The Vologda City Court sent 34-year-old former city Duma candidate Andrei Novikov to pre-trial detention in a criminal case for justifying terrorism on the Internet (part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Sotavision .

US President Donald Trump published an appeal to Vladimir Putin, in which he threatened to impose high taxes and duties and impose sanctions on goods exported by Russia if he refuses to end the war in Ukraine “in the near future.” “Let's end this war, which would never have started if I were president! We can do this the easy way or the hard way. It's time to "make the deal." No more lives should be lost!!!" - Trump wrote on his profile on the social network Truth Social .

The Miass City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region arrested Anatoly Bannykh, a worker and leader of the trade union of the Ural automobile plant, for five days under a protocol on the demonstration of prohibited symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by his defender Valentina Komkova. The materials of the administrative case against Bannykh were received by the court on January 22.

The Kochubeevsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory sentenced from eight to ten years and three months in a general regime colony to the four defendants in the case of the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport. This was reported by the press service of the Stavropol prosecutor's office. Akhmed Magomedbekov, Shamil Mugutdinov, Murtazali Murtazaliev and Radzhab Mutaev were found guilty under articles of participation in mass riots and failure to comply with transport security requirements.

In the Tula region, a criminal case was closed that was initiated after publications about the illegal deprivation of liberty of people on a farm in the village of Rovno, Belevsky district, the head of the local department of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Usov, told RIA Novosti. In September 2024, Myslo and the Alternative movement, which helps free people from slavery, wrote about the fact that apple farm employees work in slave conditions.

The Moscow City Court sentenced 40-year-old Dmitry Shatresov to 17 years in a maximum security colony in the case of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), the joint press service of the capital's courts reported . In addition to this, Shatresov was sentenced to a year of restriction of freedom. Details of the case against him are unknown.

In Tula, a 44-year-old local resident was detained who wrote on social networks that he was openly gay. 71.RU reports this with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. The publication showed footage from the search that took place at the man’s home. Before this, more complete videos with investigative actions were published by misogynistic blogger Vladislav Pozdnyakov and local blogger Roman Kirillov. In the recording, riot police officers enter a room in a communal apartment.

Rosfinmonitoring introduced politician Leonid Gozman and ex-player of the “What? Where? When?" Rovshan Askerov has been added to the list of defendants on extremist and terrorist charges. Their names have asterisks. This means that they are being prosecuted under articles of terrorism. The Russian authorities have already prosecuted both in absentia, but not on terrorism charges.

Convicted MP from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from the Primorsky Territory, Artem Samsonov, after complaining of heart problems, underwent surgery to replace the aortic valve. This was reported by the party branch in Vladivostok. The operation took place on January 16 at the Far Eastern University Medical Center. 50-year-old Samsonov was transferred from intensive care to a ward. In the winter of 2024, Artem Samsonov, when he was in maximum security colony No.

In the village of Goptovka, Kharkov region, two men were killed as a result of a Russian drone attack on a car, said the head of the regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, the attack occurred last night, January 21. A Russian FPV drone struck a car driving through a village. There were 56-year-old and 44-year-old civilians inside - they died on the spot.

A court in Moscow sent Colombian citizen Pablo Puentes Boorges to pre-trial detention because of his participation in the war on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said Svetlana Petrenko, a representative of the Investigative Committee. Boorghes is suspected of mercenary activity and committing a terrorist attack (Articles 359 and 205 of the Criminal Code).

Programmer Viktor Filinkov was released after seven years in prison in the Network case. As Filinkov himself told Mediazona, in the morning he was released from IK-1 in the Orenburg region, after which police officers took him to the border with Kazakhstan and handed him over to local border guards. Before his release, colony operatives spoke with Filinkov, who warned him under no circumstances to return to Russia after deportation. The police took him to the border in handcuffs.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the court placed in a pre-trial detention center a 20-year-old suspect in a terrorist attack due to the arson of equipment on the railway. This was reported by the transport police in the Volga region.

In Krasnoufimsk, Sverdlovsk Region, a “group of minors” was detained and suspected of setting fire to a relay cabinet, the Investigative Committee reported . According to investigators, teenagers “in the first half of January” set fire to equipment on the Krasnoufimsk-Zyurzya section of the Gorky Railway, “which created a danger to the safety of train traffic” and caused significant property damage to the railway. The Gorky Railway itself did not report any damage to the tracks.

On the night of January 22, the Russian military attacked Nikolaev and Sumy with drones. Regional authorities report at least five casualties. According to the administration of the Nikolaev region, two people were injured there. A 74-year-old woman was pulled out from under the rubble of a private house and is in serious condition. Due to falling debris in Nikolaev, fires started in six places in the Central and Factory districts.