Members of Navalny's team - Ruslan Shaveddinov and Sergei Yezhov - published an investigation into the relatives of Russian officials who work in the Russian presidential administration. The video is available on YouTube channel Navalny LIVE. The FBK said that the son of the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, Evgeny, works as a referent in the Office of the Presidential Administration for Public Relations and receives almost 300 thousand rubles a month for this.

The Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives allocated several million rubles from the state budget to organizations that are engaged in the “patriotic re-education” of children taken out of Ukraine. The BBC Russian Service drew attention to this. Almost three million rubles were received by the project "Help to orphans of Donbass".

Escape with fields from Russia, scandal in Ukraine, refuge in France: Marina Ovsyannikova tells how she spent a year after the promotion on Channel One Exactly a year ago, Marina Ovsyannikova burst on the air of the “Time” program with the poster “Stop the war. Do not believe propaganda. Here they lie to you ”and stood with him for a few seconds for the leading Ekaterina Andreeva.

Putin pardoned St. Petersburg resident Diana Gribovskaya, who was serving a 16-year sentence for producing amphetamines. Earlier, her husband Dmitry Karavaichik, sentenced to 17 years in prison on a similar charge, joined the Wagner PMC and went to the front. The release of Gribovskaya was reported by the publication "Rotonda". Veterinarian Karavaichik and physics teacher Gribovskaya were convicted in 2019.

Arrested in the suburbs of Batumi, Russian hacker Darius Pankov was extradited to the United States. This is reported by the Georgian prosecutor's office. In America, he is accused of cybercrime, for which he faces 47 years in prison. The man was detained last autumn in his private house in the city of Kobuleti near Batumi. Now he is in custody in the US city of Tampa. According to Paper Kartuli, he has no opportunity to be released on bail.

Ukrainian prosecutors have accused two Russian soldiers of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl and gang-raping her mother at gunpoint. It is reported by Reuters. According to documents reviewed by the publication, these incidents occurred as part of a series of crimes committed by Russian soldiers of the 15th motorized rifle brigade in Brovary, Kiev region, in March 2022.

In several metropolitan areas, after the New Year, they began to cut down forests in order to prepare sites, in particular, for the installation of air defense systems. This is written by The Insider. According to the publication, S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems have already been deployed in the experimental fields of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy and in Losiny Ostrov. The nearest residential buildings in both cases are located 200 meters from the installed air defense systems.

An appeal to the European authorities with a request to lift sanctions against billionaire Mikhail Fridman was signed not only by Leonid Volkov, but also by FBK Executive Director Vladimir Ashurkov. This is reported by the Financial Times, referring to the text of the appeal, which the newspaper has read. As the newspaper writes, Ashurkov signed an appeal in support of the management of Alfa Group in April 2022. He himself declined to comment.

Stories of the Russian women who come to Argentina to give birth to “anchor babies” Lately, Argentina, which provides birthright citizenship, has been turning into a top birth tourism destination for Russian women. The Consular section of the Russian Embassy to Argentina puts the number of Russian citizens’ arrivals into the country at over 2,000 since early 2022. Lots of these are pregnant women. Five times as many are likely to arrive this year.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading the draft law "on the prohibition of discrediting and slander" in relation to the participants in the war in Ukraine. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament. The amendments will affect criminal and administrative articles on the "discredit" of the Russian army and the spread of "fakes" about it.

The Omsk garrison military court sentenced a serviceman named Gavrilov to 1.5 years in a colony-settlement for leaving the unit without permission (part 3.1 of article 337 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of the court. According to the prosecution, the serviceman went on vacation "due to personal circumstances." “Wishing to be at home with his father after the end of the granted leave ...

In the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, a Russian serviceman was detained, who had been hiding there for almost half a year. It is reported by the National Police of Ukraine. Police officers detained a 42-year-old man in civilian clothes while patrolling a village in the Kupyansky district. Later it turned out that the man lives in the Moscow region and is a soldier of the 27th motorized rifle brigade of the Russian army.

Last year, for the first time in modern history, not a single escape from Russian penal colonies or pre-trial detention centers was recorded. This was announced by the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Arkady Gostev. “For the first time in the modern history of the penitentiary system, thanks to the coordinated actions of the personnel, escapes from the custody of convicts and persons in custody were not allowed,” Gostev said.