In the border regions of Turkey and Syria, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale occurred. The blow also felt in Lebanon and in Cyprus. Fragments of buildings and damaged cars in Turkish Malatier Anadolu Agency through Getty Images The Turkish authorities report that 284 people were killed and 440 suffered. 237 people were killed in Syria, another 639 people were injured, the local Ministry of Health said .

In Magnitogorsk, a criminal case on the "discredit" of the Russian army was opened against a minor. Earlier, he and two of his friends were detained when they were going to take part in an anti -war action. Eanews.ru Three teenagers came to the place of gathering with BSB-Flags. After the detention, the security forces delivered them to OP No. 10 in Magnitogorsk, one of the young people told the OVD-info.

A criminal case was opened against the mobilized Sergey Stenkin about the “unauthorized abandonment of the place of service” after he left for the sick mother who needed the operation, and did not return. The case was reported by Amur.life. According to Amur.life, Stenkin was mobilized on September 23, and a month later, having received a day off, a military man went to his mother in Novosibirsk. A few weeks later, on November 30, a criminal case was opened against the mobilized.

Mobilized people from Tuva reported humiliation by the "DPR" military. A video message in the Tuvan language appeared on February 5 in the "Asians of Russia" Telegram channel, in which men in military uniform addressed the head of the republic, the Minister of Defense, and Vladimir Putin.

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The Presnensky Court of Moscow refused to review the decision on the unreliability of the information disseminated by the editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, that businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is the owner of the Wagner PMC. This was reported by The Insider with reference to the BBC Russian Service. The court made this decision even despite the words of Prigozhin himself, admitting that Venediktov was right.

During the day on February 5, Russia shelled the Kharkov and Kherson regions of Ukraine. In addition, the Nikolaev region was hit. In Kharkov, the city center came under fire. According to the head of the regional military administration (OMA) Oleg Sinegubov, five people were injured as a result, one of them, a 54-year-old woman, is in the hospital with moderate injuries. The building of one of the universities and residential buildings were damaged.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan sentenced sociologist and ex-HSE teacher Iskander Yasaveev to three days of administrative arrest for “inciting hatred towards political figures,” said the sociologist’s lawyer, Rim Sabirov. Yasaveev was found guilty under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation after the publication in “Idel.Realii” of the column “In a boyish way or in a Soviet way: why is Russia at war?” .

A resident of Bashkortostan, Denis Garayev, was sentenced to one and a half years of suspended imprisonment for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. The Kugarchinsky Interdistrict Court of Bashkortostan found him guilty of article about “attempted destruction of property.” This was reported by the Solidarity Zone. Denis admitted guilt, and the case was considered under a special simplified procedure.

In Iraq, dozens of women protested after the murder of blogger Tiba al-Ali in the city of Diwaniyah, Al Jazeera reports . The girl was strangled by her own father, who was unhappy with her move to Turkey. Al Jazeera published a recording of a supposed conversation between the girl and her father. In it, he expresses dissatisfaction with the blogger’s move, to which Tiba al-Ali replies that she was forced to leave after being raped by her brother.

Students of Ural universities have filed more than 200 complaints about living conditions in university dormitories; the Groza publication is collecting the complaints, and the human rights organization Molniya is responsible for processing them.

Since the end of 2022, recruiters from the Wagner PMC began to travel around Russian colonies for the second time, Mediazona found out. However, now far fewer prisoners agree to go to war. As the publication writes, the recruitment itself now takes place in a less solemn atmosphere. The entire colony no longer lines up on the parade ground, and the creator of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, does not arrive by helicopter, Mediazona’s sources in the colonies say.