The Ukrainian strategic defence hub has finally fallen to the Russian military. What happens now? The view from the ruins of an apartment building, Vuhledar, July 2023. Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk / EPA-EFE The siege of the Donetsk region city of Vuhledar, which lasted for over two years, has ended with the city’s capture by Russian forces. How might the fall of the strategically important population centre affect the course of the war and which Donetsk region towns might be captured next?

The ex-owner of Probusinessbank, Alexander Zheleznyak, was a member of the board of directors of the International Corruption Fund (ACF) until the summer of 2022, and after that he began to work in an organization on a volunteer basis. This was stated by the former executive director of the FBK Vladimir Ashurkov, commenting on the investigation of Maxim Katz. According to him, now Zheleznyak does not take part in the discussion and decision -making regarding the activities of the FBK.

Brief instruction on how to prepare for possible locks Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta In September, Russian media reported on problems with the registration of Google accounts in Russia. The service did not allow the Russian phone number to confirm and did not send SMS for verification.

Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazona A court in Moscow sentenced a Russian nurse to eight years in prison for disseminating what it deemed to have been “fake news” about the army, Russian independent media outlet Mediazona reported on Thursday. Olga Menshikh, 59, was on trial for posts she published on Russian social media giant VK about the Bucha massacre and the Russian shelling of the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia .

As a popular German actor, he became a propagandist, was silent about the war, and after the fall of the regime he calmly continued his career and did not regret anything Hinz Ryumann in the film "Hauptsache Glücklich!", 1941. Photo: DDP / Vida Press On October 3, he has been the thirty years of the death of Hinets Ryumann, a German artist who lived a long life, he died in 92.

The anonymous telegram channel VChK-OGPU published , allegedly, the full version of the document of the Investigative Committee on the refusal to initiate a criminal case into the death of politician Alexei Navalny in a colony in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The “Agency” was unable to establish its authenticity.

Colonel Artyom Zhoga and Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru Colonel Artyom Zhoga and Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin has appointed Colonel Artyom Zhoga, a military officer from Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine and the former parliamentary speaker of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk people’s republic”, as his envoy to Russia’s Ural Federal District, the Kremlin announced on Wednesday evening.

Photo: Alexandra Astakhov / "Mediazona" The nurses Olga were appointed 8 years in colony for posts about the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazons" from the hall of the Dorogomilovsky District Court. “Horror,” they shout in the hall. The day before, the prosecutor demanded to appoint a smaller 8.5 years of the colony. Olga smaller-an anesthesiologist at the Moscow Surgical Center named after Pirogov.

In Russia-the heyday of Z-NCO: every day there are three new military-patriotic organizations. 80% of funds are received by funds that officials and deputies lead In 2023, more than a thousand new military-patriotic organizations were registered in Russia-twice as much as in the pre-war 2021. The trend continues in 2024. Every third of the current military-patriotic funds appeared after the start of a full-scale war. In 2023 alone, they managed to collect at least 30.6 billion rubles.

Former NTV officer and Izvestia media groups Ayrat Shiryaev seemed to be a special correspondent of the Russian BBC Service to attend the events of Russian opposition in Europe. This is stated in the investigation of the publication. Journalists found out that an employee of the Russian federal media introduced himself to the special commander of the Russian BBC Service Mark Nazarov to get to the meeting of the artist Tatyana Lazareva with fans in Dusseldorf on July 16.

Blogger Valeria Chekalina and her ex-husband Artem were detained for 48 hours after interrogation. Kommersant and TASS write about this with reference to sources. The Chekalins are accused of transferring money to the accounts of non-residents using forged documents (Part 3 of Article 193.1 of the Criminal Code). The opening of the case became known the day before, and searches were carried out at the bloggers’ home.

The story of a stormtrooper who went to die in the war to pay off his debts Andrei went to war in 2022. For a long time they did not want to take him to the front because of his disability, but he really wanted to get into the “SVO zone” in order to repay the debts he lost in the casino and on bets. In 2024, Andrei voluntarily transferred to the stormtroopers, hoping that in the event of his death, his family would be able to pay.

Nikita Zhuravel. Photo: Kadyrov_95 / Telegram A Russian man who was jailed for 3.5 years in February for burning a Quran outside a mosque in the southern Russian city of Volgograd has had fresh charges pressed against him for treason, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Thursday.

Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel, sentenced to 3.5 years for burning the Koran, was accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The Prosecutor General's Office reported this. According to investigators, 20-year-old Zhuravel offered cooperation to a representative of the Ukrainian security service through a messenger.

Artem Zhoga and Vladimir Putin, photo: Kremlin's site Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of his authorized representative in the Ural Federal District of the former commander of the fighting in Ukraine battalion "Sparta", the speaker of the self -proclaimed "DPR" Artem Zhoga. The document was published on the Kremlin website.