In the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad Region, there was a “technogenic incident” on board the Koala tanker transporting oil products. This was announced by the governor of the region Alexander Drozdenko. According to him, the accident occurred on the morning of February 9 during the launch of the engine, as a result of which the engine room was damaged. The official emphasized that the tanker was moored at the pier, there is no threat of oil products.

Frol Kozlov was called the second man in the USSR, and was kicked out of the Kremlin for lies and corruption 60 years ago, Frol Kozlov died. In the early 60s, he was the second person in the USSR and the main contender for the place of the Secretary General of the CPSU, which was prepared by Nikita Khrushchev himself. Today, even historians will not immediately remember his name. Kozlov’s career ended as sharply as it began.

The former building of the Council of Economic Mutual Assistance in Moscow will be demolished. The Sev himself “went under demolition” 34 years ago - along with the USSR The former building of the Council of Economic Mutual Assistance on New Arbat before a comprehensive reconstruction, Moscow, February 7, 2025.

A Russian Interior Ministry proposal to compile a database of LGBT people has been lifted straight from the KGB playbook A still from Soviet director Sergey Parajanov’s 1969 masterpiece The Colour of Pomegranates. Following the recent news that Russia’s Interior Ministry has been considering the creation of a database to track members of Russia’s LGBT community, experts were quick to cast doubt on whether such a move would even be technically possible.

How to fly without fear? Conversation with a psychologist and pilot after a series of high -profile plane crashes Passenger at the airport before landing on the flight. Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov In recent months, several large airlines have occurred related to various airlines and countries. At such moments, it seems that anxiety aggravated by a news stream can cover even those who had not been afraid to fly before.

On Sakhalin, a foreign cargo vehicle transporting coal is merely on the village. This was reported in the Eastern Interregional Investigation Department in Transport of the SK. The department clarified that the incident occurred on February 8 not far from the seaport of Nevelsk. Sakhalin Governor Valery Limarenko said that we are talking about the Chinese cargo vessel “Ani Yan 2”, on board of which there is fuel. According to him, the spill of oil products has not yet been observed.

Photo: EPA-EFE/MIKHAEL KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL The Kremlin has neither confirmed nor denied that US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had spoken by phone to discuss the war in Ukraine, Russian news agency TASS reported on Sunday. In comments reported by The New York Post, Trump said on Saturday that he had spoken to Putin to begin negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, though did not clarify when the call had taken place or how many times he and Putin had spoken.

In Vladimir, a transgender cashier was fired from the Pyaterochka store after the denunciation of activists of the Russian veterans of Russia. This was announced by the local journalist Alexander Stepanov, the “argument” paid attention to his publication. This information was confirmed by the publication in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The head of the Constitutional Court of Poland accuses the pro -European premiere of the country Donald Tusk in the coup. He only waves off and writes joking videos. What's happening? Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk acts during the debate on the “Presentation of the Program for the Polish Chairmanship” in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, January 22, 2025.

We talk about the novel “Fear and Enjoyment” by Elena Chizhova - about collective injury after February 24, 2022 and the authorities as a very bad writer The famous St. Petersburg writer Elena Chizhova, who in 2009 received the “Russian Bouquer” for the bestseller “Women's Time”, often raises serious socio-historical issues: problems of memory, anti-Semitism, a person in a totalitarian context and so on. The name of the new novel "Fear and obsession" suggests that it will be about the present.

Donald Trump, photo: Michael Reynolds US President Donald Trump said he talked on the phone with Vladimir Putin. He told about this in an interview with New York Post. According to him, Putin wants the deaths of people on the battlefield to stop. “He wants people to stop dying. <...> All these dead people. Young, young, beautiful people. They are like children, there are two million of them - and for no reason, ”Trump said.