According to the Prosecutor General's Office, Compelson “supplies intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies of various countries, including the United States, with software that allows them to access, research and analyze information on electronic devices, including remote data.” The Czech company was also accused of transferring licenses to the Ukrainian army for programs and hardware that can gain “access to information contained in mobile phones and smart watches, social network

The Russian authorities have decided to toughen penalties for “inciting hatred or enmity,” accompanied by justification of violence or threats of its use. The Ministry of Justice initiated the changes, and the government commission on legislative activities approved this proposal on January 20, interlocutors in the Cabinet told Vedomosti. The changes are aimed at criminalizing actions for which administrative liability is currently provided, with the exception of cases of multiple offenses.

On Monday, President Trump pardoned nearly all of the rioters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol. His decision appears to apply to people charged with minor, nonviolent offenses that day as well as those who committed violence. In addition, Trump focused in the first hours on the decisions of the previous administration, canceling 78 executive orders from Joe Biden in the first hours, including an order on expanding gender identity designations.

The investment agreement between the Russian company and the port of Tartus in Syria was canceled, the director of the Tartus customs, Riyad Judy, told the Syrian newspaper al-Watan, which was noticed by “Important Stories” * . He also stated that workers employed at the port will return to the control of the Syrian side, and all income from the port's activities will be used for the benefit of the Syrian state.

The Pacific Fleet Military Court sentenced Nikita Shevchenko, a resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, to seven years in prison in the case of armed hostage taking, Mediazona * found a case file on the court’s website. He will spend the first two years in prison, and the rest of his term in a maximum security colony. In March last year, Shevchenko, in a state of drug intoxication, threatening with a knife, forbade his friend to leave the apartment.

The FSB directorate for the Altai Territory reported the detention of an 18-year-old technical school student in Barnaul in connection with an attempt to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office, RIA Novosti reported.

The lawsuit was filed by Roskomnadzor in the Supreme Court, the basis was the absence of the “foreign agent” marking in two news items on the website that mentioned politician Boris Vishnevsky * and the human rights group SK SOS * . “Roskomnadzor regarded this as an abuse of media freedom, despite the fact that the editors immediately corrected the error after warning,” noted the human rights project “Word to Defense.” The Union of Journalists of St.

Attorneys general from 18 states sued President Trump on Tuesday to block an executive order that would refuse to recognize U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants as citizens, the opening salvo in what will be a long-running legal battle over the Trump administration's immigration policies, The New York Times reports. The cities of San Francisco and Washington DC joined the suit, filed in Federal District Court in Massachusetts.

Oil and gas revenues to the treasury increased last year by 26% compared to 2023 and amounted to 11.1 trillion rubles, as follows from data on the execution of the federal budget published by the Ministry of Finance, which drew the attention of the telegram channel Faridaily .

The regional governor Vasily Anokhin announced the drone attack in Smolensk. “Roof fires were observed on the ground and on the roofs of individual buildings as a result of falling UAV debris. The windows of residential buildings were also damaged,” he wrote, adding that there were no casualties, but without specifying where the debris fell.

Exactly how much aid this order will affect is not yet clear, since Congress has already appropriated money for many of the programs that must be spent.

“My compatriots, who fled political persecution and imprisonment in Putin’s Russia, who legally sought asylum in the United States and did not commit any crimes, are ending up in American prisons en masse.