The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation proposed increasing fines under 36 economic articles of the criminal code. Such a bill appeared on the legal information website. In the explanatory note, the department explained that in 2024 in Russia the amounts of large and especially large damages for 36 elements of economic crimes were increased. This made it possible to decriminalize some crimes and transfer them to the category of administrative offenses.

Before the Australian Open, Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev spoke in detail for the first time about the struggle with mental problems, support from colleagues and criticism in Russia due to his anti-war position Tennis player Andrey Rublev during the quarter finals against American Ben Shelton at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basel, Switzerland, October 25, 2024.

Robert Fico attends a meeting with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 22 December 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/ARTYOM GEODAKYAN/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN There are no plans for Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to take up an invitation to visit Kyiv on Friday to discuss the halting of Russian gas transit through Ukraine, the deputy speaker of the Slovak Parliament, Tibor Gašpar, told Russian new agency TASS on Tuesday.

Screenshot: DownDetector A major internet outage has been reported across Russia, with users unable to access dozens of websites and apps on Tuesday afternoon. The outage has affected popular messengers and social media apps including Telegram, WhatsApp and VK, several online banking apps, and search engines including Google and Yandex, according to Downdetector , a website that monitors website accessibility.

Problems are observed in the operation of the Telegram, Tiktok, Google, T-Bank, Youtube, Steam and Twitch applications. There was also a glitch in the operation of the website “Sboy.rf”. According to the Downdetector service, subscribers of Beeline, Megafon and MTS also encountered problems.

Residents of villages in the Arkhangelsk region asked Putin to build a road. While she is gone, they survive without access to shops and medical care. Illustrations: “Wind” In the Arkhangelsk region, residents of the Pinezhsky district cannot get from their villages to the regional center for several months a year. During the off-season, they find themselves cut off from civilization, food is not brought to them, and emergency medical care does not arrive.

A military court in Moscow has sentenced seven Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) servicemen to 15 years in prison for their role in the Ukrainian cross-border offensive in Russia’s western Kursk region, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Tuesday.

Kristina Prikhodko. Photo: NGS / Konstantin Prikhodko Convicted for the murder of 19-year-old Novosibirsk student Kristina Prikhodko, Sergei Yulin and Maxim Ovchinnikov left the colony for the war in Ukraine. This was reported by NGS with reference to the father of the murdered woman. Ovchinnikov, who received 18 years in prison, went to the front in February 2024. According to Konstantin Prikhodko, the man was wounded and in the spring he ended up in Orenburg, where he bought an apartment.

Gianni Cenni’s Russian military ID. Photo: Telegram A convicted Italian murderer and paedophile fighting for the Russian military has been captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Kupyansk in eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Italian daily newspaper Libero reported on Sunday. Gianni Cenni, 51, joined the Russian military in November only to be captured weeks later, according to Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces, which called him “another victim of Russian propaganda”. Gianni Cenni.

The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced seven servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to terms ranging from 15 to 16 years for participation in the offensive in the Kursk region, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation reported . The defendants will spend the first three years in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security correctional colony.

Ukraine is prioritising holding its ground in Russia’s Kursk region as Russia continues to advance in Donbas A Ukrainian serviceman at a training ground in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, 29 November 2024.

What will happen to censorship on Facebook and Instagram with the arrival of Trump? Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Laure Andrillon / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA At the beginning of January 2025, Mark Zuckerberg posted a five-minute video entitled More speech and fewer mistakes, in which he announced a change in corporate policy regarding censorship and freedom of speech.

Photo: social media Ukraine struck cities across Russia in the early hours of Tuesday morning in its largest drone attack of 2025 so far, Russian media and regional authorities reported. According to the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel SHOT, Russian air defence systems intercepted over 200 drones and five US-produced ATACMS ballistic missiles in the attack.

Jude Law will play Putin in the film “The Kremlin Wizard” based on the book by Giuliano da Empoli about Vladislav Surkov. We tell you what kind of book this is Jude Law attends the unveiling of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on December 12, 2024. Photo: Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP / Scanpix / LETA In an interview with Deadline, Oscar nominee Jude Law said he soon plans to play Vladimir Putin at the beginning of his political career.

FSB officer Vladimir Feshchenko was found murdered in the center of Moscow, RBC reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Feshchenko was shot on January 13 in one of the buildings of the Ministry of Defense. According to RBC's interlocutor, the main version is murder by negligence; a pistol bullet hit the man in the head. “It is possible that the shot was fired as a result of a quarrel between two men,” the source noted.