In the near future, Muscovites will begin to selectively inspect their smartphones and ask them to turn them on in the presence of a metro employee, the subway press service reported. They explained the new rules by striving for the comfort of passengers and their safety. They will be able to check the functionality of phones starting February 4 as part of the order of the Ministry of Transport. Muscovites will be faced with what residents of St. Petersburg are already experiencing in January.

The FSB has prohibited adding to the list of sites available when the mobile Internet is turned off in Russia, applications of banks that have not started installing systems of operational investigative measures (SORM), RBC writes, citing sources. SORM allows intelligence agencies to gain access to calls, Internet traffic and other data of subscribers and Internet users. Users complained that several large banks' apps were not whitelisted in November 2025.

Cloud Rommel, selfie The Red Guard Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the “Orthodox” blogger and participant in hostilities in Ukraine Claud Rommel to 15 years in a maximum security colony, having found him guilty of rape and violent acts against a minor girl, the press service of the city courts reported . The victim is a girl born in 2013, the daughter of Rommel’s partner.

We expected everything from the Minister of Finance, but not a proposal to legalize online casinos. Although… Photo: Ekaterina Lyzlova / Kommersant We expected everything from Anton Germanovich, but not like this, of course. Although we might have expected after that epoch-making phrase that VAT is the most painless tax and Russians will not notice an increase from 20 to 22%. However, we never expected to hear proposals to legalize online casinos from Finance Minister Siluanov.

Governor of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov said that he ordered an internal audit of the regional Minister of Finance Alexander Klimochkin because of the “February without spending” challenge. The Karelian Ministry of Finance announced the “challenge” on February 1.

Legendary tennis player Andrei Chesnokov turns 60 on February 2 September 24, 1995. A few minutes earlier, Andrei Chesnokov saved 9 match points in a duel with Michael Stich and led the Russian team to the Davis Cup final. Photo: Evgeny Uspensky It is generally accepted that real tennis (with a capital “T”) appeared in our country only after Boris Yeltsin came to power, who adored this wonderful aristocratic pastime. Of course, major and resounding racket successes came precisely in the 90s.

Perhaps we will witness another presidential “nullification.” In Kazakhstan they decided to amend the Constitution, and then in 10 days they wrote a new one live President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Photo: Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant Tell me, will you protest against the thesis that it is the duty of every person to protect nature? Or that children should take care of their elderly parents? Seems logical, doesn't it?

Russia and Afghanistan are negotiating to attract Afghan labor migrants, said Afghan Ambassador Gul Hasan. “Negotiations have already taken place between the two countries on the issue of labor migration to Russia and there is reason to expect positive results to be achieved,” Khasan said in an interview with TASS.

Let's talk to entrepreneur Dmitry Potapenko* 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT POTAPENKO DMITRY VALERIEVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT POTAPENKO DMITRY VALERIEVICH. In a large stream of Novaya Gazeta we discuss rising prices in Russia: why did the grocery basket explode? how VAT and the tax system put pressure on small businesses, why many people switch to discounters and how this relates to quality of life.

Channel “Russia-1” on Sunday, February 1, showed the documentary “Betrayal”, one of the heroines of which was St. Petersburg resident Daria Trepova, who is serving a 27-year sentence in the Mordovian penal colony IK-2 in the case of a terrorist attack in which military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky was killed. Trepova is interviewed in the colony by VGTRK host and Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Andrei Medvedev. The conversation lasts about 11 minutes.

...and other January culture traders Artemy Lebedev. Photo: Moscow Agency Designer Artemy Lebedev proposed repainting the Kremlin white. “It’s much more beautiful than red, and many other Kremlins in other cities also have white walls, and that’s okay,” said the designer. He cited the Kazan Kremlin as an example, calling it beautiful. “For example, in Kazan the Kremlin is white, and it looks great,” the designer added.

Antifa United case: three young people were convicted of creating an “extremist community” and hooliganism, the fourth died before the trial began Photo: ITAR-TASS The Izmailovsky Court of Moscow completed the trial in the Antifa United case. There are three young men in the dock. They were found guilty of creating and participating in an “extremist community”, as well as hooliganism.

The meeting of the delegations of Moscow, Kyiv and Washington, which was supposed to take place in Abu Dhabi on February 1, will take place next Wednesday and Thursday. Kremlin Speaker Dmitry Peskov told reporters about this.

Interview with the executive secretary of the Human Rights Council of St. Petersburg about the rights of St. Petersburg residents (and not only) in 2025 Photo: Andrey Chepakin / TASS At the end of 2025, the Human Rights Council of St. Petersburg presented a report on the state of human rights in the city for 2024–2025. As the compilers emphasized, this is the only document of this kind published recently. The Human Rights Council of St.

Europe has acquired a visa strategy. Nothing good will happen for Russians and Belarusians Photo: Evgeny Razumny / Kommersant In two documents that the European Commission proposed on January 29, it outlined who a united Europe would like to see and who it would not. Whether as guests, forced protégés or new residents.