Two New Yorkers have been arrested on suspicion of running an underground Chinese police station in the city. This was announced by the US Department of Justice, reporting on the investigation of repression schemes that China allegedly uses to persecute dissidents. So, 61-year-old Liu Jianwan and 59-year-old Chen Jinping were charged with conspiracy to work as agents of China without notifying the US authorities and obstruction of justice.

Political writer Ilya Budraitskis explains the left’s vision of decentralized governance and why Russia’s Communist Party must exit together with Putin Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / LETA The invasion of Ukraine confronted Russian society with the consequences of a decades-long transformation that began, among other things, with Vladimir Putin’s introduction of a new Labor Code.

The publication "People of Baikal" spoke about the previously unknown mass burial mercenaries of the Wagner PMC who died during battles in Ukraine. Journalists discovered at least 57 graves in the Alexander cemetery 11 kilometers from Irkutsk. The area of ​​the forest near the cemetery was cleared for burials in September - October 2022, the newspaper writes. “Baikal people” first learned about this place in March 2023.

The Moscow prosecutor's office will conduct an investigation into actor Danila Kozlovsky under the article on "discrediting" the Russian army, TASS reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. "At present, the Moscow prosecutor's office has been instructed to conduct an investigation into D. V. Kozlovsky for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation)," the agency's source said.

Companions of Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, launched the October 30 Fund, founded by the politician to help Russian political prisoners and their families. This was reported in the social networks of Kara-Murza.

The former general director of Yandex, Elena Bunina, after the outbreak of the war, condemned the invasion of Ukraine and decided not to return to Russia. Here is her interview with T-Invariant Ilya Vartanian / Wikimedia Commons A year ago, Elena Bunina left the position of general director of the Russian Yandex and the company's HR director. In a letter to colleagues, she opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Content warning: The following story contains descriptions of war atrocities. The human rights activist behind the Gulag.net project, Vladimir Osechkin, has released recorded video calls with two former Russian prisoners who fought in Ukraine as commanding officers with the Wagner Group paramilitary cartel. In the conversations, Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev describe numerous atrocities they say they committed against civilians and fellow mercenaries.

Tatarstan leader Rustam Minnikhanov reported that Moldovan authorities did not allow him into the country and declared him an "undesirable person." Minnikhanov's video message was published by the Gagauznews Telegram channel.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Russian censorship on the Internet has already reached a striking scale. But ahead of us is not even a Chinese, but a North Korean script The unified register of military persons, the creation of which provides for the law on electronic summons, can become the basis for the "super -base" of the Siloviks with all possible information about a person, writes The Bell.

Draft legislation designed as a retaliation against the International Criminal Court has won committee approval in Russia’s State Duma, where lawmakers are moving forward with amendments that would introduce felony liability for “assisting in the implementation of decisions by international organizations to which Russia is not a party.” Specifically, the legislation would impose steep fines and prison sentences of up to five years for the offense of “aiding in the execution of rulings by

The concert of the Naiv group in St. Petersburg, scheduled for April 19, was postponed to the spring of 2024, according to the group's instagram. “The new performance date will be announced later. All purchased tickets are valid and do not require an exchange. The reason for the transfer is not named.

Despite the very bad news, there seems to be not a new wave of emigration from Russia. Here's what those who stay at home are going to do - and how they react to the advice to leave Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Banner of Wagner PMC “join the winners team”. Moscow, April 17, 2023 On April 14, Vladimir Putin signed the Electronic A summons, which also implies the actual closure of borders for those who do not want to fight, and defeat in the rights of the “slope”.

In 2022, Russian courts fined citizens of the country 151,257,500 rubles under administrative protocols on “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation), follows from the statistics of the judicial department at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation , which drew attention to. Mediazona In just a year, the courts received 5,622 administrative protocols on “discrediting”. 4439 fines were imposed on them and one warning was issued.

Subpoenas through the Gosuslugi portal will begin in "test mode" already during the spring call-up, Moscow's military commissar Maxim Loktev said at the Moskovsky Komsomolets press center.

Journalists at the independent news outlet Mediazona studied data in 35 regions across Russia and confirmed that the inmate population in these areas fell by 17,000 people in 2022. The findings corroborate reports that thousands of prisoners have left incarceration since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, often to fight alongside Russian troops as mercenaries in exchange for release.