At least 18 people were killed and 130 more were injured or injured as a result of a massive missile blow, which Russian troops struck in Ukraine on the morning of January 23. This was announced in the appeal, following the results of the 699th day of the war, was announced by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. According to him, the Russian army launched in the Ukrainian regions, in particular Kyiv and Kharkov, about 40 different types of missiles.

Turkey’s parliament voted on Tuesday to approve Sweden’s accession to NATO after months of blocking Stockholm’s bid to join the alliance, according to Bloomberg. After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signs Sweden’s application, Hungary will be the only NATO country that has not approved Sweden’s membership, despite repeated past vows that it would not be the last member to do so.

The Turkish parliament voted to ratify the protocol on Sweden's admission to NATO, Bloomberg writes. Now the document will be sent to the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is expected to sign it in the coming days. Thus, Hungary remains the only NATO member country that has not yet ratified Sweden’s application to join the North Atlantic Alliance, the agency adds. Sweden has applied to join NATO in the summer of 2022, along with Finland.

On January 23, Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) officers conducted searches and detentions of former political prisoners and relatives of political prisoners throughout the country, reports the human rights organization Viasna. According to the human rights activists, at least 73 people were either searched or detained. In a few cases, entire families were detained.

Video hosting YouTube blocked and deleted the channel of The Insider, a publication specializing in investigative journalism, along with all its content. Google's official response about the reasons for the blocking stated that The Insider Live channel "violates the policy on spam, scam and fraud," the publication's editors reported.

Municipal lawmakers in the Russian city of Perm unanimously voted on Tuesday to revoke the mandate of their colleague Sergey Medvedev, who spoke out against Putin and the invasion of Ukraine earlier this month, according to local media. “A person who doesn’t support the ideology of our state cannot be a deputy.

On January 23, KGB officers conducted mass searches throughout Belarus of former political prisoners and relatives of people convicted under political articles, the human rights project Viasna reports . According to human rights activists, they know the names of at least 73 people who were searched or detained today. It is noted that in some cases, entire families were detained. According to Mediazona.

A Hamburg court has upheld billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s lawsuit banning Forbes from claiming that the businessman “solved [Russian President Vladimir Putin’s] business problems,” reports news agency RBC, citing the court’s decision. The lawsuit was filed on February 27, 2023, prompted by a Forbes article called “Meet Putin’s Oligarchs Most Likely to get Slapped with Sanctions by Biden over Ukraine” published on February 2, 2022.

The Leninsky Court of St. Petersburg has sentenced Natalia Artemova, who was detained in November for a fight with a riot police officer at the Kosmonavt club during a concert of the Zero People group that was disrupted by the police. As the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg writes , Artemova was given a suspended sentence of one year with a probationary period of six months.

The new owner of the First Investment Bank (PINbank), which belonged to Russian businessman Evgeny Giner, is the State Property Fund of Ukraine. It received a block of shares in the bank in the amount of 88.89%. This was reported on the PINbank website. At the end of February 2023, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) of Ukraine confiscated the majority stake in PINbank in favor of the state. Giner filed an appeal, but it was rejected .

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Do film actors in Russia now be sure to support the war? It’s not enough just to be silent - even for stars of the level of Yarmolnik and Gorbacheva? On January 19, 2024, an interview with actor Leonid Yarmolnik was published at the State Information Agency of TASS, in which he publicly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

How Russian authorities have used the debate over what to do with Lenin’s body to further their own agendas Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / LETA On January 21, 2024, Russia marked the centennial of Vladimir Lenin’s death. In some respects, he’s remained a significant political figure in Russia, even in modern times. Since shortly after his passing, Lenin’s preserved body has (with a few brief exceptions ) rested in the Mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square.

The Perm City Duma prematurely deprived the Communist Party of the Russian Federation deputy Sergei Medvedev of his powers, who spoke out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, reports 59.ru. The decision was made unanimously - 33 deputies voted for it. “I consider our adoption of this decision today to be important and relevant. A person who does not support the ideology of our state cannot be a deputy.

Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov has proposed “ousting” Russian lawmaker Mikhail Matveev from the State Duma over recent statements in which he referred to Muslim migrants as “savages” and predicted violent clashes between Muslims and Orthodox Christians in Russia. Matveev’s remarks came during an interview he gave to pro-Kremlin blogger Pavel Ivanov in early January.

The main rivals of 2024 - Christopher Nolan and Yorgos Lantimos Universal Pictures Los Angeles announced applicants for the awards of the American Film Academy. Greta Gerwig, who shot the rolling hit “Barbie”, was left without a directing nomination, as well as the main role in the film - Margot Robbie. Leonardo DiCaprio, who played the central character in the film “Flower Moon killers”, Martin Skorsze, did not celebrate the Academy and the work.