In Kalmykia, five colony officers No. 2 were arrested in the case of abuse of authority - they are suspected of torture by prisoners of Dagestanis Magomed Atimagomedov and Davud Kuramagomedov.

The former prefect of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow, Oleg Mitnol, was urgently hospitalized in a prison hospital in one of the investigative insulators of Krasnoyarsk. The 56-year-old official is accused of theft during the construction of the Krasnoyarsk metro. He pleaded guilty, but remains the only accused under arrest, the Kommersant newspaper writes .

The court in Moscow sentenced Evgeny Makarenko to the 11 years of the colony on charges of drug smuggling. In 2021, she received a parcel from a friend from America, in which there were painter tablets and marijuana banned in Russia. Makarenko claims that she did not suspect the contents of the parcel.

Tavrida highway In the cabins for workers employed in the construction of the Tavrida highway in the vicinity of the annexed Sevastopol, a fire occurred on the night of February 2. As a result of the incident, eight people died, two more people were injured. This was announced by the head of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev, appointed by Russia. The fire occurred in a two -story residential construction module on Neftynaya Street, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said .

The court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur fined the activist Nadezhda Filimonov for a picket on one of the city squares with a poster with the word "Mir". She was obliged to pay 30 thousand rubles under the article on the discrediting of the army. This was reported by Siberia. Realities with reference to Filimonov itself.

Russia in the rating "Democracy Index", compiled by the analytical unit of the British magazine The Economist (EIU), sank over the past year from 124th to 146th place. Total positions 167. "After the invasion of Ukraine, Russia's indicators recorded the most sharp fall among all countries of the world," the analytical group said.

Lawyer Maria Aismont Information digest "Freedom time", February 2 Information digest "Freedom time", February 2 In Kramatorsk and the Kherson region, peaceful residents died during shelling, the APU command does not exclude the withdrawal of troops from Bakhmut; Anti -corruption campaign in Ukraine and the reaction of Ukrainian society to it; The Forum of Free Russia was recognized as the Russian Prosecutor General as an undesirable organization; Alexei Navalny tightened the conditions of

In Irkutsk, the court began in the second case of the mass torture of the prisoners of the Angarsk colony No. 15. Among the defendants are other convicts, the so -called "developers" who are accused of torture prisoners by order of investigators and employees of the FSIN

The European Parliament on February on February began to discuss the initiative of a number of European Parliamentarians “react hard” to the situation around the former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. We are talking about the unwillingness of the country's authorities to adequately respond to the proposal of Georgian doctors and international experts about the mortal danger hanging over the politician, and the need to transfer it to treatment to a Ukrainian or European clinic.

In 2022, 779 cases of criminal prosecution of citizens for posts, reposts and statements on the network were identified in Russia. This is the highest annual indicator for 15 years of observation. Such data are published by the human rights project "Network Freedom" in its annual report dedicated to the freedom of the Internet in Russia. According to human rights activists, in 2022, due to publications on the network, at least 42 criminal cases were opened on the discrediting of the army.

Khamzat Kadyrov and Ramzan Kadyrov The head of Chechnya appointed his 26-year-old nephew Khamzat Ibragimov as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Property and Land Relations of the Republic. Until November last year, the post of minister was held by Turpal-Ali Ibrahimov, the cousin of Ramzan Kadyrov through his mother, who then became secretary of the Chechnya Security Council.

Three people died, more than 20 were injured as a result of a Kramatorsk attack. The rocket fell into the porch of a four -story residential building. According to the Ukrainian authorities, the Russian army launched the Iskander-K missile in Kramatorsk. Pro -Russian bloggers report that the missile over residential quarters was shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces.

As of January 1, 2023, 146.4 million people lived in Russia (taking into account the annexed Crimea), RBC writes with reference to Rosstat's data. The numbers are given taking into account the data of the All-Russian Census-2021, they include the population of Crimea, but do not take into account the inhabitants of four partially occupied regions of Ukraine, which in the Kremlin consider the regions of Russia.

Supreme representative of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Security, Josep Borrel The supply of fighters to Ukraine is not yet on the agenda, said the Supreme Representative of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Security, Josep Borrel at a briefing in Brussels. This question, according to him, led to serious disagreements among 27 countries of the European Union.