Roskomnadzor today held a closed meeting with the country’s largest IT companies and proposed a solution to the problem that it itself created: a single “GosVPN” for developers. Since April, the department’s fight against block bypass technologies has systematically cut off access to GitHub, PyPI and other foreign platforms, without which modern development does not work.

Roskomnadzor plans to create a single State VPN for the needs of Russian developers who have lost access to foreign development services, The Bell has learned. The idea was presented at a closed meeting with the participation of the largest Russian IT companies, which complained of increasing failures when accessing GitHub, PyPI and other foreign repositories due to the authorities’ struggle with VPN. What's happened?

Circulations of books and brochures in the first quarter of 2026 fell by 26% to 57.3 million copies compared to 77.5 million a year earlier, the Book Industry publication reports . The number of titles released decreased by 11%, the average circulation by 17%. Data from the Russian Book Chamber and the Association of Book Distributors were presented at a conference as part of the Red Square festival. This is the biggest drop in circulation in at least six years.

Following a meeting with Zelensky at Downing Street, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron in a joint statement demanded that Putin agree to an immediate and complete ceasefire.

According to the Financial Times, Russian special services turned off the special video camera system that ensures the safety of Vladimir Putin and his entourage for additional checks after the liquidation of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by Israeli special services. Israel exploited a hole in Tehran's security camera system to gain full access and plan a strike on Khamenei's residence on February 28 this year.

According to the updated results, businessman Gagik Tsarukyan’s “Prosperous Armenia” does not get into parliament, which fell short of the four percent threshold of literally thousandths of a percent. Thus, only three political forces will be represented in parliament: Nikol Pashinyan’s “Civil Contract” - 727,160 votes, 49.825%, Samvel Karapetyan’s “Strong Armenia” - 340,880 votes, or 23.281%, and Gagik Tsarukyan’s “Armenia” - 145,113 votes, or 9.934%. Why is this important?

The pro-Western Civil Contract party of current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not receive 50% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Armenia. But this is still a victory and a mandate to form a government Press service of the President of the Russian Federation