklet issued to soldiers, the Russian authorities denounce the army’s ‘shameful’ retreat from Kherson and urge a return to ‘Stalinist methods’ Story by Lilia Yapparova . Abridged translation by Sam Breazeale . Meduza has obtained a copy of a pamphlet that was written by Russia’s military leadership shortly after the army’s retreat from Kherson in fall 2022.

Olga Sitchikhina, the mother of Masha Moskaleva, a schoolgirl who drew an anti-war drawing, took her from the orphanage. This was stated by the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova. As Lvova-Belova stated, Masha Moskaleva was not given to her mother before, since she did not want this herself, and “her opinion must be taken into account by law.” But now, according to the Ombudsman, the girl has changed her position.

In the Belgorod region this year there will be no Victory Day parade on May 9, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “I can already say now that there will be no parade so as not to provoke the enemy,” the governor said. Gladkov noted that the issue of holding the "Immortal Regiment" and the salute would be resolved later, stressing that "no one will risk people." The Belgorod region was the first to announce the cancellation of the parade in 2023.

Their history was told by journalists of the project "Slidism.Info" Slidstvo.info Since the beginning of a full -scale war, more than 19 and a half thousand Ukrainian children have been taken to the territory of Russia and the regions of Ukraine annexed by Russia. A little more than 300 of them were able to return. Among those who found themselves in the annexed territories were two students from Kherson. A few months later, they were able to return to Ukraine.

Russian anti-war movements have issued a statement following the murder of "war correspondent" Vladlen Tatarsky in St.

A light-engine Ukrainian plane crashed in the Bryansk region, the regional department of the border service of the FSB reported. The pilot was detained, the report said. No other details of the incident were reported by the border service. The Telegram channel Baza published a video of the interrogation of a man who was allegedly the pilot of the plane.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that security forces "protect people" from "arbitrariness and violence" in the "historically Russian lands of Novorossiya." He gave this order at a meeting of the Russian Security Council. This concerns the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia as a result of "referendums" in the fall of 2022. "The enemy is using its still-undestroyed underground, including various neo-Nazi and other radical groups, to intimidate people.

The authors of the show that the authorities persecuted supported the war Deputy Vitaliy Kalovkin is a fictional character, the “Chairman of the Executive Committee”, who appears in the videos on the UTUB channel Barakuda (more than 850 thousand subscribers). In satirical videos, he fights corruption and improves the life of ordinary residents of Ussuriysk.

Putin said goodbye several times with ambassadors at a reception in the Kremlin, but did not wait for an answer or applause. This is how he filled these awkward pauses President of Russia Vladimir Putin on April 5 accepted the credentials of the ambassadors of 17 countries. At the end of the ceremony, he said goodbye to them. A pause arose, because of which Putin said goodbye again. And then again. Because again there was a pause.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that a mosque in eastern Moscow would not be built next to Lake Svyatoye in the Kosino-Ukhtomsky district, but not far from the Kosino metro station. This is stated in his telegram channel. Residents of the district opposed the construction of the mosque. According to Sobyanin, Patriarch Kirill and Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gainutdin approached him and offered to find another place to build the mosque.

The internal political bloc of the presidential administration demanded that regional administrations create "initiative groups" in their structures, whose task will be to improve the living and working conditions of ordinary officials in order to maintain their loyalty to the current government. This, writes "Layout", was discussed at a meeting with vice-governors, which took place in late March - early April in the Moscow region.

The Russian ship "Admiral Gorshkov" entered the port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Together with the Admiral Gorshkov, the sea tanker Kama entered the port of Jeddah. There they will replenish fuel, fresh water and food supplies. The Russian Defense Ministry noted that the last time warships of the Russian Navy called at Saudi ports was about 10 years ago.

State Duma Deputy Yana Lantratova called on Russia’s Investigative Committee to conduct an inquiry into a parody performance mocking the assassination of the war propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky. Tatarsky, the self-styled “war correspondent” whose real name is Maxim Fomin, was killed by a blast last Sunday, after one of the guests at his public reading in St. Petersburg handed him a plaster statuette filled with explosives.