Photo: Chernihiv TCC Photo: Chernihiv TCC The citizens of Ukraine who were previously stuck in the buffer zone of Georgia and were taken to their homeland with the assistance of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, immediately upon return, they sent to the TCC (territorial center for recruitment and social support, an analogue of the Russian military enlistment offices). About this “Novaya Gazeta Europe” was told by one of the returning Ukrainians.

Who is political scientist Sergei Markov, who unexpectedly for everyone was introduced into the register of enemies of the state Cover-collage. Photo: Wikimedia On August 22, the Ministry of Justice traditionally expanded the list of new “foreign agents”.

Ukrainian volunteers are trying to find new owners for orphaned animals from frontline regions of the country A dog is being evacuated from Vovchansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on 17 May 2024. Photo: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy / Ukrinform / Abaca Press / Vida Press A person can decide to stay in or leave the combat zone. An animal can’t. An animal can’t evacuate, can’t ask for help, can’t survive alone and can’t say how scared or hungry it is.

The servicemen of the Ukrainian Honour Guard raise the national flag in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, 23 August 2025.

An anti-war demonstration in Berlin led by prominent Russian opposition figures on 17 November 2024. Photo: EPA/FILIP SINGER The German government will restore its humanitarian visa programme helping citizens of authoritarian states, including Russia and Belarus, at risk of persecution for human rights activism gain entry to the country, German public broadcaster DW’s Russian service reported on Saturday.

US President Donald Trump meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 18 August 2025. Photo: EPA/AARON SCHWARTZ / POOL For several months, the Pentagon has been privately blocking Ukraine from targeting Russia with long-range missiles, effectively reversing US President Joe Biden’s former policy, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Saturday, citing two US officials with knowledge of the matter.

Historian Rustam Aleksander - On the deficit of medicines in the Soviet Union Illustration: Rinalu In 1974, a resident of Arkhangelsk complained in a letter to the newspaper Trud: “This year, many necessary funds disappeared from pharmacies not only in Arkhangelsk, but also in Leningrad ... There was no miscalculation in the production or planning of the purchase of drugs? At one time there was a miscalculation with shaving blades - then a lot was written about this.

As a result of the explosion in the building of the central children's store in Moscow, one person died. This was reported by TASS with reference to operational services and 360 . According to the metropolitan deposits, three people were injured, two of them were hospitalized. People were evacuated from the Central House of Artists on Lubyanka, the territory is cordoned off. According to TASS and RIA Novosti , in the store building there was a depressurization of a balloon for balloons.

An old new scandal in the Russian Orthodox Church: in one of the temples of Nizhny Novgorod, homosexual porn was rented for sale The video shot no later than 2023 was encouraged only now. Law enforcement agencies “reflect” on the initiation of a criminal case. Church authorities do not see the problem in this - unlike the dance of girls against the backdrop of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Photo: website of the International Hall of Tennis Glory Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova was included in the international hall of tennis glory. This was reported in the press service of the organization. The ceremony was held on the eve of Newport, Rhiznieland. The announcement of the inclusion of Sharapova in the Hall of Fame was made by a 23-time winner of the large helmet tournaments, American tennis player Serena Williams.

How war comes to the native cities. We publish a fragment of the personal book of Dmitry Durnev “House on the Fire Line” - about life in the Donbass in 2022 A funnel next to the damaged residential building after the Russian airstrike, Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 6, 2022. Photo: Roman Pilipey / EPA This fall, the Meduza publishing house will be published by Dmitry Durnev’s book “The House on the Fire Line. Russian invasion of the Donbass.

From the evening of August 23, Russian air defense funds shot down 152 drones over 15 regions annexed by Crimea and over the Black Sea. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The press service of the Kursk nuclear power plant reported that a transformer of its own needs was damaged in the fall of the wreckage of the drone. Rescuers extinguished the fire, as a result of which block No. 3 was unloaded by 50%. Now one power unit is working at the Kursk NPP.

What about pressure on Shaninka think teachers and students Photo: Shaninka / VK In the spring of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (“Shaninka”), which was called one of the most advanced universities in Russia in the field of humanitarian knowledge, after almost annual inspections, were banned to recruit students for the new academic year.