Cyber-Ttack/ In Germany, a 24-year-old resident of Schleswig-Holstein was arrested, who allegedly collaborated with the Russian hacker group Killnet. She is accused by the authorities of the European Union and the United States of attacks on computer systems of countries - the allies of Ukraine.

Destroyed Russian tanks near the village of Bogorodichnoye in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. February 2024 The lower estimate of Russia's losses in the war in Ukraine is a list of killed Russian military personnel, established by the BBC , Mediazona and a group of volunteers. There are now 83 thousand 338 people on the list, whose deaths in the war have been confirmed from open sources. The researchers themselves say that the real number of losses is likely significantly higher.

Roskomnadzor blocked the Viber messenger in Russia. The Internet service, launched in 2010 in Israel and Belarus, is accused of violating Russian law. Viber is one of the most popular instant messengers in Russia. Its audience is about 26 percent of the country's population over the age of 12, according to Mediascope. It is second only to WhatsApp and Telegram in terms of coverage.

Twix The criminal case into the death of Twix the cat, who was thrown out of a train in the cold in January, has been dropped. KP-Ekaterinburg writes about this with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The termination of the case was confirmed by the lawyer of Twix's guardian.

Ekaterina Margolis The Russian Ministry of Justice on Friday added to the list of so-called foreign agents. This time it included the artist, blogger Ekaterina Margolis and two more artists - Anatoly Osmolovsky and Igor Ponochevny, performing under the pseudonym Alyosha Stupin. Ekaterina Margolis is an artist and activist living in Venice. She opposes Russia’s war in Ukraine, but also criticizes the Russian opposition and raises funds in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Journalists from the BBC Russian Service, together with the Mediazona publication and a team of volunteers, based on open data, managed to identify the names of 83,338 Russian military personnel who have died since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These are only those whose names have been confirmed through open sources. The actual loss figures may be significantly higher. Since the last update , which was published two weeks ago, 2,365 names have been added to the list.

The United States allocates a new military aid package for $ 500 million. This was announced by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. "The United States provide another significant package of urgently necessary weapons and equipment to Ukrainian partners to protect against ongoing Russian attacks," the statement said.

Fragment of the film by Katerina Gordeeva Journalist Katerina Gordeeva released a film in which she talks with Russian deserters who refused to participate in the war against Ukraine. For many online commentators, the film entitled “There is Nothing Human Here” became the most powerful and at the same time difficult spectacle that they had seen in recent times.

Mikhail Gorbachev in Stavropol, 1986 Radio Liberty continues the series “Forks” - a series of publications about turning points in Russian history, when it could have taken a completely different path. What were the historical alternatives and why did they remain unrealized? Here you can find links to previous episodes of the series. The guy from Privolnoye Privolnoye is the village where Mikhail Gorbachev was born.

Alexey Plutser-Sarno The ideologist of the Voina art group and the author of the Great Dictionary of Obscenities, Alexei Plutser-Sarno, believes that the times of “psychological analysis” of Putin and other dictatorial regimes are over. Today, direct and clear words and actions and an aesthetic design corresponding to them are required. Alexey Plutser-Sarno answered questions from Radio Liberty.