In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . Influential lobbyist with the Moscow team In the mid-2000s, if a Kaliningrader did not have an IP by the age of 25, “it was an anomaly,” says Ilya Shumanov. The habit of working for oneself has remained with the inhabitants of Kaliningrad since the 1990s, when entrepreneurship was a matter of survival.

The Novomoskovsky District Court of the Tula Region found DJ Sergei Vasiliev guilty under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and fined him 40,000 rubles. The reason was that during Vladimir Putin's New Year's address, a man turned on the song "From the Pine" by Ukrainian performers Potap and Nastya Kamensky in a cafe. “The actions of Vasiliev S.A.

Under the Bulgarian capital Sofia, local police found a truck with the bodies of 18 people. They are believed to be migrants who died of asphyxiation while smuggled across the border. Local Health Minister Asen Mejidiyev said 34 other people, including five children, who were in the truck, were taken to hospitals in Sofia. Some of them are in a critical but stable condition. “Those who were locked in this truck did not have enough oxygen.

A criminal case was opened against Penza resident Nikolai Gutsenovich for “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). He liked anti-war publications on Odnoklassniki.

Eight facts about Vladislav Surkov, the former “gray eminence of the Kremlin” who seems to be trying to return to politics On February 15, an interview with former deputy head of the presidential administration Vladislav Surkov appeared on the channel of pro-Kremlin political scientist Alexei Chesnakov.

In Moscow, found a member of the group Pussy Riot Rita Flores, who disappeared the night before. This was reported to BBC Russian Service by her lawyer Daniil Berman. During the search, the girl's phone was taken away and a false message was sent to the lawyer on her behalf that she was taken to the Investigative Committee. When the lawyer arrived at the address of the UK, which was indicated in the message, the employees told him that they did not have Flores.

A database with a comprehensive amount of information about those liable for military service - registration, phone numbers and health data - should be launched in 2024. Its test version is ready now, journalists Farida Rustamova and Maxim Tovkaylo found out. According to them, such a base will allow the Russian authorities to quickly send the number of people they need to the front, and also not to release those liable for military service from the country.

The Taliban forbid pharmacies in major cities - Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif - to sell birth control pills and other contraceptives. It is reported by The Guardian. Representatives of the group consider contraception part of the "plot of the West" to control the Muslim population. Since early February, Taliban police have been patrolling pharmacies and threatening pharmacists, ordering them to get rid of intrauterine devices, oral contraceptives and other products.

30,000 Wagner PMC fighters were killed or wounded, CNN reports. According to the US government, which refers to the publication, about nine thousand people died. Half of them - for the period from mid-December. About 90% of those killed in December were recruited from Russian colonies. The PMC has relied heavily on prisoners to fill its ranks, said US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.