Of the 33 hostages, which Hamas militants must be released at the first stage of the ceasefire agreement, only 25 remains alive. Times of Israel reported this publication by the spokeswoman for Israeli Government David Menzers. According to him, Hamas will transmit the body of eight dead relatives. The authorities of Israel have already informed the family of victims about this. Menzers said that next Thursday three hostages will be released, the same amount will be released on Saturday.

Against the co-founder of the rock band “Semys-free hallucinations” Vladimir Burdin opened a criminal case of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm with the use of weapons (paragraph “Z” of part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code). About this, citing the press service of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court, reports the publication URA.RU. The musician has been in a pre -trial detention center since November. According to the “evening Vedomosti”, in the fall, Burdin hit a man with a knife.

Art: Maria Tolstova / Mediazona Mobilisation in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) was announced just days before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, leading to mass roundups. Since then, Russia has annexed both regions, integrating their armed groups into the Russian army. Many fighters—often unknowingly—were automatically given contract soldier status.

On January 24, the Sarapul City Court appointed a year and a half of imprisonment of a conditionally 44-year-old local resident in the case of calls for extremism on the Internet (part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the vessels of Udmurtia. A man whose name is not disclosed was also banned for two years to administer Internet resources.

The European Union imposed sanctions against three Russians who are suspected of working on the GRU. This was reported in the official journal of the EU. We are talking about Nikolai Korchagin, Vitaly Shevchenko and Yuri Denisov. According to the Estonian authorities, in 2020 they made to cyber attacks on computer systems of several departments of this country. In the fall of 2024, three alleged GRU employees were arrested in absentia to the Kharyur district court of Estonia.

The Kharya County of Estonia has appointed two years and four months conditionally to the former head of the Sputnik Eesti agency Mati Dmitry Terestal in the case of violation of sanctions against Russia. This was reported by the prosecutor's office of the country.

In the war in Ukraine, a resident of Nizhny Tagil, Sergei Varankin, convicted in 2024 in the case of the theft of metals from the Uralvagonzavod as part of an organized criminal group. The Mediazone drew attention to this. According to investigators, Varankin was part of the group, which from 2016 to 2017 made at least nine episodes of thefts of metal products from the warehouses of the enterprise.

In Baku, at the request of the Russian authorities, they detained the trial of judge Elena Khakhalevu. This, according to Izvestia and Kommersant , the authorities of Azerbaijan notified the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Hahalev was detained at Baku Airport when she wanted to fly to Dubai. According to Kommersant, the former judge said that she was treating in Georgia and in Azerbaijan “a number of serious diseases”, and flew to the UAE also for treatment.

The Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the French Independent Institute of Philosophy (Institute de Philosophie Indépendant) . This was reported by the press service of the department.

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone A wave of conspiracy and mysticism, which overwhelmed the world in recent years, rises higher. Supporters of various theories of conspiracies, adherents of quasiligip and obscurantist ideas win the elections, win more and more attention and support of people and occupy more and more influential posts around the world.

The Naberezhnchelninsky City Court sentenced to two and a half years a colony of general regime of engineer from Tatarstan Nikolai Lekomtsev, accused of participating in the activities of an “extremist” organization. This was reported by the human rights project "Open space". The man was also appointed six months of restriction of freedom.

Judge of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow Albina Galimova sentenced a 64-year-old pensioner from Moscow Konstantin Seleznev to the eight years of the colony in the case of the military “fakes” (paragraph “D” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazone" from the courtroom. The prosecutor's office asked to sentenced the man to the same time. Nobody got into the hall for the announcement, even accredited journalists.

The State Duma introduced a bill on criminal punishment for the non -renewal of security forces against people who are preparing or already committed sabotage. This was announced by United Russia Vasily Piskarev. On the website of the State Duma, the project has not yet been posted. The Criminal Code already exists an article “Failure of Crime” (205.6 of the Criminal Code), which appeared as part of the “Spring package”.

The Pyatigorsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory in absentia sentenced Anastasia Nazaruk to the seven years of the colony, accused of spreading military “fakes”. Attention to the court’s decision was drawn by the publication “Caucasus. Realia”. Taking into account the previous sentence, Nazaru was appointed 10 years in a general regime colony and banned the administration of sites within five years.

The Swedish State Security Service ( SäkerHetspolisen ) announced the initiation of a criminal case of a “rough sabotage” in connection with the corruption of the bilia of the fiber -optic cable, connecting Latvia and Sweden. This is stated in the message of the department. On suspicion of sabotage, the Swedish security forces detained the ship. As the Swedish newspaper Expressen specifies , we are talking about the Vezhen dry load, which moved under the flag of Malta.