Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, during a government hour with the head of the Federal Tax Service, said that large businesses must be socially responsible and act according to the “law of conscience” and “patriotism.” The discussion, in particular, concerned Severstal and its co-owner Alexey Mordashov.

How politics becomes part of everyday life: from the breakfast menu to the stickers on your laptop Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta Over the past four years, it has become common to notice things that would previously have seemed excessive. Many people live as if being out of context is almost a betrayal. Every morning begins with news: telegrams, YouTube, the usual set of channels, night arrivals, new cases, new bans.

Screenshots: Vladimir Vasilenko / Telegram “Gosuslugi” began to request diplomas of legal education from lawyers who want to get to their clients in pre-trial detention centers or other institutions. Lawyer Vladimir Vasilenko spoke about this in his Telegram channel. The screenshot he attached from “Gosuslug” shows that the system requests a “document on legal education” and requires a scan or photo of the first page of the diploma with data, the name of the specialty and the document number.

So different Alexander Shishlov and Alexander Malkevich lost their parliamentary mandates on the same day "Crosses". Photo: Alexey Dushutin / Novaya Gazeta An amazing day - amazing with its news. Perhaps someday we will have the opportunity to analyze this news more deeply, to understand the full extent of the causes and consequences of what is happening.

New episode of the program “Evening with Alexander Genis” 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT GENIS ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT GENIS ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVICH.

Chulpan Khamatova in the new play by Ivan Vyrypaev* “The Only Tallest Trees on Earth” Masha Mashkova and Chulpan Khamatova. Scene from the play “The Only Tallest Trees on Earth.” Photo: VK community Modern Theater When, instead of the warning “turn off your phones,” they tell you “there will be a lot of swearing,” don’t believe it. That is, of course, turn off your phones, but then dial in some air. It’s not that there’s a lot of swearing - they just speak it.

Shooting cormorants and destroying nests is a minimum program for the near future Photo: Yuri Smityuk / TASS After the local destruction of cattle, as well as camels, pigs, dogs and cats (the reasons are probably more than significant, but we are allowed to judge them only hypothetically), in Siberia they are taking up birds. For great cormorants. In this case, the reasons are stated directly, and they, just as bluntly stated, seem less respectful.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the publication “Takie Dela”. The agency referred to “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations,” but did not specify which materials violate the law. The editors reported that the day before the blocking, RKN demanded that the entire site be deleted. “There were no references to the materials, and we ourselves still did not understand what the RKN had in mind...

Photo: Ural Live In the Sverdlovsk region, searches were conducted at the chairman of the regional branch of the Yabloko party, Maxim Petlin. The pro-government telegram channel “UralLIVE” was the first to report the visit of the security forces, where Petlin was called the organizer of an “evening in honor of terrorists” - an event for writing letters to political prisoners. In addition, party activist Yegor Tkachenko was detained in Yekaterinburg.

The State Border Committee of Belarus confirmed that if a Russian citizen is banned from leaving the country, he will not be able to leave the territory of Belarus. A correspondent for one of the European media received a corresponding response from the department, where he applied under the guise of a private person.

How a barbecue lawyer from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic single-handedly fights the revival of the personality cult of Joseph Stalin Photo: Vitaly Smolnikov / Kommersant 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT AZAR ILYA VILYAMOVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT AZAR ILYA VILYAMOVICH.

Photo: press service of the Yabloko party The head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Shishlov, announced his early resignation as deputy. He announced his decision at a parliamentary meeting. Shishlov reminded his colleagues that he spoke from this podium many times: “For the first time - thirty-six years ago, when I was a deputy of the first democratically elected Leningrad City Council.

Once again about the spring aggravation of historical politics that happened to the Russian authorities Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS The Russian authorities have a spring aggravation of historical politics. Memorial was finally banned*. The Gulag Museum was finally repurposed. In Tomsk, a complex in memory of victims of political repression was dismantled. A photo exhibition about Polish Russophobia was opened in Katyn.

The Ufa City Council unanimously approved the appearance in the city of a street named after the founder of the LDPR party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. A new toponym, about 800 meters long, will appear in the Shaksha microdistrict. The decision was accompanied by scandals. In December 2025, residents of Ufa did not support the initiative in an online vote. After this, the mayor’s office launched a second survey, claiming “insufficient coverage” of the first one.

Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev said that he was surprised by the prices for apples in one of the stores in Chukotka. According to him, a kilogram cost about 1,000 rubles, and one large apple cost up to 300 rubles. “To be honest, this price is impressive.