One of the Russian soldiers stationed at the Khmeimim air base in Syria told the BBC that, contrary to reports from the Ministry of Defense, there was no mortar attack on December 31, and the facility was attacked by several drones. The publication's interlocutor clarified that 11 aircraft were damaged during the shelling. “Four cannot be restored,” he said.

The website 47news.ru published the text of the appeal of the organizer of the explosion in the St. Petersburg “Perekrestok” Dmitry Lukyanenko. Investigators found a text message and a photograph of the bomb on a flash drive seized during the search. There are numerous spelling errors in the address, and the text of the message itself is rather incoherent. Lukyanenko did not specify who exactly it was intended for.

The mother of the missing Chechen singer Zelimkhan Bakaev told the Caucasian Knot that investigators for several months have not found out where her son is. His phone number was re-registered to a resident of Moscow, and someone replaced his WhatsApp avatar with a photo of the Grozny “Heart of Chechnya” mosque, the publication writes. Zelimkhan Bakaev disappeared in Chechnya on August 8, when he was detained in the center of Grozny by people in military uniform.

Oyub Titiev. Photo: Dosh Magazine In Chechnya, on charges of drug storage, human rights activist Oyub Titiev was detained, who has been headed by the local Memorial branch since 2010. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya argues that “during preventive measures” in the human rights activist was discovered “substance with the smell of marijuana”.

In Irkutsk, the Kirovsky District Court fined volunteer Sergei Gorkunov 20 thousand rubles for painting platbands on the facade of the headquarters of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, according to the “Team Navalny|Irkutsk” group on VKontakte. The court found the activist guilty of violating Article 7.14 of the Administrative Code (carrying out repair work without permission from a special body).

In early January, hundreds of conscripts with pneumonia, sore throat and bronchitis were taken to military hospitals in St. Petersburg, writes 47 news , citing lists of sick people at the disposal of the editors.

In the Saratov region, the court arrested a 47-year-old resident of the Voskresensky district, who on the night of December 31 to January 1 killed his acquaintance after a dispute over the choice of a television program (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. On New Year's Eve in one of the villages of the Voskresensky district, the accused, along with his 53-year-old acquaintance, drank alcohol.

In Chechnya, the detained head of the local branch of the Memorial human rights center, Oyub Titiev, was accused of drug possession (Article 228 of the Criminal Code), Novaya Gazeta writes , citing a lawyer. Earlier, Memorial, citing a friend of the human rights activist , reported that Titiev was detained by people in the uniform of traffic police officers who inspected his car. As a friend of the human rights activist said, he wanted to approach Titiev, but he motioned for him to pass by.

The Saratov media group “Public Opinion” sent a letter to the Prosecutor General’s Office after initiating a libel case (part 2 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code) due to publications about regional Duma deputy Andrei Belikov and his transport business, according to the group’s website. According to the media group, the case was opened at the end of December 2017.

In Chechnya, people in the form of traffic police officers detained the head of the local branch of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oyub Titiev, according to the organization’s website. The Memorial with reference to Titiev’s family writes that in the morning the human rights activist left for work from his house in the village of Kurchali. At nine in the morning, Titiev was supposed to meet his friend in the village of May of May of the Kurchaloevsky district.

On Sakhalin, in the Dolinsky district north of the village of Firsovo, about a hundred cars were stuck in the snow brought by a strong cyclone, writes the press service of the regional government, citing the head of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region Denis Ilyinov. Rescuers are now reaching the stuck cars; Work is underway to clear the road.

A court in Orenburg placed a 15-year-old schoolboy under house arrest, accused of causing bodily harm resulting in the death (Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code) of a 34-year-old man, the Investigative Committee reports. The body of a man was found at about 21:00 on December 29, 2017 at the Gidropress stop on Brothers Korostelev Street. During operational search activities, a schoolboy was detained.

In Tomsk, OMON employees used batons and stampers against foreigners who stood in line at the migration center for registration of temporary residence, write Bezformata.ru and Vtomske.ru . Local publications report that in 2018 only a thousand quotas were allocated to the region to register temporary residence and it can be obtained only once a year. According to foreign citizens, many took the turn to the migration center in a few days. “Siberia.

Co-chairman of the Solidarity movement and head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district Ilya Yashin announced a march in memory of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov. Yashin wrote about this on Facebook. The action is planned to take place on Sunday, February 25, two days before the third anniversary of the death of Nemtsov, who was shot on the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge in 2015. Yashin writes that the organizers will submit an application to the mayor’s office to hold the procession.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) preliminary examined the complaint of oppositionist Ildar Dadin about the general conditions in IK-7 and suggested that the Russian side award compensation to the former prisoner under a simplified procedure, Nikolai Zboroshenko, a lawyer at the Public Verdict Foundation, told Mediazona.