Ambassador of Latvia to Russia Maris Rekstynsh The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Ambassador of Latvia in Moscow should leave the country within two weeks. This was announced by the temporary attorney in the affairs of the Latvia of the Rutka Date on Friday when it was called to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Earlier, the department stated that the ambassador should leave until February 24.

Roman Abramovich and Vladimir Putin (archive photo) Almost a year ago, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich launched an attempt to help stop the war in Ukraine, save his reputation in the West and his $15 billion fortune. However, his attempts were unsuccessful, and now his role is reduced to negotiations on the exchange of prisoners or the “grain deal”. The Wall Street Journal writes about this in an article dedicated to the Russian oligarch.

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The profit of Russian banks in 2022 decreased by 11.8 times compared to the 2021 indicator. She fell from 2.4 trillion rubles to 203 billion rubles, RBC reports . This is the worst indicator in seven years. The banks have not been such a low profit since 2015, when they earned 192 billion rubles.

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The court in Saratov fined the doctor Selimat Aslanov for a conversation in the residential about the war. Aslanova believes that she was agreed by a colleague because of a national hostility. According to the court’s decision , in September 2022, Aslanova, being among her colleagues, uttered the phrase “I am against the war in Ukraine”, which discredited the Russian army. Aslanova did not plead guilty, saying that she did not utter the words attributed to her.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Vloomberg, citing sources in the Kremlin, writes that President Vladimir Putin is preparing a new attack in Ukraine in February-March, while preparing his country for conflict with the United States and their allies, which, as he expects, will last years.

Aircraft related to the former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and deputy chairman of the government Denis Manturov in the winter of 2023 flew to the southern resorts. Two of them stayed in the country of NATO, Turkey. The publication "We can explain" about this in his investigation. The publication tracked the flights of aircraft related to officials to a public aircraft detector.

From February 3, Japan will ban the export of vaccines, medical equipment and robots to Russia as part of the sanctions imposed on Moscow for a military invasion of Ukraine. This was reported by the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry of Japan. From the same day, a ban on the sale of equipment for nuclear facilities, oil and natural gas exploration is introduced to Russia. In addition, the list includes equipment for detecting explosives, portable generators, laser welding machines.

The head of the Sakharov Center Sergey Lukashevsky (archive photo) In Moscow, he fined the head of the Sakharov Center, Sergei Lukashevsky, three million rubles in ten minutes of violation of the law on "foreign regents". It is reported by "Mediazona". All ten protocols were drawn up under an administrative article on the failure to provide a report on the activities of the "foreign -agent". For each of them, Lukashevsky was fined 300 thousand rubles. The court issued a decision on January 20.

Children from the village of Gontarovka in the Kharkov region of Ukraine, because of the war, cannot go to school and study remotely-by video communication. The class for them was a hut, built by the guys on a hill next to the water tower. This is the only place in the village where mobile Internet works.