The average price of the airbuilding in the economy class cabin in Russia in 2023 increased by 22.2%, RBC reports with reference to Rosstat's data. In December, the average cost reached 7.6 thousand rubles per thousand kilometers of flight. According to the publication, this is the most significant increase since 2008, when the average prices per year, according to Rosstat, rose 30.9%. In 2022, the cost increased by 15.6%, in 2021-by 5.97%.

The US Treasury Department announced that it has imposed sanctions on 17 Liberian-flagged bulk carriers and oil tankers for carrying Russian oil in violation of price ceilings. Also subject to sanctions was the UAE shipping company Hennesea Holdings, which, according to the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, owns the vessels subject to restrictions.

The Saratov Region police have drawn up an administrative report under the article on "public demonstration of symbols of an extremist organization" against a local resident who published photos with rainbow flags on Instagram. This was reported by the human rights organization "First Department".

Russian journalists issued an appeal in which they called for stopping the persecution of journalists from independent publications in Kyrgyzstan. The letter was signed by 50 journalists and individual media outlets.

The Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine, Alexander Kamyshin, said that the drone that attacked St. Petersburg on the night of January 18 was made in Ukraine. This was reported by the Ukrainian publication “Facts”. “We are capable of producing something that will cost anywhere from $350 a piece to something that will fly to St. Petersburg that night. This is made in Ukraine.

Russia’s Justice Ministry has included four Ukrainian organizations in its register of groups that either collaborated with those condemned by the Nuremberg trials or deny the crimes of Nazism, reports Russian state news agency TASS .

The channel of the author’s show of film director Nikita Mikhalkov “BesogonTV” has disappeared from YouTube video hosting. attention to this . drew Sota RusNews and Gazeta.ru write that when you try to open a channel in Russia, a message appears that the account is blocked “for numerous violations regarding discriminatory statements.” When you try to open a channel in Latvia, a message appears that the page is unavailable.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for the European Commission not to release frozen funds to Hungary until Budapest conducts reforms to meet the E.U.’s democratic standards. MEPs said they will “assess possible legal actions” against the Commission for its decision in December to unfreeze 10.2 billion euros that were earmarked for Hungary but were blocked in 2022 over human rights and judicial independence concerns.

The founder of the European University in St. Petersburg, sociologist Boris Firsov died at the age of 94, said political analyst Vladimir Gelman. Alexei KouPrianov / Wikimedia Commons Boris Firsov founded the European University in 1994 and became its first rector. He led the university until 2003, after which he became an honorary rector.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has included four Ukrainian organizations in the list of organizations that either collaborated with those convicted at the Nuremberg Tribunal or deny Nazi crimes.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 2,500 scholars have cut academic ties with Russia and moved abroad, according to an investigation by Novaya Gazeta Europe. The outlet’s journalists studied updates in the Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) database, which lists academic researchers. As of October 2023, more than 130,000 scholars with at least one Russia-related affiliation were registered on ORCID.

Daria Trepova’s husband demanded that the journalist of Roman Popkov confess to the organization of the murder of the “military commander” Vladlen Tatar. We talked with him Olga Maltseva / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Daria Trepova in court. November 15, 2023 In St. Petersburg, the consideration of the case of Daria Trepova ends - she is accused of the murder of the "military commander" Vladlen Tatarsky.

Russia’s Defense Ministry says that Russian forces have taken control of the village of Vesele in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. There is no independent confirmation of this information. Presumably, the Russian Defense Ministry is referring to the village of Vesele that lies north of Soledar. Since December 2023, the Russian army has been conducting a large-scale offensive in this direction.

The Moscow Office of the Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against the head of the interregional Uzbek community "Vatandosh" Usman Baratov, he is suspected of inciting hatred or enmity (clause "b" of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee.

Russia’s Western Military District court sentenced Maxim Asriyan, a nurse who worked in St. Petersburg, to eight years in prison for attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office, reports the St. Petersburg courts’ press service. Asriyan was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist attack and committing treason. He will spend the first 2.5 years in prison and the remaining sentence in a maximum security penal colony.