The editor of the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Liberty, Alsa Kurmasheva, was arrested in Kazan. This is the first criminal case in Russia for violating the law, according to which any person who collects unclassified information on military topics is obliged to declare himself a “foreign agent,” reports the BBC. To the journalist...

Soviet and Russian composer, People's Artist of Russia Gennady Gladkov died at the age of 88. He is the author of the music for the cartoons “The Town Musicians of Bremen” and “Well, Just Wait!”, reports Meduza. His assistant and manager Malik Aminov said that the decision on the date and time of farewell...

A 5-part documentary series “Mothers of War” produced by the Polish public broadcaster TVP has been released on Netflix. At the end of the tape it is said that the poet and military man Pavel Vyshebaba died on June 8 near Severodonetsk. Why the creators lied and how Vyshebaba himself reacted to this, the publication told...

On October 11, an accident occurred in the Moscow metro. Two trains collided at the Pechatniki station, Focus reports. According to journalists, the driver was trapped in the damaged cabin. About 20 ambulances were sent to the scene of the emergency. There are no trains running from the station on the metro line...

The Russian Federation has sharply limited the possibility of Ukrainian citizens from third countries entering the country: now they will be able to cross the Russian border only through Sheremetyevo airport and the Ludonka automobile checkpoint from Latvia to the Pskov region, reports the BBC. The government said that this is temporary...

Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, experienced three technical breakdowns in one day, resulting in the cancellation of several flights. Moscow Times writes about this. On October 2, one of the Boeing 777 aircraft was unable to take off from Phuket to Moscow due to damage to the landing gear,…

Russia plans to create a permanent naval base on the coast of Abkhazia (Georgian territory annexed by Russia). This information was provided by the so-called leader of Abkhazia. Georgia called such plans a “gross violation of its sovereignty.” The BBC writes about this. “President” of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania said: “We signed an agreement...

A native English speaker who came to Kazakhstan to teach told Orda how he was deceived by his employer. He was not paid his salary and his documents were not renewed. The problem of deceived foreigners who flew to Kazakhstan to work and were left without a livelihood is quite common. From time to time...

In October 1993, an armed confrontation broke out in Moscow between the executive and legislative branches. The details of these events, which were called the “storming of the White House,” the “October Rebellion” or “Black October,” are now little known and almost forgotten, the BBC reports. Each side had...

The Armenian Parliament has ratified the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Among other things, it involves the arrest of suspects on warrants issued by this court. One of these suspects is Russian President Vladimir Putin, the BBC reports. 58 deputies from...