Will they come up with a reason to block a Ukrainian game popular in the Russian Federation? Gaming convention Gamescom 2023. Photo: Freidemann Vogel / EPA-EFE On November 20, the game STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl was released - the second part of the world-famous franchise from the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World. She is incredibly popular in Russia too.

Who is Nika Novak, a Trans-Baikal journalist who received four years for “cooperation with a foreign organization” Nika Novak. Photo: social networks. The 32-year-old journalist received four years in a general regime colony. Her case was completely classified, and the trial, as usual, took place behind doors closed from the public. Novaya Gazeta Europe tells what Nika Novak did and what her views were.

The British Embassy in Moscow. Photo: EPA/SERGEI CHIRIKOV Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced the expulsion of a British diplomat who it said had been conducting reconnaissance and “subversive work” in the country, state-affiliated news agency Interfax reported on Tuesday.

The regional court of Turkish Erzurum overturned the acquittal of the fiance of Russian femactivist Anastasia Emelyanova, Mohammad Nizar Arnabeh, who was accused of her murder. Mediazona reported this with reference to the court decision of November 12. Anastasia Emelyanova and Nizar Arnabeh. Photo: social networks The appeal board sent the case for a new trial, as it considered the complaint against the acquittal to be justified, according to the document, which the publication has seen.

Screenshot: Klaud Rommel’s YouTube channel An Orthodox blogger and Ukraine war veteran currently on trial in St. Petersburg for the rape of a 10-year-old girl has been remanded in custody after prosecutors challenged the court’s original decision to allow him to remain at liberty until a verdict was reached, local newspaper Fontanka reported on Tuesday. According to investigators , between September 2022 and February 2024, Klaud Rommel repeatedly raped his then girlfriend’s daughter.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Photo: EPA/PETER SCHNEIDER Exiled Russian businessman and opposition politician Mikhail Khodorkovsky has described the publication of a letter asking him for financial help allegedly written by Anatoly Blinov, currently awaiting trial for attacking Alexey Navalny associate Leonid Volkov in Lithuania in March, as an FSB “provocation”.

How and why the Kremlin is waging a social media campaign to intimidate the West with ballistic missiles, calling on Europe to stay away from the United States Photo: Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA-EFE The bots of two Kremlin networks aimed at the West have been campaigning for three days to intimidate Western countries with Oreshnik ballistic missiles. It was with them that Russia struck the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepr, responding to Ukraine’s permission to fire long-range missiles at Russian territory.

Ukraine’s use of missiles against Russia is being treated as a dangerous escalation. It isn’t. A bust of Lenin is among debris at the site of a missile strike that on Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv, 25 November 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE / SERGEY KOZLOV Following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US presidential election, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic congresswoman from New York, publicly appealed to those who had voted for both her and Trump.

The Russian attack aircraft told Novaya-Europa about the zone, the war and the attitude towards him in society Novaya Gazeta Europe continues to explore the motives of Russians who voluntarily go to war with Ukraine. This time we talked to a former prisoner who went from the colony to storm Bakhmut and was left without a leg. How does society treat him now? Why can't he receive the due payments? And was it worth going to war for money and freedom? Answers in a new monologue on our channel.

The Krasnogvardeysky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the “Orthodox blogger”, participant in the war in Ukraine Claud Rommel, in the case of rape of a 10-year-old girl. Fontanka reports this. Screenshot: Cloud Rommel's YouTube channel It is not specified how long Rommel was detained.

A Taliban delegation at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia, 6 June 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANATOLY MALTSEV Legislation that would allow organisations to be temporarily removed from Russia’s list of terrorist organisations was introduced to the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament on Monday.

After almost three years of war, how do Ukraine and Russia look at the “territorial issue”? We talk about the positions of the warring parties and an important factor in information warfare Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky presents his plan to the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 19, 2024.

For queer people, parties are not just leisure, but an important way of socialization and a space of safety. But now these are colossal risks Protest in Belgrade against Russia's ban on the LGBT movement. Photo: Andrej Kukic / EPA-EFE Russian security forces have gotten the hang of it.

The UK recently sent Ukraine “dozens” more Storm Shadow long-range missiles in its first major arms shipment to Kyiv since Keir Starmer became prime minister in July, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg said the unannounced deliveries were made several weeks ago, when Kyiv was experiencing shortages of the long-range missiles.

Photo: EPA-EFE A court in Washington has dismissed criminal cases against US President-elect Donald Trump for storming the Capitol and mishandling classified documents. CNN reports this. District Court Judge Tanya Chatken dismissed the cases without issuing a ruling. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith previously filed a motion to do so. He explained his decision by saying that the Ministry of Justice cannot conduct cases against the elected president of the country.