Julia Loktev discusses her critically acclaimed documentary about Russian journalists being branded foreign agents A still of Ksenia Mironova from My Undesirable Friends. With a running time of well over five hours and no score or voiceover, My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow always looked set to be a challenging documentary to promote and distribute internationally.

In Murmansk there have been interruptions in heat, light and water for several days. Officials report on the elimination of the accident, but townspeople say: the houses are still dark and cold Murmansk. Photo: Evgenia Novozhenina / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Residents of Murmansk and Severomorsk have been living without electricity, heat and hot water for four days after a power line accident.

The president of PACE speaks in the Palace of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 25 June 2024. Photo: EPA / ANTHONY ANEX The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has approved a list of participants in its Platform for Dialogue with Russian democratic forces, it announced on Monday.

Photo: UNIAN Russian troops hit the facilities of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Maxim Ostapenko, general director of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra national reserve, told the Interfax Ukraine agency. According to him, the strike was carried out as a result of a massive missile and drone attack on Kyiv on the night of January 24. Ostapenko clarified that the entrance to the Far Caves complex and the Annozachatievskaya Church were damaged.

Will St. Petersburg dissident Alexander Skobov be released from the punishment cell where he was imprisoned for having an inappropriate beard length? Alexander Skobov On January 27, 68-year-old political prisoner Alexander Skobov is due to be released from the punishment cell in the Yelets prison, where he has been sent for the fourth time in the last three months. However, the prisoner’s relatives and friends admit that this may not happen if Alexander does not agree with the prison demands.

Photo: Wallace Woon/EPA Over the past ten years, Russia, more than any other country, has abused Interpol communication channels to persecute political opponents, journalists and businessmen abroad. This was reported by the BBC and Disclose with reference to documents provided by an Interpol informant. Journalists found that in recent years Interpol has received a record number of complaints regarding Russian requests.

The platform’s membership was expanded to 15 people to “make the list more representative” Photo: Anthony Anex/EPA Photo: Anthony Anex/EPA The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved the composition of the platform of Russian democratic forces.

The “administrator” of the neo-Nazi channel, in a conversation with “New Europe”, again called the destruction of the sign a Politkovsky action of the group. What else is known about them? Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe On the eve of the next anniversary of the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova in Moscow, a memorial plaque in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya at her house on Lesnaya Street was destroyed.

100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Gohar Vartanyan Gohar Vartanyan. Photo: armmuseum.ru Together with her husband, Hero of the USSR Gevork Vartanyan, Gohar Vartanyan is considered a legend of Soviet intelligence. And rightfully so. Because it is unlikely that there will still be a person who, at the age of 17, saved the leaders of three superpowers. "We ran here and there" Married couples are not uncommon in intelligence.

Photo: Olga Fedorova / EPA Due to the winter storm that hit the United States, more than 800 thousand people were left without electricity and about 16 thousand flights were canceled. At least 11 deaths are known, CNN reported . Winter storm Fern hit the central and southern United States on Friday, January 23. Then the snowstorm reached New England.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to press at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, 25 January 2026. Photo: EPA/MARCIN OBARA POLAND OUT A US agreement on post-war security guarantees to protect Ukraine from future Russian attacks is ready for signing after trilateral talks between US, Ukrainian and Russian officials over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday.

In 2025, the number of flights in Russia delayed by three hours or more doubled, writes Kommersant, citing data from AlfaStrakhovanie. According to an average estimate, about 4.5 million passengers on 30.5 thousand flights waited more than three hours for departure - and three million of them waited more than four hours. The statistics do not take into account canceled flights, since the Federal Air Transport Agency does not publish this data, the publication notes.

Photo: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation demanded to block sites where you can find ready-made solutions for homework, OGE, Unified State Exam and VSOSH. Thus, they want to equate this content with information about methods of suicide, recipes for making drugs, calls for mass riots and “LGBT propaganda,” writes Kommersant.

Special project “New Europe” about the crime of SVO veterans Illustration: “New Newspaper Europe” This text is part of our special project “The House Where the War Came.” For him, we studied the “civilian” crimes (excluding AWOL and other military articles) of eight thousand participants of the “SVO” - contract soldiers, mobilized, PMC mercenaries. We recommend that you start with the interactive part of the special project, and then read our research below.