The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Belgorod Region opened a criminal case for inciting hatred or enmity on ethnic grounds and attempted murder against a “group of young people” who beat and insulted passers-by, filming everything on camera. this . reports The press service of the department The Investigative Committee's release states that one of the suspects is a 17-year-old Azerbaijani.

There were 11 or 12 crew members on board the Russian A-50 AWACS aircraft shot down over the Sea of ​​Azov. about this Fighterbomber write The authors of the pro-war telegram channel . In addition, according to Fighterbomber, the plane was shot down by Russian air defense forces. “According to my information, the crests have nothing to do with the loss of the RLDNiU A-50 aircraft. <…> 11 (according to other sources 12) military pilots died.

State-owned banks in China will tighten restrictions on working with clients from Russia after US authorities threatened them with secondary sanctions. this report Sources to Bloomberg . According to the agency, two banks have already begun to review their Russian business, focusing on cross-border transactions. Their plans are to stop collaborating with people on sanctions lists and those associated with the Russian military.

State-owned banks in China will tighten restrictions on working with clients from Russia after US authorities threatened them with secondary sanctions. Sources report this to Bloomberg . According to the agency, two banks have already begun to review their Russian business, focusing on cross-border transactions. Their plans are to stop collaborating with people on sanctions lists and those associated with the Russian military.

Former FSB investigator Alexey Kolbov, who in February 2021 was sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security colony in the case of extorting bitcoins from the ex-head of Izvestia Publishing House Erast Galumov, went to war in Ukraine and died there. TASS about this . told His relatives The circumstances of the death and details of the recruitment of the former investigator are unknown. According to the agency's interlocutor, his funeral will take place tomorrow, January 17.

President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the municipal forum “Small Motherland - the Strength of Russia,” said that Russians who went abroad are returning to their homeland because of “common toilets for boys and girls” in other countries. VGTRK employee Pavel Zarubin in his telegram channel His words were quoted by . “Common toilets for boys and girls, something else... It has become such an everyday thing, commonplace.

In Bashkortostan, after yesterday’s gathering at the court in the city of Baymak, police detained at least three activists, RusNews and . Today, as republican telegram channels write, were detained the former chairman of Bashkort Ilnar Galin, activists Yulay Aralbaev and Rafail Abdrakhmanov . In Baymak, police also broke into the apartment of activist Ildar Yumagulov, but he did not let them in.

Almost a month later, President Vladimir Putin for the first time commented on the “naked” party of blogger Anastasia Ivleeva. He contrasted its visitors with the military who returned from the war with Ukraine, reports . RIA Novosti Putin, at a forum at VDNKh for heads of municipalities, called on them to hire participants in the war in Ukraine. He explained it as follows: “We need to pay attention to the guys who are returning from the zone of a special military operation.

Lawyer Olga Mikhailova, who defended politician Alexei Navalny, reported that today the Investigative Committee charged her in absentia with participation in an “extremist community.” In October 2023, three oppositionist lawyers - Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin - were arrested on the same charges. According to investigators , Navalny’s defenders, “using their status,” regularly passed on letters from the oppositionist in their colony to his associates.

Иллюстрация: Danny Berkovskii / Медиазона The letter Z, drawn on the corpse with a bloodied fire iron, a stabbing against the backdrop of TV news, the murder of a nephew: domestic violence crimes committed “against the backdrop of political and ideological disagreements due to the special military operation conducted by the Russian Federation in the territory of Ukraine” are increasingly appearing in the verdicts of Russian courts.

The ASTRA edition named the surname and initials of the student Aditznik from Tomsk, who was accused of state reception in the fall of 2023-this is Israfilov S.V. The press service of the FSB reported on the detention and arrest of Tomich without mentioning the name on October 31. According to the department, he “expressed commitment to the Ukrainian side” and “carried out hacker attacks by an subversive nature on objects of Russian information infrastructure” (Article 275 of the Criminal Code).

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced the head of the maritime department of the Russian Guard, Colonel Sergei Volkov, to 6 years in a general regime colony in the case of supplying low-quality radars to protect the Crimean Bridge from drones. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. Volkov was also banned from holding public office for two years. The military man, who was under house arrest, was taken into custody in the courtroom.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent a pensioner to a pre-trial detention center on suspicion of attempted “confidential cooperation with a foreign state.” This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. The man's name has not been released. It is known that he was born in Dagestan and that he is 67 years old.

Ninth-grader Alexey Marinets, who has been studying at the Shakhtinsky Cossack Cadet Corps since 2020, said that in October, during a physical education lesson, he was beaten by director Vitaly Bobylchenko for using a phone. The teenager's story is reported by Team Against Torture. On October 27, Marinets took out his phone during a physical education lesson and began filming his classmates, despite the ban on the use of phones in the building.

On January 3, the Estonian Security Police (KaPo) detained Vyacheslav Morozov, professor of political science at the University of Tartu, on suspicion of espionage. this reports Postimees with reference to the head of the intelligence service, Margot Pallosona. Kristiina Tõnisson, who heads the Schütte Institute at the University of Tartu, where Morozov worked, confirmed his detention to Postimees and the Estonian National Broadcasting ( ERR ).