The US Treasury Department has designated the Wagner PMC as a significant "transnational criminal organization." In connection with this, sanctions against the military company and its affiliated groups around the world will be expanded next week. This was announced at a press briefing by White House spokesman John Kirby. "These actions confirm the transcontinental threat posed by Wagner, including through ongoing serious criminal activity," Reuters quotes the US official as saying.

The Russian Ministry of Justice updated its list of “foreign agents,” which now includes the singer Monetochka (Elizaveta Gyrdymova) and Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the anti-corruption and anti-torture project Gulagu.net. The Justice Ministry claims that Monetochka received “support from foreign sources,” spoke out against the war, and raised funds “to support an unfriendly country — Ukraine.” Osechkin, the Ministry says, helped Ukraine develop protocols for treatment of prisoners of war.

The White House advises the Ukrainian authorities to refrain from launching a major offensive on the front until the last shipments of American weapons have been received by Kiev. This, according to Reuters, was reported to journalists on condition of anonymity by a senior official in the Joe Biden administration.

Police in Moscow have prohibited taking photos near the city’s monument to Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka, where an unofficial memorial for those killed in the January 14 missile strike on Dnipro has appeared in recent days.

Chechen officials have announced a plan to begin manufacturing military “Jihad-mobiles” at the ChechenAuto car assembly plant in Argun, Chechnya. On January 19, a group of Chechen officials met with the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade to discuss this prospect. While the ministry itself made no comment on the talks, the Chechen side told TASS that “Jihad-mobiles” will be tested by the Russian Special Forces University, also located in Chechnya.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation entered the singer Monetochka (Elizaveta Gyrdymova) and the founder of the Gulagu.net project Vladimir Osechkin into the register of "foreign agents". In addition, the list of “foreign agents” includes bloggers Vadim Kharchenko and Anton Ustimov, activist Ibragim Yaganov, Moscow City Duma deputy from Yabloko Daria Besedina, and the T9 NSK project for transgender people and their loved ones.

Moscow police are prohibiting taking photos near the monument to Lesya Ukrainka, where a spontaneous memorial to those killed in the Dnieper has appeared. This was reported to journalist Alexander Plyushchev by one of his followers who visited the memorial.

Challenging the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the man behind the unlawful case against his mother Zarema Musaeva, Musaeva’s son, the human rights advocate Abubakar Yangulbaev invited Kadyrov to release his mother and arrest him instead. Abubakar Yangulbaev is an attorney who previously worked with the Russian Committee Against Torture. His brother, Ibrahim Yangulbaev, is one of the leaders of the Chechen opposition movement Adat.

The Chechen authorities announced plans to launch the production of the Jihad Machine light military vehicle at the Chechenavto plant in Argun. According to TASS, on January 19, representatives of the Chechen government held negotiations on the launch with the leadership of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. According to a statement by the Chechen authorities, the Jihad Machine will be tested at the Russian Special Forces University.

In Samara, Igor Andreev, Acting Minister of Property Relations of the Samara Region, and Aleksey Mitrofanov, a member of the City Duma from A Just Russia, got into a fight. Both of them wrote statements to the police against each other, said State Duma deputy from the Samara region Alexander Khinshtein. The incident took place on January 17 at the Korzh coffee shop.

Human rights activist Abubakar Yangulbaev has offered to exchange himself with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for his mother, Zarema Musayeva, who has been under arrest for a year in a pretrial detention center in Grozny on charges of using violence against a police officer. "My mother's health has only gotten worse this year. She should not be held responsible for the actions of her sons.

The State Duma said that it was a "fake". The Ministry of Defense does not comment on anything On January 19, photos and videos with air defense installations in the center of Moscow went viral on social networks. A day later, the authorities did not explain what this meant. The Kremlin invited journalists to contact the Ministry of Defense, but the department itself did not comment on the situation.

The largest technological companies dismiss employees and reduce expenses, fearing a possible recession of the world economy. Meta* reduced thousands of jobs at the end of 2022. Other companies Alphabet (owner of Google), Amazon , Microsoft - began to announce dismissal in January. The abbreviations followed a significant expansion of technological companies against the backdrop of coronavirus pandemia, when their services were unusually in demand.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation organized inspections of the implementation of labor discipline in the subordinate theaters of Moscow. on the beginning of the checks , linking them to an interview with actor Dmitry Nazarov, who was fired from the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, presumably because of his anti-war position.

The press service of the office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in a M-Tac jacket during a trip to the Kherson and Nikolaev regions in November 2022 The Ukrainian brand M-Tac produces equipment for tourism and hunting, accessories for weapons, as well as army and tactical clothing, which is also worn by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. After the start of a full-scale war with Russia, he appeared at least three dozen times in public in M-Tac things.