A fourth Stalin, cracks in Lake Baikal, and 30 pages of edits to Medinsky: NeMoskva news for the night of January 28
🔹 A car with people inside went under the ice Baikal, the governor said Irkutsk region Igor Kobzev."Rescuers are looking for two people," the head of the region writes. "Year after year, we warn, we caution, we report tragedies. And every time, there are people convinced of their own invulnerability <…>. Usually, after such failures, it's too late to help." Yesterday it became known that Lake Baikal has split – there are ice breaks in the area of villages Listvyanka и BuguldeikaIn some places, open water and numerous cracks are visible.
🔹 Monument To Ivan Bardin and Joseph Stalin is planned to be installed in Cherepovets, the governor saidGeorgy Filimonov, Head of Vologda OblastHe explained that Bardin built a metallurgical plant in the city, and Stalin signed the decree "On the Organization of a Metallurgical Base in the Northwest of the USSR." This will be the fourth monument to Stalin in the Vologda Oblast in just over a year.
🔹 Teachers have submitted a record number of complaints and detailed comments on the new history textbooks prepared under the guidance of the presidential aide. Vladimir MedinskyAs the academician stated Alexander ChubaryanPreviously, teachers limited themselves to short comments, but now the reviews have become detailed and voluminous. “Suffice it to say that one teacher sent 25-30 pages of comments on each general history textbook for grades 5-9,” "Chubaryan shared. The teachers not only pointed out factual errors but also suggested revising the teaching methods and the logic of historical events.
🔹 The Ministry of Economic Development has proposed making the "parallel import" regime permanent, the head of the department stated. Maksim ReshetnikovThat is, importing foreign goods without the consent of manufacturers and copyright holders, which is what Russia has been doing since March 2022. At that time, a law was also passed giving the government the right to determine a list of products for which "the international principle of exhaustion of trademark rights is effectively established when sold by the owner anywhere in the world."
🔹 To the comedian Artemy Ostanina They requested a five-year, eleven-month prison sentence and a 300,000-ruble fine. He is charged with "inciting hatred" and "insulting religious feelings." The case centers on two monologues: one about a disabled man on the subway, and the other about Jesus.
🔹 In 2025, the number of SVO participants and their children admitted to the budget was twice as high as the previous year, Important Stories found. This represents 6,5% of all first-year students admitted to the budget. The highest share of those admitted under the quota for SVO participants and their children was in Transbaikal Territory — every tenth first-year student. The smallest number of those admitted under this quota is in Bryansk area, Karachay-Cherkessia, Novgorod и Kemerovo fieldsIt's also known that those admitted through the SVO quota have lower scores than those admitted through the general competition. On average, the gap is five points per Unified State Exam.
