The Investigative Committee closed the criminal case against driver Vasily Pytikov, who died in a truck explosion in the Amur region. During the Ukrainian Operation Web , when drones attacked strategic aviation airfields deep in the Russian rear, Pytikov's truck caught fire on the road, the driver tried to put out the fire and died.

The historian of Stalin's repressions, the former head of the Karelian Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev, celebrates his 70th birthday in a maximum security colony. He has been in prison for nine years now and is “very tired” of being in prison, say his friends who maintain contact with him, and dreams of being “exchanged,” but the article under which he was imprisoned makes this prospect very difficult.

Stone mining in Kaskesruche The ancient Vepsian village of Kaskesruchey may soon disappear: it is surrounded by quarries where stone is mined for cemetery tombstones. Due to constant explosions, the walls of wooden houses shake, the shore of Lake Onega, on which the village stands, is destroyed, fish disappear from the lake itself, and water is lost from the wells.

Russian truck drivers About 7 thousand cargo transportation companies in 2025 found themselves at the stage of liquidation or bankruptcy. Due to increased fuel prices and leasing payments for equipment, increased vehicle maintenance costs, high bank key rates, as well as increased recycling fees, freight carriers spend more than they earn, transportation becomes unprofitable. In addition, experts say that the general decline in industry is also affecting transportation.

Russia today is in a deep “demographic hole”. Independent demographer and statistician Alexey Raksha speaks about this. According to him, the small generation of the 1990s and early 2000s is now giving birth, and this situation will continue for about another ten years. Raksha criticizes the authorities for distorting Rosstat data, which creates the illusion of growth.

Security guards hired to demolish the VNIIB building On January 8, in St. Petersburg, the building of the All-Union Research Institute of Pulp and Paper Industry, which was defended for 7 years by city defenders and residents of the Vyborg region, was demolished. The demolition was accompanied by intense confrontation between its defenders and numerous hired guards, the detention of activists, and the initiation of a dozen administrative cases and one criminal case.

The Russian Railways company has accumulated a record amount of debt - almost four trillion rubles, or over 50 billion dollars. Since 2022, Russian Railways has received loans for construction on the eastern site to increase the volume of transportation to China. At the same time, the volume of all types of transportation in Russia, with the exception of the transportation of military cargo, fell.

Gregory Kunis St. Petersburg entrepreneur, former owner of the publication “My District,” founder of the iGooods delivery service, organizer of the first march of the “Immortal Regiment” in St. Petersburg, Grigory Kunis, left Russia due to persecution for donations to FBK.

In 2025, 214 people were recognized as “foreign agents” in Russia, which is 51 (an increase of more than 30 percent) more than a year earlier. The situation of Russian citizens recognized by the Ministry of Justice as “foreign agents” worsened with each new law. A new punitive package has already been planned for 2026: “foreign agents” who left the country may be left without consular services, remote servicing in Russian banks and the ability to manage their money and property in Russia.

On December 5, the Pskov city court sent the deputy chairman of the Yabloko party, Pskov politician Lev Shlosberg, to a pre-trial detention center.

Bashkir rapper Altynay Valitov moved to the United States a year and a half ago, fearing persecution due to mass protests in Baymak. In an interview with the Window project, he talked about how his life has changed in the last year, what he hopes for, what he thinks about what is happening in Russia and Bashkortostan, and how he feels about the invasion of Ukraine. Altynai Valitov was born on April 11, 1992 in the village of Bainazarovo in the Burzyansky district of Bashkortostan.

In the photograph, March 25, 1963, the storming of the Yenisei during the construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station.

Nuclear reactor builders demand wages At the end of September, President Putin at the international forum “World Atomic Week” called the nuclear reactor under construction in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region, a revolutionary development of Russian scientists and engineers, which in the future will almost completely solve the problem of nuclear waste disposal.

Farewell to Rinat Mamatov in the cultural center of the village of Barda On November 4, 2025, the coffin with the remains of 45-year-old Rinat Mamatov, who died in the war, was brought into the House of Culture of the village of Barda (Perm Territory) and placed next to a banner on which the greeting was written in Russian and Tatar: “Welcome” and “Rakhim itegez.” Relatives and friends of the deceased did not notice “this mess” at first, says his brother.

Last Friday, the Russian Ministry of Justice declared the publication “Aspects - Bashkortostan” a “foreign agent.” The project's journalists, who previously emigrated to Europe, said that they would continue to work despite the problems that the new status would bring them. Observers noted that Aspects “brought objective information to the population,” including about natives of Bashkortostan who died in the war with Ukraine.