In 2022, Russian citizens bought 16.3 thousand houses and apartments in Turkey, RBC writes, citing official Turkish statistics. As the publication notes, this is more than in the previous six years combined - from 2016 to 2021, Russians purchased 16.2 thousand residential properties.

BBC News Russian points out that the Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities has a new entry, listing “PMC Wagner” as a joint-stock company. The corporation was added to the register on December 27, with a capital contribution of just 10,000 rubles ($145), the minimum required for establishing this type of entity. The number of shareholders and their names are not specified. The new company shares its corporate address with the PMC Wagner office building, which opened in St.

Four people were arrested by Moscow police when laying flowers by the monument to the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka. Yesterday, Moscow residents began to bring flowers to the Ukrainka monument, to commemorate the victims of the January 14 Russian missile strike in Dnipro. Two of the people arrested on site were there to lay flowers, reports OVD Info . The other two happened to be standing nearby.

The next package of EU sanctions against Russia will include measures aimed at combating circumvention of restrictions imposed earlier. This was stated by the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. According to von der Leyen, the new package "will focus on closing loopholes and doing away with circumventions [of restrictions]." The President of the European Commission also promised to envisage "enormous consequences" for those who bypass earlier imposed sanctions.

On the second anniversary of Alexey Navalny’s return to Russia and immediate arrest, his associates announced the launch of #FreeNavalny, a campaign that will “unite people around the world in their efforts” to free the politician from prison. The campaign will rely on publicizing the unlawful criminal prosecution that threatens Navalny with up to 35 years in prison, on nine different charges.

Police detained four people at the monument to Lesya Ukrainka in the center of Moscow, where a spontaneous memorial to those killed in the Dnieper appeared the day before. As reported by OVD-Info , two of those detained laid flowers, while the other two were just nearby. One of the detainees came to lay flowers with her dog. When the woman was detained, the police left the animal on the street (later the dog was taken by neighbors).

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will visit China. This information, published by Politico the day before, was confirmed on January 17 by a senior CNN source in the State Department. Blinken's visit is scheduled for February 5-6. During it, as expected, he will hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Are there pro -Russian politicians in Ukraine? And can Putin try to use them again? On January 10, Vladimir Zelensky deprived Ukrainian citizenship of Viktor Medvedchuk, pro -Russian politician and Kuma Vladimir Putin. In September 2022, the arrested in the homeland of Medvedchuk was transferred to Russia as part of the exchange of prisoners.

Deputies of the Belgorod city council elected Valentin Demidov as mayor of the city, the city administration reports. During the voting, 32 out of 36 deputies present at the meeting voted for Demidov. Demidov has been acting mayor since November 2022, when the previous head of the city, Anton Ivanov, resigned. Demidov began his political career in Ukraine.

The region does not have enough food and drugs. Azerbaijan denies the blockade TOFIK Babayev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Azerbaijani protesters on the only road that connects Nagorno -Karabakh with Armenia. December 26, 2022 On December 12, 2022, a group of Azerbaijani citizens who call themselves environmental activists blocked the Lachin corridor - the only road connecting Nagorno -Karabakh with Armenia.

The Apple Corporation introduced the updated version of the MacBook Pro. The flagship laptop was the first to receive the processors of their own development by Apple M2 Pro and M2 Max. The new MacBook Pro will be available in versions with a 4 and 16 -inch diagonal display. Depending on the configuration, the new MacBook Pro will receive up to 96 gigabytes of RAM.

The Bank of Russia began to answer questions from users on its official page on VKontakte. Attention to this was drawn by the publication "Rise". Representatives of the Central Bank comment on both serious topics relating to the essence of the organization's activities, its history or economic policy, as well as ridiculous or comic questions.

Director Vitaly Mansky talks about the most important premieres of the festival this year From March 2 to 9, Riga will host the 3rd International Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest/Riga" (IDFF Artdocfest/Riga). In 2022, Artdokfest, which was supposed to be held in Moscow, was disrupted -in 2023 to see the premieres of documentaries included in the program on the big screen in Russia will not work. Many of the Films of Artdokfest this year are associated with events in Ukraine.

The Joint -Stock Company "PMC Wagner Center" was registered in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Attention to this was drawn by the “Russian BBC Service”. The legal entity fell into the register on December 27, its authorized capital is the minimum 10 thousand rubles; The names and number of shareholders are not disclosed. The company was registered in the building of the Office Complex "PMC Wagner Center", which opened in St. Petersburg in November 2022.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has demanded that the recruitment of Serbian citizens into the Wagner PMC to participate in Russia's war with Ukraine be stopped. He said this in an interview with Serbian Happy Television, Reuters reports . "Why are you, from Wagner, inviting someone from Serbia [to join the PMC], even though you know that this is against our rules?" Reuters quotes Vucic as saying.