How Volgograd was preparing for the forum with the participation of Putin and Lukashenko Stella at the entrance to Volgograd, 2017. Photo: David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta From April 28 to 30, Volgograd hosts the International Forum “Great Heritage-General Future”, dedicated to the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Pregnant women in maternity clinic. Photo: social media A magistrate in the Vologda region of northwestern Russia has fined the acting chief physician of a maternity hospital 15,000 rubles (€160) for refusing a local woman an abortion, the regional courts’ press service said on Monday. According to the court, a Vologda woman had inquired at an antenatal clinic about an abortion in February. She was sent to the Vologda city maternity hospital, where the unnamed doctor refused her request.

Vladimir Putin holds a video conference with Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov near Moscow, 26 April 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/ALEXANDER KAZAKOV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN Vladimir Putin has declared a 72-hour truce to run from 8 May to 10 May while Russia marks the 80th anniversary of victory in World War II, the Kremlin announced on Monday. “Based on humanitarian considerations, … the Russian side will declare a truce on the days of the 80th anniversary of victory.

ATMs, traffic lights and public transport do not work. Shops and cafes - in the dark Passengers leave the metro station after turning off electricity in Madrid, April 28, 2025. Photo: Mariscal / EPA Passengers leave the metro station after turning off electricity in Madrid, April 28, 2025. Photo: Mariscal / EPA On the afternoon of April 28 , the entire Pyrinean Peninsula, as well as in part of France, almost completely stopped working electricity.

Putin claims that the Russians knocked out the Armed Forces from the border region, but Ukraine and Z-bloggers indicate: the battles continue Russian troops in the Kursk region, April 17, 2025. Photo: Sergey Bobylev / satellite / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta The Russian authorities on Saturday, April 26, reported on the complete liberation of the Kursk region, nine months under the Ukrainian occupation.

Photo: social networks The justice of the peace in the Vologda region fined 15 thousand rubles of the head physician of the Vologda city maternity hospital for refusing to abortion to a local resident, the press service of the region’s courts reports . The woman was found guilty of an administrative article on the implementation of activities with violation of the requirements and conditions provided for by special permission (Article 19.20 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

How political prisoners with mental disorders survive in Russian prisons Illustration: Oksana Miroshnikova In Russian pre -trial detention centers and colonies, people with mental diagnoses are sitting. How many of them, no one counts. Independent doctors are not allowed to be allowed, they do not give out medicines and stigmatized. Some, unable to withstand the conditions of content, commit suicide, others have been balancing between life and death for years.

Alexey Gorinov in prison. Photo: Novaya Gazeta A Moscow politician jailed for criticising Russia’s war in Ukraine has launched a constitutional challenge to the country’s controversial law on spreading false information about the military, BBC News Russian reported on Monday.

Vladimir Putin, photo: Telegram channel of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin announced a truce between Russia and Ukraine from May 8 to 10 in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This is stated in the Kremlin statement. “According to Putin’s decision, based on humanitarian reasons, in the days of the 80th anniversary of Victory-from zero hours from May 7 to 8 to zero from 10 to 11th-the Russian side announces a truce.

Russian security forces are using a new definition of criminal pornography to target bloggers and sex workers Illustration: Novaya Gazeta Europe Following a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that classified Russian webcam models as pornographers, convictions for “producing and disseminating pornographic material” soared. Novaya Gazeta Europe explores how this decision has dismantled a once-thriving business in Russia and provided law enforcement with a new tool to target sex workers.

The Longlist of the Big Book Prize is full of sadness and magical realism. Ksenia Buke - about why to write prose in Russia today is so difficult Photo: Alexander Avilov / AGN "Moscow" After the publication of the Longlist of the “Big Book”, a few comments immediately appeared in the spirit of “Familiar Names or None”. However, you can get acquainted with unfamiliar names. I decided to do this: I read what I had not read and what I could reach, but what I could not have, I read it in excerpts.

Viktor Yanukovych attends a press conference in Kyiv, 4 June 2010. Photo: EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia for illegally crossing the border and inciting desertion, the Ukrainian’s Prosecutor General Office announced on Monday. The charges relate to events on 23 February 2014, when Yanukovych fled the country by air.

Ekaterina Mizulina, photo: social networks Since the beginning of 2024, Russian “patriotic” activists and organizations have written at least 350 public denunciations, calculated “Caution, News”. Journalists emphasized that under the denunciation they determined the appeals of activists to the Russian authorities with a demand to punish a person or organization under “political” articles, as well as for “insulting the feelings of believers” and drug propaganda.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin at the Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, 19 June 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/GAVRIIL GRIGOROV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL Vladimir Putin thanked North Korean soldiers for their “heroism” on Monday as Pyongyang confirmed for the first time that it had sent troops to help the Russian military recapture the country’s western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces.

Gavriil Grigorov / EPA-EFE The authorities of North Korea first confirmed the participation of troops in the war in Ukraine on the side of the Russian army. This became known from the message that was distributed by the North Korean State Agency of Tsat. The press release states that the North Korean military was sent to the war on the orders of Kim Jong-un as part of an agreement on mutual defense between Russia and the DPRK.