Half of the president's orders lead nowhere Vladimir Putin is trying to demonstrate that he knows the situation in the country in detail. He regularly tells regional heads and ministers on camera exactly what improvements they need to achieve: from reducing the incidence of HIV to building a bridge to Sakhalin.

This is the first real sentence in Russia under the relevant article A court in Moscow sentenced journalist Yuri Dud in absentia to 1 year and 10 months in a general regime colony for evading the duties of a “foreign agent.” The prosecutor's office requested the same period. As Mediazona notes, Dud became the first person to be given real imprisonment under this article - usually the punishment is fines. The maximum term under this article is two years.

Two people were injured in a drone attack in Saratov Oil exports from the port of Novorossiysk were suspended after an attack by Ukrainian UAVs on the Transneft complex on the night of November 14. Crude oil supplies to the port have also been suspended, Reuters reports.

According to the department, they all spread “false information” about the policies of the Russian authorities The Russian Ministry of Justice included in the register of “ foreign agents ” economist Ruben Enikolopov, Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Kostyuchenko and former Kommersant correspondent Kirill Krivosheev.

224 thousand people die annually from the consequences of smoking in Russia The State Duma has prepared a bill completely banning the circulation of vapes in Russia . The document provides for a ban on the sale, production, import and storage of equipment for the production of electronic cigarettes and liquids for them - both nicotine and non-nicotine. The initiative was publicly supported by Vladimir Putin .

Russia is considering the possibility of cutting off communications at the request of the FSB The Ministry of Digital Development (Mindigits) has expanded the “ white list ” of sites that remain accessible during mobile Internet outages “for security reasons.” The list has added resources from federal and regional authorities, Russian Post, Alfa Bank, the Chestny Znak system, the media (Komsomolskaya Pravda, RIA Novosti, RBC, Gazeta.ru, Lenta.ru, Rambler), Russian Railways and Tutu.

For disagreement with the policy of “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine” I had to pay 40 thousand rubles At the end of October, the Traktorozavodsky District Court of Volgograd fined local resident Artur Galitsyn 40 thousand rubles for 10 comments about Vladimir Putin, writes “We Can Explain.” In nine comments, Galitsyn called Putin “rag Vova” or “rag”: “I wonder what rag Vova will say,” “Wow, rag Vova has gone wild,” and so on.