There are no explanations in the scattered notes of the poet Smirnov; he wrote for himself, not for us Photo: social networks Yuri Smirnov lived in Moscow on Lesnaya Street, opposite the Butyrskaya prison and a beer stall. “During various holidays, the Butyrka prison, located opposite our house, also rejoices. During fireworks, exclamations and greetings can be heard from there. In honor of the launch, for example, they heard: “Freedom to Greek patriots!” What about the beer stall?

Mikhail Smirnov. Photo: Fontanka Former deputy head of the anti-corruption department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg, Mikhail Smirnov, who admitted to the murder of journalist Maxim Maximov, died on the border of the Belgorod and Kharkov regions. As Fontanka found out , he came under attack from a kamikaze drone. In January, the media wrote that Smirnov was released from custody at the request of the military commissariat.

Ekaterina Ostasheva. Photos from social networks 21-year-old Perm resident Ekaterina Ostasheva, sentenced to 60 hours of compulsory labor for organizing a mass concert, received a document restricting her exit from the Russian Federation. Ostasheva said that last week she received a decree obliging her to begin execution of her sentence no later than March 1. “I have never missed a single mandatory work assignment on time.

In St. Petersburg, they do not want to, following the example of Moscow, introduce free parking at social institutions Photo: Stepan Kulinich / Kommersant Smolny doesn’t even want to provide motorists with a certain number of free “parking hours” per month, which could be used at clinics and schools.

Today there are 85 seconds left until the end of humanity. This is a failure of politicians Photo: AP / TASS The best scientific minds on the planet regularly set the time on the symbolic “Doomsday Clock”, assessing the threat posed to the existence of humanity by people themselves, first of all, the so-called elite - politicians, military men, entrepreneurs and scientists who make irresponsibly dangerous decisions. The last time the clocks were changed was at the end of January this year.

The prosecutor's office has requested real sentences for five of the six defendants in the case of the "Spring" movement*, reports a Novaya correspondent from the St. Petersburg City Court. The longest sentence was requested for 28-year-old activist Anna Arkhipova - 13 years of general regime imprisonment. Vasily Neustroev and Yan Ksenzhepolsky are 12 years old, Evgeny Zateev is 10 years old, Valentin Khoroshenin is 8 years old and Pavel Sinelnikov is 10 years old.

The UK authorities announced a new sanctions package against the Russian Federation - the list included 297 companies, individuals and legal entities, as well as 50 vessels of the so-called “shadow fleet”. In particular, nine Russian banks were subject to restrictions: Pochta Bank, Tochka Bank, Transcapitalbank, Absolut Bank, Sinara, Avers, Lanta-Bank, Ak Bars Bank and Fora-Bank.

February 24/7 with Valery Shiryaev The Ukrainian counteroffensive is entering its final phase, mutual strikes on the energy sector continue at the front, and the Vostok group is stopped by the reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. What do 20 battalions thrown into the attack mean? How critical is the Starlink shutdown and Telegram restrictions? Will a new wave of fighting begin in the spring of 2026? Who will be depleted faster - Ukraine's strategic defense or Russia's offensive resource?

The influence of news on the psycho-emotional state of their consumers. Psychotherapist Research Photo: Alexey Dushutin / Novaya Gazeta In November - December 2025, a survey was conducted that was supposed to help identify the influence of news in the media on the psycho-emotional state of their consumers. A link to a Google form with questions and an invitation to take part in the survey were posted on social networks.

Notes from a personal diary Photo: Maya Zhinkina / Kommersant The way Russian society is seen and felt in this, already the fifth wartime February, is very different from what was noticeable in it in previous years. At first, everyone looked around in anger or fear, looking up from the endless scanning of news on their smartphones. Sometimes anger bordered on rage. Then anxiety appeared: everyone began to look carefully not so much at the news, but more and more at the price tags.

The story of one family, one house and one dog Novaya Gazeta writes a lot about Sudzha - so much that it seems that readers should already know everything about the fate of that part of Russians to whom the real price of what is happening now has become clearer than anyone else. And yet these people still have a story to tell - and there are stories that say a lot not only about what happened in Sudzha, but about everything in general. Here is one such story. *Sleep, my boy, sleep, darling.

Screenshot from video “112” On the night of February 24, traffic police officers who were patrolling the area of ​​the Savyolovsky railway station in a car were approached by an unknown person, after which “an unknown device detonated,” the police said . The explosion killed 34-year-old senior police lieutenant Denis Bratushchenko, wrote the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk. Two more traffic police officers were hospitalized.

The fifth year of the hot phase of self-assertion of the former empire has begun Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta (18+) THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT ANDREY VLADIMIROVICH KOLESNIKOV OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT ANDREY VLADIMIROVICH KOLESNIKOV. According to Viktor Frankl's formula, a person either wants the same thing as others (conformism) or does what others want from him (totalitarianism).

Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda published materials claiming that the actions of the founder of Telegram are being investigated under the article on “promoting terrorist activities” (205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The articles are written in an identical tone and similar expressions.