Why do Russian lawyer portraits are still hanging in Russian ships Anatoly Koni at work in his office, 1921. Photo: Zoom Historical / Alamy / Vida Press February 9, 2024 turned the 190th anniversary of the birth of the greatest Russian lawyer Anatoly Koni. He was still called the “judicial conscience of Russia” during his lifetime, and at the same time he was pushed in every way from participating in loud and significant affairs.

Russian forces are using Starlink terminals produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to facilitate communication in occupied areas of eastern Ukraine, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine alleged on Sunday. The agency published an audio clip of what it said was an intercepted conversation between Russian soldiers appearing to confirm that members of Russia’s 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade were using Starlink devices in the occupied Donetsk region.

The Russian authorities again want to tighten control over social networks, forbidden foreign agents to receive income in Russia and creating a black list of bloggers. We talked with those whom it can touch Photo: Flickr The State Duma plans to prohibit Russian companies and citizens with advertising on the sites and on social networks of “foreign agents”, said Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the lower house of the Parliament of the Russian Federation.

71-year-old citizen of Ukraine Viktor Demchenko, accused of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code), illegal handling of explosives (Part 1, Article 222 of the Criminal Code) and participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) died. The corresponding entry appeared in his case file on the website of the Southern District Military Court. attention to this drew Memorial .

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed his Deputy Defence Minister Oleksandr Pavliuk to be the new commander of Ukrainian Ground Forces. Pavliuk, whose appointment was announced in a presidential decree published on Sunday, had been relieved of his duties as deputy defence minister on Saturday in anticipation of his “move to a new job,” a representative of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers said on Telegram.

150 years ago, director Vsevolod Meyerhold was born. He loved the revolution, but in the late 1930s his theater was closed, and he himself was shot Director of Imperial Theaters Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold, newspaper "New Time" for March 1913. Photo: FLHC MDB6 / Alamy “The last decisive” is the performance staged by Meyerhold based on the play of Vsevolod Vishnevsky in 1931. The performance of the upcoming war with Europe - and how 27 Soviet border guards die, but do not give up to the enemy.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine claims that the Russian military is using Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink satellite communication system at the front. This was reported in the GUR telegram channel. The intelligence service published a recording of a conversation between the Russian military, which the intelligence officers allegedly managed to intercept. In it, the men discuss that they were able to connect to Starlink.

Writer Dmitry Bykov responds to his fine for working with the ‘undesirable organisation’ that is Novaya Gazeta Europe Dmitry Bykov. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA-EFE Following my conversation with Boris Grebenshchikov on the Novaya Gazeta Europe YouTube channel, an administrative protocol was issued against me for collaborating with an undesirable organisation.

The Lenin Court of Yekaterinburg arrested Albert Yakupov for eight days, detained the day before during the campaign of relatives mobilized with the laying of flowers to the Black Tulip monument. This was his lawyer Ildar Sadykov was informed by the Elementary Vedomosti publication. Photo: "Evening Vedomosti" Yakupov was found guilty of the “organization” of an unauthorized rally (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Paul Lynch’s novel “The Song of the Prophet” about the dictatorship and the Civil War in modern Ireland, which received the Buker Prize, is released in Russian About the "Songs of the Prophet" (Publishing House "Foreigner") speak of a new bright anti -utopia. A sort of "Irish" 1984 "about the vulnerability of democracy in the face of an ever -returning totalitarianism. But in fact, Roman Lynch is not like anti -utopia. Its content is much more interesting and deeper than the declared.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky appointed the commander of the Ground forces of Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlyuk, who had previously been the deputy minister of defense. The corresponding decree was published on the website of Zelensky. Alexander Pavlyuk with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky / Photo: Administration of the President of Ukraine This is not the only rearrangement in the leadership of the Armed Forces.

On the night of February 11, Russian troops launched 45 attack drones across Ukraine. This was reported by the command of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to the military, we are talking about Shahed-136/131 drones. They were launched from Balaklava and Cape Chauda, ​​that is, from the side of occupied Crimea. The Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claims that they managed to shoot down 40 drones out of 45.

The Olympic Games were supposed to be a way to stop wars. But this did not happen Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936. Photo: UllStein Bild / Getty images 100 years ago, from January 25 to February 5, 1924, in the resort town of Shamoni in the French Alps “International Week of Winter Sports” was held, a year later, recognized as retroactively in the history of the Winter Olympics.

In Elista, the three employees of the Russian Guard were injured in an explosion in the apartment of a local resident who, a day before, blew himself in the center of psychological assistance. This was reported by TASS with reference to sources in the power structures of Kalmykia. Photo: SK The security forces came to the apartment for a search, but before they managed to start investigative actions, a “unidentified explosive device” worked.

In the presidential election in Finland, Alexander Stubb is preparing to win. He promises to place nuclear weapons in the country and deprive Finnish citizenship of the owners of Russian passports Former Finnish Prime Minister, presidential candidate Alexander Stubb. Photo: Roni Rekomaa / Bloomberg / Getty images In Finland - now the country of NATO with the longest border with Russia - the second round of the presidential election is working.