Actor and former professional American football player Carl Weathers died on February 1 at the age of 76, Deadline reports, citing a statement from his family. According to this report, Weathers "died peacefully in his sleep." Weathers is best known for his role as Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films, who fought Sylvester Stallone's character. He also played the role of George Dillon in Predator and Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and Nicky the Devil Jr.

The Ukrainian government has informed the US presidential administration that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is going to dismiss the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, The Washington Post reported, citing sources. According to them, representatives of the White House did not support this decision, but did not object to the possible resignation of Valery Zaluzhny, saying that this was Zelensky’s sovereign choice.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation announced that Russia has decided to suspend the implementation of the plan to introduce a new classification of diseases - the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 11th revision (ICD-11). RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Health. “The decision...

Russia’s Justice Ministry has added six people to its “foreign agents” list: Oleg Orlov, human rights advocate and co-founder of Memorial Stanislav Kozlovsky, director of the Russian chapter of Wikimedia and former associate professor at Moscow State University Anton Kartavin, independent Novosibirsk City Council deputy Mikhail Chimarov, photographer and activist Nikita Sokolov, historian and former Yeltsin Center employee Sergey Stepanov, journalist The Russian Justice Ministry said that Orlov,

In the sample of the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, in addition to trimetazidine, for which the athlete was disqualified, they found a drug that improves anabolism (the formation of cells and tissues). this on reported Finnish broadcaster Yle January 30. The Russian media paid to this attention only now. According to Yle, the unnamed substance is not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), but the organization is considering banning it.

On Meduza in English’s birthday, readers from around the world share what our reporting means to them On February 2, Meduza in English turned nine years old . One year ago, just a few days before our eighth birthday, the Russian authorities designated Meduza as an “undesirable organization.” This label, which bans us from operating on Russian territory under threat of felony prosecution, was intended to put an end to our work.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the list of “foreign agents” ( .pdf ), including six people.

Representatives of The Way Home (“Put Domoi”), a Telegram channel run by Russian women advocating for their mobilized husbands to be sent home from the war in Ukraine, have announced plans to hold a protest near the Kremlin to mark the 500th day since mobilization was declared in Russia. The protest is planned for noon on February 3 in Alexander Garden near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.

On the request of the Russian authorities, the YouTube video hosting administration has blocked a video in Russia for the song “Smoke” by the musician Itsyk Tsyper (real name - Igor Tsyba). Attention to this was paid by the telegram channel Varlamov News. In other countries, the clip remained available. When trying to open a clip in Russia, a message appears that content is not available “at the request of state bodies”.

In school textbooks, organizations talk about terrorists. A tunnel of militants was found under the warehouse of agency products Ashraf Amra / Anadolu / Getty Images Palestinians at the UN School of the Palestinian refugee Affairs Building School in the Al-Strait refugee camp in the city of Gaza.

The Ukrainian military struck at least three Russian aircraft in a January 31 attack on Russia’s Belbek military airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea, reported Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yuriy Ignat. Ignat said satellite images and “obituaries in Russian online groups” were the “best confirmation.” “They themselves admit and publish information about the losses. At least three aircraft were there,” Ignat said. Crimea came under a large attack on January 31.

Director Quentin Tarantino has invited actor Brad Pitt to play in the film “The Movie Critic,” Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter report , citing sources. Deadline writer Mike Fleming noted that it is unclear what role Pitt will play, but suggested that he will get the lead role. At the same time, the industry publication Screen Rant writes that Tarantino previously wanted to invite an actor under 35 to play the lead role (and Pitt turned 60 in December 2023).

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has ruled to consider the merits of Ukraine's genocide case against Russia. This was reported by Reuters. In a lawsuit filed in February 2022, Ukraine asks the court to hold Russia accountable for distorting the concept of genocide to justify the attack. Russian authorities argue that the case does not fall within the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

The Golovinsky Court of Moscow arrested the author of the public page “Pre-revolutionary Adviser”, poet Vyacheslav Malakhov, until March 17 in the case of repeated “discrediting” of the army, reports OVD-Info. The reason for the criminal prosecution of the poet was an anti-war post in his Telegram channel, published in September 2023. Malakhov was detained on January 31, his apartment was searched.

Journalists from Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service, together with a team of volunteers, confirmed from open sources the deaths of 43,460 Russian military personnel who participated in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since the previous update on January 19, 1,176 people have been added to the list, including 15 military personnel with the rank of lieutenant colonel and above.