Residents of the village of Kozikha, Novosibirsk region In the Novosibirsk region, farmers are protesting against the mass slaughter of livestock. The authorities explain this by dangerous diseases and the threat of an epidemic. Farmers say they are not even shown documents justifying the destruction of their animals. In some villages, people organized resistance - they did not let the equipment and veterinary services come to pick up the animals. Security forces were involved in the raids.

For more than a week now, Moscow residents have been complaining about large-scale interruptions in mobile communications and the Internet. Residents of the Southern Administrative District were the first to report outages, then the Central. Now information about problems with the Internet is coming from all 12 districts, in some of them the authorities are blocking home networks and mobile communications.

In Yakutia, another serial killer is going to war instead of prison. In January 2026, a 40-year-old resident of the village of Nizhny Bestyakh, Vladimir Noev, stabbed to death his ex-wife and her friend. After his arrest, he agreed to sign a contract and in this case he would be able to avoid trial for double murder. Relatives of the victims and residents of the village are calling on the authorities not to allow the killer to escape trial.

Novosibirsk students who refused to sign contracts were forced to watch the film "Traitor" The recruitment of Russian students for contract military service has reached a new level of scale and coercion. Human rights activists are already calling this a second mobilization - this time among college and university students. It all started with persistent agitation, when students were literally locked in the room while watching patriotic films.

In the small Amur village of Borispol (according to the census 210, actually 150 people) there are only three streets - Sadovaya, Trudovaya and Vysokaya. The Babich cousins ​​grew up here - both were called Vladimir. In 2022, both found themselves in the war against Ukraine - one was recruited from the colony, the second was mobilized. In 2023, both died. Their younger brother, professional military man Timofey Babich, died even earlier - in April 2022.

Lyuba Lizunova In July 2026, Lyubov Lizunova will turn 20 years old. This will be the fourth birthday she will celebrate in prison. Now Lyuba is in IK-7 Ulan-Ude, and last spring, while her peers were choosing dresses for prom, she was in the Chita pre-trial detention center finishing notes for the 11th grade and reading Aristotle - a collection of treatises of one thousand four hundred pages. Lizunova has already received 3.5 years in prison, but now she could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, view At the end of December 2025, the government of the Sakhalin region reduced funding for the region’s gasification program by 14.8 billion rubles. Natural gas for domestic needs is not available to a significant portion of the region's residents. At the same time, tens of billions of cubic meters of gas are produced annually on Sakhalin, including for export.

Viktor Savvinov, serial killer and Russian military officer during investigative actions In February 2026, a suspect in the fourth murder was detained in Yakutsk. After the first, Viktor Savvinov was released because he signed a contract and agreed to go to war against Ukraine. Which actually allowed him to commit two more murders in Yakutia in 2024. After which he was again released from punishment in exchange for a new contract and Savvinov committed another murder.

Illustrative photo 20 conscript soldiers from Yakutia, serving in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, were forced to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense - some by threats and coercion, others by deception. Their relatives drew up a collective appeal demanding the termination of the contracts and went to court.

Reindeer herders of Yamal, archival photo Retired Yamal reindeer herders complain that the authorities have made them "homesteaders" for relatives. Thus, 61-year-old Ivan Nogo (the names of all the characters have been changed for their safety) now lives in the tent with his youngest son. He admits that at his age it is no longer easy to lead a nomadic lifestyle, but he has less and less hope for the comfortable housing long promised by the authorities.

The share of food expenses in the budget of the average Russian resident has reached its maximum over the past 16 years and amounted to 39%, according to Rosstat data at the beginning of 2026. In January, compared to December, prices for food products increased by 1.95%, inflation of non-food products amounted to 0.61%, and inflation of services - by 2.33%. In February, prices for basic products increased by at least a quarter.

Evgeniy Ubiraev On January 28, 2026, the 2nd Western District Military Court found 30-year-old Evgeniy Ubiraev from the city of Pyt-Yakh in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug guilty of participation in a terrorist community and sentenced him to 15 years in prison (5 years in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony). The basis was three photographs - two parking lots and an air defense complex, taken by Evgeniy back in 2023.

Navalny during his presidential tour Two years ago, on February 16, 2024, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny , who was serving a 19-year prison sentence, died in a maximum security colony in the village of Kharp.

Bodaibo, Irkutsk region At the end of January, in the midst of winter, in the city of Bodaibo (Irkutsk region, population about 12 thousand people), which literally stands on gold and should prosper from its mining, thousands of people were left without heat.

Industrial College in Anapa On Wednesday, February 11, in Anapa, 17-year-old student Ilya O. started shooting at the Industrial College, where anti-terrorism exercises were held just a few months ago. 55-year-old security guard Nikolai Zamaraev died. This is at least the sixth time in the last 20 days that Russian students have staged armed attacks in educational buildings. At least 15 people were injured, one died.