The owner of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that he is ready to "give" a victory in court to journalist Alexey Venediktov , with whom the businessman was suing because Venediktov called him "the owner of the Wagner PMC." Prigozhin's statement was distributed by his press service. "There was a time when I had to go and sue Venediktov and others because there was a conspiratorial need to say that the Wagner PMC does not exist," Prigozhin said.

On January 19, videos and photographs appeared on social media, allegedly showing Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery systems mounted on the roofs of several buildings in Moscow. The authenticity of the videos and photos has not been confirmed.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree changing the rules by which independent theater and music groups can receive state support for creative projects. In the current rules , in paragraph 13, they added a provision that organizations that are “in the list of organizations and individuals in respect of which there is information about their involvement in extremist activities or terrorism” cannot count on the grant.

The US Coast Guard claims to have located a Russian vessel off the coast of Hawaii, in the US Exclusive Economic Zone, which is believed to be collecting intelligence data. The department noted that employees have been monitoring the Russian ship for several weeks, and are also coordinating their actions with partners from the US Department of Defense. The US Coast Guard released a video that allegedly shows a Russian spy vessel.

Sociologist Dina Khapaeva on how Russia’s ‘death cult’ led to the war in Ukraine Sergey Karpukhin / TASS A mosaic at the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces in Kubinka, Moscow region In late November, at a meeting with “ soldiers’ mothers ,” Vladimir Putin told a woman whose son had purportedly died in Ukraine that “we all leave this world sooner or later,” and that her son “didn’t leave this life in vain” because he “accomplished his mission” rather than “dying from vodka or something.”

Activists have filed a complaint with the Serbian prosecutor's office demanding that a criminal case be opened against the Wagner PMC and those who support its activities in recruiting Serbian citizens to fight in the war in Ukraine, Belgrade lawyer and head of the human rights group "October" Cedomir Stojkovic told Reuters. The activists' appeal mentions the Russian ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko, and the head of Serbian intelligence, BIA, Aleksandr Vulin.

The Russian censorship authority Roskomnadzor has developed a list of criteria for blocking online content as “LGBT propaganda.” According to the Russian news outlet Vedomosti , websites can be blocked if their content presents “nontraditional sexual relations” as attractive; presents non-heterosexual relationships as equally valuable for society, compared to “traditional” heterosexual relationships; justifies the preference for non-heterosexual relationships; attempts to convince the audience

The main thing from the investigation of Time Gabby Jones / Bloomberg / Getty images The ChatGPT of the American company Openai, like other chat bots with artificial intelligence, studied on texts from open sources-an almost endless base with examples of how a person communicates. The problem is that the Internet is replete with racist, toxic and generally cruel content - and it is obviously necessary to filter for the ethical and effective operation of the neurobot.

On January 19, several videos and photographs appeared on social media that allegedly showed Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun systems installed on the roofs of several buildings in Moscow. The authenticity of the published materials has not been confirmed.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. What can make Putin let go of Navalny out of prison? We are talking about the campaign begun by the associates of the opposition to release him On January 17, the associates of Alexei Navalny announced the start of the #freenavalny campaign . Its goal is to combine the “efforts of people around the world” in order to achieve his liberation.

Former banker and Ukrainian intelligence officer Denys Kireyev was killed because, in the first days of the war, there was “no unified coordination” between Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said in an interview with Baltic news website Delfi. Podolyak is also a member of the Ukrainian delegation to talks with Russia. “It was the first days of the war.

(Yes, alcohol is harmful in any quantity) Alberto Ortega / Contacto / Zuma Press / Scanpix / Leta In Canada, it is now recommended not to drink alcohol at all In mid -January 2023, the Canadian Center for Addraction and the use of psychoactive substances updated its recommendations for alcohol use - now their main message sounds like this: no matter how much you drink, it is better to drink less. This kind of recommendation is a rarity .

Will he go to the opposition and will he try to become the president of Ukraine himself? Alfredas Pliadis / Alamy / Vida Press Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Alexei Antystovich resigned . Since the full -scale invasion of Russian troops in February 2022, he has become one of the most recognizable media persons of the Ukrainian authorities.

The New Mexico State Attorney's Office will file criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin who shot cameraman Galina Hutchins during the filming of Rust. The New York Times writes about it. Death of Galina Hutchins Cinematographer Galina Hutchins died on the set of Rust in October 2021 after being shot from a prop gun that turned out to be loaded with live ammunition. The gun at the time of the shot was in the hands of Baldwin, he himself claimed that he did not pull the trigger.

"BBC" told how in Russia they are judged by "military" articles Anatoly Maltsev / EPA / Scanpix / Leta In September 2022, the eve of mobilization announcements in Russia in the Criminal Code urgently made amendments that significantly tighten responsibility for “crimes against military service”. Among them are articles on non -fulfillment of the order, resistance to the boss, unauthorized abandonment of the part and desertion.