Timur Turkov. Photo: “Ural Week” The appeal panel of the West Kazakhstan Regional Court partially upheld the complaint of 17-year-old teenager from Russia Timur Turkov and overturned the decision to expel him from Kazakhstan. Ural Week and Azattyk Asia write about this. The board upheld the verdict, according to which the teenager was found guilty of illegally crossing the border. But the court canceled the deportation from the country imposed as punishment.

How two deserters from the war in Ukraine killed a Russian drug businessman in Thailand Mikhail Emelyanov. Photo: @_hey_gringo / Instagram On March 5, 30-year-old businessman from St. Petersburg Mikhail Emelyanov was cremated in Thailand. A few years ago he moved to Pattaya to open his dream business. But at the beginning of 2026, he was killed, dismembered, and his remains were buried in five places. Novaya Gazeta Europe restored the chronicle of the crime and the events that led to it.

A woman looks at her phone while waiting for a train in the Moscow metro, 19 April 2023. Photo: EPA / Yuri Kochetkov A mass internet outage in Moscow entered its second week on Thursday, with residents of the Russian capital, including lawmakers in Russia’s State Duma, continuing to face difficulties connecting to wireless networks across the city.

There has been no connection or internet in the State Duma building for the second day. RBC and Vedomosti write about this. As Mikhail Delyagin, a member of A Just Russia, wrote , due to constant Internet outages, Wi-Fi does not work in the building. Both networks disappeared - both the public and the password-protected ones. The national instant messenger Max also does not work. “I wholeheartedly approve: deputies must be united with the people.

40% of security forces quit before reaching retirement The Federal Penitentiary Service is experiencing a significant staff shortage; the staff shortage has exceeded 30.5%. Director Arkady Gostev announced this at the final meeting of the department. According to him, in many departments the shortage of officers is up to 50% or more. In 13 territorial bodies, 35-51% of “managerial staff” positions are vacant. In 29 divisions, the shortage of junior command staff is 40-50%.

Why Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Sergey Kiriyenko is so focused on attaining Russian ‘internet sovereignty’ Barbed wire in front of the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower and St. Basil’s Cathedral on Moscow’s Red Square, 21 May 2024.

How an ex-investigator from Novosibirsk and a nurse from Ulan-Ude save stray dogs from euthanasia in Russia Shelter House of Ponytails in Vyborg. Photo: Yulia Kulikova Region after region in Russia are passing local laws on the killing of stray animals that have not found homes. In a country whose inhabitants have become expendable for war, the fate of dogs seems to be of little concern to officials.

Photo: inTransit Russian former political prisoner Alexey Moskalyov and his daughter Maria arrived in Paris on Wednesday evening after the pair were granted humanitarian visas and laissez-passer documents allowing them to enter France without passports, Novaya Europe has learnt. Berlin-based human rights group InTransit helped request the documents from the French Foreign Ministry in late December, although the Moskalyovs had initially planned to obtain German visas.

An Iranian soldier keeps watch during a mass funeral for the victims of US and Israeli airstrikes on Tehran, Iran, 11 March 2026. Photo: EPA / Abedin Taherkenareh Russia has earned an estimated €6 billion in revenue from fossil fuel exports since Israeli and US strikes on Iran began on 28 February, according to data collected by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), which was published by German NGO Urgewald on Thursday.

Those accused of carrying out the Crocus City Hall terror attack on trial in Moscow, 4 August 2025. Photo: EPA / YURI KOCHETKOV A Moscow military court has sentenced the four perpetrators of the 2024 terror attack on the capital’s Crocus City Hall, in which 149 people lost their lives, and 15 of their accomplices to life imprisonment, Russian state-affiliated news outlet RBC reported on Thursday.

Photo: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA The 2nd Western District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in Moscow, sentenced the four perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall to life imprisonment in a special regime colony, RBC reports . At the same time, the perpetrators will spend part of the term in prison: Shamsidin Fariduni - 18 years, Dalerjon Mirzoev and Mahammadsobir Fayzov - 17 years, and Saidakram Rachabolizoda - 16 years.

The American intelligence service sees no signs of an imminent collapse of power in Iran, despite almost two weeks of intense attacks on the country by the United States and Israel. This was reported by Reuters, citing several sources. American intelligence data indicates the cohesion of the Iranian clergy, despite the assassination of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The IRGC and the new leaders who came to power maintain control over the country.

We tell you how internet shutdowns affected business and city residents View of the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry building, Moscow, March 10, 2026. Photo: Anastasia Barashkova / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA In Moscow, since March 5, there have been massive failures of mobile communications and the Internet, affecting more than 20 districts of the city.

Ivan Frolov. Photo: SOTAvision In Novosibirsk, police officers detained the author of the channel "People's Television of Siberia" Ivan Frolov . This was reported by his colleague Vitaly Bochkarev , as well as by the Siberian Express publication. Later, Frolov recorded a video where he said that he was detained by criminal investigation officers at a house in the Leninsky district of the city, after which he was taken to the police department of the Central District of Novosibirsk.

In Transbaikalia, teenagers in love were accused of creating a “terrorist organization.” Let's tell their story Illustration: “New newspaper Europe” At the end of January, the Trans-Baikal Regional Court recognized the Trans-Baikal Left Association (ZLO), a telegram channel with about a hundred subscribers, as a terrorist community. The court declared two young Chita residents, Alexander Snezhkov and Lyubov Lizunova, to be the leaders of this organization.