Russia has unblocked 9 of the $30 million in frozen North Korean assets. this reports The New York Times with reference to intelligence representatives of an unnamed US ally. According to the newspaper, this was a response to the supply of North Korean weapons, which Russia is using in the war against Ukraine. Pyongyang plans to spend the money on the purchase of crude oil.

video hosting YouTube blocked the channels of the VGTRK editorial offices in Rostov-on-Don , Murmansk , Pskov , Vologda , Ivanovo and other cities. This is reported on the websites of the television company's branches. When you try to open channels, a sign appears: “This page is not available.” to According the RT channel , at least 40 regional YouTube channels of VGTRK were blocked.

The 2nd Western District Military Court ordered compulsory treatment from a psychiatrist for former military psychologist Timofey Rudenko, who is accused of calling for terrorism. Mediazona found information about this on the court’s website. The man was arrested at the end of July last year.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs put on the wanted list of journalist Sergei Loiko. Information about this in the base of the department was discovered by the Mediazon. According to which article of the Criminal Code, Loiko is looking for is unknown. Sergei Loiko collaborated with the New Gazeta and was a correspondent for the publication of Los Angeles Times in Moscow. Since 2014, he covered the war in the east of Ukraine.

Art by Anna Makarova / Mediazona Оn January 25, 26-year-old Darya Trepova was sentenced to 27 years in a penal colony — the longest term ever received by a woman in the history of modern Russia. The prosecution stated that Trepova is responsible for the explosion at the performance of milblogger Vladlen Tatarsky in St. Petersburg. More than 50 people were injured then, and the propagandist himself died.

Photo: "Bi-2" / Facebook After the departure of the Bi-2 group from Thailand to Israel, the Russian diplomats remained unhappy with both the failure of the operations to deport musicians to Russia and the publications about this-including the position of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Refutations of “fakes” and attacks against Israel, which spends efforts on “liberation, if not hostages, then musicians,” followed.

Boris Nadezhdin told the Agency that the Central Election Commission drew attention to obvious errors in the digitization of “several dozen” signatures for his nomination, which had previously been declared invalid. Earlier, the politician posted a video on his telegram where, as he says, Central Election Commission employees, together with representatives of the headquarters, are looking through sheets of signatures.

The Sovetsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk received a protocol on “LGBT propaganda” (Part 1 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code) in relation to the Elton queer bar . Mediazona found this information in the court database. The hearing of the case is scheduled for February 9. What exactly was the reason for the protocol is still unknown. On December 30, 2023, Krasnoyarsk Mash reported that security forces came to the bar and took all the men - more than 20 people - to the police.

Members of the far-right Italian party Northern League, including its leader Matteo Salvini, flew to Moscow in 2018-2019 and met with current FSB Fifth Service officer Andrei Kharchenko, found out . journalists from The Insider One of the meetings took place on October 18, 2018 at the Moscow Metropol.

In Russia, the Japanese “Union for the Return of the Northern Territories”, the Ukrainian “Crimean Tatar Resource Center” and the Swiss “ IndustriALL updated in January attention to the list by the Ministry of Justice Global Union” were declared “undesirable” organizations; the human rights project “OVD-Info” drew . Global Union IndustriALL brings together affiliates of three former global union federations and monitors trade union rights in 140 countries.

in her Telegram channel Lawyer Natalya Shatikhina said that she was subjected to systematic domestic violence by her ex-husband, St. Petersburg State University rector Nikolai Kropachev. attention to her publications . drew Rotunda Shatikhina reported that Kropachev beat her for the first time during pregnancy in 2005: “I remember well one thing: they dragged me by the scruff of the neck along the floor, shouted something and pressed my face against the metal side of the bed.

The Zlatoust City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region fined Natalya Guseva, the former chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Golos observer movement, 700 thousand rubles. This was reported by Oleg Stepanov, a lawyer from the OVD-Info project. 67-year-old Guseva was accused of spreading “fake news” due to posts and comments on Odnoklassniki about the Russian military shelling of a drama theater in Mariupol in March 2022 (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

At the Faculty of World Economics and Politics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Institute of World Military Economics and Strategy was created, which was headed by the former commander of the Pacific Fleet Sergei Avakyants. this The press service of the university reported to the Moscow agency. A few days ago, was published an interview with a retired admiral about the work of the new unit on the HSE website.

The Central Election Commission announced the postponement from February 7 to 8 of the date of the meeting at which a decision will be made on the registration of Boris Nadezhdin or his removal. At the meeting, invalidated signatures for the nomination of a politician will be examined: the Central Election Commission yesterday rejected more than 15% of the 60 thousand signatures verified.

Employees of the Federal Security Service today reported on the appearance of two new people accused of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). Their cases are not related. The Kamchatka Special Service Directorate informed TASS about the detention of a Russian citizen who had lived in Ukraine for a long time and had a Ukrainian residence permit.