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Russian jeweler Aleksandr Doțenko, sentenced for distributing anti-war messages in stores in Saint Petersburg, died after suffering a heart attack in a penal colony. The information was confirmed for RBC by his lawyer, Serghei Podolski. According to his defense, on February 12, Doțenko, 65, was hospitalized with a heart attack at the Mariinsky Hospital. The colony representatives did not inform either the lawyer or the relatives. The family and the defender found out about the incident only two days later, from an anonymous person. Later, the doctors informed his daughter about his death. Before his detention, Doțenko worked as a…
The Arbitration Tribunal of the Krasnodar Territory has made a decision considered unprecedented and has suspended the examination of the case regarding the nationalization of “Novoroscement” — the largest cement producer in Russia, which owns two factories in Novorossiisk. According to RBC, the request for withdrawal of the action was filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office itself, the institution that had previously initiated the confiscation of the factories in favor of the state. The owner of “Novoroscement”, Lev Kvetnoi (estimated wealth of 1.3 billion dollars, according to Forbes), became the second Russian billionaire who managed to reject a nationalization process.…
President Vladimir Putin stated that employers need to play “a crucial role in the demographic agenda” and encourage their staff to “build large families”. The statement was made during a meeting of the Supervisory Council of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). In this context, Putin reminded that the number of children under six years old of the employees will be included in the new “Standard of the social capital of businesses”, recently approved by the government. According to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, the document is intended to assess the “real impact of companies on social welfare”. The…
The Central Court of Soci has admitted the anti-corruption action brought forward by the deputy prosecutor general of the Russian Federation against the former and current deputy of the State Duma, Anatoli Voronovski, deputy Andrei Doroshenko, and the deputy of the Legislative Assembly from the Krasnodar Territory, Aleksandr Karpenko. The case involves 30 individuals, and 19 organizations have been involved as third parties. According to the investigation, since 2016, Voronovski, initially in the position of Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure of the Krasnodar Territory, and later as a deputy in the State Duma, allegedly requested illegal commissions and bribes.…
Out of the approximately 170,000 channels existing in the national messaging app Max, about 70% — that is, 118,200 — were created by state structures, according to the publication “Agenstvo”. The majority, 116,600 pages, use the suffix _gos in their names, assigned to public institutions through the “Platform for Partners”, according to the instructions of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development. At least another 1,000 state-owned blogs do not use this suffix. Through the same platform, initially intended for the business environment, 22,200 channels with the suffix _biz were registered. Of these, over 500 also belong to state structures. Approximately…
What pro-war bloggers in Russia were desperately warning about is starting to happen. After almost simultaneously losing access to modern means of communication, Russian troops faced serious difficulties, went on the defensive in certain sectors of the front, and limited offensive operations with drones. At the same time, Ukrainian units are causing them greater losses, European officials and military personnel told Bloomberg. High-ranking European diplomats have described the communication problems of the Russian army as significant. According to a NATO representative, some of Ukraine’s recent successes on the battlefield were possible because Russian soldiers were left without access to Starlink.…
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has extended for one year the sanctions imposed on Russia in connection with the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas, and the large-scale invasion in Ukraine. The notification was published in the Federal Register of the USA, the official collection of government documents, reports the Russian agency TASS. According to the document, the restrictive measures will remain in force even after March 6, 2026. The extension targets the sanctions introduced by the administration of Joe Biden in February 2022, by the Trump administration in September 2018, as well as by the…
President Vladimir Putin would create “informational conditions” for the resumption of partial forced mobilization of reservists, in order to replenish the losses of the Russian army in Ukraine, experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) claim. According to them, the preparation of a new “partial mobilization” would be indicated by the laws adopted at the end of last year, which allow the Russian Ministry of Defense to use a mobilizable reserve of approximately two million people. At the same time, the flow of contract soldiers would no longer cover the losses on the front. Western intelligence services…
Chris Wright, the United States Secretary for Energy, reiterated on Thursday, February 19, the threat that his country will abandon the International Energy Agency (IEA) if it does not change its position which, he believes, is favorable to clean energies. “If the IEA is not able to return to its initial mission, we will become former members of the IEA, but we will work to prevent this from happening”, Wright stated, in a press conference organized on the occasion of the ministerial meeting of this institution based in Paris, according to EFE, quoted by Agerpres. Chris Wright avoided commenting on…
American President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States will contribute 10 billion dollars to the Council for Peace, during the inaugural meeting organized in Washington. The initiative’s immediate objective is to support the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, but the White House leader emphasized that the new body will have a broader mission, related to resolving armed conflicts worldwide. Donald Trump also specified that several allies of the United States have committed to contribute over 7 billion dollars to reconstruction efforts. “I am pleased to announce that Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi…