Tolyatti City Duma deputy from United Russia Alexander Dorozhkin left the party and lost his party positions after a video of his wife appeared on social networks with a story about giving birth in Chile. This was reported by State Duma deputy Evgeny Revenko. Earlier this story was reported by the Baza channel close to the security forces.

The strike took place in several post-Soviet countries at once. Drivers fight for working conditions Photo: Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / LETA On Monday, for the first time, a protest took place simultaneously in several CIS countries: taxi drivers are trying to get better working conditions from Yandex in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Uzbekistan.

Supreme Court decision determines how similar disputes will be resolved Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe The Supreme Court sent the case about Larisa Dolina’s apartment for a new trial, a Novaya Gazeta Europe correspondent reports from the courtroom. Ownership of the apartment remained with the buyer Polina Lurie. At the same time, the court allowed the singer to live in the disputed apartment until the court of second instance made a decision.

Maria Bontsler attends a court hearing in Kaliningrad via video link, 15 December 2025. Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe Jailed Russian human rights lawyer Maria Bontsler says she has been repeatedly denied medical care while awaiting her trial in a detention centre, as a court in the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad considers her complaint against the Russian penitentiary service.

How Ukrainians can still win as they fight to defend Western democracy A John Lennon mural saying ‘Give Peace a Chance’ on a wall behind anti-drone nets in the city of Izyum, in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, 12 December 2025. Photo: EPA / SERGEY KOZLOV For over a decade, much of the West has been pondering how to manage Ukraine’s inevitable subordination to Russia. Yes, we’ve said we stand with Ukraine. Yes, we’ve said that we will support Ukraine for as long as it takes.

The uprising is 200 years old. “New Europe” is looking into whether that protest is still relevant today On December 14, 1825, 200 years ago, the Decembrist Uprising took place. Young nobles took to Senate Square, demanding the abolition of serfdom, fair courts, and equality of people of all classes before the law. The big rebellion ended with the execution of five people; the authorities sent more than a hundred into exile in Siberia. Why did the uprising fail?

Five members of a Marxist group on trial in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Photo: Mediazona A court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has sentenced five members of a Marxist group based in the city of Ufa in Baskhortostan to prison terms of between 16 and 22 years after finding them guilty of terror offences and plotting to overthrow the government, Mediazona reported on Tuesday.

The State Duma immediately passed a bill in the second and third readings, which obliges management companies to communicate with residents of houses in the Max state messenger. This was reported on the parliament’s website, the Faridaily project noted . An exception was made only for one region - Moscow. Amendments to house chats appeared at the second reading in the bill, which initially concerned the rights of the chairman of an apartment building.

Photo: specially for “New Europe” Human rights activist Maria Bonzler, arrested in a case of confidential cooperation with foreign intelligence services, stopped going for walks in a pre-trial detention center due to a severe bruise during a fall from the stairs. She spoke about this at yesterday’s meeting of the Central District Court of Kaliningrad, New Europe learned.

In Moscow Sheremetyevo in the morning there was a “takeoff interruption” during a scheduled Boeing 777 flight to Cuba. This was reported by the airport press service. There were 432 passengers and 21 crew members on board the Nordwind Airlines airliner, flying from Moscow to Cayo Coco.

Parents and medics wait outside the school in the village of Gorki-2, west of Moscow, on 16 December 2025. Screenshot: Mash / Telegram A 15-year-old schoolboy has stabbed and killed a 10-year-old fellow pupil at his school in the village of Gorki-2, west of Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Tuesday, adding that the attacker had been detained at the scene.

“Vyvozhuk” stopped evacuating the persecuted Russians. We talked to those we managed to save A protester holds a Russian flag with a dove of peace during a demonstration in Berlin, Germany, March 1, 2025. Photo: Hannes P. Albert / dpa / Scanpix / LETA The team of the Vyvozhuk project, which evacuates Russians persecuted by the Russian authorities for political reasons, announced the closure of direct assistance. The reason is lack of funding.

The ninth-grader was detained after the assault. He filmed the action and asked students about nationality At the elite Assumption school in the village of Gorki-2 near Moscow in the Odintsovo urban district, a teenager attacked students with a knife. According to preliminary data, a 15-year-old student, who had been preparing for the attack for several days, wounded a security guard and killed a fourth-grader. The children were evacuated, the attacker was detained during the assault.

Photo: Mediazona The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced five members of the Ufa Marxist circle in Ufa to terms of 16 to 22 years in prison on charges of terrorism and preparing to overthrow the government. Mediazona reports this.

A Russian submarine. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has claimed that a Sub Sea Baby underwater drone has destroyed a Russian submarine “for the first time in history”, it said on Monday.