The lawsuit was filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, which was then also headed by Krasnov Former Prosecutor General, and now the head of the Supreme Court, Igor Krasnov. Photo: Kremlin The Supreme Court upheld the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office and decided to transfer 81.8% of the shares of the Ivanovo Heavy Machine Tool Plant to state ownership. RBC writes about this.

Where did they come from and what is their success based on? Telling the story of the musicians Participants of the group “Bond with a Button” at the festival of contemporary culture “Vyksa-Fest”, Nizhny Novgorod region, July 4, 2025. Photo: Evgeniy Razumny / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press There is always some song in the Russian charts that is very different from the rest of pop music that is friendly to a wide audience. The “Sorcerer Doll” appears next to the Instasamka.

Tatiana Golikova. Photo: Kremlin press service From March 2026, a unified federal register with data on pregnant women will operate in Russia, said Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova at the first meeting of the Council for the Implementation of Demographic and Family Policy. The register is being introduced to “monitor the demographic situation” in Russia.

Now the focus is on the fate of Russian frozen assets The Panamanian-flagged Russian shadow fleet vessel Eventin off the coast of Sassnitz, Germany, April 16, 2025. Photo: Tobias Schlie / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Almost simultaneously with the United States, which for the first time during the presidency of Donald Trump adopted sanctions against the Russian Federation, the European Union expanded its restrictive measures.

Previously, his deputies were arrested, who, according to media reports, testified against the ex-chief Head of the Deposit Insurance Agency Andrey Melnikov In Moscow, the head of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) Andrei Melnikov was detained. Interfax and RBC write about this. “Melnikov was taken to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center on Thursday morning to carry out investigative actions in a fraud case,” Interfax’s interlocutor said.

Mikhail Kriger. Photo: SOTAvision Jailed Russian opposition activist Mikhail Kriger, who has been on a hunger strike in prison for nearly a month in protest at his repeated placement in a punishment cell, is currently accepting liquids, his supporters said on Telegram on Thursday.

This will hit Russia's falling export revenues, but will not completely cut off the Kremlin from the influx of petrodollars. What will be the consequences? The logo of the oil company Lukoil is seen at a gas station in Sofia, Bulgaria, October 23, 2025. Photo: Nikolay Doychinov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA The US Treasury has imposed sanctions against Russia for the first time since the re-election of Donald Trump.

How Kyiv is preparing for another difficult winter amid massive Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure An apartment damaged by a Russian strike, Kyiv, Ukraine, 10 October 2025. Photo: Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA The first thing I did when I began writing about Kyiv’s preparation for another winter of war was to take an inventory of the basic purchases I’d made since the spring of 2022. Kyiv may be much calmer than Kharkiv, Sumy or Kherson, but it still makes sense to be prepared for attacks.

Residents of the city told Novaya-Europa what happened during the tragedy Illustration: “New newspaper Europe” A series of large explosions and a subsequent fire at the Plastmass plant in Kopeysk, which shook houses not only in the city itself, but also in neighboring Chelyabinsk, claimed the lives of at least 12 people. 29 people were injured, 11 plant workers are still being searched. Mourning has been declared in the region.

Hospital ward after the collapse of the roof and ceiling. Photo: Novaya Gazeta / social networks The ceiling collapsed on the third floor of the surgical department of children's hospital No. 1 in Novosibirsk, the regional prosecutor's office reported . Hospital ward after the collapse of the roof and ceiling. Photo: prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region As a result of the incident, no one was injured, 46 children were evacuated, the department added.

Sofiane Sehili. Photo: Instagram A French cyclist who had been detained since early September for illegally crossing the Russian border during a world record attempt has been fined 50,000 rubles (€530) and released by a court in the Primorsky region in Russia’s Far East, state-owned news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

(L-R) Navalny allies Georgy Alburov, Maria Pevchikh, Ruslan Shaveddinov and Ivan Zhdanov. Photo: Maria Pevchikh / Telegram The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has demanded ACF Inc., the American legal arm of slain opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), be declared a “terrorist organisation”, Navalny’s team reported on Wednesday.

Photo: Ronald Wittek / EPA Kaja Kallas, the EU’s chief foreign policy diplomat, has announced a 19th package of sanctions against Russia targeting banks and crypto exchanges as well as entities in India and China. Writing on X, Kallas said the sanctions would make it “increasingly harder” for Vladimir Putin to fund the ongoing war in Ukraine. According to Reuters , this new package of sanctions also includes a ban on the import of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG).

An explosion at a military plant in Kopeysk, Russia, 22 October 2025. Photo: Kurs Dela Ten people were killed in a series of explosions at a key military plant in Kopeysk, a town in the Chelyabinsk region in the Russian Urals, regional governor Alexey Teksler said on his Telegram channel on Thursday. At least three explosions were heard late on Wednesday at the Plastmass military factory, which produces ammunition for the Russian military and is under Western sanctions .

Will Montenegro introduce visas for Russians Passers-by on the embankment of Budva, Montenegro, March 16, 2022. Photo: Savo Prelevic / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Recently, the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatovic, said in an interview with Politico that a potential obstacle to the country’s accession to the European Union is dependence on Russian tourists and investors.