The main events of April 17 The consequences of the blow of the Russian army on Chernigov, photo: DSNS of Ukraine The Russian army hit Chernigov. As a result of the attack, 17 were killed and 60 people were injured. The Georgian parliament approved the bill on “foreign agents” in the first reading. The president of the republic said she would impose a veto on the law. The Ministry of Justice recognized the “unwanted” “Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom”.

As in Georgia for the second time they are trying to adopt a law on foreign agents Photo: David mdzinarishvili / epa-efe The parliament of Georgia, after the noisy debate between the ruling party and the opposition, nevertheless adopted in the first reading the bill “On the Transparency of Foreign Infant”. 83 deputies voted for him. The opposition before the vote was expelled from the hall for the noise.

The Russian Ministry of Justice included the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom in its list of “undesirable organizations.” This follows from data published on the department’s website. The Prosecutor General's Office decided to recognize the fund as “undesirable” on March 13. The Ministry of Justice also assigned the status of an “undesirable organization” to the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Both structures are registered in Germany.

Photo: Ural56.ru Photo: 7x7 A lack of drinking water has driven residents of Orsk in the flooded Russian Urals region of Orenburg to drink rain water from puddles, media outlet 7x7 Horizontal Russia reported on Wednesday. The outlet added that the city had been without running water for 12 days, with Orsk Mayor Vasily Kozupitsa saying the supply would resume once the water level had declined.

Photo: TIME magazine Photo: TIME magazine Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, has spoken to TIME magazine about her decision to enter politics, after being featured on the cover of its latest issue, which is dedicated to the world’s 100 most influential people. Asked if she believed that her late husband, who died in prison in February, would have wanted her to follow in his footsteps, Navalnaya said that she’d rather not “make guesses” on the issue.

Director of the center - Alexander Dugin State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Isakov sent an appeal to the Ministry of Education and the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check the legality of the creation of an educational and scientific center named after the philosopher Ivan Ilyin at the Russian State Humanitarian University. Isakov himself wrote about this on his VKontakte page.

From accusations of “anti-Soviet propaganda” in the 70s-to the “justification of terrorism” under the Putin government. We tell the story of dissident Alexander Skobov Alexander Skobov. Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov The accused of justifying the terrorism of the 66-year-old Alexander Skobov, the St. Petersburg historian, publicist and dissident, the other day transferred to the "New Crosses" to Kolpino. At the same time, the defense of the opposition appealed his arrest in the city court of St.

This is the first public conversation of the founder of Telegram for 7 years. Did he say something new? Interview with Pavel Durov Takera Carlson. Photo: Tucker Carlson / YouTube The American journalist, a former host of Fox News and the favorite of Russian propagandists Tucker Carlson, interviewed the founder of the VKontakte social network and Pavel Durov Telegram messenger. This is the first big interview with the entrepreneur in seven years.

For the past two years, Russia and Iran have been actively building cooperation. But only in words. In fact, the old problems of two dictatorships interfere Vladimir Putin (left) and President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, December 7, 2023.

The opposition announced a new rally Deputies of the Georgian Parliament approved the law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” in the first reading, reports Rustavi 2 TV channel. 83 deputies voted for the adoption of the law, 0 were against. The opposition did not participate in the voting. The opposition has planned a rally for today; its official part will begin at 19:00 local time near the parliament building.

Irina Podnosova. Photo: The Russian Federation Council Irina Podnosova. Photo: The Russian Federation Council A university classmate of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been confirmed as the new chief justice of Russia’s Supreme Court, after receiving the unanimous backing of the 167 senators in Russia’s Federation Council, the upper house of parliament’s Telegram channel announced on Wednesday.

A law supposedly passed to protect Russia from extremism has since day one been used to silence dissent Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / Novaya Gazeta Europe Under a decade-old law, any organisation that displeases the Kremlin can simply be classed an “undesirable” organisation, immediately compelling it to dissolve itself as a legal entity in Russia. Co-operation with or working for an organisation deemed undesirable can lead to prison sentences of up to six years.

State Duma deputies considered that social studies lessons in the sixth and eighth grades are promoting “Western concepts”, now the subject is generally removed from the high school program. What do teachers say? Illustration of Peter Sarukhanov On April 11, an order of the Ministry of Education of Russia was published on making adjustments to the school curriculum: starting on September 1, 2025, social studies will be studied from the ninth grade and only an hour a week.

At least 10 people were killed and another 20 injured when three Russian missiles struck the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday morning, the regional governor Vyacheslav Chaus said on Telegram. UPDATE The death toll of a Russian airstrike that hit the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday morning rose to 18, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine has reported . Over 70 people, including four children, were injured in the attack.

The prisoners recruited by the Russian Ministry of Defense die an average of a month earlier than the Wagner recruited in the PMC, the Russian BBC service found out . Wagner PMC recruited prisoners from June 2022 to January 2023, after which the Russian Ministry of Defense became the convicts. Journalists studied the obituary 9,327 prisoners who died in Ukraine. Of these, 1,910 people fought as part of the departments of the Storm Ministry of Defense, and 7,417 as part of the Wagner PMC.