Putin’s instruction dated March 10 instructs the relevant departments to work out a proposal to introduce an excess profit tax from companies for 2025 at a rate of 20%, Interfax writes , citing a source. According to the agency, tax will be levied on the difference by which the company’s profit for 2025 exceeded the average profit for 2018-2019. The same calculation base was in effect for a similar tax that the Russian authorities levied on companies on profits for 2021-2022.

22 of the 30 most popular Russian applications monitor VPN on Android smartphones, RKS Global experts found . The Bell* reviewed the results of the study. VPN is determined by banking applications: T-Bank, Sberbank, VTB. As well as applications from the Yandex and VK ecosystems. Among the marketplaces, tools for bypassing blocking are monitored by Wildberries, Ozon, MegaMarket, and Samokat.

The Ministry of Justice has included Stanford University in the list of organizations whose activities are recognized as undesirable in Russia, as follows from an update on the department’s website. The decision on this was made by the Prosecutor General's Office on March 26. Also on the list of “undesirable” organizations are the “Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies”* and the German NGO “Crisis Modeling for the World”*.

Interview with political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan - about how the identity of states and the people living in them is born Photo: Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant In a joint project of Novaya Gazeta and the “You Will Be the Third” program on FM 106.5 “Business Wave” radio, Ruben Ishkhanyan and Lianna Khachatryan talked with the director of the Caucasus Institute, Alexander Iskandaryan, about how national states are formed after the collapse of the USSR and how their identity is formed: is

Oleg Roldugin in the Tverskoy court. Photo: Evgeny Kurakin, for Novaya Gazeta The Tverskoy Court of Moscow took journalist Oleg Roldugin into custody on suspicion of illegal use and storage of personal data. He was arrested for a period of one month - until May 10. Judge Alexandra Lashina granted the corresponding request from the investigation. According to the investigation, Roldugin may escape and also take measures to destroy evidence.

How methods for studying memory become tools for its reprogramming Levashovsky memorial. Photo: Alexey Dushutin / Novaya Gazeta This publication continues a series of articles by sociologist Alexey Semenov-Troyat on the phenomenon of collective memory. (read part 1 here ) The archives of the Returned Names Memorial Museum contain an unusual folder. On the cover is the inscription: “Family interviews.

Sport, which, according to the rules, should remain outside of politics, is increasingly turning out to be a space where political meanings are inevitable. Photo: Arina Antonova/TASS At the end of March, at one of the stages of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup in Bulgaria, 15-year-old Russian Sofia Ilteryakova, who performed in a neutral status, did not turn to the flags during the award ceremony and the performance of the Ukrainian anthem.

Photo: Press service of the courts of the Sverdlovsk region 33-year-old school balalaika teacher Artem Vaganov, accused of attempted murder of minors, signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry and was released from prison. This was reported by the Kommersant-Ural source. Vaganov was previously charged under two articles of the Criminal Code, including involving children in committing actions that pose a danger to life. Prior to this, his arrest was extended until May 18.

The documentary film “Emelianenko” by Valeria Gai Germanika is released Still from the film “Emelianenko” The amazing is nearby. Auteur films have difficulty breaking through to the big screens. And the doc “Emelianenko” by Valeria Gai Germanika (now she should be called Gaia Germanika), thanks to KARO/ART, was awarded a premiere in the main hall of “October” (quite successful, with a heated discussion afterwards), and then released, albeit in limited release.

Photo: Pugachev Spring 2025 / VKontakte The annual art festival “Pugachev Spring” in Moscow was canceled after serial informer Vitaly Borodin “appealed to the Prosecutor General”. One of the organizers, producer Andrei Krasnobaev, told RIA Novosti about the cancellation of the festival, which this year was supposed to be held at the Ogorod club. “It was canceled due to pressure from social activists. Ask Borodin how this happened,” he said.

In St. Petersburg, from April 2, a planning project and a land surveying project in the Primorsky district were submitted for public discussion Lakhta Center area. Photo: Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant The Primorsky district is exactly the place where Gazprom is going to build two more skyscrapers - Lakhta Center-2 and Lakhta Center-3 with a height of 555 and 703 meters, respectively (Novaya Gazeta has repeatedly talked about these plans).

The level of approval of Vladimir Putin’s actions among Russians has dropped to 67.8% - this is the minimum since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, according to the latest data from the state public opinion center VTsIOM. In recent years, the president's rating has not fallen below 70%. The drop in trust coincides with increasing Telegram blocking, internet shutdowns in Russia, and continued price increases.

“You wait the same, you are silent the same, you live the same” - letters from Antonina Favorskaya about a system where everyone is leveled to the same state Antonina Favorskaya. Photo: Sofya Sandurskaya / TASS Letters from places of detention rarely come with any “news” in the usual sense.

Vladimir Putin ordered the declaration of an Easter truce on the Ukrainian front. Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov were instructed to stop hostilities “in all directions” from 16:00 on April 11 to the end of April 12 inclusive. “We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow the example of the Russian Federation,” says the document published at 10 pm on the Kremlin website.

In Belarus, the telegram chat “SIZO No. 1 Kolyadichi,” where relatives of prisoners communicated, was declared an “extremist formation.” The decision was made on March 19 by the Central Court of Minsk, reports the human rights center “Viasna”. This is the largest chat of its kind, with about 1,800 people. Human rights activists call the chat “harmless” and emphasize that it served as an important source of information.