The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan has granted the request of the Russian authorities to extradite activist Yulia Emelyanova. This is reported by the Anti-War Committee, which is providing assistance to the girl. As the organization clarifies, the Russian woman received the department’s resolution on January 29. Human rights activists and Emelyanova’s lawyer learned about the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office after a visit to the pre-trial detention center.

Russian state censors have moved to degrade Telegram’s performance across the country in the most aggressive attempt to subdue the messaging platform since a failed total ban nearly nine years ago. Today, the state censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, confirmed it had begun “throttling” the app, citing a persistent failure to comply with local laws and an alleged lack of protection for user data.

The Investigative Committee re-opened a criminal case of rape (Part 1 of Article 131 of the Criminal Code) against Yuri Napso, a former State Duma deputy from the LDPR. Kommersant reports this. The publication clarifies that the resolution to initiate the case was signed on February 2 by a senior investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. Napso is accused of raping his own assistant, who was 19 years old at the time.

Pavel Durov commented on the limitations of Telegram in Russia. “Russia is restricting access to Telegram in an attempt to force its citizens to switch to a state-controlled app designed for surveillance and political censorship. 8 years ago, Iran tried to apply the same strategy - and failed,” Durov wrote in his Telegram channel.

The private foreign language school “Linguist” in Voronezh was fined 50 thousand rubles under the protocol for mentioning an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). This is stated in the text of the decision dated January 29, which was noticed by Mediazona. The educational institution was accused of having links with the British network of language schools International House World Organisation , which was declared “undesirable” in August 2025.

The State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill that obliges to link SIM cards to mobile devices and creates a unified database of IMEI numbers. The document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament. According to the text of the bill, mobile operators will be obliged to provide communication services only to those devices whose unique numbers are included in a unified register.

In Klintsy, the city court fined a doctor in the trauma department of a local hospital 30 thousand rubles under a protocol on “discrediting” the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences), follows from the text of the decision dated January 27, which was noticed by Mediazona. The resolution states that a man in army uniform, who served in the BARS brigade, came to see a traumatologist with his wife.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has begun to consider a criminal case on confidential cooperation with foreigners (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code) against Mirzabeg Murtazaliev, Mediazona noted . The only person with this name, according to leaks, lived in the Dagestan village of Botlikh, he was 24 years old. Murtazaliev offered his services as a system administrator on the Profi.ru website. It also says that he was online more than a year ago.

A 69-year-old resident of the Zaporozhye region, Svetlana Loy, was sentenced to 15 years in a general regime colony in the case of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the Russian-controlled regional court reported . According to the prosecution, from January to November 2024, the pensioner made 24 transfers in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the mobile application of a Ukrainian bank for a total amount of the equivalent of 63,420 rubles.

After shutting down the illegal Starlink terminals used by the Russian army in Ukraine, the military is trying to force the registration of official terminals in the name of relatives of Ukrainian prisoners. This was reported on the website of the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. There have already been recorded cases of threats coming from the Russian military to the families of prisoners, the headquarters notes.

Russian security forces detained the third alleged participant in the preparation of the assassination attempt on GRU General Vladimir Alekseev. According to the FSB Public Relations Center (PSC), we are talking about 44-year-old Pavel Vasin, the son of the already detained person involved in the case, Viktor Vasin.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced 35-year-old engineer Dmitry Dushin from the Vladimir region to 10 years in prison on charges of treason, calls against state security on the Internet and financing of terrorism, the court’s press service reported . He will have to spend the first two years in prison, and the remaining term in a maximum security colony. What exactly Dushin was accused of was not specified in the message from the judicial press service.

The Moscow Garrison Military Court began considering the case against Colonel of the Military Service and Military Service Security Directorate (USViBVS) of the Ministry of Defense Yuri Zakharenko, accused of exceeding official authority and financing “extremism,” and Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Baranov, accused of exceeding official authority and accepting a bribe. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. At today's meeting, the prosecutor read out the indictment.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk sent 33-year-old Roman Zavodsky to pre-trial detention on charges of justifying terrorism on the Internet. This is stated on the court's website. The Novosibirsk FSB department reported that Zavodsky, who had previously lived abroad for several years, was detained at his home yesterday, February 9. The reason for the persecution was a comment in a telegram about the “Russian Volunteer Corps” (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

Roskomnadzor (RKN) is preparing to begin a “slowdown” of the Telegram messenger in Russia. This was reported by RBC with reference to a source in the “information technology industry” and two sources in “relevant departments.” According to one of the publication’s interlocutors, the blocking could begin today, on Tuesday, February 10, while another source claims that it has already begun. The press service of the state censor has not yet commented on the blocking information.