Thibault Camus / AP / Scanpix / Leta President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on the evening of February 8 after a visit to the UK arrived in Paris. In the Champs Elysee, he was met by French President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts, who specially flew from Berlin. Until that moment, Zelensky only once left Ukraine since the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of the country. In December 2022, he visited the United States.

The UK government will accelerate the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine to ensure its delivery to the front within weeks, not months or years. this at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, writes BBC News. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said According to Sunak, the British Challenger 2 tanks will arrive in Ukraine in March.

The department of Roskomnadzor is hidden behind this ridiculous abbreviation, which writes denunciations on “foreign agents”, hides Putin’s health data and forces Yandex to lie about the war Ivan Kleimenov for "Medusa" In November 2022, the Cyberpartizana hacker group from Belarus announced that she hacked the internal network and pumped more than two terabytes of documents and letters of employees of the main radio frequency center (aka FSUE GRCHC)-units of Roskomnadzor, performing control and

Wagner Group recruiters seek new fighters, but Russian prisoners are no longer interested Olga Maltseva / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Visitors at the entrance of the PMC Wagner Centre in Saint Petersburg on the day of the building’s grand opening. November 4, 2022. Story by Mediazona’s Anna Pavlova . Abridged English-language version by Sam Breazeale .

In a joint new investigation, the independent media projects Verstka and Mozhem Obyasnit (“We Can Explain”) have shown that Evgeny Prigozhin’s catering contracts with the government have expanded dramatically since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, Prigozhin’s various catering companies serving schools and hospitals in Russia won government tenders worth 91 billion rubles, or $1.24 billion.

The US Treasury Department has removed singer Grigory Leps from the sanctions list. The corresponding message appeared on the website of the department. Leps appeared on the sanctions list under various names, including Grigory Lepsveridze and Grisha Leps. What is the reason for his removal from the list, the Ministry of Finance does not specify. The agency blacklisted Leps in 2013.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Saakashvili is now achieving his release from a conclusion in Georgia. Is he on the threshold of a new stage of his political career or is it, on the contrary, her finale? On February 6, the court in Tbilisi refused to delay the execution of the punishment or to free Mikhail Saakashvili from the guard of the former President of Georgia. This was asked by the lawyers of the politician.

The United States declassified several more documents on how to build relations with Moscow. This time - from 1993 Bandphoto AG Ency / Vida Press Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton. July 1994 On February 7, the national security archive at the University of George Washington published three secret documents related to Russia dating from 1993.

Lawyer Mikhail Benyash was accused of distributing materials from “foreign agents” due to a repost from the satirical telegram channel “Neural Meduza”. He himself wrote about this in a telegram. Benyash published screenshots of the protocol drawn up by Krasnodar Criminal Investigation Department operative Viktor Golubev, who investigated his Telegram channel.

The main thing from the investigation of the publications "Layout" and "We can explain" Anadolu Agency / Vida Press Founded by businessman Evgeny Prigozhin PMC Vagner in 2022 turned out to be one of the key participants in the full -scale war in Ukraine. Against this background, the influence and income of Prigozhin has grown significantly, it should be from a joint investigation of “layout” and “we can explain”.

"Medusa" says what this means against the background of the new offensive of the Russian army Viacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Alexey Reznikov at a press conference in Kyiv. February 5, 2023 Since the beginning of 2023, Vladimir Zelensky has been conducting personnel permutations within the government and his office. Among the others, his team was left by Alexei Armorovich - one of the most recognizable figures of the Ukrainian authorities.

UCLA economist Oleg Itskhoki talks about Russia’s economy under sanctions, why it ‘failed to collapse,’ and the crisis around the corner Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / LETA A Moscow petroleum processing plant, December 30, 2022 Last year marked the first time in history when international sanctions were imposed on an economy as large as Russia’s. The results have been impressive.

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) investigating the downing of flight MH17 in the skies over Donbass in 2014 "has strong grounds to believe" that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally sanctioned the delivery of a Buk anti-aircraft missile system to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which then fired a missile at the Malaysian Boeing. This was stated by representatives of the JIT at a press conference in The Hague on February 8, as reported by AP.

Explains the economist Oleg Itskhoki (project Re: Russia) Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Moscow Oil Refinery, December 30, 2022 2022 became abnormal for the Russian economy. The war and sanctions, it seemed, should rapidly bring the country into a crisis, but the disaster did not happen. On the contrary, in paradoxically, the economy was more resistant to external shocks than many experts predicted. In the new report of the expert platform Re: Russia “worse than the crisis.

Liya Akhedzhakova, the 84-year-old star of Russian film and theater, told Novaya Gazeta that Moscow’s Sovremennik theater, where she had worked for nearly half-a-century, has decided to remove its production of D. L. Coburn’s “The Gin Game” from the repertoire. Akhedzhakova’s role in the “The Gin Game” was her final role at Sovremennik.