The Investigative Committee announced the initiation of a criminal case against a 37-year-old man who is suspected of killing two girls. The Baza telegram channel calls the suspect, a citizen of Uzbekistan Alexei Varakin. According to the UK, on ​​the night of December 23, in an apartment on the flour-driving passage, a man “during a quarrel on the basis of personal hostile relationships” stabbed a 25-year-old girl and caused damage to himself with a knife.

Journalist Olesya Gerasimenko told the details of the explosion of a training grenade in a Riga bar on the evening of January 23. on her social networks She said that she considered the incident to be intimidation of journalists and a threat to their lives. According to Gerasimenko, she invited her colleagues to the bar to celebrate her upcoming dismissal from the BBC Russian Service. The attack occurred three hours after the party began, when journalists were sitting at the bar.

Blogger Anastasia Ivleeva apologized for videos from her party at the Moscow club "Mutabor", distributed on social networks. She posted a video in which she promised to donate money from ticket sales for the second day of the event to charitable organizations. Ivleeva said that the first day of the two-day event was dedicated to a closed presentation of a photo shoot that was done for Playboy magazine , but was never published due to the publication’s departure from Russia.

The Latvian State Police announced the arrest of two men suspected of involvement in the explosion of an airsoft grenade at a party for journalists of the BBC Russian Service in a Riga bar. A criminal case has been opened for hooliganism, reports RUS TVNET , citing a comment from the department.

In St. Petersburg, two 16-year-old college students and a 14-year-old eighth-grader were detained, suspected of attacking janitors with gas canisters in the Kalininsky district of the city. this without citing the source of information. reports Fontanka According to the publication, the students were arrested, and the student was interrogated as a witness.

An unknown man threw a training grenade at the Riga bar, where the BBC Russian journalists party took place, the new newspaper Europe writes with reference to eyewitnesses. This happened at about 11 pm, when there was almost no one left in the bar except the BBC employees. The attacker opened the door of the bar and threw the training grenade to reporters under his feet. She exploded, stunning several people. The trace of the explosion on the floor.