Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the State Duma to ratify the agreement on the extension of the Russian-American Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty (START, or START-3). The relevant bill has been published in the database of the State Duma. The contract is proposed to be extended for five years - until February 2026.

Vladimir Putin spoke to Joseph Biden today in what was the first phone call between the leaders of Russia and America since the U.S. presidential elections last November. The conversation was “businesslike and sincere,” according to the Kremlin’s official readout : “Vladimir Putin congratulated Joseph Biden on the start of his term as U.S. president. He noted that normalization of relations between Russia and the U.S.

Outside Tula, a missing man turns up dead while local police officers delay his search party with arrests Anton Vaganov / TASS Like many civic organizations in Russia, the nonprofit search-and-rescue group “Liza Alert” enjoys a sometimes fraught relationship with the state authorities, who are generally accustomed to executing or at least overseeing responses to public concerns.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 100 million cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded worldwide. More than 55 million infected people have recovered. This is evidenced by data from the American Johns Hopkins University, which tracks information on the incidence of COVID-19 in real time. Most of the cases were detected in the United States - more than 25 million people. In India, more than 10 million cases of infection were recorded, in Brazil - almost nine million.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with US President Joe Biden. It was the first conversation between the leaders of the two countries since the US elections. It was "businesslike and frank," the Kremlin said. Vladimir Putin congratulated Joseph Biden on taking office as US President.

The US Senate approved the candidacy of Anthony Blinken for the post of head of the State Department, reports Reuters. 78 senators voted in favor of his candidacy, 22 against. To be approved for Secretary of State, Blinken had to win at least 50 of 100 Senate votes. US President Joe Biden proposed appointing Anthony Blinken as head of the State Department at the end of November. Blinken, 58, is a longtime Biden associate.

As a result of unauthorized actions in support of Alexei Navalny, held in Russia on January 23, 20 criminal cases were initiated. This was announced by the official representative of the Investigative Committee (IC) Svetlana Petrenko, Interfax reports. According to her, the majority of cases were initiated under Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Use of violence against a representative of authority). The suspects were arrested as part of the investigation.

Alexey Navalny’s chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, lauds last weekend’s protests as a ‘triumph over fear’ and as a sign of things to come in Russia Evgeny Feldman for Meduza How big are the nationwide demonstrations led by Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s team? Did the turnout on Saturday, January 23, match expectations? Will Team Navalny drop another investigative bombshell before the next round of protests on Sunday, January 31?

Russian businessman Alexander Ponomarenko, who anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny named as the official owner of a billion-dollar “palace” supposedly built for Vladimir Putin on the Black Sea, hasn’t had any ties to the property for several years, his spokespeople told Forbes on Tuesday, January 26 . According to Ponomarenko’s press service, he withdrew from the project in March 2016 and doesn’t have any information on its current status.

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Showman Alexander Gudkov and singer Ivan Dorn became the new hosts of the Eagle and Tails travel program. This was reported by the TV channel "Friday!", Which airs the program. The new season of "Eagle and Tails" will begin on February 15. It will be the tenth in a row. For the first time in the years of the program's existence, two men will be its hosts, notes . Afisha It's not a dream!

Margarita Yudina, who was kicked in the stomach by a police officer during a rally on January 23 in St. Petersburg, was visited by employees of the prosecutor's office and, probably, guardianship authorities. After that, her condition worsened again. Lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov took her to the hospital. This was reported on the website of the association of lawyers "Team 29".

In the special detention centers of Moscow for those arrested under administrative articles, places ran out after the rally on January 23. This was reported to Interfax by a member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission (POC) Marina Litvinovich. “Today we visited special detention centers for administrative detainees, both are completely packed.

The Kremlin’s spokesman is still dodging questions about ‘Putin’s Palace’ Alexey Navalny / YouTube Russian President Vladimir Putin may have denied reports that he owns a billion-dollar luxury residence on the Black Sea, but that hasn’t put questions about the property to rest. During a press conference on Tuesday, January 26, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov continued to fend off questions about the evidence connecting Putin to the “palace.” Here’s what he told reporters.

Since January 22, a number of large public pages on VKontakte have begun publishing political memes criticizing oppositionist Alexei Navalny and the January 23 protests in his support. This was noticed on Twitter, TJournal writes. We are talking about a network of 148 publics, which are administered by VKontakte users Kirill Kragilev and Denis Safonov. Each community has between 100,000 and five million users subscribed to it.