The governors of the Vologda, Samara and Smolensk regions denied information about their death after the appearance of a video with dipfaces on the Internet, which said that they died. Attention was paid to the Telegram channel "Bloody lady". According to the authors of the channel, all the videos were generated by neural networks and decorated as releases of television news show. The first of his death on February 20 was the head of the Samara region Vyacheslav Fedorishchev.

The Kremlin may allow the use of 300 billion dollars from frozen assets in Europe to restore Ukraine after the war. It is reported by Reuters with reference to three sources. The interlocutors of the agency emphasized that discussions are preliminary. According to one of them, Russia can distinguish two -thirds from frozen assets to restore territories under the control of Kyiv. At the same time, Moscow wants to spend the remaining third on the reconstruction of the occupied regions, he adds.

A military-themed billboard in Moscow. Photo: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV The details of a Russian Defence Ministry database containing information on 166,000 Russian soldiers wounded during the war in Ukraine were revealed by US-funded news outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on Friday.

In Lesosibirsk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory against a 14-year-old teenager opened three criminal cases for false reports of mining of schools. This was reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Criminal cases were initiated under an article on knowingly false report on the act of terrorism (part 2 of article 207). The teenager was chosen by the measure of restraint in the form of a subscription about non -departure and proper behavior. He faces up to five years in prison.

The Georgian society responds to unprecedented repressions by the authorities with unprecedented examples of solidarity Collisions of protesters with the police for shares demanding new parliamentary elections, Tbilisi, Georgia, February 2, 2025. Photo: Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta There are fewer freedoms in Georgia: to suppress the protests, the Georgian Dream adopted laws that are even tougher than in Russia and Belarus.

Photo: Alexander Vislotsky for "Medusa" The Ministry of Justice was updated by the register of “Ino -Agents”, Ilya Azar, journalist of Novaya Gazeta Europe, fell into it. This was reported on the website of the department. According to the Ministry of Justice, the Azar disseminates “inaccurate information” about the decisions and policy of Russia and “information aimed at the formation of a negative image” of the Russian army.

Vladimir Rumyantsev. Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazona A Russian amateur radio operator who rebroadcast independent news about the war in Ukraine on a pirate radio station he set up has been released from prison after serving a 2.5-year sentence for spreading “false information” about the Russian army, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Friday.

The most interesting feature films with Berlinal: the new Richard Linklater with Itan Hawk, the drama with Marion Cotiacyar and the “substance” from Norway Marie Leuenberger in the film Mother's Baby, 2025. Photo: Freibeuterfilm / Berlinale There is always a through topic at film festivals - when films from different programs affect similar problems.

The security forces ignored this for almost two months Several men from Kamensk-Uralsky abducted four girls and mocked them for several hours on a car wash. The probable reason is a refusal to courtship. This is written by BAZA , E1 and Caution, News. According to them, in Kamensk-Uralsk, the Sverdlovsk region, a group of five young people abducted several students because of the refusal of one of them to enter into relations with 21-year-old David Anashkin.

The former commander of the evacuation department of the wounded 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the RF Armed Forces Alexei Zhilyaev, who deserted from the army and moved to France, transferred the Radio Liberty the database of the Main Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense, which contains information about 166 thousand patients. Journalists publish an analysis of the document.

"News of Donbass" recorded a monologue of a 24-year-old military. His family left the occupied Donetsk to Mariupol, from where he went to the front, was captured and the torture colonies Ukrainian prisoners of war after exchange, Ukraine, September 14, 2024. Photo: EPA There is a lot of evidence that Ukrainian prisoners pass through torture in various pre -trial detention centers and colonies. But the worst thing is to go through a colony in the Donetsk region, having a Donetsk residence permit.

Yelena Milashina at the hospital after the attack. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / Novaya Gazeta The authorities in the Russian republic Chechnya have suspended an investigation into a brutal attack on Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in the Chechen capital Grozny in July 2023, news outlet NewsNN reported on Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and presidential aide Yury Ushakov arrive in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 17 February 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE Secret back channel negotiations between Russia and the United States have been held in Switzerland in recent months to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing three sources with knowledge of the matter.

Volodymyr Zelensky should not be left to resist US blackmail and Russian aggression alone Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with a German military delegation in Kyiv, Ukraine, 14 January 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE / VITALII NOSACH Ukraine only exists today because President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected a proposal by Western countries in February 2022 to leave Kyiv and set up a government in exile.

Novyevropa talks about the state of the Russian army after three years of war: the soldiers have no motivation, the military goes on blackmail and arrange reprisals Russian military motorized rifle units in the Krasnoye Liman area, Ukraine, November 1, 2023. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / satellite / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta By the end of the third year of the war, Russian troops continue to advance in the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in many directions.