Former mayor of Vladivostok Oleg Gumenyuk was sentenced to 16 and a half years in prison on charges of taking bribes totaling 38 million rubles. He will also have to pay a 150 million ruble fine. This decision was made by the Leninsky district court of the city. According to investigators, Gumenyuk regularly took bribes from the management of the Necropolis city ritual enterprise for patronage of the ritual business.

In the first months of the war, Bulgaria secretly supplied Ukraine with ammunition and diesel fuel for armored vehicles. This is written by the German newspaper Welt. According to the publication, thanks to the help of Bulgaria, the Ukrainian army received a third of the ammunition needed for defense and up to 40% of diesel fuel.

Russian deputies of various levels wrote an appeal to President Vladimir Putin, the Prosecutor General, as well as the Human Rights Council, in which they demanded that Alexei Navalny be stopped being kept in the ShIZO and that civilian doctors be allowed to see him. “On behalf of our voters, on behalf of our friends and acquaintances, and on our own behalf, we openly and publicly demand that A.A. Navalny be placed in a punishment cell immediately.

Zinaida Pronchenko - about what the memoirs of Prince Harry "reserve" can teach us to teach us The whole world is read out by the memoirs of the British Prince Harry. A few days after the release, more than one and a half million copies were sold. Readers are discussing how the Duke of Sussex instructed drugs, killed in Afghanistan, lost her virginity, suffered after the death of his mother - Princess Diana.

Political scientist Grigory Golosov - under what conditions mass speeches can lead to a change of power The “cold” continues the cycle of the leading Russian political scientist Grigory Golosov about what Russia can be after Putin and what needs to be done to “after” come. In 2022, Votov spoke about the prospects of new authoritarian, party and military regimes in Russia. In 2023, he will appreciate the possibility of democratic changes.

The Bryansk Regional Court sentenced 31-year-old Maxim Timerkhanov to five years in a strict regime colony, who was accused of trying to leave to fight as part of the Ukrainian Legion "Freedom of Russia" against Russian troops. A native of the Saratov region, Timerkhanov, was detained in the village of Belaya Berezka, Bryansk region, near the border with Ukraine.

We talked with the German researcher of memes Verena Straub Memes can become an important weapon in the information war: three months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Nafo (North Atlantic Fella Organization) community appeared on the Internet, which fights Russian propaganda with Siba-INU memo, and the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov is photographed in a T-shirt with the image of holy Javelina- The meme-symbol of Ukrainian resistance.

In the city of Brovary, Kyiv region, on the morning of January 18, a helicopter with the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on board crashed next to the kindergarten building. According to the latest data, 18 people, including three children, died as a result of the crash. 29 people, including 15 children, were injured. This was stated by the head of the Kyiv regional administration Oleksiy Kuleba.

The Bryansk regional court sentenced 22-year-old resident of the Saratov region Kirill Belousov to five years in a strict regime colony for trying to leave to fight on the side of Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the court. According to investigators, Belousov, who worked as a salesman in the Magnit store, decided to go to the front and join the Ukrainian Legion "Freedom of Russia".

In Buryatia, three local residents were detained in the case of sabotage on the railway. They face up to 15 years in prison. According to investigators, three young people aged 17 to 19 on the night of January 13 and 16, on the tracks of the Divisional East Siberian Railway, set fire to relay cabinets that feed the Divisional station near Ulan-Ude. The total amount of damage was estimated at 350 thousand rubles.

Several dozen Yaroslavl mobilized recorded a video message in which they said that they were accused of desertion due to retreat from positions on the orders of the commander. The video of the wife of the mobilized was handed over to the journalists of the Yaroslavl portal “Pro City of Yaroslavl”. “We were given an order by the company commander to retreat from our positions, as we were fired upon by tanks and mortars. In turn, the command did not cover us and did not give us any support.

In the Lipetsk region, police officers killed an armed private who fled from the front during the arrest. This was reported to the government of the region. Earlier it was reported that in the Voronezh and Lipetsk regions they are looking for a private who left the location of the unit without permission. He had a machine gun with five magazines and several grenades with him.

In Russia, in several cities, local residents organize spontaneous memorials in memory of civilians who died as a result of a Russian missile hitting a residential building in Dnipro. In Krasnodar, people bring flowers, candles and children's toys to the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. A photograph of a destroyed house was placed next to the bust. In St. Petersburg, also at the monument to Shevchenko, city residents laid out the word "Dnepr" with candles.