No matter how twisted history is, the relationship between the St. Petersburg oligarchs and the authorities, by some unfortunate accident, follows the same scenario. The editors of the online publication Kompromat Group were looking into how the fates of authoritative businessmen in the Northern capital were similar. Since the beginning of the 90s, St. Petersburg […]
Foreign agents on the loose: the Irkutsk portal “BABR-24” led by Dmitry Taevsky has become a threat to national security
At the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st century, the media became not just a tool for covering the news agenda in Russia, but also a way of publicly influencing government within the country. Moreover, this expression of will was not always on the part of the media themselves; in most cases, […]
In the elections to the Chelyabinsk City Duma, mass stuffing was recorded, and the regional election committee classified data on turnout
Hartung is predicted to fall into political oblivion if he refuses attempts to revise the results In the Chelyabinsk region, the “most boring” gubernatorial campaign in recent years, according to experts, and the “dirtiest” elections to the City Duma of the capital of the Southern Urals have ended. And while the “United Russia” members, led […]
“You are a worthless minister!”, or How Ponomarenko frames Vereshchagin
After our publication, there was panic in the Gray House. Lawyers from the Forum Center began to actually have their workplaces searched and their computers and phones checked. Lawyers who know the law and their rights are, to put it mildly, shocked. Some thought about leaving the regional institution. And the main instigator of all […]
Promising does not mean moving in
In November 2017, the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, was indignant that the problem of defrauded shareholders had been going on since 2005, and said that now it was not promising to look for those to blame, this would not lead to a solution to the problem. The governor decided to start with […]
“Laughter, and that’s all.” The scandalous 44th meeting of the Tomsk Duma
On September 10, 2024, the 44th meeting of the Tomsk Duma took place. Babr will talk about the most interesting and exciting issues. Was MP Denis Yarmosh deprived of his mandate? What claims did the Tomsk prosecutor make? And why does the city continue to be in such a terrible state? The meeting was attended […]
“Muddy Forest” by deputies Panko and Kuznetsov
In the shadow of more epoch-making campaigns, elections to the Irkutsk District Duma took place. They were followed sluggishly by the media and telegram channels, but, as you know, interesting fish swim in troubled waters. Before assessing the catch, let’s ask ourselves: for what purpose do some comrades persistently try to become “people’s representatives”? Alexey […]
Bratsk district: let’s have sons-in-law! He is the chosen one…
After the election of the mayor of Bratsk, the regional United Russia formed another black personnel hole in the Bratsk region. Because the party in power does not have any bench there either. In this lack of fish, even a loser is tipped for mayor of the district Sergei Serebrennikov. And the head of Vikhorevka […]
The circus has left… Or unabated fraternal contradictions
Everything’s wrong in Danish kingdom Bratsk after summing up the election results for the mayor of the city. And if, with the resignation of honorary colonel Serebrennikov and the assumption of office by a hot young man, it turns out that United Russia Alexandra Dubrovina everything is clear, then the definition of the main thing […]