The Tu-22M3 military crash crashed in a deserted area in the Irkutsk region, TASS writes with reference to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The crew catapulted, one pilot died. Previously, the cause of the crash was a technical malfunction. The Governor of the Irkutsk Region Igor Kobzev said that the Tu-22M3 crashed near the village of Bohat Bohansky district. In total, there were four people aboard. Mash, a pro-government telegram channel, clarifies that the plane fell in the Usolsky district.

The aftermath of a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, 2 April 2025. Photo. Volodymyr Zelensky, Telegram Four people died and 13 were injured in a Russian missile strike on the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon, Dnipropetrovsk region Governor Serhiy Lysak has announced .

"Mediazone" is on the verge of closing. We talked with chief editor Sergei Smirnov, who fired himself Sergey Smirnov. Photo " 7x7 " The independent edition of Mediazona, telling about Russian repressions, courts and prisons, has been working for ten years. On March 31, the editor-in-chief of Mediazona Sergey Smirnov and his deputy Dmitry Treshchin said that the media could be closed due to financial problems.

What are the Kremlin’s preconditions for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, and can they be met? The Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, 26 March 2025. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA After several rounds of negotiations with the US in Saudi Arabia last month, the Kremlin outlined a list of demands last Tuesday that would have to be met for Russia to agree to a ceasefire in the Black Sea.

The Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don was sentenced by Colonel Evgeny Malyshko and senior sergeant Roman Timonin to the 20th and 18th years of a maximum security colony. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the press service of the court. Evgeny Malyshko.

Will this expand the authority of the police and increase pressure on foreigners in Russia? The security forces during the raid to identify violations of military registration and illegal migration in Novosibirsk, October 15, 2024. Photo: Alexander Kryazhev / satellite / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta In Russia, according to the decree of Vladimir Putin, they will create a service on citizenship and registration of foreigners on the basis of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Kirill Dmitriev. Screenshot: FBK Kirill Dmitriev. Screenshot: FBK Kirill Dmitriev, the long-time head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a member of the high-level delegation sent to Saudi Arabia by the Kremlin to negotiate with the US over Ukraine earlier this year, has been found to have accumulated a real estate fortune worth over €80 million during his years of state service, according to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) published on Tuesday.

The film about Maxim Lapunov is the first to talk about gay torture in Chechnya The New Gazeta Europe publishes the film “12 days that changed their life” Irina Novik and Vasily Littebrandt. Maxim Lapunov is the first person who officially declared the persecution and torture of gays in Chechnya. In 2017, Lapunov, a native of the Omsk region, who lived and worked in Grozny, was kidnapped and placed in an unofficial gay prison.

Alisher Usmanov, Yelena Baturina and Petr Aven. Illustration: Novaya Gazeta Europe A day after issuing its 2025 World Billionaires List, Forbes Magazine has reclassified 24 entrants as Russian, having originally listed the Russian billionaires in question as coming from elsewhere.

The organizers of the Berlin Fair of the Russian -speaking literature “Bable Bublts” canceled the performance of publicist Oleg Kashin. He announced this himself, later the information confirmed the Echo in the project leadership. Kashin suggested that the Russians from the "anti -Putin environment" with whom he had conflicts could affect the cancellation of his speeches.

The American Forbes returned to the Russian part of the list of the richest people the planet of 24 billionaires, which the day before attributed to other countries. The "agency" drew attention to this.

In Yekaterinburg, the Yeltsin Center canceled the show of the play “I killed the king” by Vladimir Mirzoev about the execution of Nicholas II and his family in the house of Ipatiev in 1918. This was reported in the press service of the cultural center, IT's My City paid attention to this. The performance was scheduled for June 5. The reasons for the cancellation of the show are not specified. The audience promised to return the money for tickets.

Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik at the Kremlin in Moscow, 1 April 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE / MIKHAIL TERESHCHENKO / SPUTNIK /KREMLIN POOL Vladimir Putin met with Milorad Dodik, the controversial president of the Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity which makes up half of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Tuesday, the Kremlin has announced .

Alexander Yemelyanov. Photo: Idel.Realii / VK A Russian military officer on trial for killing a 19-year-old conscript during a training exercise last year has had the charges against him dismissed after he signed a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry to fight in Ukraine, RFE/RL regional outlet Idel.Realii reported on Tuesday.

We analyze the main questions about the consequences of such a decision with the orientalist Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Afghan government, formed by Taliban, Amirkhan Muttaki at a meeting in Moscow, October 4, 2024. Photo: Sefa Karacan / Anadolu / ABACA / DDP Images / Vida Press Russia may stop counting the Taliban as a terrorist organization: the Prosecutor General’s Office appealed to the Supreme Court with a request to suspend the appropriate ban.