Journalists are taken on a tour of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in southeastern Iran, 21 August 2010. Photo: EPA / Abedin Taherkenareh Russia’s state run atomic power agency Rosatom has suspended the construction of additional reactors at a nuclear power plant on Iran’s southeastern coast since its communications with the Iranian authorities were cut, the agency’s director general Alexey Likhachev announced on Tuesday.

We talked to Russians in the Emirates A plume of black smoke rises from an industrial area in Sharjah following reports of Iranian strikes on targets in the UAE, March 1, 2026. Photo: Altaf Qadri / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA The number of Russian-speaking diaspora in the UAE amounts to hundreds of thousands of people. Many of these people left Russia due to the outbreak of war. But today in the sky over the Emirates the fires of missiles are visible, which are shot down by air defense.

Photo: social networks For the first time, a package of restrictive measures was imposed against a Russian conscript due to failure to appear at the military registration and enlistment office when summoned, reports the Conscious Objector Movement. The organization said that we are talking about a conscript from Kaliningrad. In November 2025, he received a summons to the military registration and enlistment office to clarify the data. He ignored her.

University of California logo University of California logo The Ministry of Justice included the University of California at Berkeley on its list of “undesirable” organizations. This follows from data published on the department’s website. The reasons are not given. The University of California, Berkeley is one of the most prestigious research institutions in the world. As of 2025, 117 Nobel Prize winners were associated with the university.

Russia’s Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia, 19 December 2025. Photo: EPA / Sergei Ilnitsky Russia’s Central Bank announced on Tuesday that it had submitted a claim to the Luxembourg-based ‌General Court of the European Union challenging the EU’s indefinite freezing of Russian assets over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

How do Russia, China, Europe and the USA react to the war in Iran? An Iranian flag stands among the ruins of a police station destroyed during the US-Israeli military campaign, Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2026. Photo: Vahid Salemi / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA The US and Israeli operation against Iran is rapidly taking on the characteristics of a conflict that will have a long-term impact on the entire world.

Photo: Natalya Kholmanova / SOTAvision Photo: Natalya Kholmanova / SOTAvision In the coming days, Kaliningrad lawyer and human rights activist Maria Bontzler is going to be charged with “treason” (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). Her son Vyacheslav Medkov told the “Word to Defense” project about this. According to him, “the investigators warned my mother that the new charge under Art.

The fixed weight and recommendations for the sale period have disappeared from it. For the first time in 40 years, Rosstandart changed GOST for white bread made from wheat flour. RIA Novosti writes about this. The new regulations will replace the Soviet ones, which have been in force since 1986. The changes will come into force on April 1. Restrictions on the minimum weight of a product have disappeared from GOST. Now manufacturers will be able to produce bread weighing less than 500 grams.

The company has lost contact with Iranian leadership Photo: m-atom.ru Photo: m-atom.ru Work at the construction site of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran has been temporarily suspended, said the head of the Russian corporation Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev. According to him, today there is a threat of hits on the station’s facilities as a result of hostilities between Iran and Israel. Explosions are heard several kilometers from the nuclear power plant’s physical protection line, he noted.

Logo of the LGBTQ+ group “Coming Out” Logo of the LGBTQ+ group “Coming Out” The St. Petersburg City Court recognized the support group for LGBT people in Russia “Coming Out” as an “extremist association.” This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The case was considered behind closed doors “due to the presence of the “Secret” stamp,” the press service of the St. Petersburg courts clarified.

According to Novaya-Europa, he earned millions from nationalized assets. It seems that Arkady Rotenberg did not like this Photo: Evgeniy Razumny / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press As Novaya-Europa learned, Alexander Konovalov was arrested in Moscow on suspicion of particularly large-scale fraud. According to sources, he was detained by the federal security service, which became interested in the activities of the Federal Property Management Agency.

165 years ago, serfdom was abolished in Russia: what is the significance of this event for us today? Painting by Boris Kustodiev “Liberation of the Peasants (Reading of the Manifesto)”, 1907. Source: Alamy / Vida Press Historically, key events take place in Russia at the end of February and beginning of March. The assassination of Emperor Paul I and the accession to the throne of his son, with whom society pinned its hopes for reforms.

Dialogue between Ivan Kurilla and Kirill Martynov 165 years ago, on March 3, 1861, Alexander II signed a manifesto on the abolition of serfdom. Almost at the same time, the Civil War was going on in the United States, and two years after it began, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, Kirill Martynov, spoke with American historian Ivan Kurilla about how societies emerge from a state of unfreedom - and what this leads to.

How Russia’s journey into fascism began with the weaponisation of homophobia Police officers detain an LGBTQI+ activisit in St. Petersburg, Russia, 17 May 2019. Photo: Anton Vaganov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA In February 2006, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov announced that pride parades would never be allowed in the Russian capital.

Starting from the 2027-2028 academic year, ninth grade students will begin to take a unified oral exam in history as part of their admission to the Unified State Examination. This was stated by the Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov: “It was decided to introduce an oral history exam for 9th grades before the main state exam; this is a single oral exam for all schoolchildren.