Photo: Mikhail Metzel/EPA 73% of Russians surveyed believe that Vladimir Putin is performing his duties as President of Russia “rather well.” This is stated in a study by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), which works with the Kremlin. Details about Putin's rating. A week ago, FOM reported that 76% of respondents assessed Putin’s work positively, and 74% spoke of trust in him. The share of respondents who believe that it works “rather poorly” increased by two percentage points - to 13%.

Photo: social networks The Russian government has banned for six months the import of foreign devices for transmitting and receiving signals from space communications satellites. This decree was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Starlink terminals also fit this definition. Did Starlink work in Russia? Starlink is not officially presented in Russia.

Photo: social networks The youth wing of Yabloko in the Sverdlovsk region announced self-liquidation after searches and a series of arrests. The management noted that “in the current conditions” they do not see any possibility of continuing work. All posts in the organization’s telegram channel were deleted. Searches. On April 29, the police came to search the Yabloko party activists in Yekaterinburg. At least five people were detained, but then released without drawing up reports.

Photo: David Borenstein / Instagram The Oscar statuette won by Russian filmmaker and former schoolteacher Pavel Talankin for the 2025 documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin has been lost by airline workers. Talankin’s co-director, David Borenstein, reported the loss on an Instagram post on Friday. According to him, Talankin was stopped by a TSA agent at New York’s JFK Airport, where he had the Oscar in his carry-on bag for a flight to Frankfurt.

Donald Trump is behaving like an “unbalanced madman” - almost all of his fellow party members could subscribe to these words of Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate. As the November congressional elections approach, Democrats are increasingly raising the issue of the 79-year-old Republican president allegedly having mental problems.

Archaeologist Alexander Butyagin, who was previously detained in Poland, after returning to Russia, gave an interview to Russian state media: RT, Rossiya 1 and Izvestia. He said that he had hoped for an exchange and was not surprised by it, and now plans to work in the Hermitage and continue expeditions in Crimea. Alexander Butyagin after the exchange in Belarus, April 28, 2026. Photo: FSB / TASS / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA Before this, he gave an interview to Russian media.

Photo: social networks The 2nd Eastern District Military Court sentenced Barnaul resident Andrei Vitovtov to 16 years in prison in the case of treason and justification of terrorism. Mediazona writes about this with reference to his lawyer. Details. The verdict was handed down on April 27. According to the court decision, Vitovtov must spend the first five years in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony.

Photo: Mediazona A court in Russia’s central Tula region has ruled that a foreign national must be deported over a review he left for a leather skirt that he purchased online. The man was cited for a review he posted in September 2025 on a faux leather skirt sold on the e-commerce site Wildberries. According to the court ruling, which was flagged by Mediazona, he uploaded photos of himself wearing the skirt and wrote: "What a lovely little skirt!

How did Putin order the economy to grow and what will come of it? Why do oligarchs need to prepare for the seizure of property? How do “typical Russians” manage to survive on 40 thousand rubles? And what will bury the war economy? The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, Kirill Martynov, discussed the answers to these and other pressing questions about the state of the Russian economy with economist Igor Lipsits.

Photo: Andrea Merola / EPA All five members of the Venice Biennale’s international jury resigned on Thursday, less than two weeks before the exhibition’s opening, in the latest escalation of a months-long dispute surrounding the participation of Russia and Israel in the festival.

The head of Dagestan Sergei Melikov at the Caucasus Investment Forum in Mineralnye Vody, April 29, 2026. Photo: Egor Aliev / TASS / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA Why was his resignation inevitable? And who will come in his place Sergei Melikov is leaving the post of head of Dagestan after almost six years of work in the republic.

Over the past five months, at least eight protocols have been filed in Russian courts due to violations in the collection of personal data against large foreign manufacturers of computer games. All cases were initiated by Roskomnadzor. “Vorstka” drew attention to this. Who has already been fined? The companies Take Two (GTA games, Read Dead Redemption, etc.), Electronic Arts (Need for Speed, Battlefield, etc.) and Battlestate Games (Escape from Tarkov) were fined two million rubles each.

All major Russian applications - from banks to marketplaces - can now determine whether a user is using a VPN. Some of them also collect data about specific VPN services and transmit this information to servers. This is stated in a new study by RKS Global, conducted after the deadline set by the authorities in April 2026.

Photo: Mikhail Metzel / EPA Seventy-three percent of Russians approve of Vladimir Putin’s performance in the country’s presidency, according to a new poll by the Kremlin-affiliated pollster the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) — the lowest rating the agency has recorded since February 2022. In the survey, which was conducted between 24 and 26 April, 73% of respondents said they think Putin is doing a good job, while 13% said he is doing a poor job. The remaining 14% were unsure.