Long-standing cultural links between Russia and India make New Delhi reluctant to fall in line over sanctions on Moscow Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin visit the Rosatom Pavilion at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow, Russia, 9 July 2024. Photo: EPA / SERGEY FADEICHEV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL For months now, India has defied the demands of US President Donald Trump to stop buying Russian oil.

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on holidays and days off in Russia in 2026. This is stated in social networks of the government. According to the calendar, the New Year holidays of 2026 will last 12 days (from December 31 to January 11 inclusive) and will become record long in the history of the country.

The victims are kept "in the cells" and do not allow to communicate with relatives Three draftees from Tyva were beaten by colleagues in a military unit in the Khabarovsk Territory. This was reported by the publication "People of Baikal" with reference to relatives. According to them, on September 22, ten other soldiers attacked young people. The reasons for the conflict are unknown.

Photo: "TES" Since September 24, gasoline has completely disappeared in the annexed Crimea from gas stations, including the most expensive A100 brand, Crimea Roits write . A resident of Sevastopol Inga told Novy-Europe that recently, fuel prices have begun to rise. “In fact, if you go along the way from point“ A ”to point“ B ”, then you can find something. Well, I think somewhere half [gas stations] will be empty, ”she said.

Three Russians were condemned in Georgia for a long time: they distributed tea, napkins and water to protesters Anastasia Zinovkin in the court. Photo: Publika.ge Three Russians received a colony in Georgia for 8.5 years for drug storage. They themselves claim that they are pursued for participating in the mass protests of the Georgian opposition in Tbilisi last fall. The Russians participated as volunteers in the shares, poured tea and handed out wet napkins to the victims of tear gas.

Photo: Novorossiysk Life / Telegram Photo: @exilenova_plus / Telegram Two people have been killed in the Russian Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk in a combined Ukrainian drone and unmanned surface vehicle strike on Wednesday afternoon, according to Krasnodar region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev.

Photo: @exilenova_plus / Telegram Due to the blows of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two people were killed in Novorossiysk, at least seven were injured, the Krasnodar Territory said in the operational headquarters. Mayor Andrei Kravchenko introduced an emergency mode in the city. Updated (20:00 Moscow time) The number of victims when hit in the center of Novorossiysk grew to 11 people, said the head of the city Andrei Kravchenko. The opera station said that among the victims there is one minor.

Boris Avakyan. Photo: Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press A former Russian customs official was found dead in a toilet in the Armenian Consulate in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, after fleeing a court hearing the previous day, Telegram news channel Baza has reported . Boris Avakyan, who held dual Armenian and Russian citizenship, appeared to have slit his wrists after locking himself in a consulate toilet.

Igor Krasnov attends a meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office board in Moscow, Russia, 19 March 2025. EPA/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/ SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL MANDATORY CREDIT Russia’s former prosecutor general, Igor Krasnov, has been unanimously elected to chair Russia’s Supreme Court for the next six years by members of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, Russian media outlet RBC reported on Wednesday.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow left the lawsuit of a war veteran in Afghanistan Alexander Trechev to the singer Alla Pugacheva because of the words about the first President of Ichkeria Johara Dudaeva. This was reported by TASS with reference to the courts. On the eve of September 23, the press service of the capital's courts reported that the Savelovsky District Court received Treshchev’s lawsuit against Pugacheva and intends to consider it.

The authorities have found a way to finance growing military expenses at the expense of all Russians - VAT will increase to 22% from next year. What will this lead to? Russian troops go to the BTR in Red Square during the Victory Parade in Moscow, May 9, 2025. Photo: Alexander Zemlyanichenko / Ap Photo / Scanpix / Leta The Ministry of Finance proposed to increase VAT to 22% to cover the budget deficit caused by military spending.

Still from interview between Alla Pugacheva and Katerina Gordeeva. Photo: YouTube channel, Tell Gordeeva A veteran of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has begun legal proceedings against Russian singer Alla Pugacheva for comments she made in an interview earlier this month about 1990s Chechen independence leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Moscow courts’ press service reported on Tuesday.

Boris Avakyan. Photo: Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Former deputy head of the St. Petersburg department of Rosreestr Boris Avakyan, who escaped from the court the day before and took refuge at the Armenian Consulate in St. Petersburg, was discovered dead in the toilet of the diplomatic mission. This was told by the Baza and Mash telegram channels, as well as the REN channel and the 78.ru publication. According to media sources, Avakyan committed suicide.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, 23 September 2025. Photo: Zelensky, Telegram US President Donald Trump appears to be taking a fresh stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine following a meeting he held with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

Six stages of Mikhail Piotrovsky as director of the Hermitage General Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, April 28, 2025. Photo: Maxim Konstantinov / Sopa Images / Sipa USA / Vida Press On September 9, the government extended the contract of Mikhail Piotrovsky as director of the Hermitage. Over the years of his leadership, one of the main museums of Russia and the world went through several eras, and Piotrovsky himself became an epoch -making figure.