Photo: Daria Kornilova At around 12:00 on April 9, masked security officers arrived at the Novaya Gazeta editorial office in Moscow. The reason for the search was not reported - the editorial office's lawyers were not allowed into the building; some of the employees who had gathered for an editorial planning meeting were inside. At the same time, it became known about the detention of Novaya Gazeta columnist Oleg Roldugin. He is suspected of committing a crime under Part 3 of Art.

Mikhail Mishin’s book “With whom I congratulate myself” has been published Mikhail Mishin’s book “With whom I congratulate myself.” M.: CoLibri Publishing House; ABC, 2026 In Soviet times, almost everyone knew Mishin. As soon as you turned on the TV, people’s favorite “Around Laughter” or “Morning Mail”... A satirical writer, he entered the house like a long-awaited old acquaintance, ironic, a little sad.

Dr. Chaim Ben-Yaakov, Director General of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, on the possibility of returning the death penalty Photo: AP/TASS As Passover approaches, the debate over the death penalty in Israel begins not with principles, but with names. Since the exchange of Gilad Shalit, during which hundreds of prisoners were freed, among them Yahya Sinwar, later one of the organizers of October 7. From buses and cafes, from kibbutzim and roads.

A fair has opened in Krasnodar where they sell expired products Photo: Alexander Romanov A fair has opened a couple of kilometers from the city administration in Krasnodar, where they sell expired products. You can easily find this fair if you walk from the City Center residential complex to Kommunarov Street. There is a banner posted there: “Clothes Fair. 200 meters. St. Putevaya, 5/1". But the shopping row begins not two hundred meters later, but much earlier - right on the roadway.

Discussing with historian Alexey Kuznetsov On April 2, 1917, the Provisional Government abolished the Pale of Settlement. In this issue we talk about what it was, why it appeared and why its story completely destroys the myth of the “good” and “bright” Russian Empire. The conversation begins with the date and holiday of Passover, and then moves on to one of the most painful topics in imperial history: restrictions on Jews in the Russian Empire. Why was the Pale of Settlement introduced?

A reminder of what the Gulag History Museum did The State Museum of the History of the Gulag will leave only a “Museum of Memory” about itself. Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant In the Russian language, for the purity of which those in power are now so concerned, there is such a word - mankurt. It does not fall under the new law against foreign words: it is not an Anglicism.

The recognition of Memorial** as an “extremist organization” completes the process of erasing national memory and self-exposure of the state as Stalinist (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. Photo: Andrey Bok Waking up one morning from troubled sleep, Gregor Samsa found himself transformed in his bed into a terrible insect.

At approximately 12 o'clock, masked security officers arrived at the Novaya Gazeta editorial office in Moscow and began conducting investigative actions. We don’t know the reason - the editorial office’s lawyers are not allowed into the office, where some of the employees are also located.

April theses from old school propagandists Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta The TV presenter is an endangered species. Those who rule the airwaves today started back in the last quarter of the last century. Propagandists with such powerful experience are not hangers-on of the regime, but its singers. For decades they have been shepherding peoples with the passion of biblical prophets, but suddenly the program fails.

Marco Rutte on CNN NATO Secretary General Marco Rutte, after a meeting with US President Donald Trump, spoke on CNN , where he was forced to vaguely answer the journalist’s direct questions: will the United States reduce its participation in the alliance, will Trump withdraw from NATO?

Oil swing: how the Iranian conflict lent a shoulder to the Russian budget for an hour, but did not help Photo: AP/TASS War fever in the Persian Gulf in February-March 2026 presented the Russian budget with a rare scenario - the opportunity to make up for the failure of first-quarter revenues due to an external shock that provoked a rise in oil prices. However, this gift turned out to be as unexpected as it was short-lived.

In Russia they are again talking about legalizing hunting for animals listed in the Red Book Photo: Kirill Kukhmar / TASS “Today the question is about a fundamental choice: whether the Red Book will remain a real tool for preventing the extinction of species. <…> We demand an immediate end to the weakening of the protection of rare animals” - this is a quote from a petition launched by traveler Pavel Pashkov. More than 80 thousand people signed it.