The prosecutor's office requested five years in a penal colony for 65-year-old native of Ukraine Mikhail Tymkiv in the case of calls for extremism and justification of terrorism. Mediazona became aware of this. Photo: Mediazona A criminal case was opened against Tymkiv for phrases said during his treatment at the Akhmanka sanatorium in the Nizhnetavdinsky district of the Tyumen region.

The Chernovsky District Court of Chita sent a 28-year-old serviceman to a pre-trial detention center for two months in connection with a murder near the Legend cafe. As specified on the court’s website, he previously served as part of the Wagner PMC, where he ended up after signing a contract in a colony.

The United States has decided to suspend the issuance of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries, including Russia, in order to tighten control over applicants. This was reported by the Fox News channel, which allegedly was the first to familiarize itself with the State Department memo. State Department officials confirmed this. Processing of visa applications has been temporarily suspended since January 21st.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced a 17-year-old teenager to eight years in a correctional colony on charges of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization, public call for terrorism and attempted terrorist attack. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee, he tried to set fire to a school in Kursk. At the beginning of 2025, the head of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, spoke about the incident at school No. 54.

The 2nd Western District Military Court began to consider a criminal case of a terrorist attack against 66-year-old Vnukovo aviation security officer Ivan Zelinsky, who in December 2024 tried to set fire to a police car. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. According to the indictment, “persons unidentified by the investigation” decided to commit a terrorist attack near the police department in the Arbat district of Moscow.

The prosecutor demanded that Tolyatti resident Polina Yevtushenko be sentenced to 18 years in a general regime colony in a criminal case of preparation for treason, calls for extremism and terrorism on the Internet, as well as incitement to terrorism, insulting a military symbol and military “fakes,” Sotaproject reported .

The US Congress has approved funding for the US Agency for Global Media ( USAGM ), which provides grants to international broadcasters Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).

Alexandra Strilets. Photo: Alexandra’s personal Instagram page On August 5, 2025, a court in annexed Sevastopol sentenced Victoria and Alexandra Strilets to 12 years in prison under the article of treason. According to the security forces, the mother and daughter sent several photos of Russian military facilities to the telegram channel “controlled by the State Intelligence Directorate.” They were taken into custody in the courtroom.

Magistrate Court No. 374 of the Tagansky District of Moscow received administrative cases of “LGBT propaganda” on the Internet (Part 3 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code) against several representatives of online cinemas, Mediazona noted.

The FSB Investigation Department in Bashkortostan opened a criminal case for attempted sabotage against a 22-year-old resident of Ufa. Ufa1 writes about this with reference to the republican department of the FSB. Telegram channel Ufa_rb reports that the accused is a student. According to security officials, he corresponded via telegram with an unknown person who offered him to set fire to a transformer substation for 23 thousand rubles. After setting the fire, the man had to film the fire.

The Yakut City Court convicted two ex-employees of the police department in the case of abuse of power (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) and falsification of an administrative protocol (Part 1 of Article 303 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the regional courts reported .

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Ukrainian serviceman Dmitry Popovich to 18 years in prison in a terrorism case. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Popovich was charged with two counts: participation in a terrorist community and teaching terrorism. For the first episode, the Ukrainian prisoner of war was sentenced to five and a half years in prison, for the second - 16 years in prison.

The FSB reported the detention and arrest of a 59-year-old Russian woman on charges of attempting to purchase explosives (part 3 of article 30, part 3 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). The woman was accused of “attempting to seize” a Makarov pistol and a homemade explosive device based on plastic from a cache in the Smolensk region to kill “an employee of one of the enterprises of the military-industrial complex in the Leningrad region” - the special service did not disclose its name.

The Investigative Committee reported on the detention of the chief physician of the maternity hospital in Novokuznetsk and the acting head of the intensive care unit in connection with the mass death of infants.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported the death of two people after drone attacks. Early at night on January 14, an official announced the death of a Shebekino resident due to a drone explosion; the victim died on the spot from his injuries. Later, Gladkov spoke about a drone hitting a car in the village of Zozuli in the Borisov district, as a result of which a woman was killed, and the driver received a mine explosion injury and shrapnel wounds to his leg.