Photo: social networks In Yekaterinburg, the security forces came with a raid to the concert of Indie-Rock of the Czecherio group, reports It's My City with reference to eyewitnesses. According to one of them, the police and people in military uniforms and balaclavs came to the New Bar bar, where the Chetvero group was supposed to be today. The security forces examined the telephones and documents among visitors. People who were near the bar building were driven inside.

Photo: Insider UA Colonel Ivan Voronich, shot down the day before in Kyiv, led the fifth department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), who organized the murder of the commander of the anti -tank special division of Sparta in the Donbass Arsen Pavlov with the call sign of Motorol. About this writes The New York Times with reference to the source.

Photo: BNK news agency An independent cultural centre in Syktyvkar, in northern Russia, had its glass door broken and walls graffitied with the letter Z, a Russian pro-war symbol, and the word “traitors”, two days after Russian security forces raided the premises, local news agency BNK reported on Thursday.

Maria Ponomarenko in court during her sentencing on 24 March 2025. Photo: RusNews A court in the Russian city of Barnaul has upheld a sentence of one year and 10 months against Maria Ponomarenko, a reporter with independent news channel RusNews, convicted of “assaulting prison staff” in late March, the outlet reported on Friday.

Bulgaria finally joins the Eurozone. Why did the decision have matured for so long and how did the pro -Russian nationalists from the Renaiss try to prevent this? The protester holds a poster with the inscription in Bolgarian “not a search for the euro” (“We do not want the euro”) during the demonstration against the entry of Bulgaria in the Eurozone, Sofia, June 4, 2025.

The Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School. Photo: Dmitry Shipulya. Public domain. Sergeant Ivan Selin. Photo from personal archive A 20-year-old cadet at the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School has confessed to sabotaging the parachutes of his 24-year-old commander during a training jump, leading to the latter’s death earlier this summer, according to Kommersant, a state-affiliated business daily, and VCHK-OGPU, a Telegram channel with ties to Russian security services.

The advance of Russia in Ukraine at the fastest pace since the fall of 2024 buried hopes for a quick truce. The Kremlin is considered to be more profitable than a dialogue with Kyiv Russian troops are traveling on a self -propelled mortar "Tulip", Ukraine, September 3, 2024. Photo: Sergey Bobylev / satellite / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta The initiatives aimed at the ceasefire in Ukraine, by the middle of the summer of 2025, finally proved their failure.

Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting at the Kremlin on 17 March 2025. Photo: EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV In a rare acknowledgment of Russia’s ongoing crackdown on dissent, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov admitted in an interview with state-aligned Expert magazine on Friday that Russia was currently “in a period of military censorship”.

The Soviet District Court of Chelyabinsk satisfied the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General’s Office and turned the shares of Yuzhuralzoloto, which belonged to businessman Konstantin Strukov, to the state of the state. It is reported by TASS. Photo: social networks The trial was held closed. According to Vedomosti, among the confiscated assets - all the shares belonging to Strukov in PJSC Yuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies and 100% LLC South -Cervical Company LLC.

Preparations for the funeral at the Smolenskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg on 11 July 2025. Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe A closed funeral ceremony was held in St. Petersburg on Friday for Roman Starovoyt, the former head of Russia’s Transport Ministry who was found dead earlier this week after reportedly taking his own life following his dismissal as minister by Vladimir Putin.

Photo: social networks The commander of the 155th Separate Guards Brigade of the Marine Corps, the Guard Colonel Sergei Ilyin died during the “special operation”. His funeral was told in the press service of the administration of the Urmar municipal district of Chuvashia. Ilyin was a native of the village of Musirma of the Urmary District. The specific causes of his death in the administration did not tell.

Residents of the border regions of the Belgorod region complain of "marauders in military uniform." The military and politicians claim that they rob "mummers" at home Destroyed residential building in the Belgorod region. Photo: Vyacheslav Gladkov / Telegram The text was first published on the website of the Wind project. The New Gazeta Europe publishes it with the permission of colleagues.

According to Ukrainian media reports, the Russian military is running out of tanks An abandoned Russian T-62 tank, Kherson region, Ukraine, 7 October 2022. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Scanpix / LETA In early June, Ukrainian Russian-language news outlet Dialog.ua reported that Russian tanks had “ceased to exist as a factor on the battlefield”, adding that the claim was no exaggeration, “but a reflection of the facts.

Political prisoners achieve exchange and urgent medical care. In the penitentiary system of Russia - a humanitarian catastrophe Illustration: "New Gazeta Europe" An open letter signed by 11 Russian political prisoners was published on July 3 by Reuters. Signers, including Alexei Gorinov, Daria Kozyreva, Boris Kagarlitsky, Azat Miftakhov, call for the exchange of “all” between Russia and Ukraine and to the immediate release of patients of political prisoners dying in Russian prisons.

Photo: "New Gazeta Europe" Before the start of the funeral ceremony, the awards of Roman Starovoit were made. Photo: "New Gazeta Europe" In the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg, the funeral of the ex-head of the Ministry of Transport Roman Starovoit was held. The grave of Starovoit is 15 meters from the chapel of St. Ksenia Blessed, as well as next to the burial place of Marina Malafeeva-the wife of the athlete Vyacheslav Malafeeva.