The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Local Self-Government has decided to rename the urban-type settlement of Novgorodskoye in the Bakhmut district of Donetsk Oblast to New York, UNIAN reports. The decision was made based on an appeal from the regional administration, which noted that New York is the historical name of the settlement, which was used until 1951. The final decision on renaming will be made at a general vote in the Verkhovna Rada.

The Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow arrested a 11th grade student for seven days for participating in a protest action in support of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard Alexei Pryanishnikov. The publication does not specify which of the actions - on January 31 or February 2 - the student was detained.

At the Perm College, the student was explained why she should not participate in protests. Complete decoding Baba Mora / Shutterstock.com The third-year student of the Perm Regional Industrial College, 18-year-old Daria Kuznetsova on January 31 entered the action in support of Alexei Navalny.

The SOGAZ insurance group became the owner of 20% of Channel One, which VTB abandoned in the fall of 2020. RBC writes about this, citing sources. Officially, VTB withdrew from the capital of Channel One at the end of September, but the bank did not report to whom it sold its stake. As RBC found out, this share was first transferred to businessman Roman Abramovich, and then his structures transferred it to SOGAZ.

Moscow protesters report torture and intimidation in police custody Alexander Shcherbak / TASS On the night of Tuesday, February 2, protesters took to the streets in several Russian cities after a Moscow court sentenced opposition politician Alexey Navalny to two years and eight months in prison. In the Russian capital, the police response was violent and upwards of a thousand people were detained.

The Ministry of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Communications has developed a bill that involves the removal of data on the location of a mobile phone from communication secrecy. It is reported by TASS. According to the Ministry of Digital Development, such a decision will help organize the search for missing people more quickly. Every year, tens of thousands of people are lost in the country.

The editor -in -chief of the Mediazone received 25 days of arrest for retweet jokes. What we learned from the results of the study of "satellite V". Kirill Serebrennikov said goodbye to Gogol Center Good evening, This is the daily newsletter "Medusa", in which we talk about the main news of the day. Honestly, the news is not much better than yesterday. Nevertheless, we must somehow cope with this. Here we can do it.

(Relatively) a brief report from a court session Andrey Nikerichev / Agency "Moscow" Denis Konovalov On February 3, the fifth meeting in the Mosgorsud took place in the case of the operatives of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Western Administrative District of Moscow, who illegally detained the Medusa specialist Ivan Golunov illegally and threw him drugs.

Police in Moscow have detained a suspect in setting fire to a car of the National Guard during a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 31. This was reported on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow. The detainee was a 26-year-old man, formal charges have not yet been brought against him.

After landing Navalny, no one knows what to do - and what will happen next. We asked to answer these questions of historians and political scientists The press service of the Moscow City Court / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Simonovsky District Court of Moscow replaced the policy of Alexei Navalny as a conditional term with the real one. What will happen next is unknown (although the expectations are the most alarming).

The Kremlin’s spokesman comments on the unauthorized protests in Moscow During his daily press conference on Wednesday, February 3, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was predictably bombarded with questions about the protests that ensued after the court ruling in the case of opposition figure Alexey Navalny. The day before, a Moscow court had sentenced Navalny to two years and eight months in prison.

Readers of Medusa say that the verdict to Alexei Navalny means to them Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Simonovsky District Court of Moscow replaced the policy of Alexei Navalny as a conditional term with the real one. We asked readers to share with us what they feel after the sentence. Less than a day, the editors received thousands of letters. They are mainly about despair, pain and fear.

On Wednesday, February 3, Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court sentenced Mediazona editor-in-chief Sergey Smirnov to 25 days administrative arrest. This was reported by his lawyer, Fyodor Shirosh, from the human rights organization Apologia Protesta . Shirosh added that he plans to challenge the court’s ruling. Police officers in Moscow arrested Smirnov outside his home on Saturday, January 30, while he was on a walk with his young son.

The army was supported by the authorities of China AFP / Scanpix / Leta soldiers of the Myanmar Army in a military truck near the Hindu temple in Yangon. February 2, 2021 Between the government of Myanmar and the military, a long -standing conflict. The army de facto controlled the country The military was in power in Myanmar for almost half a century - from 1962 to 2011. The transfer of power to the civil government who managed the country by a military junta began only in 2011.

A resident of Arkanzas spoke on the online woman in oratory in front of other students, and they literally could not tear themselves away from the screens. Largely because the real battle turned behind the girl - her cat fought with the curtain, for which she caught her claws. The cat rolled up and so, but could not free herself. The hostess was so passionate about the performance that she did not notice behind her back.