The Supreme Court rejected the cassation appeal of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, recognizing the use of AI in election campaigning as illegal, Vedomosti writes with reference to the decision. During the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region in 2025, the communists used AI to prepare propaganda leaflets in the style of a Soviet poster.

A military court in Baku sentenced Arayik Harutyunyan of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to life imprisonment, reports the Azerbaijani news agency APA. The same sentence was handed down to the former Minister of Internal Affairs of the unrecognized republic David Babayan, the former Minister of Defense Levon Mnatsakanyan and the ex-deputy commander of the Armenian forces David Manukyan. Seven more defendants were sentenced to terms ranging from 15 to 19 years in prison.

The amendments proposed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which will allow the presentation of a driver’s license through the MAX state messenger, will not be adopted in its current form, writes the Post- publication, citing a source in the ministry. According to the interlocutor, the government drew attention to the fact that, in addition to MAX, there is another service - “Gosuslugi Auto”, which has been tested for a long time.

And how does this bring peace to Ukraine? Emmanuel Bonn. Photo: Yuri Safronov / Novaya Gazeta Mr. Emmanuel Bonn, a diplomatic adviser and long-time “sherpa” of Macron, visited the Kremlin, where he met with the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Ushakov.

Guests of the big stream of Novaya Gazeta: orientalist Mikhail Margelov, political scientist Yan Veselov, historian Kuznetsov

About the City of God and the Jeffrey Epstein files Bronze statue of US President Donald Trump and financier Jeffrey Epstein holding hands. Photo: Zuma/TASS There are two ideas about worldly power. First. The higher a person climbs the social ladder (recognition, social prestige, influence, money, power), the stronger and more gifted person he is. Social success is thus identified with something morally right.

Chronicles of global madness. Video podcast by Irina Petrovskaya with Tatyana Malkina New episode of the Flood Chronicles podcast. Irina Petrovskaya and Tatyana Malkina discuss the beginning of the year, which turned out to be more eventful than the whole decade: the kidnapping of Maduro, Trump with someone else’s medals, Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, negotiations, freezing out of cities, negotiations without hope and a feeling of global breakdown.

Law from Yakut deputies Deputies of Il Tumen (state assembly) of Yakutia from United Russia have developed draft amendments to the regional law on forest relations, which allows residents to catch trees and branches from water bodies. Torboznoye Radio drew attention to the document. The bill was submitted to the regional parliament on February 3.

Trump is backing down. Only in Minneapolis for now. And Maine Minneapolis residents bring flowers to the scene of the murder of Alex Pretty, who was shot and killed by an ICE immigration officer. Photo: AP / TASS The death of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretty, the second in Minneapolis, has catalyzed protests across the country and prompted a partial government shutdown. Democrats in Congress want to impeach the Secretary of Homeland Security.

The publication “Verstka”* found in the register of inheritance cases, records in which are opened based on the facts of death of Russians, information about Alexei Belyaev with the date of death on January 19. On this day, the media (Telegram channels VChK-OGPU* and the Rucriminal website) reported the death of an important employee of Roskomnadzor, Alexei Belyaev, who was allegedly wounded with a knife by a 16-year-old teenager at the entrance of the censorship department.

Winter Games return to Northern Italy Olympic Village in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Photo: dpa/picture-alliance On February 5, Cortina d'Ampezzo said goodbye to the Olympics. It was exactly 70 years ago, a kind of anniversary, which is given special symbolism by the fact that the current Games in northern Italy are just beginning: they will solemnly open on February 6 with a parade of participants in two clusters - in Milan and Cortina, which are more than 400 kilometers apart.

Review of January censorship Photo: Anton Belitsky / Kommersant Censorship continues to freeze the Russian book world, and neither holidays nor heavy snowfalls interfere with it. The repression machine, unlike snow removal equipment, easily passes through any snowdrift. In January, scribes experienced a particularly large number of censorship measures. And the year began with the sad news that the publishing house Popcorn Books announced that it would cease operations.

The Washington Post laid off a third of its staff, reports the New York Times. Foreign editorial bureaus are closing: the Ukrainian office and the division in the Middle East are closed, the sports department is closing (the editors are not going to the Olympics in Italy), the book review department, the photo department and several commercial services. According to rumors, the Post Reposts podcast will also close. About 300 WP journalists received notice of termination of cooperation.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, two attacks on schools occurred in two days. What is happening and how the government is reacting Seventh grade girl under interrogation. Still from a video of the Krasnoyarsk investigative committee Loud emergencies occur in schools in the Krasnoyarsk Territory on February 3 and 4.

US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who was present at the negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Abu Dhabi, announced an agreement to exchange prisoners of war. The parties will transfer 157 soldiers to each other, a total of 314 soldiers will return home. This is the “tangible result” of “detailed and productive peace negotiations,” Witkoff said on social media X. He stressed that this is the first such exchange in five months.