Photo: Telegram channel of Andrey Svintsov State Duma deputy Andrei Svintsov was expelled from the LDPR party. The decision was unanimously made at a meeting of the presidium of the party’s Supreme Council, said Eleonora Kavshar, press secretary of the LDPR leader. The deputy will continue to sit in the State Duma, but will no longer belong to the LDPR faction.

Photo: EPA Photo: EPA In Mariupol, several construction companies that are engaged in the restoration of facilities stopped paying workers wages. Z-volunteer Saniya Denisova, close to the Russian authorities, spoke about this, ASTRA noted . Thus, employees of the Mariupol branch of PST LLC complained that they had not been paid salaries since December. Management constantly promises to make payments in the near future, but does not do so. “We are waiting, we have no more patience.

Vladimir Osipov. Photo: SOTAvision A 56-year-old man accused of posting “false information” about the Russian military has died in a pretrail detention centre in the northwestern Russian city of Ukhta, the human rights project Penal Advocate reported on Wednesday.

In the Irkutsk region they want to reduce payments for death in war by three times and for injuries by five times. Reason: lack of funds Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA While the authorities of the Irkutsk region declare priority support for the military, deputies are passing a bill that significantly reduces compensation for injuries and deaths of war participants. The document was adopted at the end of a five-hour meeting.

A court in Warsaw, Poland, has approved the extradition of a Russian archeologist to Ukraine for damages done during unpermitted excavations in Crimea, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on Wednesday. Alexander Butyagin, an archeologist who works for the Hermitage museum in St.

The authorities are destroying the way of life of millions of Russians. How can Telegram respond? Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Students of the Free University gave a precise definition: over the past ten years, the popular, and not the “national” Telegram has literally become the basis of life for our compatriots. Through the messenger, Durov maintains family, friendly and professional connections. Have fun and manage work projects.

Photo: Anastasia Olshanskaya / Novaya Gazeta Europe Warsaw District Court Judge Dariusz Lubowski approved Ukraine's request for the extradition of Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin. This was reported by a New Europe correspondent from the courthouse. Lawyer Adam Domanski noted in a conversation with Novaya-Europa that the Ukrainian side did not provide evidence confirming the scale of damage that, according to its version, Alexander Butyagin caused during excavations in occupied Crimea.

How the Moskalev family fled persecution in Russia and ended up in France. Report from a Parisian park Alexey and Maria Moskalev. Photo: Yulia Kaneva / Novaya Gazeta Europe Alexey and Maria Moskalev received humanitarian visas from France in March 2026 and moved to Paris from Yerevan.

An engineer at Europe’s biggest atomic power plant has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for ‘treason’ The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant seen from the city of Nikopol, Ukraine, 28 October 2022. Photo: EPA / Hannibal Hanschke. Just weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 51-year-old engineer Ruslan Lavryk witnessed the fully operational nuclear power plant where he worked being forcibly seized by Russian troops in a military operation.

Photo: ATOR From January to March 2026, the number of multiple-entry Schengen visas issued to Russians decreased by 90% compared to the same period last year. This was reported by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR). In some cases, the drop is estimated at 99%, according to one of the major travel companies. Some tour operators received virtually no multivisas for their clients this year.

The Ministry of Finance announced a reduction in “non-sensitive” budget expenditures by 10%. We explain how this will affect the pockets of Russians Passers-by in front of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, March 17, 2026. Photo: Ramil Sitdikov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Russian authorities have decided to cut some federal budget spending by 10% to help the economy and protect themselves from a new surge in inflation.

Photo: SOTAVision 56-year-old Vladimir Osipov, convicted in the case of military “fakes” (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), died in the Ukhta pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the human rights project “Prison Lawyer”. As OVD-Info noted , there is no pre-trial detention center in Ukhta, but in colony No. 24 there is a facility that operates in such a mode. On March 5, SOTAVision wrote that Osipov is in pre-trial detention center-2 in Sosnogorsk.

Darya Kozyreva upon her release. Photo: SOTAvision A St. Petersburg anti-war activist jailed last year for “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian military after she paid tribute to a Ukrainian poet and condemned Moscow’s war in Ukraine has been released from prison, her support group announced on Wednesday.

The Kremlin considers the day of the annexation of Crimea a holiday. In fact, the first stage of the invasion of Ukraine began in February-March 2014 Local residents walk past armed men in military uniform without identification marks at the entrance to a Ukrainian military unit in the village of Perevalnoye near Simferopol, March 14, 2014. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA On Sunday, March 16, 2014, a “referendum on status” took place in Crimea.

Stories of people who survived the annexation and left the peninsula after the outbreak of a full-scale war People with the flag of Crimea in front of the parliament building in Simferopol, March 17, 2014. Photo: Jakub Kaminski/EPA On March 18, 2014, Vladimir Putin announced the “annexation” of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia. Local residents already knew what global isolation, sanctions and life in a gray legal field meant.