State agencies stated that the procedure began at the initiative of the United States - this is not so Head of Rostec Sergei Chemezov. Photo: Rostec The head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, and the director of the state corporation for special assignments, Vasily Brovko, hired lawyers to advise on the lifting of US sanctions. This follows from the agreement published in the American register of foreign agents.

Darya Kozyreva attends her court hearing on 18 April 2025. Photo: SOTAvision A court in St. Petersburg is to hear a fresh case against a jailed Russian activist for “discrediting” the Russian army, the court’s press service announced on Friday. The new charges against Darya Kozyreva, 19, have arisen from her closing statement in court last month, when she was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian military.

Nina Baginskaya, photo: AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA The Pervomaisky District Court of Minsk dropped the criminal case against 78-year-old activist Nina Baginskaya and released her from punishment. Belsat reports this with reference to sources. A criminal case was opened against Baginskaya in early May - she was charged with “repeated violation of the procedure for organizing or holding mass events” (Article 342-2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus).

Nina Bahinskaya protests the results of the Belarusian presidential election, Minsk, 26 October 2020. Photo: AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA In a rare display of leniency, a court in the Belarusian capital Minsk has acquitted 78-year-old veteran activist Nina Bahinskaya and dismissed the case against her, independent TV channel Belsat reported on Friday. Bahinskaya had been charged with “repeated violation of the procedure for organising or holding mass events”.

Ksenia Dushanova and Nikolai Aliev, photo: social networks Sochi resident Nikolai Aliev, who went to war in Ukraine from a pre-trial detention center after severely beating his partner Ksenia Dushanova, has returned home. Novaya Gazeta Europe managed to find out this. On May 27, two stories with a Toyota car appeared on Aliyev’s telegram account. Two days later, the man posted a video of himself dancing in an unknown club.

Photo: Verstka A court in the city of Omsk, in western Siberia, has banned 12 websites featuring photos and memes comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, investigative media outlet Verstka reported on Friday. The call for the ban came directly from the Omsk Prosecutor’s Office, according to Verstka. The office said the images negatively impacted “the interests of society and the state” while encouraging “some people to commit terrorist activity and crime".

A statement from the editorial team Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe In recent weeks, dozens of politicians and public figures across Europe have received requests for interviews from unknown people claiming to be journalists from Novaya Gazeta Europe. According to our information, politicians in Lithuania, deputies from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and representatives of the Belarus opposition have been targeted most often with false requests.

The Kirovsky District Court of Omsk has declared twelve Internet pages that contain photos and memes that compare Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler banned in Russia. “Vorstka” drew attention to this. Employees of the Omsk prosecutor's office demanded that the pictures be banned.

Photo: “Paper” Artyom Pronko was expelled from his second year of undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Science at St. Petersburg State University, whom the police accused of having connections with the “left-wing radical group “Workers’ Power.” “Paper” writes about this with reference to the order of the university. The student was accused of violating a clause of the St.

Editorial statement Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe Several dozen politicians and public figures in Europe have received requests for interviews in recent weeks from unknown persons posing as journalists for our publication. In particular, according to our information, such requests were received by politicians in Lithuania, PACE deputies and representatives of the opposition forces of Belarus.

Slavoj Žižek speaks at the the International Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 12 October 2018. Photo: EPA-EFE/HAYOUNG JEON Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek has condemned the seizure of books, including one of his own, from Russian bookshops in comments he gave to Novaya Gazeta Europe on Thursday. The Russian edition of Žižek’s Jokes. “Nothing new, no surprise.

European leaders are vying with each other to fly to the United States, competing for the title of chief negotiator with Trump on EU and Ukraine affairs. Who wins this difficult race? Donald Trump speaks at the America First Policy Institute's America First Summit, Washington, DC, July 26, 2022. Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA-EFE The US authorities continue to call on Russia and Ukraine for an immediate ceasefire, but it seems that they have little faith in the feasibility of such a scenario.

Screenshot from the unveiling ceremony. Sergey Petrin / Telegram The mayor of the Russian city of Voronezh, Sergey Petrin, chose not to mention an anti-war message from the past at a ceremony to reopen a 25-year-old time capsule, local blogger Yury Rodionov revealed on Thursday. The time capsule was buried in Voronezh, in western Russia, in the year 2000 to mark the 55th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

How Tyva, which Putin praises for its birth rate, became mired in underground abortions Illustration: Nastya Pokotinska / Novaya Gazeta Europe Tyva has one of the highest birth rates in Russia. You can legally get an abortion here only in one hospital. Therefore, women do it underground: they buy abortion drugs on social networks and take them at home. How the clandestine abortion market works in one of the most disadvantaged regions of the Russian Federation - read in the Vetra article.

Photo: Telegram channel of urbanist Yuri Rodionov The mayor of Voronezh, Sergei Petrin, quoted a message to descendants from a time capsule 25 years ago, without mentioning the anti-war words. Urbanist Yuri Rodionov drew attention to this. The time capsule was laid in Voronezh in 2000 in honor of the 55th anniversary of the victory of Soviet troops in the Great Patriotic War; the opening ceremony took place the other day.