Oleg Carlson - about winning the “Made in Russia” award, business, and the new space scene “Inside” Oleg Carlson. Photo: snob.ru Oleg Carlson has two things in life, and he treats each of them with equal dedication and passion: he is the chief architect and head of the architectural bureau "Carlson and K", as well as the general producer of one of the most successful independent theater venues in Russia - the space "Inside".

The ex-president of France presented “The Diary of a Prisoner” Nicolas Sarkozy at an autograph session. Photo: Yuri Safronov / Novaya Gazeta One of the most prolific writers of our era, known to the world under the pseudonym Nicolas Sarkozy, has released a new book.

The State Duma, in the second and third readings, adopted a package of laws that frees officials from the need to file income and property declarations annually. One of the laws stipulates that government officials, deputies, senators, and civil servants will have to provide declarations only when entering the civil service, moving to another position and from one body to another, as well as when being included in the federal personnel reserve.

The FSB reported: a homemade bomb stuffed with screws, nuts and nails had been neutralized and was to be handed over as a parcel to an unnamed representative of the Volgodonsk administration. State agencies published footage of the detonation of a “mined” backpack in the square in front of the administration. Detonation of a “mined” backpack in the square in front of the administration.

Alexey Venediktov* is 70! 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY A FOREIGN AGENT ALEXEY ALEKSEEVICH VENEDIKTOV OR CONCERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF ALEKSEY ALEKSEEVICH VENEDIKTOV VENEDIKTOV. On his 70th birthday, Alexey Venediktov* talks about the main thing: the personal drama of the closure of Echo of Moscow, the status of a “foreign agent”, personal meetings with Putin and why compromise is important today.

While all the attention of the Russian law enforcement system is drawn to bloggers leaving “incorrect” comments, the nineties are returning to the regions Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS On the night of August 8-9, 2025, in the village of Glebovo, Bolsheselsky district, Yaroslavl region, an incredible event happened, similar to a scene from an action-packed action movie. A resident of the city of Yaroslavl, Rafail Sadriev, came to the village in the afternoon to go pick mushrooms.

The State Duma, in the closed part of the plenary session, examined the incident with the organization of a “paid” round table with the participation of deputies. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that an internal review of the incident is still ongoing, but some of the defendants are already known, and as a result, several parliamentarians may lose their mandates. Law enforcement officials are allegedly involved in the case.

The death of the greatest empire Invalids of the Thirty Years' War. Engraving from 1882 18+ THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT ALEXANDER VIKTOROVICH MINKIN OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT ALEXANDER VIKTOROVICH MINKIN Was the word “war” banned in Russia? Of course not. This word is prohibited only for the almost four-year armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

The second in position in Russian hockey and the most media coach-functionary turned the Channel One Cup into a show named after himself Novosibirsk Ice arena "Sibir-Arena". Channel One Hockey Cup. Head coach of the Russian national team Roman Rotenberg. Photo: Kirill Kukhmar / TASS People, accustomed to the daily presence of Roman Rotenberg in public space, became thoroughly bored after six months of his relatively rare appearances in public.

A play-report for a trial in absentia in three acts Photo: Ilya Moskovets / URA.RU / TASS Boris Akunin*, Dmitry Glukhovsky*, Yuri Dud*, Anna Mongait*, Dmitry Kolezev*, Ilya Krasilshchik, Yana Troyanova*, Tatyana Lazareva*, Mark Feigin*, Maxim Kats*, Leonid Gozman*, Ilya Yashin*, Sergey Davidis - these are just a few names of Russian citizens - journalists, writers, artists, public figures who in recent years have been sentenced to real terms of punishment in absentia.

Sergei Anuriev, general director of the Liters service, one of the largest online bookstores on the RuNet, told Kommersant that the platform has already removed about 4.5 thousand book titles from sale, “simply out of caution or fear of authors” about new rules for the sale of cultural works. We are talking about fines provided for by the law on “propaganda of prohibited substances” that has not yet entered into force, although it will only come into force in March next year.

Photo taken by Grigory Kunis before leaving Russia. Social networks “I didn’t tempt fate and left Russia. Apparently, forever... My homeland let me go with a small backpack that could fit a laptop, a couple of changes of underwear, one book (Steinbeck) and hygiene items. I'm not mad at her. After all, she let me go,” wrote Gregory Kunis on social networks.

How the state and society are preparing for the return home of SVO participants Photo: Oleg Elkov / TASS As the national history of the last almost four years moves towards the point where exactly on the next Old New Year the duration of what is officially called a special military operation will exceed the one thousand four hundred and eighteen days that the Great Patriotic War lasted, here and there, in publications of state media, in the conversations of ordinary people and in individual