The police opened a criminal case of riots against participants in an unauthorized campaign near the court in the Bashkir Baymak, RIA Novosti and Bashinform reported, citing the head of the Public Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkortostan, Rafail Divaev. “This is a very serious article of the Criminal Code, especially heavy from the category. Mass unrest is a threat to the country's national security, therefore, the punishment under this article is quite serious.

News Iran makes missile shelling of the territories of Syria and Iraq for demonstrative purposes, they happened earlier - experts The Insider January 17, 2024 On December 16, the Iran of the Islamic Revolution Corps struck a missile blow with the help of ballistic missiles on the territory of Iraq and Syria.

Ukraine is suffering huge losses on the battlefield The year began with a cheerful report by Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov. On January 12, 2023, he announced that Russian troops had destroyed 4 American Bradley fighting vehicles. However, it turned out that he had jumped the gun with the statistics: at that time, the U.S. had only decided to supply Ukraine with these combat vehicles. The first shipments had not yet even taken place.

News “Mass landings of investigators of Kyrgyzstan-revenge of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for an investigation about his business”-investigator of swamps Temirov The Insider January 17, 2024 In the photo: head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Ulan Niyazbekov In Kyrgyzstan, there is a mass arrest of independent journalists. On January 16, 11 current and former journalists of the Temirov Live project were reported.

On the territory of LLC “Shakhty Polyeshir Plant”, a fire occurred in the city of Shakhty Rostov Region, in which, according to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies and local authorities, nine people were injured.

Earlier, the Agency reported that among the security forces who fell on the video suppression of protests in the Bashkir city of Baymak, was the head of the thunder detachment of the Rosguard for Bashkortostan Ramil Gareev. Thunder is considered one of the best divisions of the Russian special forces, after the rebellion of Evgeny Prigozhin, the Russian Guard was handed over.

Sergei Ainborder, the editor -in -chief of the RusNews channel, in a conversation with The Insider connected the locking of the channel with the lighting of protests in Bashkortostan. “The channel just disappeared a few minutes ago. It seems that there is still a bot, there are some remnants of the channel, it is not yet clear. Everything was gone, Telegram writes that the channel has become private and he has one subscriber.

News Belarus included nuclear weapons in the military doctrine. Its use without Russia will violate days and technically impossible - experts The Insider January 17, 2024 Ministers of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus Sergei Shoigu and Viktor Krenin after signing documents on the conditions of the maintenance of the Russian YAO Belarus first included a point on nuclear weapons in her military doctrine.

News The Lipetsk governor accused management companies of accidents. “There will be no reforms of the housing and communal services, the authorities will quench the winter and suppress protests” - expert The Insider January 17, 2024 The meeting of the head of the Lipetsk region Igor Artamonov, dedicated to the consequences of communal accidents.

Olga Mikhailova, a lawyer for jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, has been charged in absentia with participation in an “extremist community,” allegedly created by Navalny in 2011 as the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF). Mikhailova reported the development on her Facebook page. “The investigators are the same as in all of his cases. World-class masters at concocting insane nonsense and fictitious extremism.

Researchers engaged in exploration of oil fields in the Irkutsk region have lost a source of radiation with Cesium-137, the base reports with reference to their sources. It is reported that he is "radioactive and very dangerous." This happened in the period from January 12 to 13 when moving the group from Ust-Kut towards the Chayanda deposit. The researchers had IGI-Z-4-2 with him-a protective box in which there is a small capsule with a radioactive substance.

The Baimak District Court of Bashkortostan has sentenced local activist Fayil Alsynov to four years in a penal colony for inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of Russia's Criminal Code), as reported by Ostorozhno Novosti and Verstka . In the oral argument, the state prosecution demanded that Alsynov be sentenced to four years in a penal settlement – a minimum security penitentiary facility in the Russian criminal justice system.

A resident of Chechnya Rizwan Dadaev left Russia after detention, torture and three months of captivity due to sexual orientation. It is reported “Caution, News” with reference to the Crisis group “SK SOS”, which was engaged in the evacuation of Dadaev. In the summer of 2022, it was reported that Rizvan Dadaev was detained on the site of the meeting, after which he was forced to admit the video that he was trying to meet another man and have sex with him.

The blogger Maria Baronov started an administrative case under the article on the "discrediting of the army." As follows from the case card on the court’s website, the protocol was drawn up in the China-Gorod police department. Updated 06.02.24: Tver District Court of Moscow fined Maria Baronov for 50 thousand rubles under an article on the "discredit" of the army, Mediazone reports. The case was registered on January 17 by the Tver District Court of Moscow. Details are unknown.

Since Soviet times, it has been important for Kremlin propaganda to show that there are forces in the West that oppose their own governments and stand in solidarity with Moscow. Under the current circumstances, the search for allies that fit that description has become a very difficult business — one dominated by extremely colorful personalities. Some of these characters form the subject of a six-part documentary produced by The Insider's editorial team.