Russia claims to have captured the mining city of Soledar. Meduza explains what’s actually known and what it means for the war’s next phase. Libkos / AP / Scanpix / LETA Soledar, January 11, 2023 On January 11, the Wagner Group occupied a significant portion of Soledar, a small city in central Donbas. The city is likely to be captured in its entirety in the near future.

In Kyiv, in Shevchenko Park, a so-called “invincibility yurt” was built - a place where you can warm yourself, drink tea and charge your mobile phone in the event of a power outage in the city. The installation of the yurt is carried out by volunteers from the local Kazakh diaspora. Officially, the yurt will be opened on January 14 and it will work until the end of frost in Ukraine.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, the Internet supply was interrupted due to cable damage in the blocked Lachin corridor, the information headquarters of the unrecognized republic told Armenpress. The Internet communications operator claims that the cable was damaged precisely in that part of the corridor where the activists from Azerbaijan organized the blockade.

The Wagner Group has been using ordinary freight trucks to transport the bodies of its dead soldiers back to Russia from the battlefield in Ukraine, a popular Russian Telegram channel reported on Thursday.

The Hollywood actor, former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger took part in the new video “Shchedry Vechir” of the Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022. At the beginning of the video, Schwarzenegger says in English: “This is a powerful message to all the Ukrainian people. Especially now, this very difficult time. Everyone may have a dream. And everyone can put it to life.

A special prosecutor was appointed for the investigation Shawn Thew / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Updated . US Prosecutor General Merrik Garland appointed a special prosecutor for investigation in connection with the discovery of secret documents in the President of President Joe Bayden in Delaware and his office in the analytical center in Washington. Robert Hur, who, under the administration of Donald Trump, was the prosecutor of Maryland, was elected to this position.

A village in Russia’s Belgorod region has been left “on the front line” since the Russian military built a defense line dividing it from the rest of the region, according to local resident Sergey Yermakov. Belgorod Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov read Yermakov’s complaint aloud during his daily livestream on Wednesday.

Lawyer Vadim Kobzev spoke about the health condition of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who fell ill while in a penal colony's punishment cell. "The main positive news is that Navalny's condition has stopped deteriorating, he is being given antibiotics and extra boiling water. Two mugs a day," Kobzev wrote on Twitter.

The Court of Appeal in St. Petersburg released on bail of 30 million rubles the owner of the Rive Gauche network and the former co-owner of the Ulmart retailer, August Meyer, who was arrested in a fraud case in December 2021. The businessman's lawyer Oleg Tkachenko told TASS about this. According to him, the investigation into the criminal case of Meyer has been completed, now the defense is getting acquainted with the materials.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Nursultan Nazarbayev is deprived of huge privileges and even the title of Elbasy. Is this a punishment for the riots of a year ago? Is the name of the first president erased from the history of Kazakhstan? On January 10, the Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan recognized the Law on the First President of the Republic who has lost force.

The global “peace summit” proposed by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been scheduled for February 24, 2023, the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In an interview to Anadolu Agency, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar said that the summit is slated to take place at the UN headquarters in New York City. Ukraine, Bodnar points out, is ready for peace, and steps to achieving it have been outlined by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The bodies of the fallen Wagner PMC fighters are transported from the front line to Russian cities with the help of ordinary truckers. About this writes the publication "Caution, the news." Orders are placed by the Rostov company Disavtotrans, which acts as an intermediary. It clarified that they appear "almost every day, unfortunately." "Caution, news" gives details of one of the placed orders, which is required to be delivered to the Moscow region.

State Duma Deputy Biysultan (“Sultan”) Khamzaev promised to file a criminal complaint against Boris Grebenshchikov, lead singer of Aquarium and pioneer of early Russian rock music, now exiled in London. The deputy plans to appeal to the Investigative Committee in connection with an interview Grebenshchikov gave last year.

Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty Images member of the US Republican Party Kevin McCarthy celebrates the victory in the election of the speaker of the House of Representatives. January 7, 2023 On January 7, 2023, after four days and 15 rounds of voting, the House of Representatives nevertheless elected Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the Republicans faction. The main reason for the delay was his own one-party colleagues from the conservative wing, who voted against him for a long time.

Since ethnic violence in 2020, Dungans on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border have straddled two different worlds Story by Sam Breazeale for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart. The Chüy Valley spans the border between the Chüy region in northern Kyrgyzstan and Jambyl region in southern Kazakhstan. Since the late 1800s, it has been home to tens of thousands of Dungans, a predominantly Muslim people hailing from China whose language resembles some Mandarin dialects but is written in Cyrillic script.