State Duma deputy Sultan (Biisultan) Khamzaev prepared a request to the Investigative Committee with a request to verify the statements of Boris Grebenshchikov. According to the deputy of RIA Novosti, in an interview with the singer, he saw the discrediting of the Russian army, inciting hatred, as well as “promoting terrorist activities”. According to Khamzaev, Russian society requires a reaction to such statements. “These are not some separate statements of plague actors.

The leadership of the charter airline Azur Air (the largest in the Russian Federation) started a case on suspicion of corruption. This was reported by RBC with reference to a source in the Investigative Committee. It is not known who exactly concerns the matter, while “unidentified faces” appear in the case.

In the Swedish Arctic, the largest deposit of rare -earth metals in Europe was discovered, which can help the continent free himself from the dominance of China in the resource market, Bloomberg reports . The deposit, located north of the largest mining company in the Arctic city of Kirun, was found by the Swedish state mining company LKAB. It contains more than 1 million tons of rare earth elements.

Читать на русском языке Wounded Russian servicemen are being returned to the front line in Ukraine with serious injuries and without the approval of military medical commissions, which are required by law, reported independent media outlet Agentstvo (“Agency”) citing Valentina Melnikova of the Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers. Melnikova told the outlet of several cases of soldiers being sent back to fight with punctured lungs or shrapnel in their limbs.

The resource of engines of three Canadian DHC-6 aircraft, which perform most of the internal passenger transportation in the Primorsky Territory, will end this year. This was reported by RBC, having familiarized himself with the letter of the Minister of Transport of the region Alexei Ignatenko, his authenticity was confirmed by a source close to the Primorye administration.

The Russians set a record for the volume of gold purchase in 2022 and even exceeded the forecasts of the Ministry of Finance. This is evidenced by data on the sales of the largest Russian banks that collected Vedomosti. According to the publication, 5 out of 13 systematically significant banks in 2022 were able to sell the volume that exceeded the annual forecast of the Ministry of Finance - 57 tons of gold.

OPINION “There’s Sinai for those who leave, and Golgotha for those who stay.” What resistance means in Russia after several waves of emigration 12 January 2023 Oleg Pshenichny Читать на русском языке In Arkhangelsk, a faraway snow-covered city, nineteen-year-old university student Olesya Krivtsova faces 10 years in prison for spreading “heresy” about the allegedly non-existent war in student chat rooms.

News Russian authorities let Makiivka strike survivors speak to relatives via video call, information on deaths withheld 12 January 2023 TI The Insider Читать на русском языке The survivors of the Ukrainian strike on Makiivka, which took the lives of 89 Russian soldiers in early January, spoke to their relatives via a video call organised by the Russian authorities. The names of the servicemen killed in the strike have not yet been revealed to their relatives.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released its monthly civilian casualties update for Ukraine. According to the report, from 24 February 2022, when Russia’s armed attack against Ukraine began, to 9 January 2023, the UN recorded 18,096 civilian casualties in the country: 6,952 killed and 11,144 injured.

Читать на русском языке Russian nationals have set a record for buying gold in 2022, even exceeding the projections of the country’s Finance Ministry, according to a report by business publication Vedomosti citing sales data from major Russian banks. According to Vedomosti’s estimate, 5 of Russia’s 13 systemically important banks were able to exceed the Finance Ministry’s annual gold sales forecast in 2022 by selling 57 tons of gold.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released its monthly civilian casualties update for Ukraine. According to the report, from 24 February 2022, when Russia’s armed attack against Ukraine began, to 9 January 2023, the UN recorded 18,096 civilian casualties in the country: 6,952 killed and 11,144 injured.

Читать на русском языке Incarcerated Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who recently fell ill with a respiratory infection after a sick inmate was transferred to his cell, has finally been given antibiotics and hot water, reported Navalny’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev.

Messages that Ukraine allegedly asked the EU to exclude Belarus from the latest sanctions, they are not true, Oleg Nikolenko, official representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, said on its Facebook. According to him, a variety of sanctions are already imposed on Belarus for supporting Russian aggression, both personal and sector. Nikolenko noted that now Kyiv, together with European partners, is working on the “most substantial filling” of a new, tenth package of EU sanctions.

Last winter, Kazakhstan adopted amendments that canceled the need to coordinate with Nazarbayev the main directions of politics. The amendments were also approved , which canceled the life chairmanship of Nazarbayev in the Assembly of the people and the Council of People's Commissars. A few months later it became known that the country's authorities returned almost $ 500 million to the treasury in the investigation of criminal cases related to the relatives of Nazarbayev.

In the spring call of 2023, they plan to call for men aged 18 to 30 years in the army, they will raise the lower border to 21 years later, said the head of the State Duma Committee Andrei Kartapolov. According to him, a number of changes in the legislation are needed, for this you need to wait for an official proposal from the Ministry of Defense.