About 5,500 years ago, several dozen hunter-gatherers died near Lake Baikal. DNA from the bacterium that causes plague survived in their teeth. Science journalist Ilya Kabanov, who runs the Telegram channel Laiflong Muki, explains how a study of ancient burial grounds became something of a…
Igor Vasilyev, director general of Patriot Park, has been detained on suspicion of accepting a bribe classified as especially large under Russian law, law enforcement sources told TASS.
The number of Russian citizens holding valid residence permits in EU countries rose by nearly 105,000, or 14%, from 772,000 at the end of 2021 to 877,000 at the end of 2025. The Volna project reported the figures, citing Eurostat data.
С конца 2021-го по конец 2025 года число граждан России, имеющих действующие разрешения на проживание в странах Евросоюза, выросло почти на 105 тысяч, или 14% — с 772 до 877 тысяч человек. Об этом пишет проект «Волна» со ссылкой на данные Евростата.
Businessman Oleg Varyukhin, who traveled to Russia after living in Ukraine for 27 years, has been charged with treason for paying Ukraine’s mandatory military levy into its state budget, Mediazona reported.
St. Petersburg’s Nevsky District Court has sentenced animator Oleg Kuvayev, creator of the animated series “Masyanya,” in absentia to four years and one month in a penal colony, Mediazona reported.
Fighting fraud has been a major focus of Russian lawmaking in recent years. The country has already adopted two sweeping packages of anti-fraud measures, and the authorities often use the fight against fraud as a pretext to push through repressive measures. This was their justification, for…
Vladimir Putin has signed an order allowing the Italian financial group UniCredit to restructure its Russian subsidiary, UniCredit Bank, and sell all of the subsidiary’s shares. The document was published on Russia’s legal information portal.
At a meeting with teachers on October 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin misquoted a four-line poem by Fyodor Tyutchev, while stressing that every Russian knows the lines.
On October 1, 2026, the inpatient unit at the district hospital in Shelekhov, in Russia’s Irkutsk region, closed because of a suspected “especially dangerous infection.” Media outlets later reported that 28-year-old Darya Shipilova had died there of pneumonic plague. According to one account, she…