Photo: “Support for political prisoners. Memorial" 43-year-old resident of the Kursk region Svetlana Tolkacheva was arrested on charges of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) due to correspondence with a volunteer from Tbilisi. This was reported by the project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial". Photo: “Support for political prisoners. Memorial" Human rights activists note that the Kursk woman was sent to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Kursk on December 25th.

Artemy Ostanin in court in Moscow, 27 January 2026. Photo: Mediazona Prosecutors have requested a Moscow court sentence Russian stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin to 5 years and 11 months in a penal colony for a joke he made during a stand-up routine he posted on YouTube last year, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian Holocaust survivor who froze to death at home in Kyiv amid power cuts in the depths of winter The frozen Dnipro River in Kyiv, 5 January 2026. Photo: Roman Pilipey / AFP / Scanpix / LETA No one knows exactly when Baba Zhenya died. They only know that she froze to death. A Kyiv native who managed to survive the Holocaust, Baba Zhenya, or rather Yevhenia Mykhailivna Besfamilnaya, finally succumbed to the freezing weather that Kyivans have been forced to endure in recent weeks.

Bogdan Protazanov. Photo: social media Russia’s Military Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of a 15-year-old boy from Vyborg, northwestern Russia, on vandalism and terror charges, and the 5½-year sentence he was given, independent Russian media outlet Veter reported on Tuesday.

Recruiters think this is “fuck from PR people” In the additional agreement to the contract of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for drone operators, a clause appeared for the first time about the possibility of resigning from service after a year. Such a document was shown to Vorstka by an employee of a selection point in one of the eastern regions of Russia.

On January 27, the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust. Some of his survivors were abused by their liberators Photo: Laszlo Balogh / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today, all over the world it is customary to remember about 6 million Jews exterminated by the Nazis. In a narrow sense, this is a story about the very policy of persecution and extermination of Jews by the Third Reich.

The platform of Russian democratic forces in Europe has been created. We tell you what to expect from those who entered it View of the Palais de l'Europe, Strasbourg, France, June 24, 2024. Photo: Anthony Anex/EPA The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved the composition of the first platform of Russian democratic forces. The number of platform participants, instead of the initially planned 12 people, reached 15.

Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrives at the Kremlin for his meeting with Vladimir Putin, 15 October 2025. Photo: EPA / Sergei Savostyanov / Sputnik / Kremlin The Russian military has begun withdrawing its forces from Qamishli Airport in northeastern Syria, Reuters reported on Tuesday, a day before Syria’s acting president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is due to meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

The Prosecutor General's Office demanded that the transaction for the sale of 100% of shares in the authorized capital of the largest Russian printing house, LLC Printing House Pechatnya, be annulled in court, Kommersant writes, citing sources. According to the publication, prosecutors noticed that the owners of the company are residents of Great Britain - Kazakh citizen Sergei Kim, as well as Russian Alexander Timokhin.

Lookalikes of Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev (L) and Vladimir Lenin (R) take in a the one-armed bandits in a Moscow casino, 22 February 1995. Photo: EPA / Alexander Nikolaev Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has proposed the legalisation of online casinos to Vladimir Putin as his ministry seeks new sources of revenue to plug a growing hole in the federal budget, state-affiliated business daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday.

Emergency workers continue the search for bodies trapped under the rubble of a residential building in Odesa, southern Ukraine, 27 January 2026. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine “Massive” Russian military drone strikes on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Monday night injured 22 people and caused extensive damage to civilian infrastructure, Serhiy Lysak, the head of the region’s military administration, said on Tuesday morning.

The Immigration Service kills people with impunity with the support of Trump and divides the United States Federal immigration agents remove a woman from her car and detain her during a security operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, January 13, 2026. Photo: Stephen Maturen / Getty Images North America / AFP / Scanpix / LETA On January 24, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretty in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Syrian President will soon fly to Moscow and meet with Putin Russian authorities have begun withdrawing forces from the airfield in Qamishli in northeastern Syria, Reuters writes , citing Syrian sources. According to the agency, the exit is happening gradually: some units are being transferred to the Khmeimim airbase in the west of the country, where military equipment and heavy weapons are being transported, while the rest of the military is returning to Russia.

A 14-year-old schoolboy from Vyborg lit a fire near the relay cabinet at the direction of telephone scammers. The court found him guilty of terrorism, despite the penny damage Bogdan Protazanov. Photo: social networks On January 26, the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence of 15-year-old Bogdan Protazanov to 5.5 years in prison for setting fire to railway equipment. Previously, the 1st Western District Military Court in St.