The United States shot down an unidentified balloon over Alaska. This was reported by the BBC, according to the White House. It flew at an altitude of 12,000 meters, its remains fell into the ice-covered sea spaces, spokesman John Kirby said. According to Kirby, the decision to shoot down the object of unknown origin was made by President Joe Biden. The US expects to pick up this debris.

The Russian Justice Ministry has put Russian singer Zemfira, ex-member of parliament Dmitry Gudkov, political scientist Abbas Gallyamov, Vladivostok activist Tatyana Namazbaeva, former Echo of Moscow reporter Sergey Aslanyan, analyst Sergey Shpilkin, head of the Violence.No centre Anna Rivina, and LGBTQ+ activist Alexandra Kazantseva on the foreign agent list, the agency said on its website.

The Ministry of Justice added to the list of “foreign agents” singer Zemfira, ex-deputy Dmitry Gudkov, political scientist Abbas Gallyamov, activist from Vladivostok Tatyana Namazbayeva, auto expert and former journalist of Echo of Moscow Sergey Aslanyan, analyst and political strategist Sergey Shpilkin, director of the Violence.net center Anna Rivina and LGBTQ activist Alexandra Kazantseva. This is stated on the website of the department.

Bookstore "Falanster" was unable to notify customers via SMS about the new book by Alexander Baunov "The End of the Regime: How Three European Dictatorships Ended". The mailing went through only when the name was removed, said on his Facebook page. Boris Kupriyanov, one of the founders of the Falanster bookstore, attention to his post . drew Meduza An employee of the store sent an SMS that the book was on sale to everyone who was waiting for the mailing list.

At the Istanbul airport, the police detained Mehmet Yasar Coskun, the architect and contractor for the construction of the 12-story Renaissance residential complex, which was completely destroyed by the earthquake. This is reported by the Anadolu agency. According to the publication, he planned to fly to Montenegro. LCD "Renaissance" was located in Antakya, Hatay province and included 250 apartments.

Putin after the Soviet regime called himself the lord of time Vladimir Putin in Volgograd. Photo: EPA-EFE / Dmitry Azarov / Sputnik / Kremlin Pool Mandatory Credit The Russian state has traditionally complex relations over time. The Romanov Empire, positioning itself as a European power, lived differently - in comparison with all of Europe - a calendar. Lagging at the same time by two almost weeks, which is symbolic.

Reply by journalists "Mediazons" and "important stories" On February 9, “Important Stories”, “Mediazon”, “Project”, “Present” and other publications issued investigations based on the email leakage of the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRCHC), a subsidiary of Roskomnadzor. The GRCHC collects on the Internet negative messages about Putin and on their basis draws reports, which he then sends to the security forces and ap.

Head of Russia’s Safe Internet League Ekaterina Mizulina said that following the league’s appeals to member of parliament Alexander Khinshteyn and Rosmolodezh organisation 23 links to resources containing “LGBT propaganda” were added to the banned list site. Coming Out, an LGBT initiative group that provides legal, psychological, and other help to queer people for free, was among the blocked sites, the organisation told Novaya Gazeta Europe.

Mobilized from the Russian Federation began to reproach the army leadership in “criminal orders” and negligence. How do the Russian authorities react to this? Spoiler: Almost nothing "As a thing: they took it, they wanted to - handed it out" On February 8, mobilized from the Samara region published a video message, in which Putin complained about the neglect of the commanders and asked to return them home.

The drug Molnupiravir, which is used in some countries to treat the coronavirus, may contribute to the emergence of more contagious strains of the virus. This conclusion, according to the journal Nature, was made by a group of scientists from the UK and the US after analyzing 13 million published viral genomes. According to the publication, the drug causes mutations in the viral genome, and this is its potential danger.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) detained one of the suspects involved in the kidnapping in 1997 in St. Petersburg. This was reported in a press release from the department. “It was preliminarily established that a 42-year-old man was forcibly put into a foreign car near the market, which drove off in an unknown direction. He was brought to the dacha plot of the organizer of the crime in the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region.

In Montenegro, on December 31, 2022, the “golden passports” program ended, which involved the issuance of citizenship for investments in the country's economy. This is stated in the report on the participation of the Montenegrin delegation in the meeting of the EU Stabilization and Association Committee in Brussels.

People's Artist of Russia Alexander Filippenko left Russia, his daughter Alexander Filippenko told Rain. The actor’s departure “is related to his position” regarding the war in Ukraine, she added. Now Filippenko lives in Vilnius. According to Alexandra, in May 2022, Filippenko published a photograph in which he was sitting at the table in the Ukrainian embroidery.

How people live on both banks of the Dnieper - liberated and occupied: the residents themselves say The shore of the Dnieper from Kherson. Photo: Lidia Mikhalchenko, especially for Novaya Gazeta Europe "Three whole houses remained on the whole street" Natasha, 44 years old, unemployed, naked pier - At the end of January, the mother buried. From the beginning of the war, she no longer got up. On the eve of death, I fed her from a spoon, my mother’s strength ended.

The Chechen Parliament adopted an amendment according to which the head of the republic in the Chechen Constitution is called "Mekh-Da" ("Mekhan Da"), Speaker of the Parliament Magomed Daudov said in his Telegram channel. As writes , in the literal translation “Mekhan Da” means “father of the region”, but it is used precisely in the meaning of “father of the people”.