In 2025, the Russian language, the Internet, “foreign agents” and children will suffer the most from bans Photo: Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant Officials and deputies ended the old year with yet another ban - as they say, under the Christmas tree, and in the new year, having rested, they began to ban it as soon as they went to work.

The corresponding document was published on the website of draft regulatory legal acts for public discussion. The changes will affect fines that are provided for economic crimes. We are talking about articles that relate to crimes, violation of copyright and related rights and causing property damage through deception or breach of trust.

Kristina Prikhodko. Photo from the family archive. Courtesy of NGS. Konstantin Prikhodko from Novosibirsk raised his daughter and son alone. 19-year-old Kristina Prikhodko was killed in December 2017. Two attackers conspired to create an advertisement about cleaning a country cottage using a fake name. Christina responded to him. She got into the car with Sergei Yulin and Maxim Ovchinnikov, who took her out of town, raped her there, and then strangled her, and took her body to the forest.

A case was opened against the journalist for assaulting a police officer: according to the prosecution, on January 11, during the dispersal of a protest rally in Batumi, she allegedly hit the head of the local police, Irakli Dgebuadze, in the face. Amaglobeli herself claims that she got into a crush and hit a policeman, instinctively trying to free her hand. The largest opposition media in Georgia went on strike in protest.

This was reported by the Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market of Kazakhstan. The decision was made “in order to minimize the risks of using banking services in the field of illicit drug trafficking and digital assets,” the agency said in a statement. Exceptions will be made for businessmen, investors and diplomats. In addition, the number of payment cards per client has been reduced.

In Engels, as a result of a drone attack, an oil depot caught fire again, while extinguishing it a week ago, two firefighters were killed Fire at an oil depot in Engels. Photo: Russian Emergency Situations Ministry The Saratov region experienced its second drone attack in a week. According to official information, the raid on Russian regions, which occurred at night and in the morning of January 14, turned out to be the largest since the beginning of the year.

Historian Alexey Kuznetsov answers the presenters' questions The murder of priest Gapon, his connection with the workers, Zubatov’s project - all this in the context of the events of January 9, 1905. Why did his attempts to conduct a dialogue with the authorities turn into bloody victims? Why didn't Gapon become a folk hero? What caused the tragic mistake of Nicholas II, which led to the mass execution? And have we really not learned the lessons of history again?

At least 65 oil tankers were forced to anchor around the world due to US sanctions against the Russian oil industry, Reuters writes , citing ship tracking data from MarineTraffic and LSEG. Five ships dropped anchor off Chinese ports, and seven more off the coast of Singapore. The rest are stuck off the coast of Russia in the Baltic Sea and the Far East. Among the stranded tankers, Reuters also included 25 that were anchored due to earlier US sanctions.

By patriarchal decrees, saints are appointed to different areas of service to the fatherland. Ultimately, this practice leads to the separation of the Russian Orthodox Church from religion Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta Ancient Roman paganism was better adapted to the needs of military service than the Christianity that replaced it, one way or another imbued with pacifism. Each branch of the Roman Empire had its own patron geniuses.

An analysis of the flight recorders of the Baku-Grozny plane that crashed in Aktau did not confirm some of the data about the disaster that appeared in the media, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference. “A special meeting took place in Brazil, the black boxes were opened.

On Russian denunciations of books by foreign writers Tilar Mazzeo and Anthony Dorra The New Year, according to an apparently established tradition, began with new book bans. On the first working day, January 9, the Telegram channel “Cultural Front Z” (anonymous, of course) published a post in which the administration called on the competent authorities to pay attention to the book “Irena’s Children” by Tilar Mazzeo, published in Eksmo.

The State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption has prepared a package of bills to tighten legislation on “foreign agents.” This was stated by the head of the committee Vasily Piskarev. “We want to protect our most sensitive areas of domestic policy, such as education and pedagogy, from the influence of foreign agents completely. We don’t want foreign agents to have influence on our education,” said the deputy.

Journalist Maria Ponomarenko from a pre-trial detention center - about the importance of support from the outside, about censorship, books and the inability to accept injustice Maria Ponomarenko.

About a billion a year is spent on the renovation of bomb shelters in Russia. At the same time, 95% of objects are unsuitable for use; their repair will take decades Photo: Alexey Dushutin / Novaya Gazeta Russia spent at least 1.1 billion rubles on the creation and repair of bomb shelters in 2024. This figure was based on an analysis of government procurement and concluded contracts.

The body of Vladimir Feshchenko was found in the Ministry of Defense building on Olkhovaya Street, TASS writes . During the examination, he was found to have a gunshot wound to the head. Telegram channels close to the security forces claim that the security officer was found murdered at his workplace. According to state agencies, the cause of the murder was a domestic conflict with a military man. According to RBC's interlocutor , the main version is murder by negligence.