Relatives of journalists Alexander Rastorguev, Orkhan Dzhemal and Kirill Radchenko, who were killed in 2018 in the Central African Republic, asked not to erect a monument at the site of their deaths with money from businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin . As reported by Dozhd, the relatives of the journalists sent a letter with their request to Russian President Vladimir Putin, CAR President Forstin-Archange Touadera and the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin.

The 45th US President Donald Trump's team of lawyers representing him in his impeachment trial said he did not call on his supporters to violence shortly before hundreds of people stormed the Capitol on January 6. This is reported by Reuters, referring to the position of the defense, sent before the start of the proceedings in the Senate. What is Trump accused of?

The Telegram messenger became the most downloaded mobile application in the world in January, said the platform’s founder Pavel Durov. Durov did not specify how much the messenger's audience had grown. In mid-January, he reported that the number of active Telegram users had exceeded 500 million people.

The European Court of Human Rights has urgently ordered Russia to allow independent doctors, lawyers and relatives to see Saleh Magamadov, 20, and Ismail Isayev, 17, who were forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya, where authorities say they have confessed to aiding terrorists. The ECHR considered that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the health of Magamadov and Isaev, Novaya Gazeta reports, citing the Russian LGBT Network, which is helping the two Chechens.

The owner of a two-story house in Freiburg, Germany, which politician Alexei Navalny rented while he was in Germany, said that the journalists of the Rossiya 1 TV channel who filmed the story about the villa were tricked into it. The owner of the house, whose name has not been released, told the Dozhd TV channel that the film crew of Rossiya 1 rented a villa for the weekend, posing as tourists from Belgium. So, the author of the plot, Anastasia Popova, used the French surname Bourt.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry makes its TikTok debut with videos about Alexey Navalny and ‘Sputnik V’ Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova At the end of last week, both the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Emergency Situations Ministry joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok.

The Mediazone Head editor was reduced by the arrest for a joke of up to 15 days. We understand the third wave of coronavirus. And terrible toilets in Russian places of imprisonment Good evening, This is the daily newsletter "Medusa", where we talk about the main news of the day. And on Mondays - also about what happened over the weekend. Today there will be a lot of absurd news. Let's start with the absurd in a good way: see the best commercials from the Super Bowl .

Russian authorities are discussing a new package of social benefits for Russians amid protests in support of Alexei Navalny and on the eve of the State Duma elections scheduled for September 2021. This was reported by Reuters, citing sources familiar with the discussion. One of the sources said that the total amount of payments could be about 500 billion rubles, the second estimated them at 0.5% of GDP (that's about 580 billion).

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In 2021, the pandemic will continue due to new coronavirus strains? Will the vaccines will not stop them? Answers to new questions about pandemia Since mid -January, in Russia, the Pandemia of Koronavirus has declined - in any case, according to official figures. On February 8, 15,916 new cases of infection were identified , most traditionally in Moscow.

Russian college student leaks recording of a heated exchange with her school’s administrators, who threatened her academic future after she was spotted at an opposition protest Baba Mora / Shutterstock.com On January 31, eighteen-year-old Darya Kuznetsova, a junior at a technical college in Perm, joined a local protest to demand freedom for the jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny.

On February 8, the Polish authorities held a video conference, which was attended by representatives of many Western countries and two associates of politician Alexei Navalny - the head of his election headquarters Leonid Volkov and the executive director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation ( FBK ) Vladimir Ashurkov. Representatives from the European Union, Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Ukraine also took part in the two-hour video conference, Reuters reported.

More than 180 actors, directors, writers, scientists and public figures signed an open appeal calling for bringing the legislation on rallies in line with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and guaranteeing citizens the right to peaceful assembly. The text of the appeal was published by Novaya Gazeta, it is also posted on Change.org.

The Moscow City Court has reduced the jail sentence handed down to Mediazona editor-in-chief Sergey Smirnov to 15 days, following an appeals hearing on Monday, February 8. Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court sentenced Smirnov to 25 days administrative arrest on February 3, after finding him guilty of repeatedly violating the rules for holding public events (article 20.2, section 8 of the Russian Administrative Code).

The Moscow City Court has reduced the term of administrative arrest of the editor-in-chief of Mediazona Sergei Smirnov from 25 to 15 days. The judge rejected the arguments from Smirnov's complaint, considering his guilt proved, at the same time, the judge considered that the court of first instance did not take into account the role of the Editor-in-Chief of Mediazona in organizing the action and his work as a journalist.

Germany, Sweden and Poland each expelled one Russian diplomat in response to the expulsion of their diplomats from Russia. Germany and Sweden declared persona non grata employees of the embassies in Berlin and Stockholm, Poland - an employee of the Consulate General in Poznan. The foreign ministries of the three countries published their decisions almost simultaneously.