The Ministry of Internal Affairs put the writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) on the wanted list. Information about him appeared in the database of wanted persons. The writer has been persecuted since December last year after his statements in support of Ukraine. In recent years, the writer has been living outside of Russia.

SOCIETY Stolen Sun: black sky alert declared in Krasnoyarsk yet again Sofia Presnyakova 26 January 2024 On January 20, a state of “unsafe meteorological conditions” — colloquially referred to as a “black sky alert” — was declared in Krasnoyarsk, Russia’s eighth largest city (pop. 1.1 million) and the second biggest in Siberia.

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The prosecutor’s office approved the indictment in the case of the ex-director of the Novosibirsk Theater “Red Torus” Alexander Kulyabin. As the Siberian Express found out , a new article appeared in the case: initially, Kulyabina was accused only of embezzlement (PH. 3 and 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), now the charge of exceeding officials with the causing consequences was added (paragraph “c” of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code).

The State Department of the United States temporarily suspenses the financing of the UN Agency for the help of Palestinian refugees (Bapor). As follows from the statement of the State Department, such a decision was made in connection with suspicions that the agency’s employees in the gas sector could be involved in the organization of invasion of Hamas militants in Israel on October 7 last year.

Vladimir Putin instructed until April 1 to amend the law for assigning the status of a war veteran to those who participated in “Svo” without a contract. It is reported by RIA Novosti. As specified in the message on the Kremlin’s website, the status of a war veteran can be assigned on the basis of documents confirming the facts of injury and receipt of awards. Putin also instructed to transfer payments to the families of the dead fighters of “Svo” no longer than three months.

The number of the permanent population of Russia as of January 1, 2024 decreased by 0.17%per year, to 146.2 million people, according to preliminary data from the Federal State Statistics Service. Negative dynamics slowed down: if in 2022 the country's population decreased by 532 thousand people in a year, then in 2023-by 243 thousand people.

Audio recordings of patient receptions in city clinics will be stored separately from the patient’s electronic medical card, in different storage facilities and without reference to the data of the reception, the patient and the doctor’s data. The maximum shelf life of these audio recordings will be no more than one month. The Moscow Department of Health introduced the corresponding changes to order No. 1241, which obliged all city clinics audio recording during patients.

Policy Logger workers. Contrary to statements, Taiwan became the main supplier of machine tools for the Russian VPK I-AN Li , Andrey Zasakin 26 January 2024 Taiwan, despite his pro -Ukrainian position, became the most important supplier of metalworking machine tools to Russia after the start of a full -scale invasion, The Inter found out with the Taiwanese publication The Reporter.

News “Ino -Agents” were recognized as businessman Potapenko and the publication “like this”. The EU called Fridays in the Russian Federation "Witch Hunting Day" The Insider January 26, 2024 The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has published a list of new "foreign agents". He entered: Businessman Dmitry Potapenko; Journalist Maxim Trustlyubov; The publication “Like”, the project of the Belsat publication in Russian.

The Larnaca District Court has refused to satisfy a U.S. request for the extradition of Russian-German citizen Arthur Petrov, who was arrested in Cyprus last year, according to a report by the Russian state-owned news agency TASS . In a comment to TASS , Petrov called the court's decision a “positive turn of events.” Petrov, a dual Russian-German national, was arrested in Cyprus in August last year following a request by the U.S.

The FSB officers detained two men in the Rostov-on-Don in the Gosizmen case (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the agency, they “transferred the special services of Ukraine” data on the location of military equipment and units participating in the war. The special service claims that the suspects “initiatively made contact” with the representative of the Ukrainian special services and received a monetary reward for the transfer of information.

In 2023, residents of Russia took almost 35 million microloans “before the salary”, according to the National Bureau of Credit History (NBKI), which cite the “Vedomosti”. This is a historical record: loans were issued 12% more than in 2022, and 22% than in 2021. Loans “before salary” are unsecured loans up to 30 thousand rubles for up to 30 days with a one -time repayment.

POLITICS Taiwan has become the Russian arms industry’s main source for high precision machine tools Andrey Zayakin , Yian Lee 26 January 2024 Despite its publicly pro-Ukrainian position, Taiwan has become Russia’s most important supplier of high-precision metalworking machines, The Insider has discovered as part of a joint investigation carried out with Taiwanese outlet The Reporter.

News Sergey Guriev will lead the London Business School The Insider January 26, 2024 The London Business School (LBS) announced that in the next academic year it will be headed by a Russian scientist-economist Sergei Guriev. He will leave the post of prohibition of the Paris Institute of Political Research. LBS reports: “Professor Guriev previously headed the Russian Economic School and was one of the leading intellectual figures supporting the modernization of the Russian economy.