Digest consequences Asha, Chelyabinsk region, March 19, 2025. Photo: Alexander Kondratyuk / satellite / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta With the onset of spring, some regions of Russia have traditionally encountered floods. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, the active phase of the seasonal flood is observed in 11 regions of the country. In total, 63 residential buildings, 93 cottage houses, 363 household plots, 54 low -water bridges and 35 sections of roads were flooded.

Deputies tighten punishment for “calls” to sanctions, “discrediting” the army and promoting international organizations. Who are the amendments aimed at and is there any practical meaning in them? A policeman in the State Duma building, Moscow, March 21, 2018.

The legend of Ganguine Petersburg Vladimir Kulibab received the first sentence to kill thirty years ago Vladimir Kulibab during a court session, St. Petersburg, March 17, 2025. Photo: Evgeny Pavlenko / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press On March 17, the city court of St. Petersburg on the basis of the jury verdict sentenced Vladimir Kulibaba, a racketeer from the 1990s: 10 years in prison for a double murder committed in 1993.

Dmitry Bykov - memory of Vadim Zhuk, who wrote the strongest poem of this war Vadim Zhuk, April 2022. Photo: Pavel Kashaev / Picvario Media, LLC / Alamy / Vida Press Vadim Zhuk wrote the most, in my opinion, poem of this war. At least, I do not understand how you can not cry above him - despite the fact that there is no “knee pressure on the lacrimal glands”.

Fire rises over the Sudzha gas metering station. Photo: social media A gas metering station in a pocket of Russia’s western Kursk region that was for months under Ukrainian control following a surprise August incursion into Russian territory by Kyiv, came under attack late on Thursday, with videos posted online showing the station engulfed in flames.

EPA-EFE/Olivier Matthys The EU plan for the provision of 40 billion euros for military assistance to Ukraine, which was discussed at a meeting in Brussels on March 20, “failed”. Some participating countries referred to “budget problems” and unwillingness to provide assistance without a “bilateral basis”, reports Politico with reference to several European diplomats.

In Moscow, registered tickets are introduced: the entrance to theaters and to concerts by passport. The initiative is criticized by patriots, and the telegram is warmly supported Theater cash desk in Moscow. Sergey Vedyashkin / AGN "Moscow" Since March 15, for the entrance to the 63 Moscow theater and 36 venues of the Moskontzers (for example, DK Gorbunov, the Eldar film club, the small hall in the House of Music, the Pavilion 57 at VDNH) requires a passport or other personality certificate.

Alexander Skobov. Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov / Novaya Gazeta Europe A court in St. Petersburg has sentenced the 67-year-old Soviet-era dissident Alexander Skobov to 16 years in prison and fined him 300,000 rubles (€3,300) for a social media post he wrote, independent news outlet RusNews reported on Friday.

Mother and cousin of the deceased Artem from the village of Sadovoy in Kalmykia. Screenshot from circulation In the village of Sadovoye in Kalmykia, a teenager committed suicide, who was suspected of bringing the 14-year-old Artem to the suicide (the surname is not called). This was reported by Ombudsumen for the Rights of the Child in the region, Natalya Stiivaeva. As Stuivaeva said, in the morning of March 16, a teenager left home, then he was found dead.

A neopagan Stalinist who hates abortion and Hollywood — meet Russia’s most controversial governor Georgy Filimonov addresses an anti-narcotics task force meeting in the city of Vologda, 24 December 2024.

Today, the court sentenced him to 16 years in prison. We tell his story Alexander Skobov. Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov Alexander Skobov is a man who, from the very youth, says what he thinks while remaining in Russia. Today he is 67. He continues to be in the country, and specifically in a Russian prison, and say what he thinks. And in this, it seems, his phenomenon and the main drama.

On the night of March 21, an attack took place at the Sudzha gas measuring station (GIS) in the Kursk region, through which Russian gas was delivered to Europe. The first to tell Russian Z-channels about this. According to their version, the APU was struck at the station. This, in particular, wrote the correspondent of VGTRK Andrei Rudenko , as well as the telegram channels “Warrior of the Russian Spring” and “Two Majors” . The latter noted that the GIS "Suzha" was destroyed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US Special Envoy for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg meet in Kyiv, Ukraine, 20 February 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE / SERGEY DOLZHENKO The US is to facilitate indirect talks between Russia and Ukraine in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh next week, US Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg said on Thursday, as the Trump administration continued its efforts to bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine.

At the oil depot in the Caucasian district of the Krasnodar Territory, which has been burning for two days due to the attack of drones, an explosion occurred. This was reported in the regional opera station. The explosion occurred "in the process of extinguishing due to the depressurization of the burning tank." Two firefighters suffered, they were hospitalized with burns and poisoning of combustion products.

At least 100 “Swate Veterans” got a job at Russian schools. More than 200 teachers are still at the front Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / "New Gazeta Europe" Children are increasingly attracted to the patriotic education of the war - they conduct classroom hours and even teach in schools. Since the beginning of the “Svo” the military held almost 40 thousand meetings with schoolchildren-an average of 93 every day in 2025, counted the New European Europe.