Ukrainian troops take part in military training at an undisclosed location in eastern Ukraine, 27 March 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE / 24th Mechanised Brigade An open-source intelligence project run by independent news outlet Mediazona and BBC News Russian has confirmed the deaths of 100,001 Russian soldiers in Ukraine, Mediazona announced on Friday.

Screenshot: Russian Defence Ministry A gas metering station near Sudzha, in the part of Russia’s western Kursk region that was under Ukrainian control until Russian troops retook it earlier this month, came under renewed attack on Friday morning, with both Moscow and Kyiv accusing each other of being behind the strike.

Riot police in front of the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg, 15 September 2012. Photo: Alexander Demyanchuk / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Russia has imprisoned the second-highest number of people in the world for their religious beliefs, according to the annual report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

Photo: "New Gazeta Europe" 100 001 of the deceased Russian in the war in Ukraine was able to confirm the Mediazona, the Russian BBC service and the volunteer team. The data is given as of March 28. Journalists warn that this is far from a complete figure: “The volunteers accumulated more than 10 thousand [new] necrologues. It is impossible to add these numbers, since part of the information is duplicated.

Russians say that they survived in Bangkok during and after the earthquake Rescuers on the site of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, March 28, 2025. Photo: RUNGROJ YONGRIT / EPA In Myanmar, powerful earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 points occurred. At least 26 people died. China, as well as Thailand, where Russians often go to rest and where many retains live often, suffered from strong shocks. In Bangkok, airports and public transport temporarily suspended work.

In Turkey, the lawyer of Mehmet Pekhlivan, who had previously arrested mayor of Istanbul, Imamoglu, was detained - the latter is called the main opponent of Recep Erdogan. This was announced in the X deputy from the Republican People's Party Turan Tashkyn Lakes and confirmed the arrested mayor of Istanbul. “Now, according to far -fetched charges, my lawyer Mehmet Pekhlivan was detained.

Russia has put forward the USA Package for a truce in the Black Sea. Explain what the Kremlin is achieving and why these conditions are impossible View from the Langeron beach in Odessa, Ukraine, March 26, 2025. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka / Ap Photo / Scanpix / Leta In negotiations with the United States in Jidd, Russia put forward its requirements for the abolition of sanctions.

Instagram deleted several accounts of the blogger Alexandra Yost, who received money from the propaganda television channel RT. Yost itself called the lock censorship. The main account of the blogger - Sasha Meets Russia - was deleted on March 26. Jost itself stated that this happened without explanation. “My Instagram with almost 300 thousand subscribers and 100+ million views disappeared,” she wrote in her telegram channel. Now the Sasha Meets Russia account on Instagram is still unavailable.

Salary, like the military, the duties of handymen: how do couriers live in Russia? How do war and repression change Russian society? We continue to talk with Russians - representatives of different professions. Ilya is 23 years old, he works as a courier in one of the delivery services in Moscow.

Owners earned more than a billion in state contracts, residents demand to close the company Sample bags on the territory of "Medvetkrym" during the audit. Photo: Shchelkino Official / VK Residents of settlements next to the city of Shchelykino in annexed Crimea for years complain about emissions of toxic waste by the Medvetkrakhm plant (MVK). Despite the promises of the authorities to figure out periodic checks, the company continues to work.

The Russian state has seized assets worth over €25bn from privately owned companies since the start of the war Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / Novaya Gazeta Europe Russian courts have confiscated assets worth close to €25.6 billion from over 400 privately owned companies since the start of the war in Ukraine, research by Novaya Gazeta Europe has revealed. The pace of “asset redistribution” has also accelerated sharply in recent months, the investigation showed.

Supporters of the Georgian opposition take part in a protest near the Georgian Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, 29 December 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/DAVID MDZINARISHVILI Georgia’s ruling party is to request the country’s Constitutional Court declare opposition parties “unconstitutional”, Russian news agency TASS reported on Thursday, as the increasingly authoritarian party attempted to further cement its grip on power.

The religion freedom commission, which Trump promised to disperse, summarized the results of the year: there was less freedom Omonovites in a cordon during a rally near the Temple of Savior on Blood in St. Petersburg, September 15, 2012. Photo: Alexander Demyanchuk / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Trump promised to disperse the American commission on international religious freedom, and she hastened to issue an annual report a few months earlier than usual.

Photo: social networks In Myanmar at about 9:20 Moscow time, an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 occurred. A few minutes after that, an aphtershk was followed by a magnitude of 6.4. U.S.S. The epicenter of seismoactivity was 16 kilometers northwest of the city of Sagain, not far from the second largest city of Myanmar-Mandalaya. At the same time, tremors also felt in the capital of Thailand - Bangkok, as well as in the Chinese province of Yunnan, CNN said .

Vladimir Putin visits the Arkhangelsk nuclear-powered submarine in Murmansk, Russia, 27 March 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/GAVRIIL GRIGOROV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL Vladimir Putin has called for the creation of a temporary UN-supervised administration in Ukraine charged with holding elections and overseeing the transfer of power to a “capable government” with which Russia would be willing to negotiate an end to the war.