A three-year-old boy who received a gunshot wound on New Year's Eve died in a hospital in the Dagestan city of Derbent, writes the Caucasian Knot. The child was taken to the hospital after the New Year's fireworks display on January 1, when he was watching fireworks from the balcony and someone started shooting into the air with a military weapon. The bullet hit the boy in the head.

Ekaterina Fedorova, a journalist of the Sibir.Realii project living in Vladivostok , wrote on her Facebook page that a few months ago she was raped by the co-owner of the media holding PrimaMedia Alexey Migunov. In Primorye, Migunov is known not only as a businessman and editor, but also as a member of the board of the media support fund created by the ONF and a former employee of the regional election commission.

The return of Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov to Russia threatens him with torture and unfair persecution - as writes , a statement from the international human rights organization Amnesty International states. the Caucasian Knot In Russia, Tumso Abdurakhmanov was put on the federal wanted list; he tried to obtain asylum in Georgia and Poland, but was refused in both cases. In December 2018, Polish authorities announced to Abdurakhmanov that he must leave the country.

The Kinostar cinema in Grozny has suspended the sale of tickets for the film Love Yourself - a recording of the concert of the Korean pop group BTS, writes the Caucasian Knot. A message about this appeared on the cinema’s Instagram.

Illustration: Anya Leonova / Mediazone Jokes about prosecutors, leadership and accused, “villains”, complaints about processing and duty on weekends-“Mediazon” studied memes in the public “Coalition of investigators”. “We all came across the figure of an investigator in literature and cinema one way or another, so it seems to us that we know something about him.

On the island of Saipan in the Pacific Ocean, at the request of the FBI, Russian citizen Dmitry Makarenko was arrested. According to The Guam Daily Post, he is suspected of attempting to illegally export American military equipment to Russia, in particular, night and thermal vision devices and primers for igniting the charge. According to investigators, the events took place from April to November 2013.

Pirates captured six Russian citizens during an attack on a ship flying the flag of Panama off the coast of the African republic of Benin, reports a message from Rosmorrechflot. RIA Novosti As noted, pirates attacked the ship MSC Mandy , on board which were 23 Russians and one Ukrainian citizen. All but the abducted were not injured. The release of Russians is now being handled by consular departments in Benin and neighboring Nigeria.