The Russian State Duma plans to return to the FSB the right to create its own pre-trial detention centers. ▫️ The detention centers will be used to hold people accused of treason, espionage, terrorism, and extremism. These are the charges that are being brought against Ukrainian prisoners of war and abducted civilians. At the request…
russian ministry of education has announced the launch of the nationwide “patriotic” project “We Won Then, We Will Win Now!”. Events will take place from 24 February to 9 May. As part of the project, over 500 propaganda events will be held nationwide in universities. These will include meetings with participants in the war against…
The russian government is planning to grant war participants the opportunity to use the out-of-court bankruptcy procedure. This simplified debt relief mechanism was introduced in September 2020 for socially vulnerable groups amid the COVID-19 economic crisis. However, it has gained the most demand during the war. Debts of up to 1 million roubles (approximately 11,000…
In the russian federation, over three years, the demand for digital skills in vacancies has decreased by one and a half times. If in 2022, there were 2.6 million vacancies with the requirement of mandatory computer proficiency, then by the end of 2024, there will be 1.7 million such vacancies. Due to the labour shortage…
The Russian government has allowed power-generating companies to forgo modernizing their plants due to a lack of funds. As a result, more than a dozen Russian power plants will go without new turbines, boilers, and transformers. In addition, Western sanctions have cut Russia off from European equipment, and domestic production is unable to provide a…
The Central Election Commission of Russia has released data showing that the number of voters in the occupied territories has decreased by 800,000 over the past year. According to their claims, as of January 1, the number of voters in the regions captured by Russia stood at approximately 3.7 million, whereas in February last year,…
In 2023, Russia launched a “golden visa” program to attract wealthy foreign investors. However, over two years, only 40 people have applied for the right to reside in Russia in exchange for investment. Moreover, the number of applicants has been declining each year: in 2023, there were 24 applicants, in 2024—14, and in the first…
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin continues his “resolute fight” against the environmental disaster in the Black Sea following the fuel oil tanker crash in the Kerch Strait. Two months after the incident, he finally announced that the sunken tankers should be raised from the seabed. ▫️ Russian propaganda is portraying this statement as if Putin had…
Russian government agencies are more often announcing plans to buy electricity from China to cover the deficit in the Far East. Russian propagandists are trying to present the problem of electricity shortages as part of a global trend, saying that demand is growing all over the world. But this is an obvious distortion of reality….
Russia has released a test version of a real-time strategy computer game based on the war against Ukraine, Squad 22: ZOV. The game’s plot is based on real military campaigns, and many of the game’s characters have prototypes, such as Vladislav Golovin, a Russian serviceman and participant in the battle for Mariupol. ▫️ The game…
The war is pushing the Russian economy into an increasingly difficult situation, and even the official authorities are recognizing this. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has set a forecast of 1-2% economic growth for 2025, compared to 4% last year. At the same time, propaganda presents this news as an “improvement of the…
The Russian governor of the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, Yevhen Balytsky, said that participants in the war against Ukraine will be able to get land plots in the region for free. With such statements, the occupiers are trying to recruit more people to serve in the army of the aggressor state. However, the real…
