Schoolboy Arseniy Turbin, political prisoner At the end of February 2026, a new criminal case was opened against 17-year-old Arseny Turbin, who had been in prison for almost two years. He is accused of allegedly taking part in a riot in Perm correctional colony No. 2, where until recently he was serving his sentence.

Bryansk, March 10, 2026 On March 10, at about 17:00, the Bryansk military plant "Silicon El" came under a missile attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The head of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, said that six people were killed, 42 were injured, and 29 were hospitalized. Nine patients, whose condition is assessed as serious and extremely serious, are being transported to specialized federal medical centers.

Maria Bonzler in court Kaliningrad lawyer 65-year-old Maria Bontzler faces up to 20 years in prison. In the final indictment, the investigation tightened the article, replacing “confidential cooperation with a foreign state” (275.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) with treason (275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Bonzler is one of the few lawyers in the Kaliningrad region who was not afraid to take on clearly political cases.

Polina Yevtushenko with her daughter Alisa in court, August 2024 There were no victims, there was no treason, Polina Yevtushenko herself deleted the posts on social networks for which she is being tried even before a criminal case was opened against her.

Fragment of an insert icon: Great Martyr Rusticus of Paris and Senior Lieutenant Ruslan Sheika In mid-February, the governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, advertised new icons in his Telegram channel - depicting SVO participants. And not collective images, but specific paratroopers of the 76th Airborne Division who died in Ukraine in 2023.

Illustrative photo At the end of 2025, Putin, during the traditional Direct Line , said that Russians had donated 62.8 billion rubles to the war. According to him, the money “was completely voluntarily donated by entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens.” Meanwhile, “ordinary citizens” in Russia have been complaining since the very beginning of the war that they are forced to donate money to the so-called “SVO”. State employees are the most vulnerable in this sense.

Screenshot from a video of SBU strikes on Russian strategic aviation aircraft at the Belaya airfield in the Irkutsk region, bordering Mongolia. June 1, 2025 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.

Convicted artists Alexander Dotsenko and Anastasia Dyudyaeva. Drawing: agyi kkoch On Thursday, February 26, in the village of Taitsy, Leningrad Region, they said goodbye to the artist Alexander Dotsenko. He was 65 years old. On February 12, he was taken from the colony to the hospital with a massive heart attack, and on February 19, he died.

Fire at the Dorogobuzh plant, Smolensk region Early in the morning of February 25, drones (UAVs) attacked the Smolensk region. As a result of the strikes on the Dorogobuzh PJSC enterprise, which produces ammonia and saltpeter, seven plant employees were killed. Residents of the city of Dorogobuzh and surrounding villages in the first hours after the attack bought up bottled water and essential products. The regional governor, Vasily Anokhin, promised to evacuate residents.

Belgorod. People near cars burned as a result of shelling, September 2024 When Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, the Belgorod region (population: almost one and a half million) was considered the rear. Four years later, people are being evacuated, conscripts are dying, hundreds of homes and many critical infrastructures are damaged, and the region's economy is in crisis. The war changed everything here.

Destroyed Russian armored vehicles in Ukraine According to Mediazona , as of January 29, 2026, the deaths of 177,433 Russian military personnel were confirmed. But the real death toll is obviously much higher. From the first months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, chats began to appear on networks in search of missing Russian servicemen.

Strasbourg, European Court of Human Rights. A petition has appeared on the website of the European Parliament with a proposal to pay compensation to Russians according to the decisions of the ECHR at the expense of frozen Russian assets. In March 2022, due to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the Russian Federation was expelled from the Council of Europe, and on September 16 of the same year, Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Nevsky family On February 18, 1892, Nikolai Nevsky was born, the scientist who was the first to decipher the writing of the Tanguts, whose state existed on the border of China and Mongolia and disappeared about 800 years ago. His discovery returned the voice of civilization destroyed by the troops of Genghis Khan, but Nevsky himself did not live to see recognition: in 1937 he was shot in Leningrad. End of 1937. An overcrowded cell in the Leningrad DPZ of the NKVD.

The building of the military commandant's office in military unit No. 71717, Sertolovo, Leningrad region On the afternoon of February 17, the building of the military commandant’s office in a military unit in the city of Sertolovo, Leningrad Region, collapsed, killing three people. Information about other victims is being clarified. According to preliminary data, another person was injured. Eyewitnesses say there was an explosion. There is no official information about its reasons yet.

Smoke in Krasnoyarsk, August 2021 In January 2026, the Ministry of Natural Resources abandoned plans announced in the fall of 25 : to expand the Clean Air program throughout the country, which they have been trying to implement in a number of regions since 2019.