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Ratko Mladić, convicted of genocide in Srebrenica, dies in The Hague
Ratko Mladić, former commander of the Bosnian Serb army and known as the «Butcher of Bosnia», died at 84, Serbian state media reported. He was serving a life sentence in a UN detention facility in The Hague, Netherlands, for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.
#Bosnia #InTheHague #butcherofBosnia #RatkoMladic #MediaHe #SrebrenicaRatkoMladic
The Tikhvin Icon will be brought to the churches of Moscow and the Moscow Region for a month
On August 27, 2026, the Tikhvin Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, which is permanently kept in the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery for Men of the Mother of God, will be brought to Moscow for a month. The reception of the shrine is scheduled for 19:00 at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
#Moscow #Moscowregion27 #HolyMotherofGod #TikhvinDormitionoftheMotherofGod #Tikhvin
In Sochi, the first batch of fully ripened bananas was harvested
In Sochi, the first experimental batch of fully ripened Russian-grown bananas was harvested. About 150 kg of fruit were sent for testing to the laboratory of the Novorossiysk branch of the Federal Center for Assessment of Safety and Quality of Agricultural Products before sales of the harvest begin.
Lukashenko went on a working visit to Russia
The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, went on a working visit to Russia on August 27. The trip includes planned talks with Vladimir Putin and a meeting with Mikhail Mishustin.
#VladimirPutin #Lukashenko #Lukashenko27 #MikhailMishustin #RussiaPresidentofBelarusAlexander #RussiaIn
Guterres asked for $1.1 billion to fight the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo
UN Secretary-General António Guterres asked to mobilize $1.1 billion to fully cover the humanitarian plan to combat the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He warned that the funds available would last only a few weeks.
#AntonioGuterres #Guterres #DemocraticRepublicoftheCongoHe #DRCongoUNSecretaryGeneral #ebola
The report of a 10-year sentence for a resident of Kineshma was not confirmed
On August 26, 2026, one report claimed that a 25-year-old resident of Kineshma in Ivanovo Oblast had been sentenced to 10 years in prison. It was not possible to verify this exact sentence through two independent sources.
MSC suspends acceptance of orders for voyages to Novorossiysk after attack on container ship
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co, the world’s largest container company headquartered in Switzerland, has suspended accepting orders for cargo deliveries to and from Novorossiysk. The decision was made after a drone attack on the container ship MSC ULSAN III, which was heading to the Russian port.
#MSC #MSCMediterraneanShippingCo #MSCULSANIII #Novorossiysk #decision #Switzerland
United Kurultai. How parliamentary elections were held in Kazakhstan
Electoral procedures in autocracies are a special process. Here, what matters is not so much the official results themselves, but whether the system can first organize them without unnecessary noise and then sell them both inside the country and beyond its borders. And it seems that the current administration of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has managed this quite well. A report by «Most» from Astana.
#elections #Kazakhstan #parliament #policy #reportage #CentralAsia
Were you bombed? We’ll take what’s left! The new pact between power and business in Russia
Soon after the AFU strikes on Ozon warehouses, it became known about Vladimir Putin’s decree on protecting infrastructure facilities. Its essence is simple: critical infrastructure facilities whose owners failed to ensure their security under conditions of external threats may be transferred to temporary state administration. The question of why business should perform the state’s duties does not even arise.
#Ozon #Analytics #droneattacks #business #Prigozhinsrebellion #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #state #retail #Russia #securityforces
«Our country is unpredictable». How the fuel crisis is being endured in a town reachable only by road transport
Beloozersk is one of the oldest cities of the Russian North. The small town in Vologda Oblast, which can be walked across in an hour, has more than 50 cultural monuments, and its pearl — Lake Beloye — attracts tourists from all over the European part of Russia. But this summer the residents of Belozerye, which can be reached only by road transport, are having a hard time: because of the fuel crisis, five fill-ups of a passenger car cost locals an average monthly salary. A report from «Most».
#WarinUkraine #lifeinRussia #society #Regions #reportage #fuelcrisis
Crimes and Punishments. Ukraine Is Trying to Cancel the Film «DAU», Shot with Money from a Russian Oligarch in Kharkiv
The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially demand that Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film «DAU» be removed from the Venice Film Festival program. The festival leadership refuses. What is the vulnerability of both sides of the conflict?
#VeniceFilmFestival #WarinUkraine #IlyaKhrzhanovsky #movie #aftertheUSSR #Russia #scandal #Stalinistrepressions #Kharkov
What Happened on the Barricades at the White House in August 1991: The Personal Experience of a «Most» Author
August 19-21, 1991, with each passing year, become an increasingly mythologized distant past. The current authorities generally prefer not to recall them at all, even though many of their representatives would never have reached their current heights without those historic days. A whole generation has already grown up that simply does not remember. And those who do remember are increasingly critical of these events. They say, well, what was achieved? Was it worth it? Believe me – it was.
#1991 #Augustputsch #gkchp #Gorbachev #democracy #Yeltsin #History #personalexperience #society #aftertheUSSR #protests #revolution #Russia
The Kuril Paradox. Why Putin Flew to Iturup
Last week, the Russian leader visited the Kuril Islands for the first time in the 26 years of his rule. This demonstrative trip sharply worsened Russian-Japanese relations. On the other hand, it was supposed to please the Chinese comrades
#Analytics #WarinUkraine #diplomacy #China #KurileIslands #aftertheUSSR #Russia #scandal #Taiwan #Japan
«Sometimes, when you look at the representatives of the European Commission who write the sanctions text, you want to ask: what exactly were you trying to achieve?»
The founder of the «Iskra» association, Gera Ugryumova, has been fighting discrimination against Russians in exile since September 2023. Before that, in order to obtain political asylum in Italy, she spent a year and a half processing documents for residence in the European Union — and for some time lived in shelters without an identity document or a bank account. Now the 24-year-old human rights activist, together with her team, helps compatriots in similar situations, and «Iskra» works only thanks to donations from private individuals. Right now, Gera is pushing European authorities to amend a regulation that prevents thousands of Russians in exile from opening bank accounts in European banks.
#advocacy #bureaucracy #WarinUkraine #HeraUgryumova #discrimination #EuropeanParliament #EuropeanUnion #interview #humanrights #sanctions #Emigration
Saving Private Wildberries. Why the state is in no hurry to help Russia’s largest marketplace
Desperate pleas from Wildberries owners and sellers to the government are provoking a sluggish and chaotic response. And it seems the issue is not just a banal lack of money.
#Wildberries #Analytics #business #WarinUkraine #elections #state #capitalism #acrisis #mobilization #society #Putin #retail #Russia #elites
Why Russia’s collapse seems impossible today
Speaking in Kazan on August 6, 1990, the head of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin, uttered the classic phrase: «Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow». Back then, at the end of Perestroika, the Supreme Soviets of all the union and autonomous republics of the USSR proclaimed their state sovereignty. And some later declared independence as well. But does anyone really think that this experience can be repeated today?
#Analytics #WarinUkraine #2026StateDumaelections #Empire #UnitedRussiaparty #politicalemigration #aftertheUSSR #Regions #Russia #tatarstan
Migration crisis in Ceuta: what was that?
All mass migrations always have completely specific causes: war, mass famine, natural disasters, and the like. Is any of that happening in Morocco right now? Obviously, nothing.
#Analytics #EuropeanUnion #Spain #Morocco #migrants #Ceutamigrantcrisis #provocation
Privatization of the past. How Putin and his entourage earned political capital from Russian history
At the beginning of July, historian Konstantin Pakhalyuk’s book «In Search of »Russian Antiquity«» was included in the longlist for the «Provetitel» prize. With the kind permission of the publisher Chișinău: The Historical Expertise, which republished the book after its de facto ban in Russia, we are publishing the chapter «State Memory Policy in the Conditions of the ‘Conservative Turn’ (2012 — early 2022)», which explains why cynical Russian politicians and bureaucrats needed events from long ago.
#Analytics #VladimirMedinsky #VladimirPutin #power #ideology #Study #Russianhistory #conservativeturn #rent #RussianMilitaryHistoricalSociety #SergeyNaryshkin
Crying entrepreneurs as a symbol of Russian capitalism. What the strikes on Wildberries warehouses showed
After a series of massive strikes on Wildberries warehouses, hundreds of amateur videos with the same content appeared on social media: sellers, in tears, talk about multimillion losses and complain that the state offers them no help, while the marketplace’s payouts are incomparable to the damage suffered. In early July, Wildberries introduced a new version of its offer, recognizing drone attacks as force majeure — and is now no longer obliged to compensate sellers for losses. Economist Nikolai Kulbaka is convinced: all this is not the fault of one specific company, but a systemic pattern of modern Russian capitalism.
#Wildberries #droneextermination #business #WarinUkraine #state #lifeinRussia #capitalism #acrisis
Say thank you too that you’re still alive. In Russia, they are introducing civil execution for political emigrants
During the discussion in the Duma of the new repressive law, Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin stated: «Those who left abroad and harm the country are not the opposition, they are traitors, they are criminals». A little earlier, he branded political emigrants with an even harsher word in the now-familiar style of Russian politics, calling the initiative «a law against degenerates». But apparently he was very nervous, so he accidentally inserted an extra word — «against».
#ViacheslavVolodin #TheStateDuma #lawofscoundrels #foreignagents #Leviathan #humanrights #repressions #Russia #Esopolanguage