Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny received a million dollars as an inheritance from an American of Ukrainian descent, Gregory Stepanets, The New York Times writes, citing the Stepanets family. Information about the death of a US resident named Gregory Stepanets in October 2022 can be found in the public domain.

The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (“FSIN”) has received a government order to set up 24 new penal colonies in the Russian-annexed regions of Ukraine. The order was signed by the Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Following the order, 12 penal colonies are to open in the Donetsk region, seven in the self-proclaimed Luhansk “republic,” three in the Russian-controlled part of the Kherson region, and two more in Zaporizhzhia, where a “settlement-type colony” is also to be established.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has been instructed to create 24 penal colonies in the regions of Ukraine annexed after the start of the full-scale war. This is stated in a decree of the Russian government, which was brought to the attention of the Parliamentary newspaper. It is planned to create 12 penal colonies in the self-proclaimed DPR, seven in the LPR, three in the annexed part of the Kherson region, and two in the annexed part of the Zaporizhia region (and one penal colony).

In a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov told him that 25 residents had been killed, and 96 more injured, as a result of Ukrainian shelling since the start of the war (which he called a “special military operation”). “Our adversary, Ukraine, is shelling peaceful civilian towns,” said Gladkov. The governor emphasized that the victims’ families receive the same amount of financial compensation as the families of killed and wounded Russian troops.

Mobilized from the Yaroslavl region, who said that they allegedly want to accuse them of desertion due to leaving their positions on the orders of the command, stopped communicating. The telegram channel "Place of Power Yaroslavl" writes about this. A relative of one of the mobilized said that he had not contacted since last week.

How a convicted murderer became a decorated ‘war hero’ in Russia Story by Nina Abrosimova . Abridged translation by Sam Breazeale . In the summer of 2022, recruiters from Russia’s Wagner mercenary group began traveling to prisons in search of convicts to fill out its ranks. Occasionally, even the group’s now-infamous founder, Evgeny Prigozhin , would show up to address prisoners in person, promising freedom and money in exchange for six months of fighting in Ukraine.

Human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov explains how arbitrary and cruel law enforcement is reducing Russian society to paranoia and paralysis Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS One of several hundred protesters arrested on September 24, 2022, during anti-mobilization protests in Moscow.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to transfer German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Der Spiegel reports this without citing sources. There is no official confirmation of this yet. According to the publication, we are talking about the transfer of at least one company of Leopard 2A6 tanks from the Bundeswehr warehouses. Germany is also ready to agree to Ukraine receiving Leopard tanks, which are in service with other European countries. Kyiv has long asked its Western allies for tanks.

As a result of Ukrainian shelling of the Belgorod region, 25 civilians were killed and another 96 were wounded. This was stated by Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Ukraine, the enemy, is shelling peaceful settlements. We have 25 people killed and 96 wounded," TASS reports Gladkov as saying.

The White House is leaning towards handing over American Abrams tanks to the Ukrainian army, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed Washington officials. This move is aimed at making Berlin decide to supply Kiev with German Leopard 2 tanks from its own warehouses, and also agree on the intention of other European countries, which are armed with Leopard, to transfer these tanks to Ukraine.

In Moscow, they began to remove signs from KFC restaurants. Photos of this began to circulate on social media. In place of the KFC signs, the workers are installing Rosticʼs signs. The owner of the KFC brand, the American corporation Yum! Brands, sold the rights to the franchise due to the war in Ukraine. Under the terms of the deal, the buyer (the Russian company Smart Service Ltd., which was a local partner of Yum! Brands) undertook to rebrand the outlets and retain the staff.

And most of the nominations in the comedy "Everything is everywhere and at once" Allyson Riggs / A24 Films / AP / Scanpix / Leta frame from the movie "Everything is everywhere and at once." In the center is a nominee for Oscar for the best female role Michelle Yeo The American movie academy announced the Oscar Award. The most nominations - 11 - received the painting “Everything everywhere and at once” directors Dan Kvan and Daniel Shainint, including she claims to be a reward for the best film.

The hands of the Doomsday Clock, which symbolize the threat of a global catastrophe, have been moved 10 seconds closer to midnight. Now they show 23:58:30. The creators of the Doomsday Clock cited Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the associated increased risk of nuclear escalation as the main reason for moving the arrows forward.

Photo Lisi Niesner / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta near the Russian embassy in Berlin opened an installation in the form of a schizo camera. This is a copy of the penalties existing in Russian colonies. In one of these insulators over the past six months 10 times, the opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was serving time in Russia, was sent 10 times. The author of the installation was the brother of politician Oleg Navalny (it is he who is depicted in the photo).

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In Turkey, the presidential elections and the opposition were coming rally to overthrow Erdogan. And she has a real chance to do this. No, right? On January 23, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Sweden should not count on his support when joining NATO. The reason for this was the protest with the burning of the Qur'an - it was arranged by the ultra -right Swedish politician near the Ankara embassy in Stockholm.