Show more Collapse On May 9, the military was honored in Almetyevsk (Tatarstan), but statistics are hidden behind the solemn slogans. Tatarstan and Bashkortostan remain leaders in total verified losses in the war against Ukraine throughout Russia. The number of military deaths from the Volga region alone has already exceeded 55 thousand people. In this video we analyze the data from independent monitoring of “Idel.Realii”, “BBC Russian Service” and “Mediazona”.

Archive photo Residents of the North Caucasus suffered from a new flood; the Chechen fighter who beat up his neighbors has still not been punished; in Kabardino-Balkaria they are threatening to be held accountable for participating in a march on the day of remembrance of the victims of the Caucasian War. About this and more - in the new episode of the Caucasus.Realities podcast. Listen to the podcast wherever it is convenient for you: Your support is important to us!

Politician Boris Vishnevsky On May 22, the book of St. Petersburg politician Boris Vishnevsky, “Chronicles of the Revived Arkanar,” was included in the list of “extremist” materials of Rosfinmonitoring. “Chronicles of the Revived Arkanar” is a collection of articles by Vishnevsky about the most significant events in Russian and St. Petersburg politics, published in 2015. In November 2025, the St.

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Starlink terminal at the front The Ukrainian military recaptured about 400 square kilometers of the country's territory from the Russian army in early 2026 after thousands of Starlink portable Internet terminals used by Russian troops were disabled, Bloomberg writes , citing a report by the US Defense Intelligence Agency and the US European Command, prepared on behalf of the US Congress on assistance to Ukraine.

In the Russian-occupied city of Starobelsk, Luhansk region, an alleged Ukrainian drone attack caused serious damage to the buildings of a vocational college, in which dozens of people, most of them teenagers, were allegedly present. According to the latest data, about 40 people were injured and some were killed. This was reported by the Russian-appointed authorities of the so-called “LPR”.

Prime Minister of Hungary Peter Magyar Hungary has again banned the import of agricultural products from Ukraine and withdrawn its application to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced this on social networks.

Her parents brought her from America to the Soviet Union as a little girl. The girl grew up and learned to be strong. She achieved fame, received all the regalia possible for an artist, and then returned to her homeland. Replay of the broadcast from June 23, 2021.

An administrative protocol was drawn up against a 13-year-old schoolboy for “LGBT propaganda” and “demonstration of extremist symbols” because of a picture that he showed to other children, Mediazona reports , citing a lawyer and the child’s mother. The publication does not disclose the name of the student or the city in which this happened. The student’s lawyer told reporters that a statement to the police was written by the parents of the children to whom he showed a certain picture.

Trump with Polish President Nawrocki The United States will send 5 thousand troops to Poland. US President Donald Trump announced this. He wrote on the social network Truth that the decision was made due to the victory in the elections of Polish President Karol Nawrocki, who was supported by Trump, and good relations with him. The Polish presidential elections took place about a year ago. Nawrocki was supported by the right-wing conservative Law and Justice party, which is now in opposition.

Tulsi Gabbard at Congressional Hearings US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has resigned. Fox News reported this on Friday. Gabbard herself later confirmed this information by publishing a resignation letter on the social network X. “It has been an enormous honor to serve the American people as Director of National Intelligence,” Gabbard wrote.

Director Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrei Zvyagintsev's film "Minotaur" was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. This is a story about adultery (a kind of author’s remake of the film “The Unfaithful Wife” by French director Claude Chabrol), which, in Zvyagintsev’s interpretation, turned into an anti-war or at least a pacifist statement, critics write. The Russian city where the film takes place according to the script was built in Latvia.

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.

Vladimir Putin at his presidential inauguration.

Prisoners from the Penza region are tortured, beaten and threatened with rape, forcing them to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense. Their relatives told the editors of Sibir.Realii about this. The prisoners forced into the contract had already been taken to the Rostov region, after which they disappeared from communication. The editors do not name the names of the prisoners for reasons of their safety and at the request of their relatives.