The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of France and Canada called on the citizens of their countries to leave Belarus immediately. This is reported on the websites of the ministries. “In the context of Russia’s armed offensive in Ukraine and the closure of the airspace between Belarus and EU member states, any trips to Belarus remain formally inappropriate,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Russian ground forces on the border with Norway have been reduced by five times. This is reported by The Barents Observer, citing statements from the kingdom's intelligence. “Ground forces on the Kola Peninsula were reduced to one-fifth of their strength before the invasion of Ukraine,” Vice-Admiral Niels Andreas Stensenes, head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, told the publication.

Russia plans to carry out a coup in Moldova and bring people loyal to the Kremlin to power, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said during a briefing, as quoted by Radio Liberty Moldova. According to Sandu, Ukrainian secret services were the ones to make Moldova aware of Russia’s plan. The plan includes attacks on government agencies and hostage taking, which will be masked as protests led by opposition.

Three criminal authorities from the 1990s have already died in the war in Ukraine. All of them were recruited into the Wagner PMC. Reported by Bellingcat . 55-year-old Andrei Berezhnykh , a resident of Balakovo, Saratov region, died in the war in Ukraine at the end of December last year. This information was confirmed by the head of the Balakovo district Sergey Grachev. The Telegram channel "VChK-OGPU" wrote that Berezhnykh got to the front thanks to the Wagner PMC.

The BBC Russian Service has identified 1,082 conscripted Russians who died in the war in Ukraine, based on a list of dead Russian servicemen maintained jointly with Mediazona and a team of volunteers based on data from open sources. This was reported on the publication's website.

Roskomnadzor (RKN) included the website of the QIWI electronic payment system in the register of the organizers of information distribution (Ori). The Roskomskvoboda drew attention to this. Entering this register assumes that Qiwi will now be forced to maintain information about all the actions and interactions of users, as well as transmit it to the FSB at the first request.

Russian President Vladimir Putin began to use the aircraft of the presidential detachment less often and more often move on an armored railway special compartment. This is stated in the investigation of the Dossier Center. The train was prepared for the president back in 2014-2015, but the head of state began to constantly ride on it in the second half of 2021 - when the Russian army began to prepare for the invasion of Ukraine, investigators write with reference to sources close to Putin.

To the death of Vadim Abdrashitov Vadim Abdrashitov. Photo: Facebook Night call in the messenger - with a butt on the head. Vadim Abdrashitov died. Outstanding director, great citizen. This is my personal loss, personal grief. And it seems to be my business - to grieve. And I fulfill a professional duty, trying to write with a trembling hand what a guy he was, what a master and-at the very least-give an idea of ​​the scale of his artistic personality.

At a briefing, Moldovan President Maia Sandu announced Russia's plans to carry out a coup in the republic and bring people loyal to the Kremlin to power. Her words are quoted by Radio Liberty in Moldova. According to Sandu, the plan of capture was transferred to Moldova by the Ukrainian special services. It involves attacks on state institutions with hostage-taking, which will be disguised as opposition protests.

The last word of the Laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World Ales Belyatsky in the court of the Leninsky district of Minsk Ales Belyatsky. Photo: Belta On February 13, the last court hearing was held in Minsk before the verdict of the Nobel laureate Alesha Belyatsky and his colleagues from the Valentin Stefanovich’s human rights center and Vladimir Labkovich. “The court will be long, until spring,” wrote Valentin Stefanovich in early January.

Russia’s Supreme Court has deleted data on sentences imposed for crimes against military service, as Mediazona points out . Since 2014, Russia’s Armed Forces have been posting statistics on work of Russian courts and the rulings pronounced. One of the pages of the corresponding table featured data on sentences under different articles of Russia’s Criminal Code, journalists note.

Private military company (PMC) Wagner has posted a video featuring mercenary Dmitry Yakuschenko saying that he had been “forgiven”, as per the official Telegram of PMC Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s press service. Where and when the video was recorded is unclear. In the video, Yakuschenko thanks PMC Wagner for “the opportunity to fix my mistakes” and says he is ashamed for having said “a lot of bullshit” while in captivity.

What is known about Daniil Martynov, who was an assistant to Kadyrov and fought on his behalf in Ukraine - and now he became an adviser to the head of the Ministry of Emergencies and left for Turkey to “save people” Daniil Martynov and Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Yandexjen Daniil Martynov is a former employee of the FSB of Alpha, the main direction of which is “the fight against terrorism”.

The Supreme Court of Russia has deleted data on sentences for crimes against military service (Chapter 33 of the Criminal Code). This was brought to the attention of Mediazona. Since 2014, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has been publishing statistics on the work of courts and their decisions. On one of the pages of the table, data were collected on sentences under various articles of the Criminal Code, journalists say.

One of the main lessons from the war in Ukraine is that the world needs to finally ‘go green’, climate justice expert Naomi Klein says Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images Oil, like other fossil resources, often causes violence and wars. In 2003, the US started a war in Iraq, according to some, seeking to gain control of the oil fields. Twenty years later, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, financing it with money from oil and gas exports. Much has changed in the past year.