On June 4, 2026, Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny would have turned 50 years old. By this date, his comrades presented the politician’s archive. They collected investigations, texts, videos, posts, documents, campaign materials and other important evidence of the times on one site .

The path of deserters from the front to freedom is 20 thousand kilometers long Artyom and Semyon were born on Sakhalin, from there they were taken to the war: one was caught at the entrance with a summons on the first day of mobilization and taken to the military registration and enlistment office, the other was forced to sign a contract, threatening to “put him on the bottle.” Now they live in Finland.

Photo: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA Various types of restrictions on the purchase of fuel have appeared in at least 15 regions of Russia, as well as in annexed Crimea and the occupied Lugansk region. This data is provided by the publication “7x7”. In annexed Crimea, a fuel shortage began at the end of May due to attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones on the Novorossiya highway, which connects Rostov-on-Don and Simferopol through the occupied territories.

Photo: Rosfinmonitoring The Russian authorities have banned the human rights group OVD-Info , which monitors political persecution in the country and provides legal aid to victims of state repression. Russian financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring added the organisation to its official list of “terrorists and extremists” on Thursday along with 35 other organisations, most of which are linked to the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Memorial.

Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Chairman of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party Boris Gryzlov (from left to right), at a joint meeting of the bureau of the Supreme Council and the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party in Moscow, June 1, 2026. Photo: Maxim Blinov / Sputnik / Imago Images / Scanpix / LETA But these results do not affect the formation of the list.

Photo: Ministry of Justice Only 4% of Russians declared “foreign agents” last year received foreign funding. This was stated by Deputy Head of the Ministry of Justice Oleg Sviridenko. Details. He noted that previously the only reason for recognizing a person as a “foreign agent” was foreign funding.

Illustration: Lyalya Bulanova / Novaya Gazeta Europe How a Ukrainian woman found herself working in a Cambodian scam compound Phone scams are a hallmark of daily life in wartime Russia. But these cons are nothing compared to the industrial-scale scam operations based in Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar and Cambodia.

Photo: Anatoly Strebelev / Roscongress We tell you how things really stand in economics and medicine The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is in its second day in Russia. During this time, officials managed to declare that the incidence of HIV in Russia had reached a historical low, and the situation with childhood obesity and fuel had stabilized. “New Europe” refutes those statements that do not correspond to reality.

Illustration: Rina Lu / “Novaya Gazeta Europe” In response, officials are fighting bloggers and proposing to involve “Northern Military District veterans” in protecting children. From September 2025 to the end of May 2026, there were at least 25 incidents of attacks or threats with weapons in schools, colleges, technical schools and universities. This is the highest figure in at least the last seven years and almost double the previous record.

Photo: Rosfinmonitoring Rosfinmonitoring included the human rights media project “OVD-Info” in the register of “terrorists and extremists.” This follows from data published on the department’s website. In total, 36 organizations were included in the list, most of them are various structures of the human rights organization Memorial in Russia and abroad. Also included in the list are the human rights project “OVD-Info”, the cultural space “Revolt Center” and the museum “Perm 36”.

Photo: Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky wrote an open letter to Vladimir Putin, in which he proposed holding a meeting and agreeing on peace. The message was published on the website of the President of Ukraine. Conditions. Zelensky proposed organizing a meeting in one of the states that traditionally host Russia and Ukraine - Switzerland, Turkey or Arab countries.

Metropolitan Hilarion. Photo from Hilarion’s personal telegram channel Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), who became the most scandalous hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, is sent to another honorable “exile” - to Brazil, the country of wild monkeys and wild drug trafficking Let us pay tribute to the refined sense of irony of Patriarch Kirill. On June 3, he signed a decree assigning new places of ministry to the “retired” Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev).

Photo: Alamy/Vida Press Russian human rights activists sought this. We explain why the “national messenger” disappeared and whether it will be returned On June 3, Apple removed the Russian state messenger Max from the App Store, after which the messenger stopped sending push notifications to iPhone users. The company did not explain why it removed it. Russian human rights activists and opposition politicians called this a victory.

A group of European countries called on the European Commission to introduce additional restrictions on the issuance of Schengen visas to Russian citizens. This is stated in a letter to the head of European diplomacy Kae Kallas and the European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner, write Politico , Deutsche Welle and RMF24 . Who is in favor of restrictions? The letter was signed by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and Interior Minister Marcin Kerwiński.

Leonid Gozman Leonid Gozman's lawyer explains his position regarding the sentences handed down to the politician in Russia Leonid Gozman remains one of the most persecuted opponents of the Russian government. In Russia, he received two sentences in absentia in the case of “ military fakes” and “ justification of terrorism,” for which the politician received eight and six years in prison, respectively.