Maria Bontsler. Photo: Natalya Kholmanova / SOTAvision Maria Bontsler. Photo: Natalya Kholmanova / SOTAvision A Russian lawyer on trial for alleged ties to Ukraine’s secret service has filed a complaint against her state-appointed lawyer, Telegram news channel SOTAvision reported on Thursday, citing her current lawyer Ilya Sidorov.

Ukrainians commemorate late Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna in Independence Square in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, 11 October 2024. Photo: EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has accused the head of a pretrial detention centre in Taganrog, southern Russia, of ordering the systemic torture of a Ukrainian journalist that died in Russian captivity last year.

She worked including in Russia and prepared students for passing international exams IELTS and TOEFL Photo: social networks The Ministry of Justice recognized the “undesirable” activity of the British network of language schools by International House World Organising (IHWO, “International House”). The update appeared on the website of the department. Also, the Georgian public movement for the availability of UNMODE justice was included in the list of “undesirable organizations”.

The authorities talk about the development of the south and military infrastructure, the opposition - about the unprecedented embezzlement of money The layout of the bridge over the Messino Strait. Photo: Fabio Cimaglia FTG / IPA / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta On August 6, the Italian authorities finally approved the construction of the bridge across the Messino Strait, which will connect the mainland part of the country, the Calabria region, with the island of Sicily.

Updated August 11 at 11:45 Moscow time Maria Bonzler’s lawyer Ilya Sidorov told the “Word of Protection” that Sotavision distorted his words about the defendant’s claims to his previous defender, according to Vadim Zavvalishin. According to Sidorov, Bonzler did not stated that Zavalishin forced her to sign recognrous documents under pressure.

An HIV test being administered. Photo: Revda Info HIV patients in at least 16 Russian regions have experienced difficulty accessing ongoing healthcare for their condition, state-affiliated business daily Vedomosti reported on Thursday, citing Pereboi, a website that monitors the availability of HIV and hepatitis treatment in Russia.

Screenshot from a Ruki Vverkh! video. The video to a 2000s hit song featuring a drag artist has been removed from the official YouTube channel of popular Russian band Ruki Vverkh!, the VIP-RADAR Telegram channel reported on Wednesday. Artist Anatoly Yevdokimov is seen putting on make-up and a wig and carrying out a drag performance in a night club setting in the video to the 2002 pop song On Tebya Tseluet (“He Kisses You”).

The first series of the project "Russian economy remains ..." How was the USSR planning and distribution economy through a series of shocks, how the market economy was built, and why did the war of Russia with Ukraine not destroyed it, contrary to numerous forecasts? We will trace this path together in our project "The Russian economy remains ...". There will be four episodes!

HIV-positive patients in at least 16 regions of Russia faced refusals in the diagnosis of the disease, told Vedomosti in the public movement “Patient Control”. In total, since the beginning of the year, 40 complaints have been given refusals in testing the viral load and immune status. In some cases, the main reason is the lack of test systems.

Is there any basis to Russian claims that Ukrainian villages on the frontline are falling like dominoes? A Russian serviceman on the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, 13 November 2024. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / Sputnik / Imago Images / Scanpix / LETA Late last week, Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces had taken full control of the town of Chasiv Yar in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a significant victory for Moscow in what has become an achingly slow war of attrition.

The writer Vladimir Sorokin is 70 years old. Our author from Kyiv wrote a personal text about what it was like to read it in Ukraine-from the 1990s to the present day Vladimir Sorokin at the presentation of his book “Nastya” at the Berliner Ensemble Theater, Berlin, Germany, November 17, 2022. Photo: Jens Kalaene / DPA / Scanpix / Leta Usually Sorokin starts with normal. With imitation of the conventional style, correct and verified to the degree of strangulation.

US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak to reporters after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, 16 July 2018. Photo: EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov announced on Thursday that Moscow and Washington had agreed on a meeting between Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump “in the coming days”, following a visit by Trump’s special envoy to the Russian capital on Wednesday, state news agency TASS has reported .

The Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk arrested two adolescents on charges of attempted murder of a soldier (part 3 of article 30 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). According to the Investigative Committee and the FSB, the defendants inflicted the poison on the officer’s car by order of Ukrainian special services.

The fifth visit of Steve Whitkoff to Putin did not stop new sanctions, but gave the Kremlin hope to meet the presidents Vladimir Putin and US Special Supervisor Steve Whitkoff shake hands with each other before meeting in the Kremlin, Moscow, August 6, 2025.