Russia’s federal penitentiary service (“FSIN”) has published a new report on the country’s prison population. According to the agency’s figures, the number of Russia’s incarcerated people has finally stabilized, after a record drop registered last November. According to new data, 433,000 people were kept in Russia’s detention centers, jails, and penal colonies as of January 1, 2023. This is only 6,000 people fewer than the November 2022 figure, which marked a drop of 23,000 over just two months.

The Ivanovo District Court of the Amur Region sentenced activist Vladislav Nikitenko to three years in prison, finding him guilty of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army and five episodes of contempt of court. The activist's lawyer Roman Bokov told the Sota telegram channel that the prosecutor requested three years and two months in prison for his client. The case against Nikitenko stemmed from ten anti-war posts he posted on his Facebook between April and May.

The Federal Penitentiary Service has published statistics showing that the reduction in the number of prisoners in Russia has returned to normal after several months of active recruitment by the Wagner PMC . Mediazona drew attention to this. According to updated data, by January 1, 2023, 433 thousand people were held in Russian pre-trial detention centers, prisons and colonies.

Maria Revyakina left the post of director of the state Theater of Nations, which she headed since 2012. Natalya Mazur, who was previously deputy director, was appointed to her place. The theater's press service emphasized that Revyakina left of her own free will. Revyakina herself told RBC that the resignation letter was signed on January 20.

The British authorities plan to transfer 2.3 billion pounds sterling (about 2.8 billion dollars) proceeds from the sale of the Chelsea football club to Roman Abramovich to a charity fund to help victims of the war in Ukraine within a few weeks. This was reported by The Telegraph newspaper, citing its sources in the government.

Ankara demands that Stockholm give her Kurdish activists and political opponents of Erdogan Erdem Sahin / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Protesting tourniques of firefires before the Consulate General of Sweden in Turkey. The action takes place in response to the burning of the Qur'an by the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. Istanbul, January 23, 2023 Sweden and Finland in May 2022 submitted a joint application for joining NATO.

OZ SUGITAN / US TRANSPORTATION COMMAND / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta loading Bradley infantry fighting vehicles into the transport ship. On January 30, 60 such BMPs went to Ukraine as part of the next assistance package. Charleston Military Port, North Carolina, January 25, 2023 One of the main centers of the United States on the study of public opinion by Pew Research has published the results of a fresh survey about the attitude of Americans towards the help of Ukraine.

Alexey Navalny, the imprisoned opposition politician serving a sentence in Russia’s Vladimir Region, writes that he is struck by the memoirs of Anatoly Marchenko, a Soviet-era dissident whose experience of the Gulag mirrors Navalny’s own life in the penal colony. Anatoly Marchenko died in 1986, after a 117-day hunger strike in support of political prisoners in Russia.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that simplifies implementing terrorist threat alerts across Russia’s regions. The Russian law provides three levels of terrorism alerts that give local authorities specific emergency powers, from a moderate “blue” alert to a critical “red” alert level. Under earlier legislation, the authorities could set a region on terrorism alert for up to 15 days. Now, once declared, an alert will remain in effect until canceled.

Politician Alexei Navalny, serving a sentence in Vladimir's maximum security colony, compared his prison experience to the life of Soviet dissident Anatoly Marchenko, who died in 1986 after a 117-day hunger strike to free all political prisoners. In particular, Navalny compared the practice of using a punishment cell in modern and Soviet Russia.

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The prosecution is seeking to sentence the Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov to nine years in a penal colony, for allegedly spreading “fake news” about the Ukraine invasion. Nevzorov has consistently criticized Putin’s government for starting the war. He has also been merciless towards Russian society, blaming it for complicity in the invasion.

On January 28, the Russian TV channel TNT showed the 2019 comedy film “Eduard the Harsh. Tears of Brighton”, cutting out footage from it with Maxim Galkin and Ivan Urgant. The telegram channel “producer from bg” drew attention to this. Also, the lines disappeared from the film: “The party will tell us to the right, we will immediately go to the right. We go to the right for a just cause, but they will say, we’ll go to the left,” which was read by the poetess Larisa Rubalskaya.

During the debate in Moscow's Basmanny Court, a representative of the prosecutor's office demanded that journalist Alexander Nevzorov be sentenced in absentia to nine years in a general regime penal colony in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army . The prosecution is also asking the court to ban the journalist from publishing on the Internet for four years, TASS reports.