The State Duma will maintain the lower threshold of conscription age for the army at 18 years old, and raise the upper one to 30 This amendment was made by the head of the Duma Defense Committee, General Andrei Kartapolov. More recently he made other promises.

Why Strelkov could have been detained "Layout" has collected the latest quotes Igor Girkin became the first known “ultra-patriot” since the beginning of the war to face criminal charges. In order not to miss new texts from “Layout”, subscribe to our telegram channel Former “Minister of Defense” of the DPR Igor Girkin (Strelkov) was detained on the morning of July 21 on suspicion of extremism (Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The investigation was in a hurry to arrest Strelkov FSB officers did not have time to collect any of Strelkov’s documents except his passport FSB investigators investigating the case of calls for extremism against Igor Girkin (Strelkov) were in the greatest possible hurry to petition the court for his arrest. As follows from the audio recording of the court hearing, available to Vorstka, FSB officers did not have time to collect any of Strelkov’s documents except his passport.

“An attempt to silence the patriotic opposition when the country is heading towards a military catastrophe” Strelkov’s comrade-in-arms, ex-State Duma deputy Viktor Alksnis about his detention and the future of “angry patriots” Former State Duma deputy Viktor Alksnis, together with Igor Girkin (Strelkov) a member of the “Club of Angry Patriots” of the KRP, in a conversation with “Vestka” called it expected that a case would be opened against Strelkov.

"There will be a disaster" There will be enough HIV medicines in Russia for only a third of patients in 2023 Only 30% of all Russians with HIV who need treatment will receive medications in 2023 - unless the government allocates additional money. Russian HIV activists say that serious disruptions in the supply of life-saving ARV drugs have already begun.

“If the state got into women’s beds, it’s unlikely to stop” Why the Russian Orthodox Church manages to achieve restrictions on abortion in Russia The Ministry of Health is losing ground in the confrontation with the Russian Orthodox Church on the issue of abortion, sources of VERSTKA claim. Restrictions on medical abortion will soon follow, but the church would like to see more serious restrictions.