Your browser does not support the audio element. War reporting in Ukraine with The Washington Post’s Kyiv bureau On May 11, 2022, The Washington Post announced that it was establishing a new bureau in Kyiv with Isabelle Khurshudyan leading coverage as Ukraine bureau chief.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow banned Priest John Koval, a cleric of St. Andrew the First-Called Church in the Moscow district of Lyublino, from serving. The corresponding decree is published on the website of the Moscow diocese. The priest was forbidden to conduct services "until the end of the consideration of his case in the disciplinary commission at the Diocesan Council of the city of Moscow," Kirill's decree says.

Novaya Gazeta Europe reports that Russians left the country 24.3 million times in 2022, citing FSB data. That figure includes a total of 8.4 million visits to Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Mongolia in 2022. This is 4.7 million more than the number of visits to the same countries in 2021. The greatest number of people left Russia, either permanently or temporarily, in the third quarter, that is, after mobilization was announced in Russia.

The Russian Ministry of Justice updated its register of “foreign agents,” which now includes the writers Elena Prokasheva (Elena Malisova) and Katerina Dudko (Katerina Silvanova), authors of the book Summer in a Pioneer Tie, which was pulled from stores in 2022 after a new law banned “LGBT propaganda.” The updated “foreign agents” list also includes the blogger Nikolay Sobelev; the journalist and host of the YouTube channel Populyarnaya Politika (Popular Politics) Alexander Makashenets; and

Residents of Russia traveled 24.3 million times outside the country in 2022, Novaya Gazeta Europe reports, citing data from the Russian FSB. Calculation methodology The FSB of Russia takes into account all trips of citizens of the Russian Federation outside the country, that is, if one person went abroad twice, then both trips will be taken into account in the statistics. The FSB does not disclose data on the entry of Russians back into Russia.

Ambassadors of the EU countries have agreed on maximum prices for Russian oil products, the Swedish representation in the EU Council reported on Twitter. EU countries have agreed to cap the price of premium-priced Russian diesel fuel at $100 a barrel, Bloomberg sources said . The price cap for less expensive Russian oil products, such as fuel oil and some types of naphtha, will be $45 a barrel.

Slavoj Žižek on Putin’s expansionism, Western complicity, the denial of death, and preventing a global ultra-conservative turn Sahan Nuhoglu / Pacific Press / LightRocket / Getty Images The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek spoke with Meduza about the Russia-Ukraine war, framing it as part of a global ideological conflict, in which Vladimir Putin himself is befriending other authoritarian regimes to create a new, ultra-conservative axis of global power.

A former prisoner fled his Wagner unit, but now fears revenge from mercenaries Ivan Noyabrev / TASS A Wagner fighter in Soledar, Ukraine, January 2023 Since last summer, Kremlin-backed tycoon Evgeny Prigozhin has traveled around Russia’s penal colonies, recruiting inmates into the Wagner Group ranks, in exchange for pardons and cash payments.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of "foreign agents". The list includes the authors of the novels "Summer in a Pioneer Necktie" and "What the Swallow Is Silent About" Elena Prokasheva (Elena Malisova) and Ekaterina Dudko (Katerina Silvanova).

The US Department of Defense has announced that it will provide Ukraine with a new $2.175 billion military aid package. The full list of what will be included in the package was published by Foreign Policy journalist Jack Dech. The list includes Hawk anti-aircraft missile systems, HIMARS missiles, and Javelin anti-tank missile systems. Also on the list are 155-millimeter artillery shells, mortar ammunition, 181 mine-protected armored personnel carriers, and 2,000 anti-tank missiles.

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released from prison in Tehran, Variety reports, citing a statement by his wife, Tahereh Saeedee. Two days before his release, Panahi, 62, went on a hunger strike to protest his continued detention. In October 2022, the Iranian Supreme Court overturned the director's six-year prison sentence for "propaganda against the system," but Panahi remained in prison.

The Pentagon is afraid to knock down the device - and that's why Larry Mayer / The Billings Gazette / AP / Scanpix / Leta a balloon photo taken on February 1 The US military has been tracking a balloon belonging to China over the northern part of the country for the past few days. The Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, because of this, canceled the visit to Beijing, scheduled for February 5-6.

Rapper Yung Trappa (real name Vladislav Shiryaev) died on February 2 at the age of 27, according to the artist's Telegram channel. “Vladislav died at home, in the family circle, being close to his loved ones, from cardiac arrest,” the report said. The St. Petersburg edition of Fontanka reported that the body of Yung Trappa was found on the morning of February 3 in his apartment in the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg.

In the European parliament, the Forum of Free Peoples of Russia was held. Its participants want to divide the country into several dozen states. Report "Medusa" In Brussels on January 31, a one -day “Forum of Free Peoples of Russia” was held - the fifth in a row and the first most representative: it was held in the building of the European parliament with the participation of European parliamentarians.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request to arrest businessman Alexander Gusov, suspected of extortion on an especially large scale, RIA Novosti reports . The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow reported , without naming names, that “the head of a well-known PR agency” coordinated the work of a group that “blackmailed citizens by publishing false negative materials.” TASS claims that we are talking about Gusov.