Photo: SK Perm region In the city of Dobryanka, Perm Territory, a ninth-grader attacked a teacher with a knife, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said . According to Governor Dmitry Makhonin, she died after hospitalization. According to the police, the attack occurred today at about 8:00 (6:00 Moscow time) at the entrance to school No. 5 in the city of Dobryanka. A schoolboy stabbed his class teacher with a knife. The victim was taken to the hospital and later died.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban faces the most serious test of his reign. His Fidesz party faces defeat in the April 12 elections. At stake is the future course of Hungary, which in recent years has increasingly played the role of the main channel of Russian influence in the EU. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Kremlin, according to local media, tried to do everything possible for the victory of its ally.

The Ministry of Digital Development has sent out guidelines to the largest Internet companies on how to identify VPNs among users and requires them to limit access to services when using it. Platforms are essentially offered to embed a spy module into the smartphones of their users. Cyber ​​lawyer Sarkis Darbinyan warns that such measures could undermine trust in services, lead to sanctions from app stores and an outflow of users.

Marketplaces Ozon and Wildberries, as well as services of the VkusVill retail chain, began to restrict access to sites for clients using VPN services and other means of bypassing blocking. Izvestia writes about this with reference to sources in retail. Journalists note that marketplaces and the VkusVilla website have become unstable when connected through a number of popular VPN services. Access to the pages is maintained, but product cards, images and descriptions are not loaded.

Georgia is rapidly losing its image as a country where foreigners can easily and quickly register a business: a law has been passed that obliges foreigners to undergo a special procedure to obtain a work permit. Strict deadlines have been established for registration of foreign entrepreneurs - from March 1 to May 1.

Photo: Oleg Petrasyuk / EPA The Sheikh-Mansurovsky District Court of Grozny recognized the “Chechen Republic of Ichkeria” (CRI) as a “terrorist organization.” This was reported by the FSB Public Relations Center. The department said that now the activities of the organization and 29 of its divisions in 14 European countries are prohibited in Russia. The FSB named Akhmed Zakaev as the head of the unrecognized republic of Ichkeria. He led the operation to capture Grozny in 1996.

Photo: Kuban Cossack Host on Telegram Members of a youth advisory body under the legislature of Russia's Tyumen region are being expelled for refusing to weave camouflage nets for the war in Ukraine, according to the parliament's first deputy speaker.

Photo: telegram channel of the Kuban Cossack army Members of the public youth chamber at the Tyumen Regional Duma are expelled for their unwillingness to participate in weaving camouflage nets. This was stated by the first vice speaker of the Tyumen parliament Andrey Artyukhov. According to him, it was for this reason that six people were expelled from the last convocation. Artyukhov noted that every week he receives reports on who weaved the nets for the needs of the SVO.

It is flood season in Russia: the snow is actively melting, the water is rapidly rising, and not everywhere the authorities have time to cope with it. The most difficult situation is now in the North Caucasus: in Dagestan, seven people have already died due to flooding; in Chechnya, houses, roads, bridges and cars have been demolished. Great water also came to other regions: from Nizhny Novgorod to Omsk, from Udmurtia to Suzdal.

What will happen to the Russian economy? Why are the Russian elites unable to imitate the joy of what is happening? How did they become accomplices in Putin's crimes? And when will the silence be broken? The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, Kirill Martynov, discussed these and other questions with economist and researcher at the Carnegie Berlin Center Alexandra Prokopenko.

Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk / EPA A court in Chechnya, in the Russian North Caucasus, has ruled the region’s government-in-exile a “terrorist organisation”, citing its role in the Ukrainian war effort, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced in a press release on Tuesday.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, 20 January 2026. Photo: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova issued thinly veiled threats to the Baltic states on Monday over allegations that they permitted Ukraine to use their airspace to carry out drone strikes on Russian ports — a claim their governments have denied. “These countries have been issued an appropriate warning. If the regimes in these countries have any sense, they will listen.