What we know about the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief’s rumored dismissal Oleg Petrasyuk / EPA / Scanpix / LETA On the evening of January 29, Ukrainian media reported that the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces (AFU), Valerii Zaluzhnyi, may have been dismissed. These reports were shared by several current and former members of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, as well as by news publications and Telegram channels.

MARS MEDIA One of Russia’s most famous 20th-century novels has returned to the Silver Screen. Infamously difficult to capture as a motion picture (more mystical observers even speak of a curse), Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” is back, reinterpreted by American-Russian filmmaker Michael Lockshin.

This is just one version of the failure. On January 30, many Internet users in Russia and abroad were faced with the fact that they could no longer open websites in the .RU domain zone. Among the resources with access problems, users named Yandex, VKontakte and Ozon. In addition, complaints were received about the work of the websites of large banks and marketplaces. Users abroad also had problems accessing Russian websites. Experts attributed the failure to problems with DNS.

The problem that caused disruptions in the operation of sites in the Russian domain zone has been eliminated, the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development reports. “The technical problem related to the global DNSSEC infrastructure, which caused the unavailability of sites in the .RU zone, has been resolved. Problems with the DNS may continue for some time until the updated data is distributed throughout the domain name system,” the department said.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada an updated version of the bill concerning mobilization, military registration and military service, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports. “This bill defines transparent rules for the mobilization process, as well as the necessary regulation of the rights of military personnel and those liable for military service,” the states department’s telegram channel .

Meduza’s interview with Boris Nadezhdin, the man hoping to replace Putin and end Russia’s war in Ukraine Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP / Scanpix / LETA Boris Nadezhdin speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Moscow. January 24, 2024. Until recently, few in the West had ever heard the name Boris Nadezhdin . But over the last two weeks, this plain-spoken political veteran has done the near-impossible: he’s introduced some suspense into Russia’s presidential race.

A bill on protecting the rights of “actual” families of deceased or missing participants in the war in Ukraine has been introduced to the State Duma, reported one of the authors of the initiative, Senator Andrei Turchak. “We are talking about relationships that were not registered at the Civil Registry Office before the SVO , but where in fact the serviceman played the role of spouse and breadwinner,” Turchak wrote on his Telegram channel.

The leader of the Bi-2 group, Yegor Bortnik (Leva), flew from Thailand to Israel, Mediazona reports, citing the group’s lawyer. The remaining members of the group, as reported in the official Bi-2 telegram channel, were denied “a previously agreed flight to Israel.” They remain in a migration prison in Thailand. Earlier, the band's lawyer told Mediazona that Russia demanded the deportation of three musicians who have only one citizenship - Russian.

Update: Two hours after promising an imminent solution to Tuesday’s Top Level Domain RU outage, Russia’s Digital Development Ministry announced that access was finally restored, though the agency warned that some DNS problems might persist while the updated data were distributed throughout the domain name system.

The organizers of the Bi-2 concerts in Thailand confirmed that the musicians were detained due to “incorrectly” executed documents - the band members were in the country on tourist visas, according to the telegram channel of the VPI Event company. “We would like to emphasize that responsibility for issuing visas in accordance with the terms of the contract lies solely with our company. Group Bi-2 is not responsible for the mistake made,” the organizers said.

Russian users in many regions of the country are complaining about disruptions in the mobile Internet service of a number of operators, as well as problems with access to some services and websites. The Downradar service, as Kommersant writes , records complaints about the work of MTS and Megafon operators. Among the resources with access problems, users name Yandex, VKontakte and Ozon. In addition, there are complaints about the work of the websites of large banks and marketplaces.

Mediazona told how people actually live in a city destroyed by the Russian army Vladimir Aleksandrov / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images War. Destroyed house in Mariupol. April 8, 2023 In the first months after the start of the full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine, Mariupol was almost completely destroyed. The city has become one of the symbols of the Ukrainian resistance of aggression.

Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / LETA McDonald’s, like many other foreign companies, announced that it would cease operations in the Russian market after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In mid-May 2022, it became clear that the Golden Arches would leave the country altogether. After McDonald’s pulled out of Russia, the fast food chain was rebranded as Delicious, Full Stop.

Hungary will support the decision to allocate 50 billion euros in aid to Ukraine, but on the condition that the EU countries approve this decision every year. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated this in an interview with Le Point. “We decided to make a compromise proposal: we do not agree to change the budget. We do not agree that we should allocate 50 billion euros, this is a huge amount. We do not agree that it should be granted for four years.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. More than once in 2024, Russia was blocked in Russia and telegrams - and even the entire mobile Internet. What will happen next? Since January 17, residents of different regions of Russia complain that they do not work with WhatsApp and Telegram messengers. In particular, malfunctions in the work of messengers were recorded in Bashkortostan , in the Far East, in Yakutia and other regions.