The Proletarsky District Court of Tula imposed a fine of two thousand rubles on activist Evgeny Malyugin under the protocol on the public demonstration of “extremist symbols” (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). His colleagues reported this. The reason for the protocol , which was drawn up at the end of December last year, was a photograph of the grave of Alexei Navalny, published in Malyugin’s telegram channel. The activist himself did not admit his guilt.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, converted the property of the former chairwoman of the Rostov Regional Court Elena Zolotareva and her family members into state income. This was reported by the press service of the Kuban courts. In December 2025, the ex-judge was sentenced to 15 years in prison in a bribery case. She was also fined 170 million rubles. According to the prosecution, in 2022 she received a total of 21 million rubles.

Фото: Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters A Moscow military court has sentenced a Ukrainian commander to life in prison in absentia for the 2022 sinking of the Black Sea Fleet’s flagship, Moskva. In doing so, the court’s official press release—which was later deleted—admitted for the first time that the vessel was destroyed by a missile strike. The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow handed down the sentence to Colonel Andrey Shubin, commander of the Ukrainian Navy’s 406th Artillery Brigade.

Germany is expelling the deputy military attaché of the Russian Embassy. According to Spiegel , he must leave the country within 72 hours. German journalists call the embassy employee Andrei M. According to Berlin, the man worked for the Russian special services. The diplomatic mission denies this. The expulsion is associated with the recent arrest in Berlin of German and Ukrainian citizen Ilona Wiener, who was accused of working for Russian intelligence at least since the fall of 2023.

The 2nd Western District Military Court, located in Moscow, rendered a verdict in the case of the sinking of the cruiser: the commander of the 406th artillery brigade of the Ukrainian Navy, Andrei Shubin, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment under the article on international terrorism. The court's press service deleted the news shortly after publication, but Mediazona shortened the text.

In the morning, the French naval forces detained the sanctioned tanker of the Russian “shadow fleet” GRINCH in the Mediterranean Sea. This was announced by the country's President Emmanuel Macron, as well as the maritime prefecture and the General Staff of the French Armed Forces . A tanker traveling from Murmansk was detained in Alboran (this is the westernmost sea in the Mediterranean, next to Gibraltar). As the prefecture notes, the British military and other countries were involved.

The poetess Vera Polozkova was added to the federal wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mediazona noted . The case against Polozkova in absentia became known in early 2025: then she was added to the “list of terrorists and extremists” of Rosfinmonitoring with an asterisk next to her name (this indicates that the prosecution is under an article on terrorism). During this time, it did not become known what exactly Vera Polozkova was accused of. Vera Polozkova.

In Moscow, unknown persons again destroyed the memorial plaque that hung on the wall of the house on Lesnaya Street, where the murdered Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived. This is reported by "Caution News". This is the third such incident in the past few days.

US President Donald Trump, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, signed the charter of the Board of Peace , a new international organization to which he invited about 60 countries. Representatives from less than 20 countries took part in the signing ceremony, CNN reports . Among them were the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Argentina and Paraguay. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stood on stage with Trump, among others.

The Moscow City Court ordered Novaya Gazeta to publish a refutation of their 2021 investigation into money laundering by businessman Artem Zuev associated with the Magnitsky case. RBC reported this. At the beginning, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow rejected Zuev’s claim in 2023, but he appealed this, and the Moscow City Court satisfied his demands in the summer of 2024.

The Moscow City Court returned the criminal case against historian Tamara Eidelman to the prosecutor’s office, Mediazona noted. A preliminary hearing of the parties in the case took place today. The court decided to return the materials to the prosecutor's office before the start of the examination on the merits. The case came to court on January 12. The Moscow prosecutor's office reported on the approval of the indictment at the end of December.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced 58-year-old resident of Izhevsk Alexander Krichevsky to 5.5 years in a general regime colony under the article on calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for a comment on the telegram channel of the Chechen opposition blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov. This is reported by SotaVision . Photo: Mediazona The prosecutor's office asked to sentence Krichevsky to 6 years in prison.

Security forces threatened to torture schoolgirl Eva Bagrova from St. Petersburg, who was detained in the case of justifying terrorism. This became known at a meeting of the Military Court of Appeal, which approved a sentence of four years in an educational colony for a 17-year-old girl, reports RusNews . According to Bagrova, she was interrogated without a legal representative, and they threatened to torture her, as well as her father and brother.

The Ostankino District Court of Moscow, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, decided to block the anti-migrant public “Slavic Community” on VKontakte. “Caution, News” drew attention to the decision of January 14, which has not yet entered into force.

FSB officers detained a Russian in Moscow, who is considered an agent of the Moldovan special services. TASS reports this with reference to the department's Public Relations Center. According to the FSB, the man came to Moscow in December 2025 to carry out an assignment from the Information and Security Service of Moldova (SIS). It was directed “against the security” of Russia, the department indicated.