Representatives of the Republican Party blocked in the Senate (the upper house of the US Congress) a bill providing for a package of national security measures worth $118 billion. According to Reuters, 49 senators voted in favor and 50 against. The bill, in particular, provides for the allocation of 60 billion dollars to help Ukraine, 14 billion to help Israel, and 20 billion to strengthen the US-Mexico border, notes The New York Times.

The priest of the Moscow Church of Cosmas and Damian on Stoleshnikov Lane, Hieromonk John (in the world Giovanni Guaita ), announced on Facebook that he is leaving Russia for Spain. "I am publishing this post at the very moment when I am leaving for 'another foreign land' - in a few hours I will fly via Istanbul to Malaga. Perhaps Spain will soon become the main place of my ministry for some time," the priest wrote on the evening of February 7.

Residents of Udmurtia on the evening of February 7 published recordings on social networks showing high flames of fire caused by the explosion. The authors of the video admitted that the explosion occurred at the Votkinsk plant test site in the village of Yagul, located 12 kilometers from Izhevsk. Attention. There is swearing in the video. The Unified Duty Dispatch Service of the Zavyalovsky District of Udmurtia told TASS that they had received a request from the Votkinsk plant.

Russian Post has stopped ground delivery, that is, by road and rail, to 23 European countries, according to the company’s website. the first to draw attention to this RBC was . The list of countries included Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Sweden.

A court in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People's Republic” (“DNR”) has sentenced 33 Ukrainian military personnel to terms ranging from 27 to 29 years in a “strict regime” prison colony. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the defendants were found guilty under articles related to cruel treatment of civilians, murder, attempted murder, and deliberate damage to property.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has published the reasons for its decision in the doping case of 17-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who was disqualified for four years for doping. The 129-page document ( .pdf ) is posted on the CAS website. The court's press release said that CAS found Valieva's version that she received the drug trimetazidine with her grandfather's dessert untenable.

Update: Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that Russian air defenses shot down five aerial targets on approach to Belgorod during a second attack around 7:50 p.m. local time. According to preliminary information, no one was injured. Several houses and an apartment building were reportedly damaged. Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that Belgorod was attacked by rockets from a RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launcher at around 4:30 p.m. local time.

Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.6% in 2023, according to the first Rosstat estimates published on February 7. According to the statistics department, the GDP amounted to 171 trillion 41 billion rubles at current prices. GDP growth in 2023 turned out to be higher than the estimate of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, which estimated growth at 3.5%. the same assessment on January 1 Russian President Vladimir Putin gave , citing government data.

The organizers of the Russian project Kinky Party announced that they are suspending their events in Moscow due to the fact that they received a warning from government authorities. A message about this appeared in the project’s telegram channel. “We received a warning from government agencies that it is impossible to hold our parties in the previous format.

A court in the self-proclaimed DPR sentenced 33 Ukrainian soldiers from the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy and the 17th Tank Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to prison terms ranging from 27 to 29 years in a maximum security colony. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the defendants in the case were found guilty under articles of cruelty to the civilian population, murder, attempted murder and intentional damage to someone else's property.

The duet is accused of bribing the jury and disrespect for the mother Teresa, which they mention in their song Ruslan Kanuka / Ukraine / Future Publishing / Getty Images Jerry Heil and Alyona Alyona during national selection for Eurovision-2024 in Kyiv. January 11, 2024 Popular Ukrainian singers Alyona Alyona (Alena Savranenko) and Jerry Heil (Yana Shemaeva) won the national selection for Eurovision 2024 with the Teresa & Maria track.

Russia’s Western Military District court sentenced Andrey Vasyurenko, a student from Russia’s Republic of Karelia, to nine years in a penal colony for “incitement to treason,” reports news outlet RBC. The court found the student guilty of coercing terrorist activities and preparation for incitement to treason by defecting to the enemy’s side. Vasyurenko will spend the first 2.5 years of his sentence in a prison, and the rest in a high-security penal colony.

A 26-year-old woman from Chechnya, Seda Suleymanova, who was forcibly returned to the republic after escaping from her home there, may have been killed by relatives in an “honor killing,” two separate sources told human rights group SK SOS. On February 6, SK SOS filed a petition with Russia’s Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor’s Office demanding an urgent investigation into these reports.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Belgorod was shelled with an RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket system at around 16:30 local time. The ministry accused the “Kiev regime” of attempting to carry out a “terrorist attack.” Over the territory of the Belgorod region, as the Russian side stated, air defense systems on duty destroyed seven Vampire MLRS rockets.

Those who protest against the arrest of the governor are in danger? Do I need to delete all the posts of “I/we Furgal” from social networks? We answer the most alarming questions Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" The movement “I/we Sergey Furgal” can declare extremist and ban on Russia. On February 22, the corresponding claim of the prosecutor of the Khabarovsk Territory will be considered by the Khabarovsk Regional Court-the Human Rights Project “OTD-Info” drew attention to this.