This Story is Also Available in English Geere The war in Ukraine has been going on for 365 days. The Russian authorities were preparing for it, not only transferring the troops to the border, but also cleaning the information space to cut off Russians from publications that contradict the official position. After the start of the war, almost all independent media were recognized by foreign agents and blocked in Russia.

“We don’t have even a free finger” On July 12, 2022, Alexander Fedotov, head of the science and technology center of the General Radio Frequency Center (GRFC), was preparing for the next meeting of the Expert Council on Artificial Intelligence. GRFC is part of Russia’s main censor— Roskomnadzor. The center is responsible for monitoring the internet, preparing information sheets and reports on "prohibited information" it finds, as well as blocking such information.

#RussianCensorFiles is a large-scale leak of files (documents, screenshots, and emails) of employees of the General Radio Frequency Center (GRFC), a subsidiary of Russia's main сensor, Roskomnadzor. They were hacked in 2022 by a Belarusian hacker group called Cyberpartisans. They gave two terabytes of data to journalists of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Important Stories and other Russian media.

On 14 February 2008 Vladimir Putin stated: “I am not ashamed of the citizens who voted for me twice when I was elected president of the Russian Federation. All these eight years I worked as a slave on a galley, and I have done it to the best of my ability.” The phrase "All these eight years I worked as a slave on a galley." («Все эти восемь лет я пахал как раб на галере») in Russian can be misheard as «как краб на галере». And this is translated as “like a crab on a galley”.

Roskomnadzor employees prepared certificates in advance for people who were later declared “foreign agents.” “Important Stories” found this out by analyzing the data leak from the “Main Radio Frequency Center,” which is part of Roskomnadzor. The lists of people on whom certificates have been drawn up contain the full namesakes of those who have already been recognized as “foreign agents” and those who were not included in this register.

The edition of “Village”, together with “You can explain”, issued an investigation on the income of the founder of the PMC Wagner and his businesses. “Important stories” tell the main thing from the material. Prigozhin's income During the war, in Ukraine, Prigozhin on the organization of food received state contracts for a record amount of 91.5 billion rubles, calculated “Vitrost” and “we can explain”. This is a record for the entire time of work of firms, the publication notes.

The invasion of Ukraine started almost a year ago. Russian authorities didn’t just prepare for it by moving troops to the border; they also cleared the information space in order to cut Russians off from publications that contradict official positions. After the invasion, authorities labeled almost all independent media in Russia as “foreign agents” and blocked their websites.

This Story is Also Available in English Geere "Not like hands, there is no free finger" On July 12, 2022, Alexander Fedotov, head of the Scientific and Technical Center of the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRCHC), was preparing for the next meeting of the Expert Council for Artificial Intelligence.

Vladimir Putin personally decided to send the Buk launcher to Donbass, from which the Malaysian Boeing MH17 was shot down in 2014, investigators believe. According to the BBC, there is no reason to believe that Putin gave the order to fire the shot that brought down the plane. Investigators noted that they have now reached the limits of their capabilities, so the investigation has been suspended.

This Story is Also Available in English Geere Until today, Roskomnadzor (RKN) has been known primarily as the main body of Russian censorship. Only from the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, RKN has blocked more than 125 thousand materials about the war, as well as all Russian independent media and such large social networks as Facebook and Instagram. But blocking the sites that are objectionable to the authorities is not the only duty of the RKN.

The death toll in Turkey and Syria as a result of the February 6 earthquake exceeded 11 thousand people. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced 8,574 dead and more than 49,000 wounded, reports Anadolu Agency . 2,662 people have died in Syria, Aljazeera reports . Erdogan added that 6,444 buildings were destroyed due to the earthquake. According to the president, residents of the disaster zone can stay in hotels in Antalya, Alanya and Mersin.

In Russian colonies, the convicts began to threaten new criminal cases for refusing to fight in Ukraine as part of the Wagner PMC, the Agency reports . Two lawyers and human rights activist told about this publication.

#RussianCensorFiles - a large-scale leak of files (documents, screenshots and emails) of employees of GRChTs, a subsidiary of RKN. They were hacked in 2022 by the Belarusian group of hackers “CyberPartisans”. They transferred two terabytes of data to journalists from the German publication Süddeutsche Zeitung, “Important Stories” and other Russian media.

Ukrainian military pilots will undergo training in the UK, said British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak . “Today we are expanding the soldier training program to include marines and military pilots to ensure Ukraine has an army capable of defending its interests,” CNN quoted Sunak as saying. Ukraine has long asked Western allies to provide it with F-16 fighter jets. In particular, on January 20, spoke about this in his address to the participants of the meeting in Ramstein.