A criminal case has been opened against Pussy Riot member Lucy Stein for "fakes" about the Russian army, Mash reported on February 4. On February 6, a RIA Novosti source in law enforcement agencies also reported this.

The German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection issued licenses to German military companies to export 178 Leopard 1 A5 tanks to Ukraine. This was reported by the German Ministry of Defense. “How many Leopard 1 A5 tanks will actually be delivered to Ukraine depends on the necessary repair work,” the department said. They emphasized that the tanks will be repaired with the participation of Germany's partner countries.

Part of a five-story residential building in Efremov, in the Tula region, collapsed, killing five people, according to local emergency services. They say the accident was caused by “malfunctioning gas equipment.” The Ministry of Emergency Situations says that five people were rescued and two remain trapped under the building’s rubble. The Telegram channel 112 claims that up to ten residents may remain trapped.

Russian authorities have blocked the website of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), says digital rights organization Roskomsvoboda. No reason for the blocking has been reported. In January, a Moscow court granted the Russian justice ministry’s request to terminate MHG activities.

In the city of Mārupe, near Riga, a fire broke out at a factory belonging to the company Edge Autonomy, which manufactures drones. The fire started around 3:00 pm local time. After four hours it had been contained, but not extinguished. Four people were injured. Police are investigating the cause of the fire. The department’s preliminary information does not suggest that it was the result of arson. Edge Autonomy, which is headquartered in California, supplies drones to the U.S.

The website of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) was blocked in Russia. The Roskomsvoboda project drew attention to this. They noted that the site was blocked with all domains and subdomains. The reason for the access restriction is not reported. At the end of January, the Moscow City Court satisfied the claim of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to terminate the activities of the MHG.

Moscow State University’s (MGU) website no longer includes any mention of Maria Pevchikh. The journalist and chief of investigations for Alexey Navalny’s team studied in the university’s sociology department. Pevchikh posted about the disappearance on Twitter, writing “my alma mater has refused me.” The university’s website used to host a page from 2010 congratulating Pevchikh, who was then a student, on being selected as head of the Russian national delegation of the 2010 G8 Youth Forum.

In the city of Marupe near Riga, a fire broke out at the factory of Edge Autonomy, which manufactures drones. This was reported by the publication Delfi. The fire was reported at 15:14 local time. Approximately four hours later, the fire was localized, but the extinguishing of the fire continues. As a result of the fire, four people were injured, writes Par drošību. The police launched an investigation into the cause of the fire.

The Investigative Committee of the Tver region has opened a criminal case for failure to comply with the requirements for “foreign agents” against Artyom Vazhenkov, coordinator of the election monitoring organization Golos and host of the YouTube channel Avtozak LIVE. “This was expected. I’m the first to have a criminal case opened against them.

Elizabeth Cook / Pa Wire / Pa Images / Scanpix / Leta David Carrick (right) in court. Figure of the artist Elizabeth Cook. February 6, 2023 The court in London sentenced the former employee of the city police, David Carrick, who found himself guilty of sexualized violence against 12 women. The 48-year-old Carrick will have to spend at least 30 years in prison before he could ask for early release. The former policeman committed crimes for 17 years - from 2003 to 2020.

Navalny associates have found foreign assets belonging to Mkrtich Okroyan, the chief designer of the Soyuz factory, which produces, among other things, engines for Kh-22 missiles. In mid-January, one such missile partially destroyed a residential building in Dnipro . The factory has not come under Western sanctions. The investigation revealed that Okroyan’s 28-year-old daughter, Anna, owns a mansion in Surrey, in the UK, which was purchased in 2020 for six million pounds (over 7 million USD).

The Investigative Committee of the Tver Region has opened a criminal case under the article on failure to fulfill the duties of a "foreign agent" against Artem Vazhenkov, coordinator of the "Golos" movement and host of the YouTube channel Avtozak LIVE. As noted by human rights activist Pavel Chikov, this is the first criminal case in Russia under this article in the new version. "This was to be expected. I was the first person against whom this criminal case was initiated.

There is no longer any mention of Maria Pevchikh on the website of Moscow State University - the head of the investigation department of Alexei Navalny’s team studied at Moscow State University at the Faculty of Sociology. Pevchikh wrote about the disappearance of information on Twitter. On the disappeared page (at the time of writing, a copy of it was available in the Yandex cache ) there was a message that “a 5th year student at the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University. M.V.

Russian media write that he was amputated one or both feet because of the gangrene Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS skater Roman Kostomarov as a sorceress Brungilds at the premiere of Ilya Averbukh’s ice show “The Wizard of the Country Oz” in Luzhniki. Moscow, December 29, 2022 The Olympic champion in the ice dancing Roman Kostomarov, who was in intensive care with pneumonia in January, amputated both feet. This was announced by the source of TASS.

A conversation with Ruben Vardanyan, the state minister of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, about the humanitarian crisis that looms without international action Edgar Harutyunyan / PAN Photo / AP / Scanpix / LETA Ruben Vardanyan in his office in Stepanakert. January 2023. Interview by Lilia Yapparova . English-language version by Sam Breazeale .