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5 days ago · The administration increased the number of orphanages. The hard life in post-war orphanages is a fairly popular topic of the so-called "perestroika films" (films from the time of Gorbachev's perestroika with their schizophrenic fixation on negative propaganda).
4 days ago · Russia has consistently been criticized by international organizations and independent domestic media outlets for human rights violations. Some of the most commonly cited violations include deaths in custody, the systemic and widespread use of torture by security forces and prison guards, the existence of hazing rituals within the Russian Army —referred to as dedovshchina ("reign of ...
3 days ago · It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/sq mi). [10] As of 2020, the overall life expectancy in Russia at birth was 71.54 years (66.49 years for males and 76.43 years for females). [1]
2 days ago · Kashin was beaten with a rebar in the courtyard of his house, and his jaw, shin and fingers were broken after he called the then-governor of the Pskov region, Andrei Turchak, “shitty” in one of his comments. Turchak, the son of Putin’s old acquaintance Anatoly Turchak, demanded an apology from the journalist and gave him 24 hours to do so.
4 days ago · The idea for the opera, an adaptation of a play by Lev Mey, was suggested to Rimsky-Korsakov by Balakirev and Mussorgsky, “who were better read in Russian literature”. 1 The censors objected to republican elements (democratic terms used by the people of Pskov, once the capital of the Pskov Republic, until Moscow annexed it in 1510) and to ...
3 days ago · He can just order the admins to change the numbers to whatever he wants. Vladimir Putin’s regime actively uses this approach today to create an illusion of complete support. People in Russia are even openly incentivised to vote online, through a reward system.
5 days ago · The United Kingdom has summoned the Russian ambassador and announced a swathe of new measures against Moscow, including the targeting of Russian-owned buildings that the British government said ...
