In the first nine months of 2023, Russia imported $1.7 billion worth of chips, reports Bloomberg , citing proprietary data from the Russian customs service. More than half of these chips, which can be used for military purposes, were produced by American and European companies, the agency writes. Among them are Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Analog Devices Inc, Infineon Technologies AG, STMicroelectronics NV and NXP Semiconductors NV.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved legislation approving Sweden's bid to join NATO. The corresponding document was published in the official Resmi Gazete, reports . Anadolu Previously, 287 out of 346 deputies of the Turkish Parliament voted for ratification of the protocol , another 55 were against it. After the document is signed by the president of the country, the decision comes into force.

The Gatchina City Court of the Leningrad Region sent the artist Anastasia Dyudyaeva and her husband Alexander Dotsenko to a pre-trial detention center in the case of publicly justifying terrorism, a Novaya Gazeta Europe correspondent reports from the court. The couple is accused of distributing napkins with anti-war slogans and “calls for reprisals against Russian President Vladimir Putin” in the Lenta hypermarket on Tallinn Highway in St.

Art: Boris Khmelny / Mediazona Since the beginning of the full scale invasion of Ukraine, dozens of Russian museums have launched exhibitions honouring the memory of fallen soldiers. These displays now feature an array of personal belongings and “trophies”—from Ukrainian Armed Forces badges to shrapnel from Ukrainian munitions, alongside commemorative coins and historic documents.

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa sent Ilyas Bayguskarov, an activist from Ufa, who participated in protests in support of environmental activist Fail Alsynov, to a pre-trial detention center until March 17. This was reported in a telegram channel collecting help for Baiguskarov, drew attention . OVD-Info The fact that Bayguskarov became a defendant in the case of mass riots near the court in Baymak became known on January 20.

The editor-in-chief and owner of the Ural publication Tochka News, Dmitry Fomintsev, spoke about a search in the editorial office in a criminal case of insulting the feelings of believers. to the post in his telegram channel “Irod Uralsky”. drew attention The publication 66.RU The security forces did not confiscate equipment from the Yekaterinburg office, leaving computers and phones “for safekeeping,” but they photographed materials from the screens.

Photo: Gints IVUSKANS / AFP The Russians began to bring to administrative responsibility for media comments, recognized by the authorities "undesirable." To date, it is known about the first two similar cases. The protocol on cooperation with an “unwanted” organization drew up a writer Dmitry Bykov from Russia who left Russia for his interview with musician Boris Grebenshchikov, published on August 20 last year on the Utube channel of Novaya Gazeta. Europe".

The Primorsky Court of St. Petersburg fined the online streaming company Okko 1 million rubles, finding it guilty of “demonstrating” LGBT relationships with incorrect age markings. The reason for drawing up the protocol (Part 2 of Article 6.21.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was the film “Scam of the Century,” which, according to the court, was shown with the “16+” label. As the press service of the St.

Politician Ilya Yashin, sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for talking about the massacre in Bucha during a YouTube stream, was subject to a report for violating the law on foreign agents. about this Yashin himself spoke in his telegram channel.

The Yakut City Court fined a local resident 20 thousand rubles for publishing messages on social networks calling for a protest against the murder of a fellow countryman, according to the court’s website. The man was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for holding a rally). attention to this . drew 7x7 According to the report, the man posted messages on the night of January 24.

The Pervouralsk City Court sentenced 73-year-old Lyubov Shulina to one and a half years probation for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office, the court's press service told It's My City. According to investigators, the pensioner was deceived by scammers to whom she transferred hundreds of thousands of rubles taken on credit.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading bills proposing changes to the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code related to liability for trash streams. This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament. It is planned to add clause No.

The Izmailovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the former governor of the Penza region Ivan Belozertsev to 12 years in a maximum security colony in the case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts. The head of the BIOTEK group of pharmaceutical companies, Boris Shpigel, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Both he and Belozertsev were also fined 450 million rubles.

The 2nd Western District Military Court at the exit meeting in St. Petersburg sentenced Daria Trepova to 27 years in a colony of general regime and a fine of 600 thousand rubles in the murder of the Z-blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazone" from the courtroom. Daria Trepova. Photo: Mediazone Trepova’s sentence is the most severe punishment for a woman in Russia, which is known publicly.

A 22-year-old student at St. Petersburg State University noticed a small chevron with the Ukrainian flag on a 45-year-old woman’s backpack and reprimanded her. After the conversation, the student decided that the woman’s point of view did not suit him and contacted the police, reports . Fontanka Soon the St. Petersburg woman was detained at the Vladimirskaya metro station. She turned out to be an employee of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.