Meduza summarizes Agora's new report on Internet freedom in Russia Earlier this week, the Agora International Human Rights Group published a new report titled “Internet Freedom 2017: Creeping Criminalization,” where researchers Damir Gainutdinov and Pavel Chikov assessed the Russian authorities’ approach to regulating the Internet.

A Lisbon court has sentenced Portuguese foreign intelligence officer Frederica Carvalho Jiu to seven years in prison for corruption and spying for Russia, Reuters reports citing Lusa, Portugal's state-run news agency. The trial of Carvalho Jiu was held behind closed doors. The defendant's lawyer vowed to appeal the verdict.

High-ranking state officials behind bars, outsiders taking over the government, and federal agents raiding left and right. Welcome to Dagestan this week Vladimir Smirnov / TASS / Vida Press On Monday, February 5, Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee arrested Abdusamad Gamidov, the acting prime minister of Dagestan, and two of his deputies on charges of large-scale embezzlement.

The police detained student Yegor Grishin, who posted on Instagram a photo in which he puts out a cigarette on an icon on the fence of the church in the village of Martanskaya, Interfax reports, citing the department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory. The student was detained for disobeying the lawful order of a police officer and taken to the police department of the city of Goryachiy Klyuch (the village of Martanskaya - part of the city).

Bloomberg found out how the DPRK Cyber ​​is arranged Alexander Hassenstein / Getty images classes in a computer class at a school in Pyongyang, October 2007 Hackers from the DPRK participated in several high-profile cyber attacks of recent years: they are responsible for the hacking of the correspondence of Sony leaders (as a revenge for a comedy about Kim Jong-un) and for the global spread of the Wannacry virus.

February 8. Dodo Pizza, Svetlana Loboda and Nastya Rybka Main The police started a criminal case of drug trafficking on the Dodo Pizza network . According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 750 grams of N-methyl-adheson derivatives were found there. The case file has a statement on behalf of Catherine Pronina - the Council of Dodo Pizza in Lyubertsy. She claims that her signature was forged.

And there is a llama and a raccoon! Unicode consortium has adopted a new standard. In version 11.0, 160 new emojes appeared, including red and curly people, superheroes and supervillains, lobster, raccoon, lama, skateboard and a pirate flag. When exactly the new emoji will appear in phones and instant messengers is unknown.

The American sports magazine Sports Illustrated once a year (since 1964) releases the Swimsuit Issue - an issue about swimsuits and beautiful girls. The heroines of the issue and covers, as a rule, are models, sometimes famous athletes or pop stars. Among them are tennis player Serena Williams, figure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva, MMA fighter Ronda Rousey and singer Beyoncé.

The General Prosecutor's Office has an official account on Twitter. Usually it publishes links to publications on the department’s website. Something like this: But on the evening of February 8, readers of the account discovered an unexpected tweet: the Prosecutor General’s Office suddenly took up advertising a memory card for a romantic journey. The tweet sagged in the account for about half an hour, after which it was removed. Subscribers were surprised.

The court ordered the Russian Ministry of Finance to pay almost 23,000 rubles to Irina Kudinova, a resident of Krasnoyarsk, who posted a photo of an Easter cake and eggs on VKontakte, which local believers mistook for a phallic symbol. This is reported by the human rights group "Agora". Kudinova filed a claim for compensation for non-pecuniary damage for illegal bringing to administrative responsibility.

The day before the opening of the Olympics in South Korea A military parade dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the DPRK was held in Pyongyan. The parade took place the day before the opening of the Winter Olympics in South Korea and, as Western experts believe, was specially timed to take this event. Speaking at the parade, the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un, judging by the common guest of the record, did not mention the Olympics in a neighboring country.

The signature under the statement to the police, on the basis of which a criminal case was initiated on the sale of drugs in the Dodo Pizza pizzeria, was fabricated. Ekaterina Pronina, an investor in a pizzeria in Lyubertsy, who is listed as the applicant in this case, told VC about this. Pronina believes that the pizzeria's competitors could falsify the case. She intends to go to the police to protect her name.

Vadim Savitsky / Russian Defense Ministry Press Service / AFP / Scanpix / LETA On February 8, the Russian pilot Roman Filipov was laid to rest in Voronezh, days after his plane was shot down in Syria. Filipov made national headlines for killing himself with a grenade in order to keep himself out of enemy hands. According to the Interior Ministry, more than 30,000 people turned out to pay their respects. By executive order, Filipov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

Microblogging service Twitter for the first time in its history reported a quarterly profit. In the fourth quarter of 2017, Twitter posted a net income of $91.1 million. A year earlier, in the fourth quarter, the service reported a loss of $167.1 million. After announcing its first quarterly profit in its 12 years of existence, Twitter shares rose 25% in over-the-counter trading . In the first 15 minutes after the opening of trading on the Nasdaq, Twitter shares gained 21.5%.

Vadim Savitsky / The press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on February 8 in Voronezh was buried by the pilot Roman Filipov, who died in Syria when the militants shot down his plane . According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 30 thousand people came to the farewell ceremony. By decree of President Filipov, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.