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Ukraine continues to strike Russian facilities related to the oil and gas industry. Thus, at night there was a drone raid on the Volgograd oil refinery, which is one of the largest in the country, as reported by the regional governor Andrei Bocharov. “Tonight, air defense forces and electronic warfare repelled a UAV attack on the territory of the Volgograd region in the Kalachevsky district and in the area...
For the first time, local authorities in Volgograd took practical action to rename the city Stalingrad. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes. “On November 30, at a meeting of the Volgograd Regional Duma, amendments to the regional law on the administrative-territorial structure will be considered. Their co-authors were Duma Speaker Alexander Bloshkin, his first deputy Sergei Bulgakov and the leaders of four factions Mikhail Struk...
The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Volgograd Region transferred to court a criminal case against 26 citizens of Ukraine who were involved in smuggling and selling narcotic drugs in Russia. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It has been previously established that at the beginning of 2019, attackers created a virtual store in the shadow segment of the Internet that offered an assortment of narcotic drugs of plant origin.…
The Volgograd region will again switch to Moscow time. The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a bill on this in the first reading today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In 2018, the region transitioned to a third time zone. This year, the regional Duma initiated a reverse transition to Moscow time due to economic, social and other reasons. Negative consequences of switching to local...
FSB special forces today destroyed a cell of the international terrorist organization Katiba Tawhid wal-Jihad, banned in Russia, which planned to undermine the Motherland monument in Volgograd. The official website of the FSB reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The militants, immigrants from Central Asia, tried to remove explosives from the cache and put up armed resistance. The gang leader and his accomplice were killed during arrest. Loss...
Moscow - Kyiv, November 7 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Activists of the Ukrainian “Right Sector” showed up in Volgograd. Radicals from Ukraine are showing interest in mass street protests and bankrupt industrial enterprises, whose workers may end up on the street. In factories experiencing the period of the “Great Depression”, “Right Sector” cells may appear, writes NG. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Employees...
