The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for Russia to stop hostilities and withdraw troops from Ukraine. This was reported in the broadcast of the UN special session. A representative of 141 countries voted for the resolution, 7 spoke out against, and 32 abstained. Russia, Belarus, DPRK, Mali, Nicaragua, Syria and Eritrea opposed.

The Russian Defense Ministry again accused Ukraine of stepping up preparations for an invasion of unrecognized Transnistria. This is stated in the telegram channel of the department. “The implementation of the planned provocation by the Ukrainian authorities poses a direct threat to the Russian peacekeeping contingent deployed legally in Transnistria.

Producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years in prison on charges of rape. It is reported by Reuters. In late December last year, a jury in Los Angeles found him guilty of another rape and two other sexual offenses. A New York state court in March 2020 also sentenced Weinstein to 23 years in prison. The jury found him guilty on two counts of rape in 2013 and forced oral sex in 2006. In three more cases, his guilt was recognized as unproven.

A court in the United States sentenced singer Ar Kelly (performer of the song I Believe I Can Fly) to 20 years in prison on charges of producing child pornography and seducing minors. about it . writes CNN “19 years of the 20-year prison term will be served simultaneously with another sentence. One year will be served after serving the previous sentence,” the judge said. Kelly was found guilty of producing child pornography and three counts of soliciting minors in sexual activity.

Tens of millions of barrels of Russia-origin petrol products were switched between tankers near the Greek Bay of Lakonikos which allows traders to overcome EU sanctions, Bloomberg reports . According to the news agency’s estimates based on the vessel navigation data, at least 23 million barrels of Russian crude and refined fuel have been reloaded to different vessels since 2023 began. The investigation does not specify who supplies and buys Russian petroleum products.

A 72-year-old woman has been killed in shelling of the Russian village of Borisovka located in the Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported . “A projectile hit a private residential house. One woman born in 1951 has died. Her daughter received care after an ambulance arrived,” he said. According to him, the other projectile destroyed a different house. The building was empty, no one was injured. Shell fragments damaged two private houses. The village’s gas supply is interrupted.

“Important stories” learned about the creation of more than 100 new “certificates”, which Roskomnadzor prepared “foreign agents” to recognize Russian citizens. The information was transmitted to journalists by a group of Belarusian hackers "Cyberpartisana", which managed to hack the e -mail of the "Main Radio Frequency Center" (GRCHC) last year.

Tens of millions of barrels of Russian oil products have been transhipped near the Greek Lakonikos Gulf in circumvention of European Union sanctions. It is reported by Bloomberg. Based on vessel traffic data, the agency estimates that at least 23 million barrels of Russian oil and refined fuel have been transshipped off the Greek coast from one tanker to another since early 2023. The investigation did not say who is the supplier and buyer of Russian oil products.

The Russian government itself created a problem named "Eugene Prigozhin": how now the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defense will cope with the "Wishlist" of the head of the PMC "Wagner". Chronicle of the inner wictering Evgeny Prigozhin. Photo: screen video Between the owner of the PMC “Wagner” and the Ministry of Defense, the conflict does not subside.

Businessman Ruben Vardanyan has been removed from the office of PM of unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), the office of the republic’s President Arayik Harutyunyan reports . Harutyunyan “lauded Vardanyan’s efforts in both increasing international awareness about Artsakh and addressing many internal issues during the blockade”, the statement reads. Harutyunyan also reported that he offered the PM post to the Prosecutor General of Nagorno-Karabakh Gurgen Nersisyan.

As a result of the shelling of the village of Borisovka in the Belgorod region, a 72-year-old woman died. This was stated by the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov. “The shell flew into a private residential building. There is a dead woman, 51st year of birth. Her daughter received emergency medical care on the spot," he said. According to him, another outfit destroyed another house. There was no one in it, no one was hurt. The fragments also damaged two private houses.

What will Russia’s suspension of New START nuclear arms reduction treaty lead to? An interview with military expert Pavel Luzin Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles at a proving ground in Alabino. Photo: Dima Korotayev / Epsilon / Getty Images At the end of his recent address to the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin announced Russia was suspending its participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States.

February 23 - the tragic anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples. The correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Europe talks about what this day means for her family Frame from the movie "Cold", director Hussein Erkenov, 1991. On February 23, 1944, the largest deportation on ethnicity in the history of the Soviet Union began-the eviction of the Vainakhs from the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to the Kazakh and Kyrgyz steppes. In the course of L.

The court arrested the property of Viktor Medvedchuk's wife, Oksana Marchenko, worth more than $150 million. This was reported in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to the department, blocks of shares in three regional energy supply companies were arrested. Marchenko owned them through five offshore companies, the SBU said. The court also arrested two land plots, four residential buildings in Kyiv and Crimea, and 10 cars.

The main Russian athletes in the most part feel good a year after the start of the war - and basically continue to be silent about it. Review of "New-Europe" Russian athletes and other participants in the flash mob "Russia for sports!" In support of the Russian team at the rink in the VDNH Park, February 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov Only a year ago, sports fans in Russia were looking forward to the fast final of the Champions League in St.