The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has confirmed that it considers advertising on platforms blocked in the Russian Federation illegal. Kommersant writes about this.

The military was put forward as the initiator of the idea Vladimir Putin, on the eve of March 8, held a meeting with female military personnel and used her statements that could justify a total blocking of Telegram, including in a combat zone. “The Agency” and “Important Stories” write about this. During the meeting, Putin gave the floor to Lieutenant Colonel Irina Godunova, commander of the communications battalion as part of the Aerospace Forces.

Several Habr and ntc.party users have noticed that the Russian national instant messenger Max has a mechanism that can detect whether a user is connected to a VPN. This is stated in their posts on the platform. Users noticed that the application checks whether the VPN connection is active on the user's device and makes calls to third-party IP address determination services. These requests allow you to find out the user’s external IP, as well as his network parameters.

Putin turned out to be a useless ally - this is the main result of the events of the last week Smoke after an airstrike in central Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2026. Photo: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA Ukrainian optics provide a unique perspective on the current war of Iran and with Iran. Ukraine itself is the victim of an attack by superior forces, and at the same time Iran is Russia’s accomplice in this attack.

How have drones changed the approach to weapons and air defense? Let's figure it out with the experts A child holds a portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in front of a Shahed 136 drone during celebrations of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Tehran, February 11, 2026.

Azerbaijan President Aliyev chairs meeting of the Security Council. Photo: EPA/AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/HANDOUT Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev denounced the Iranian drone strikes on his country’s Nakhchivan region as an “act of terror” on Thursday afternoon and demanded an immediate explanation from Tehran.

The pavilion is supervised by the daughter of the deputy general director of Rostec, Pussy Riot is preparing a protest. Main Russian Pavilion, Italy, April 19, 2022. Photo: Antonio Calanni / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA Russia will open a national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.

He was put under house arrest Photo: Zvezda TV channel Photo: Zvezda TV channel Former first deputy defense minister Ruslan Tsalikov was detained, said Svetlana Petrenko, a representative of the Investigative Committee.

Ukrainian soldiers who returned home after the exchange. Photo: Vladimir Zelensky / Telegram Russia and Ukraine each transferred 200 prisoners of war to each other as part of the agreements reached at negotiations in Geneva, said the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky , and the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky . According to Medinsky, this is part of a larger exchange, which will also continue tomorrow, March 6.

The story of a deserter from the Afrika Korps Deserter Georgy Kochkin is 21 years old. He wrote a letter to the editor of Novaya Gazeta Europe asking him to tell his story. We have verified his identity and the main parts of his biography. Georgy is an ordinary guy from Moscow, he studied at college in the “information security” department, went to the “Yunarmia” to receive a diploma with honors (he even managed to go to Donetsk as a volunteer).

How a reclaimed imperial term came to represent something far more than a mere territorial claim for Russian soldiers A riot police officer looks on amid celebrations in Moscow to mark the illegal Russian absorption of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, 30 September 2022.

Photo: Mediazona The Moscow City Court sentenced misogynist blogger Arsen Markaryan to 4.5 years in a general regime colony on charges of “rehabilitating Nazism.” This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Photo: Mediazona Previously, the prosecution requested six years and 10 months in prison for Markaryan. He was also banned from administering Internet resources for four years.

Police officers in Novosibirsk ensure a protest in support of Telegram cannot go ahead, 1 March 2026. Photo: Russian Communist Party Residents of at least 11 Russian cities have attempted to stage protests against the Kremlin’s planned blocking of popular messenger app Telegram in the past few weeks, an investigation by Novaya Gazeta Europe revealed on Thursday.

The FSB opened a criminal case against the 67-year-old convict under articles on promoting terrorist activities (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code) and preparation for incitement to treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press services of the FSB and the FSIN , Mediazona noted . The accused is serving a criminal sentence in one of the colonies of the Krasnodar Territory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hosts a meeting at his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, 4 March 2026. Photo: Telegram Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told his compatriots on Wednesday evening that the ongoing trilateral peace talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States to end the war in the country were being put on hold due to the war with Iran.