The Primorsky District Court of Arkhangelsk changed the measure of restraint for student Olesya Krivtsova - she was given house arrest, a SOTA correspondent reports from the courtroom. Previously imposed bans on using the Internet, mail and other means of communication also remain in force. The investigation asked to send the student to a pre-trial detention center. According to Krivtsova’s mother, the girl was detained on January 3 on the street when she was going to meet her husband.

Magistrate Elena Dvoryaninova of court district No. 164 of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg sentenced local resident Sergei Vasiliev to a year of restriction of freedom. As follows from the court database, the verdict was handed down on December 1, today drew attention to it.

Lawyer Svetlana Zavodtsova told the Advokatskaya Street publication that police from the Moscow region town of Domodedovo planted drugs with her on her client Alexei Shemyakin. According to the defense lawyer, the man was also beaten, and when she tried to film him, the security forces “threw” her against the wall. According to Zavodtsova, on December 30, Shemyakin’s wife called her; she has been representing the man’s interests for several years.

Graffiti in the style of Banksy on the wall of a destroyed building in the Ukrainian city of Irpen. Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters Economist journalists analyzed the data of Chartbeat, which aggregates the world media, and calculated how many hours people spent reading various news in 2022. In the first place with a huge margin was the war in Ukraine. "Mediazona" publishes a translation of the study. Last year, as in 2020 and 2021, one main plot dominated the news field.

Dismantication of rubble in Makeevka, January 3, 2023. Photo: Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters At least 34 mobilized were killed on October 24, 2022, the calculations that Mediazona conducts together with volunteers and the Russian BBC service testify. In fact, there could be much more victims that day - in open sources, the exact date of the death of the mobilized is far from always indicated. Thus, the shelling of Makeevka is not the first case of the mass death of mobilized Russians in Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the death toll from the strike on Makeyevka had increased to 89 people. According to the department, the attack occurred due to the fact that personnel were using mobile phones en masse. “It is already obvious that the main reason for what happened was the inclusion and massive use, contrary to the ban, of mobile phones by personnel within the reach of enemy weapons,” the press service of the Ministry of Defense reported.