The total budget deficit of Russian regions at the end of 2025 was at a record high level - 1.478 trillion rubles. This is 1 trillion rubles higher than a year earlier (in 2024, the deficit was 407 billion rubles). The new indicator was named by Kommersant with reference to ACRA data, and the agency received data from the Russian Treasury. Regional expenses grew twice as fast as income last year. 74 regions of the Russian Federation ended 2025 with a deficit.

“Conversations about important things” in Russian kindergartens will begin to be held in the form of so-called “good games,” said Alexander Tsvetkov, head of the Institute for the Study of Childhood, Family and Education. His words are quoted by RBC.

Russian authorities are considering the possibility of blocking Telegram in Russia in early April, according to several RBC sources familiar with discussions of this sensitive issue in the government. Lobbyists for this decision, according to RBC sources, cited among the reasons for blocking “cases of recruiting people, including minors, to commit illegal actions.” After blocking in Russia, Telegram will continue to work “only at the front,” one of RBC’s sources “close to the Kremlin” confirmed.

About Dmitry Krymov’s play “Everything is here” Scene from the play “Everything is Here.” Photo: zimamagazine.com Ever since I fall asleep with half a tablet of antipsychotic medication, I have been having dreams that are exceptional in their phantasmagoric nature. How I leave, for example, some workshops where I was on an excursion, and go to the bus stop. But there is so much snow that I leave my UGG boots in it, then my jeans, tights and practically hobble to the highway in my underwear.

The founder of the Rassvet party, Ekaterina Duntsova, was detained in Tver. As “Caution News” writes , this happened at an evening of letters to political prisoners - the police took Duntsova to the central department to give an explanation. The specific reasons for the detention have not been reported. “According to preliminary information, the reason was an anonymous denunciation of an upcoming letter evening in the region.

How to celebrate Maslenitsa, which was banned Photo: Fedor Kalinin On the eve of spring, a miracle has happened for 40 years now: thousands of people find each other in a forest clearing to spend the winter together. This miracle is called “Bakshevskaya Maslenitsa” - an unofficial, most heartwarming and unpredictable holiday in the Moscow region. This year the authorities banned it. The organizers, obeying the request, canceled the event and promptly deleted the coordinates of the clearing.

Federal television channels practically ignored the tragic anniversary, but in some formats the presenters and their guests touched on it in one way or another AUDIO VERSION This material has an audio version on Youtube. Read by Irina Petrovskaya. Elena Drapeko. Source: rutube State Duma deputy, actress (formerly) Elena Drapeko gave an interview to the patriotic channel “Empathy Manuchi”.

Alexander Dotsenko and Anastasia Dyudyaeva. Still from public video Artist Anastasia Dyudyaeva was unable to say goodbye to her husband, Alexander Dotsenko, who died in a colony in mid-February after suffering a heart attack and two artificial comas. The telegram channel of the Dyudyaeva-Dotsenko support group said that Dotsenko’s funeral service took place in the Church of Metropolitan Alexy in the village of Taitsy, Leningrad Region.

Vladivostok universities offer debtor students to join unmanned troops Photo: Evgeny Razumny / Kommersant Against the backdrop of reports that the country's universities were allegedly given unspoken instructions to expel unsuccessful students and offer them to go to higher education, in Vladivostok they began to persuade debtor students to enter into an annual contract with the Ministry of Defense. They are promised to pay off their student debts after returning.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan has suspended the extradition process of Russian woman Yulia Emelyanova until her application for refugee status is considered, Kovcheg reports*, citing the girl’s lawyer. On February 10, the Kazakh authorities issued a resolution to Yemelyanova to satisfy Russia’s request for her extradition.

A non-trivial idea was expressed at a discussion of the annual results of the work of the State Administrative and Technical Inspectorate (GATI) by the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Evgeny Razumishkin - he proposed using drones to catch illegal excursions on city roofs. “Either they (tour guides - Ed.) break locks, or something else. How much does the budget receive? And how much does he spend - the most important thing? And what reputational risk does it pose?

Yaroslav Nilov, head of the Duma Labor Committee, spoke about the government’s initiative to reassess the “outdated” conditions for allowing minors to enter production, which were considered harmful 20 years ago and have retained this status to this day.

How the “portrait” of society and the country has changed in four years Over the past four years, the changes in life in the country have turned out to be so tectonic that very few would believe that this could be a reality, seeing today from the conditional February 23, 2022. I would rather take it for a nightmare. But this is not a dream, but reality. And no one knows how long it will continue.

Trump turned his State of the Union address into a TV show that was very different from reality. Photo: AP / TASS “The longest and most aggressive” - this is how the American media assessed President Trump’s “State of the Union” message (we translate it as “the state of affairs in the country”), which lasted 107 minutes (a record since 1964). Further, estimates differ. It depends who evaluates: “elephant” or “donkey”, Republican or Democrat.

Photo from the telegram channel of Vladimir Medinsky Vladimir Medinsky, assistant to President Putin and head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Geneva, announced the exchange of bodies of military personnel with Kiev. 1000 bodies were transferred to Ukraine, 35 bodies were returned to Russia. Assistance in organizing the exchange was provided, as before, by the International Red Cross. The previous body swap took place on January 29, 2026.