Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, 20 April 2025. Photo: EPA/RAMIL SITDIKOV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN A court in the city of Kurgan, in the Russian Urals, has fined a local man 1,000 rubles (€11) for posting an image of Satan online, state-owned news agency RIA Novosti reported on Friday, citing the court’s press service.

Kim Jong Un honours North Korean soldiers killed in overseas operations in a ceremony held in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo: EPA/KCNA North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has decorated soldiers of the Korean People’s Army who served alongside Russian forces in the country’s southwestern Kursk region, KCNA, North Korea’s state-owned news agency, reported on Friday.

Photo: Sergey Markov / Telegram The Ministry of Justice brought to the register of “foreign agents” of the pro -government political scientist Sergei Markov. This was stated in the press service of the department. According to the Ministry of Justice, Markov participated in the creation and distribution of materials of “foreign agents” and “undesirable” organizations. He was also a respondent at the information sites provided by “foreign agents”, the department emphasized.

This is the first such case after the prohibition of the "International Movement of Satanism" The Kurgan court fined a local resident for a thousand rubles for publishing images of Satan on the Internet. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the court. The man was charged with "demonstration of symbols of extremist organizations." The publication was posted on VKontakte, clarifies URA.RU. The name of the defendant is not called.

William Herrington in the exhibit in Zheleznogorsk. Photo: screenshot from a video by Ruslan Tsyganov A teenager who submitted a photo of a well-known adult film star to be included at a war veterans’ memorial in southwestern Russia has been charged with “rehabilitating Nazism”, a crime punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment, the Kursk regional branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee reported on Thursday.

The left activist Ruslan Abasov in the struggle for the right to live, as he wants, sat in prisons of three different countries. He told Ilya Azar about his adventures Ruslan Abasov. Photo: Evgeny Petukhov / "New Gazeta Europe" The activist of the Left Bloc Ruslan Abasov had four criminal cases behind him, but for the first time he got into prison after Fayer lit a fire and deployed a banner “Happy Chkista” in Moscow in December 2021 with his associates.

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Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár. Photo: Slovak Foreign Ministry The foreign ministers of Hungary and Slovakia have labelled Ukraine’s targeting of an energy pipeline facility in western Russia as “completely unacceptable”, after both countries claimed to have stopped receiving Russian oil following a drone attack in western Russia’s Bryansk region on Thursday night.

The change is explained by the introduction of the subject "spiritual and moral culture" The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation proposed to reduce the number of classes of a foreign language in 5-7 grades from three to two per week from the 2026-27 academic year. This is stated in the draft order.

The singer, Honored Artist of Russia, Yaroslav Evdokimov, died. This was announced on his Facebook page by his wife Irina Kropyvnytskaya, publicist Oleg Kashin paid attention to this. Yaroslav Evdokimov performs the song "Fantaser", screenshot: YouTube According to her, Evdokimov died on the morning of August 22. In an interview with TASS, the woman clarified that lung cancer became the cause of death. The singer was 78 years old.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under an article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) in relation to a 17-year-old teenager from Zheleznogorsk, who sent a photo “degrading the honor and dignity” of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, to post the memorial to the dead in the Second World War and during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was reported in the Office of the IC in the Kursk region.

Photo: Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko / Facebook Some 65 Ukrainians who had been stuck in legal limbo at the Verkhny Lars border crossing between Russia and Georgia have returned home, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha announced on Friday. The 65 included 10 women and eight people who were seriously ill. Sybiha said 109 Ukrainians in total had been returned from the Russian-Georgian border in recent months, most of whom had been released from Russian prisons.

In Russia, they want to recognize another family as an “extremist association”. This time-“Ino-Agent” and ex-deputy of the State Duma Gadzhiev. What assets does the state hunt for? Magomed Gadzhiev. Photo: duma.gov.ru In August, the Prosecutor General’s Office appealed to the court demanding that the family of the former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev and withdraw assets worth more than 2 billion rubles from her as an extremist association.

US President Donald Trump makes remarks next to French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during a meeting with European leaders at the White House on 18 August 2025. Photo: EPA/AARON SCHWARTZ / POOL The US has stopped sharing intelligence on ongoing peace talks between Russia and Ukraine with its partners in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, CBS News reported on Thursday.