Mkrtich Okroian The daughter of the chief designer of the Avia Motor Scientific and Technical Complex "Soyuz" Mcurtich Rroit Anna owns a mansion in the UK. Okroyan himself and his wife have a business in Poland. This is stated in the new investigation of the opposition team Alexei Navalny. Soyuz, in particular, produces engines for anti-ship missiles of the X-22, X-59 and Caliber cruise missiles, which Russian troops use in the war with Ukraine.

At least 10 thousand prisoners of Russian colonies were recruited by private military companies to war with Ukraine. The use of convicts in armed conflicts is not a new practice. Under what conditions the “special contingent” fought earlier, who was sent to the penal battles and what does Alexander Matrosov have to do with it. Guests of the podcast: Boris Sokolov , historian Alexander Sidorov , writer, researcher of the prison world

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov remains in his post after the on the eve of "achieved a meeting" with the president of the country Vladimir Zelensky, the Russian BBC service reports with reference to its sources in Kiev. Earlier, the head of the “Servant of the People” faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine David Arahamia announced the resignation of Reznikov as a resolved issue, announcing the appointment of the head of the Main Directorate of Ukraine Kirill Budanov.

The military personnel of the Russian army, Nikolai Kartashev, convicted of unauthorized abandonment of the unit, despite the verdict again sent to the war to Ukraine, where he was captured, reports the mediazon publication with reference to the military mother. According to Irina Kartasheva, the day before she was called from the Ukrainian number and gave the phone to her son, who told about what had happened.

Good morning! The Russian Ministry of Finance published statistics on the execution of the budget in January 2023, and it turned out to be catastrophic: the deficit for the month amounted to 1.76 trillion rubles - this is a record since 1998. True, they say that this collapse has purely “paper reasons”. Wait and see. So far, this is what: Over three thousand people became victims of a powerful earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

The Mosgorsud at a meeting on February 7 deprived the new newspaper’s media license - a Russian independent publication, which has been published from 1993 before the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. In addition, the license of the new story-gazeta launched after the invasion was stopped. The city court recognized the decisions of the lower Basmann region of the Moscow Court of Court on the recall of licenses at the publications.

The Tver branch of the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case under an article on non -fulfillment of the duties of a foreign agent in relation to the coordinator of the Voenenkov Voenenkov observers' movement. Human rights activist Pavel Chikov reports that this may be the first thing for this article. Verezhenkov was included in the register of the so -called media - foreign agents immediately after the September elections to the State Duma of 2021.

Mikhail Benyash In Krasnodar, the Pervomaisky District Court fined the lawyer Mikhail Benyash for 30 thousand rubles-for mentioning the word "war" in the telegram channel. The court found him guilty under an administrative article on the discrediting of the Russian army. The protocol for a lawyer was drawn up on November 15. The police found about 30 references to the word "war" in nine publications of Benyash made after February 24.

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State Duma building in Moscow A bill is introduced to the State Duma, excluding jury from courts on criminal authorities. The document was initiated by members of the Federation Council Andrei Klishas and Vladimir Poletaev, as well as deputy Irina Pankina. The authors of the bill propose to amend the article "Composition of the Court" of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Russia.

"I remember how the war began in 1941. Early in the morning bombed and pope woke the phone. Then everyone ran, who could: the Communists, Jews and all in the world." 92-year-old Iya Rudzitskaya from Kyiv fled twice from the war: in 1941-due to the attack of Germany, in 2022-due to the Russian invasion

Former head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva, 2012 Roskomnadzor (RKN) blocked in Russia the website of the human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group, transmitted Interfax with reference to these services. According to information in the universal service of the RKN for verification restrictions on access to pages and sites on the Internet, access to the MHG.ru website in Russia is limited.

An employee at the Mazda plant in Vladivostok, 2020. Now the plant is standing The vast majority of industrial enterprises in Russia replaced the equipment, spare parts and components, the import of which fell under sanctions due to Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chinese analogues. This follows from the January survey of the Gaidar Institute, the results of which are quoted by Kommersant. According to the survey, 67%of respondents switched to Chinese equipment, spare parts - 63%, components - 54%.

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