French President Emmanuel Macron, during a visit to the Netherlands, spoke about the possibility of transferring Western fighters to Ukraine. BFM TV writes about this. “In principle, nothing is prohibited,” Macron said. At the same time, he named several conditions for possible deliveries of aircraft.

The address delivered annually by Russia’s president before the parliament may take place in late February, report both TASS and Ria Novosti , citing sources in the State Duma. A TASS source claims that Putin might make his speech on February 20 or 21. Ria Novosti cites another insider, who specifically denies that the address might happen on February 24, the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

British-Australian mining company Rio Tinto apologized on January 30 for the loss of a capsule containing the radioactive nuclide cesium-137 in Western Australia. Reuters reports this. The capsule is a metal cylinder with a diameter of 6 millimeters and a height of 8 millimeters. It was part of a sensor for measuring the density of iron ore. The device broke down during transportation from the Rio Tinto mine to Perth, the capital of Western Australia.

The Russian consulate in Lithuania has denied a citizen’s application for a new Russian passport, reports the independent outlet Verstka, citing the applicant herself. Kristina Zavyalova is a Russian citizen living in Lithuania. Her husband is on the Russian federal Wanted list, in connection with allegedly spreading “disinformation” about the Russian military — a formula often applied to people who challenge the regime’s monopoly on facts about the war with Ukraine.

The message of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Federal Assembly may take place on February 20-21, 2023. This was reported by TASS and RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the State Duma. “The message [president] may take place on February 20 or 21,” said TASS interlocutor. Another source of the agency called the high probability that Putin would make a message on the twentieth of February.

The Russian Consulate in Lithuania refused to issue a new foreign passport to Russian woman Kristina Zavyalova, whose husband was put on the wanted list in Russia in the case of spreading “fake news” about the Armed Forces. Zavyalova herself told the publication “Verstka” about this. The woman has a residence permit in Lithuania. Her current Russian passport expires in July 2023.

The Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives allocated almost 17 million rubles for the Rodniki patriotic song project, which is supervised by Russian singer Oleg Gazmanov. The money was received by the charitable foundation "Equality of Opportunities". to this Attention was drawn by the Sirena publication, created by associates of Alexei Navalny.

A post appeared on Alexei Navalny’s telegram channel that the politician’s cellmate in the punishment cell was sent to the medical unit for a day for the fifth time, and then returned back. “Remember my tractor driver , whom the jailers throw into my cell and release only to spend a day in a hospital filled with flu and Covid patients? No, well, you can do it once, well, twice, well, three times, if you are absolutely demonstratively lawless.

Responding to Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who remarked that Chechnya deserves to be an independent state, Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov posted a Telegram video with sharp criticisms of “certain incompetent European politicians.” Morawiecki expressed his position on Chechen independence when interviewed by the French LCI TV network.

It turns out ... well, judge for yourself "Plus studio" Two episodes of the series Fandorin have already been released at Kinopoisk. Azazel ” - film adaptation of the first novel by Boris Akunin about the detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin. The film version differs from the literary original in that all its events are, as it were, transferred to modern Russia.

The FSB has arrested three eighth-grade students who allegedly sabotaged the railway by damaging the tracks near Moscow. According to the detectives, the high school students from the suburban town of Chekhov followed instructions from an unknown Telegram contact, who allegedly offered to pay them for damaging the tracks. To get paid, the teenagers documented their work on video. The authorities are now deciding whether to press charges.

What Medusa learned from the new Yandex leak. We warn: a lot of mat 🤬 Last week there was a large -scale leak of the source code of Yandex services (the company itself confirmed it). The unknown released the archives of the Yandex internal repository . Having studied them, you can learn many new details about how the largest Russian search engine is arranged, which in recent years has been constantly criticized for cooperation with the Kremlin.

Photo Fayaz Aziz / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta in the Mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshavar occurred. According to the authorities, at least 95 people were killed, more than 150 were injured. Most of them are police officers, since the mosque is located in the fenced territory where the police office and the buildings of other state bodies are located. Pakistan Prime Minister Shakhbaz Sharif said that an explosion was arranged by a suicide bomber.

Vladimir Putin will visit Volgograd this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, Pavel Zarubin, a Kremlin correspondent for a state-owned news network, reported on Sunday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later confirmed the news. Neither said which day the visit will take place. According to local media , Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin and Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov will also visit the city this week.

FSB officers detained three eighth grade students who damaged railway tracks in the Moscow region. This was reported to TASS by the department's department for Moscow and the Moscow region. The detainees live in the town of Chekhov near Moscow. According to investigators, through telegram they came into contact with unknown people who offered them money to damage the tracks. The teenagers completed the task by damaging “transport infrastructure facilities” on the Kursk railway section.