In Yekaterinburg, the picketer Alexander Klokunov, who came out with a poster in support of Kazakhstan, and another picketer with a poster on another topic, was detained. Klokunov himself informed the OVD-Info himself about this. Klokunov stood with the poster "Schal Ket" - translated "Grandfather, leave." The police detained him after refusing to show his passport. The second picketer was 50 meters from Klokunov and also refused to show the passport. Two men were delivered to OP No.

In Moscow, about 10 people who went into a picket in support of Kazakhstan were detained on Chistoprudny Boulevard. The OVD-Info reported this by one of the detainees. Among the detainees Oleg Kravchenko, Alexander Zimbovsky, Elena Sidorenkova, Ivan Solovyov, Elmar Rustamov, Alexander Nikolaev and Larisa Anosoeva. Among the detainees there is a journalist, as well as an 80-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man. What is charged with picketers is not yet known.

On January 5, unknown people hacked the Pskov Gubernia telegram channel. This was reported by the channel administrators. The hackers took over the account of one of the administrators - the editor-in-chief of the publication Denis Kamalyagin - and managed to blacklist 1015 subscribers of the main channel and 15 of the news channel. This is the fourth attack on the publication, the first occurred in April 2019, when hackers stole three channels.