The Russian army, which continues to storm Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, has begun to use a new tactic based on the advantage in the number of manpower. Because of this, the losses of the Russian military in the battles for the city have recently been much higher than in previous months. The New York Times writes about this, referring to the Ukrainian military and analysts.

The Security Service of Ukraine conducted a search at the home of the founder of the Privat financial and industrial group, Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. Also today, the security forces came with a search to the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov. The search in the house of Kolomoisky is carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Bureau of Economic Security, Strana.ua reported, citing sources.

Alexei Navalny's lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, said that the politician had stomach complications due to "huge doses" of antibiotics that he was given in penal colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region. “The Federal Penitentiary Service continues its lawlessness and directly works to undermine Navalny’s health. After they actually deliberately infected him with some kind of SARS, they did not give him medicines, but “treated” him with huge doses of antibiotics contraindicated in this case.

On Red Square, police detained US citizen Alicia Day for walking a calf there. “The day before, law enforcement officers promptly detained a woman on Red Square who was walking there with a calf. She was a 34-year-old US citizen. According to the detainee, she bought the animal on Avito and decided to take it for a walk," a law enforcement official told TASS. An administrative report was drawn up against an American woman under an article on violation of the procedure for holding a rally.

Conclusions of political scientist Grigory Golosov from international study of national values "Cold" continues the cycle of articles by the leading Russian political scientist Grigory Golosov, dedicated to the future of Russia after Putin. In 2022, votes appreciated the likelihood of a junta , the establishment of personalist power and the party regime . In 2023, he considers the possibility of democratic changes in the country.

Alexander, a student of the Russian State University for the Humanities, successfully defended his diploma on the topic “analysis and improvement of the management of a gaming company”, which he wrote using the ChatGPT neural network. He spoke about this on Twitter. According to Alexander, it took him 23 hours to compose requests, edit the text and make corrections at the direction of the supervisor.

Publicist Ivan Davydov - about whether Volgograd will be renamed to Stalingrad and, if so, that this will mean On February 2, 2023, 80 years of the victory of Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad. To the anniversary, Volgograd was renamed one day to Stalingrad: they replaced signs on houses and road signs. Such symbolic actions take place in the city nine times a year, to commemorative dates, and they are always accompanied by a discussion whether it is worth renaming the city officially.

American weapons manufacturer General Atomics is offering to sell two Reaper MQ-9 combat drones to Ukraine for one dollar. Now the deal must be approved by the White House, writes The Wall Street Journal. Delivery and preparation of drones will cost Kyiv ten million dollars, the newspaper notes. Maintenance of drones costs about eight million a year. If the deal is approved, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will also receive a UAV ground control station.

The combat organization of anarcho-communists takes responsibility for sabotage in Russia. We talked with its founders Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian combat organization of anarcho-communists (BOC) positions itself as a unification of partisans, calls for active resistance and takes responsibility for sabotage on railways, mobile tower in Belgorod and other strategic objects.

The story of the activist Daria Heikinen, who is a year -old for the subscriber In 2020, activist Daria Heikinen met online to Yuri - he often left comments under her posts. A year later, Yuri began to pursue Daria: to create numerous accounts on social networks, write her comments with insults, as well as assureing loved ones that she has a person’s disorder. “Cold” asked Haykinin to tell his story, and also asked Yuri why he was doing this.