The celebration is “inappropriate” amid efforts to preserve national cultural heritage, the Yakutian Education Ministry has said Russia’s largest region of Yakutia has said that Halloween festivities should not take place in schools, with the education ministry arguing that the holiday could interfere with the goal of preserving the national heritage and traditions.

The Prosecutor-General’s Office of Russia has opened a criminal case against Sergey Pugachev, charging the former banking tycoon with large-scale embezzlement and abuse of official position over the 2010 collapse of a bank he headed.

Where does the Anglo-American propaganda machine get its nonsense stories about the president’s health? Western media is again spreading rumors about a sudden deterioration in the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and even his possible death. The source of these rumors is an anonymous Telegram channel allegedly linked to Valery Solovey, a notorious conspiracy theorist.