On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran, during which many of the top leaders of the Islamic Republic were killed, including the Supreme Leader-Rahbar, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran responds by striking American bases and facilities of other countries in the Middle East, firing a total of thousands of kamikaze drones and at least half a thousand missiles over the course of 10 days of war.

Tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. US President Donald Trump told CBS news correspondent Wei Jiang that the war could end soon. She quotes him as saying on her X account : "I think the war is practically over. They have no navy, no communications, they have no air force." The President also added that the United States is significantly ahead of the initial estimate of the operation's duration of 4-5 weeks.

The most interesting thing from our common past. An unfinished story. Unhealed wounds. Hopes still alive. Could Russia have taken a different path? Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy selects from our broadcast what is still relevant and has turned out to be eternal.

Russian troops have advanced into Gulyaypole, a city in the eastern Zaporozhye region of Ukraine that has seen heavy fighting in recent months, according to the Ukrainian project DeepState, which monitors the situation at the front.

Pavel Dobrovolsky The Minsk City Court sentenced journalist Pavel Dobrovolsky to nine years in a maximum security colony on charges of treason. The Belarusian Association of Journalists reports this. The process took place behind closed doors. The details of the case are unknown. According to media reports , the charge may be related to the professional activities of the journalist during the 2020 protests.

The Russian pavilion in 2024 was provided to Bolivia Russia returns to the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2022, when the war began, the Russian Federation pavilion was closed. In 2024, Russia leased it to Bolivia.

Closed trials and “Stalinist” terms: 31 Russian scientists behind bars. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND/OR DIRECTED BY A FOREIGN AGENT SHAKIROV MUMIN SHAKIROVIC OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF A FOREIGN AGENT SHAKIROV MUMIN SHAKIROVIC. 18+

Abroad is a concept both physical, administrative, and philosophical, metaphorical. There is a concept of internal emigration. The heroes of the podcast are people who changed their daily lives due to their political, religious or moral principles. They, too, are building the history of the 21st century.

Collage: Vladimir Putin and the burning oil depot in Sharan The war in the Middle East and the Russian budget Amid fears of a protracted war in the Middle East, world oil prices exceeded $100 for the first time since 2022. Fuel prices jumped 30% in a week. And this is not the limit, according to Bloomberg analysts. On March 8, Israel attacked oil storage facilities in Tehran.

The price of Brent oil at the opening of trading in Asia on March 9 rose sharply and immediately reached $119.5 per barrel, the highest since June 2022. According to trading data on the London ICE exchange, the cost of May Brent futures rose by almost 29%. Later growth slowed down. In the morning, Moscow time, the price was $116 per barrel, and after reports of possible measures to stabilize the market, it dropped to about $107.

How many war crimes have Russian soldiers committed in Ukraine? Will genocide charges be brought against Russia? Will war criminals end up in the dock? An expert on international humanitarian law answers Svoboda's questions. Repeat of the program from December 4, 2022.

Present Tense Text Latvian radio amateur Rolands Strautmalis has been interested in diexing for about 30 years, a hobby that involves “catching” distant radio stations. Over the years, he has managed to pick up signals from more than 70 countries in the FM band alone. His farthest “radio catch” is Saudi Arabia. Strautmalis recently discovered that Latvian residents living near the border with Belarus can listen to the propaganda Radio Belarus, which broadcasts in Latvian, on frequency 107.7.

Arrest of Ruslan Tsalikov. Censorship of films, music and books