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Show more Collapse Why does Polish political scientist Jakub Koreyba believe that the cold war between Russia and the West on the basis of the hot war between Russia and Ukraine is beneficial to both Russia and the West? Does Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbalyuk agree with him? And also: what needs to happen for Russia to detach itself from Ukraine? So that, finally, without this, “our people are there,” etc. In general, if desired, “our people” can be found anywhere.

How did it happen that repression hits both “friends” and “strangers” to the authorities? Why did they take on street musicians like that? Who does Putin see as a real threat? We are discussing in the program “Facing the Event” with the editor-in-chief of “Novaya Gazeta Europe” Kirill Martynov.

After more than a year of fighting, Russian troops managed to enter Pokrovsk , a Ukrainian defense stronghold in the western Donetsk region, and made significant advances in the southwestern part of the city, gaining a foothold in the area of ​​the railway, and, according to pro-Russian sources, advancing beyond it.

Illustrative photo The top 10 regions of the Volga region, in which more than 60% of families with two children can afford to rent an apartment, included only Tatarstan - 62.2%. According to a study by RIA Rating , in at least three regions of the Volga region - Mari El, Ulyanovsk and Saratov regions - more than half of families with two children cannot afford to rent a standard two-room apartment. The rating is based on data from January to September 2025.

Page of the 1917 tear-off calendar. Photo from the catalog "First Arrests". Talk about the history, reasons and logic of the first arrests after the October coup. The story is told by historian and librarian of the Memorial Society Boris Belenkin. How to bypass the blocking? read > Ivan Tolstoy: In my youth I had a five-volume book “The History of the Tsar’s Prison” by Mikhail Nikolaevich Gernet.

Illustrative photo In addition, the regional authorities have reduced the size of the one-time regional payment for concluding a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense by almost five times. The government of the Saratov region published a decree on the early termination of payments for recruiting people to fight in the war in Ukraine. Mediazona drew attention to the document. The program, which was planned until December 31, was decided to end today, October 28.

New Russian cabs; battles for Pokrovsk; Lithuania closed the border with Belarus; Naoko and her guitarist were not released after their arrest; the beginning of the US presidential campaign; the mayor of Kazan believes that Russians do not know how to use toilets; Bill Gates is 70 years old

The government commission approved the proposal of the Russian Ministry of Defense to lower the threshold for initiating a criminal case for unauthorized abandonment of a unit. Now a case can be opened after 10 days of absence; if the bill is adopted, this period will be reduced to two days, Vedomosti writes . The new rules will apply to both conscripts and contract soldiers.

Why does Polish political scientist Jakub Koreyba believe that the cold war between Russia and the West on the basis of the hot war between Russia and Ukraine is beneficial to both Russia and the West? Does Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbalyuk agree with him? A

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The world's largest aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford, sent by the Donald Trump administration to the shores of Venezuela, with an escort ship Venezuela announced Monday it would suspend an energy cooperation agreement with neighboring Trinidad and Tobago in response to the country's naval exercises involving the USS Gravely.