They took money from the state to open their own business - and received a criminal case. Across Russia, investigators are charging participants in the social contract program with fraud. Among the victims are manicurists, owners of coffee shops and beauty salons.

Head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov (left) and head of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov Well-known Russian economist, Moscow State University professor Natalya Zubarevich, in an interview with the Ufa TV channel UTV , stated that Bashkortostan is demonstrating negative dynamics in all key sectors of the economy. The economist stated that the indicators of the Republic of Belarus indicate systemic stagnation in the region’s economy.

Severstal plant The regional budget deficit in the Russian Federation in 2025 reached an unprecedented 1.5 trillion rubles. According to the Ministry of Finance, in 2026 the hole in the regional treasuries will grow by another 22% - to 1.9 trillion. Moreover, this time the crisis is hitting the most economically developed Russian regions the hardest. The income of donor territories has decreased due to a drop in tax revenues from large industrial and resource corporations.

Show more Collapse On the morning of May 28 in Nizhny Novgorod, the Regional Court building was damaged as a result of a UAV attack. Residents reported explosions, the area is now cordoned off by security forces, and all trials have been postponed. The unmanned threat regime was also introduced in Chuvashia, Mari El and Tatarstan. In total, 62 drones were shot down over Russian regions overnight.

Ratmir Mavliev The Sovetsky District Court of Ufa today again refused to satisfy the complaint of the mayor of Ufa Ratmir Mavliev against the actions of investigators from the Investigative Committee. The mayor complained that on May 16, a sample of his hair and saliva was forcibly taken from him.

Collage While Putin is fighting the “collective West” and waging a war that has already led to hundreds of thousands of victims, his own children are surrounded from an early age by Western educators, who are tasked with training boys to the linguistic level of “educated Europeans” from a very early age. Sistema gained access to documents and correspondence about the hiring of foreign specialists raising the sons of Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva.

From September 1, 2026, Russian citizens who left the country but left behind an apartment, car, dacha or bank deposit risk losing the opportunity to dispose of this property, for example, due to a post on social networks.

Unknown artist. Baker from Eklo. Flanders. XVI century. Not a day goes by without us hearing some news about Elon Musk. Given his status, this is not surprising. Another thing is strange: these news most often talk about his eccentric antics. But what is really in his head?

Putin and Tokayev Putin and Tokayev talk about friendship in Astana: is everything so good between Russia and Kazakhstan? Vladimir Putin believes that relations between Russia and Kazakhstan have “reached the level of strategic partnership.” Astana and Moscow are expanding cooperation in the oil sector. Trade turnover between the countries will soon exceed the $30 billion mark. At the meeting with Tokayev, Putin especially noted that the Russian language is widely used in Kazakhstan.

Illustrative image Less than a year after the ban in Russia of the non-existent “International Satanist Movement”, sentences for participation in its activities are already being actively passed for old posts on social networks, the provision of esoteric services and - in isolated cases - for performing occult rituals in public. The Krasnodar Territory has emerged as a leader: it accounts for a quarter of all protocols drawn up in the country.

Russian opposition politician Vyacheslav Maltsev (right) takes part in a rally of the Russian opposition on May 6, 2017 The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia has completed an investigation into a criminal case involving the preparation of an explosion on a railway in the Orenburg region. This was reported by the Kommersant-Volga publication with reference to the RF Investigative Committee.

Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church Hilarion (Alfeev) The former head of the department for external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), detained in the Czech Republic three days ago, was released from custody on May 27. The cleric reported this to the Russian state news agency TASS, adding that he left the Czech Republic after he was detained and released without charges. “I have left the Czech Republic for now.

We discuss relations between Russia and Kazakhstan, as well as symptoms of Astana’s distance from Moscow, with political scientists Natalia Shavshukova and Dimash Alzhanov.

A resident of Prokopyevsk, in the Kemerovo region, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the case of running the Russian Volunteer Corps telegram channel. This was reported on Thursday by Mediazona with reference to information from the Kuzbass without Extremism project, which is associated with local law enforcement agencies. The verdict was handed down by the 2nd Eastern District Military Court. The decision was made on May 25.

Those who left the country risk losing the opportunity to dispose of property in Russia The State Duma adopted a law allowing the seizure of property of Russians abroad if they have committed administrative offenses against the interests of Russia. 384 deputies voted for the law; there were no votes against or abstentions.