Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and former President Petro Poroshenko are removed from Russia's wanted list. They've been there since February 2024, Mediazona confirmed, with warrants were issued by the police in the occupied part of the Donetsk region

Rapper Oxxxymiron is put on the wanted list in Russia, with a pending criminal case (charges unknown). Oxxxymiron (Miron Fedorov) left the country after the start of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine, actively protested against it, was declared a 'foreign agent' in October 2022

A Moscow tax office today demanded a debt from Alexei Navalny, but the judge refused to consider the claim straight away.

Navalny’s death in an Arctic penal colony on February 16 caused his family and supporters immense grief, but the bureaucratic machine grinds on, senselessly

Russia has declared U.S.-based Freedom House “undesirable,” accusing it of discrediting the Russian military and supporting opposition.

The Prosecutor General’s Office also claims that Freedom House helps “pro-Western and LGBT activists, individuals convicted of terrorism”

Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has just been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the “Commentary” category for his articles in the Washington Post written from the penal colony

In the 1970s, report by the Russian IMEMO research group states, Soviet military leaders started leaning towards the idea that nuclear weapons wouldn’t be useful against NATO —the war with tactical nukes would be “uncontrollable” and without “significant military effect”

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As researcher Pavel Pavel Podvig Podvig told Mediazona, Russia periodically conducts similar drills but not on this scale. Previously, drills in 1970 and 1975 involved Soviet Navy practicing tactical nuclear strikes on NATO aircraft carriers

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Today, Russia announced massive drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, first since the Soviet era. Ordered by Putin, they will involve Southern Military District, aviation, and Navy practicing use of “non-strategic”—meaning, tactical—nuclear weapons

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