The State Duma adopted in the second (mainly) and third (final) readings a draft amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on confiscation of property for “fakes on the Russian army” and “actions directed against the security of the state”. “The law on villains has been adopted,” wrote the speaker of the Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.

A company engaged in deep -sea research has published an image obtained using a watercolor. In them, in their opinion, the remains of the A through Amelia Erhart, the famous American Pilot woman, which disappeared in the Pacific Ocean in 1937, can be recorded. Deep Sea Vision (DSV) from South Carolina said that the image was received after a long search in the Pacific Ocean to the west of the place where Erhart planned to go, the remote island of Haulland. Erhart - Aviation Pioneer, writer.

Society Bashar Escobar. As the Assad family built a drug -imperial and thanks to it remains in power Yuri Matsarsky 31 January 2024 A new front opened in the Civil War in Syria: the smugglers associated with the ruling regime entered into a direct armed confrontation with the army of neighboring Jordan. This can be Maher Assad, the younger brother of Bashar al -Assad, who leads the criminal community that produces and sells the forbidden drug Captagon.

The writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya was deprived of the title of Honorary Professor of the University. Mendeleev (RCHTU) for the denunciation of a certain citizen. This Insider was reported to the university itself. The press service sent a response to a request for the reasons for this decision, which immediately says that Elena Yampolskaya was not involved in the deprivation of the title.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wrote about the return of 207 military personnel from Russian captivity to the country. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the Ukrainian side returned 195 Russian prisoners of war and transferred to Ukraine Rivne 195 were captured by the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On January 24, near Belgorod, the IL-76 military transport aircraft fell.

History “No brother of mine”: Who started the war between ISIS and Iran? Yuriy Matsarsky 31 January 2024 While Iranian authorities are busy mobilizing various terrorist groups for use in Tehran’s proxy war with Israel, the Islamic Republic itself faces a severe threat from ISIS. In early January, ISIS suicide bombers executed a brutal attack on the grave of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in 2020 by an American missile.

The prosecutor, during the debt of the parties in the Nikulinsky court of Moscow, requested 8 years of a colony of general regime for the former deputy minister of Marina Rakakova and 6.5 years in prison for the former rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninki) Sergei Zuev in the fraud case on an especially large scale, the latter’s lawyer Dmitry Kravchenko told RIA Novosti.

The Thai National Security Council establishes circumstances in which the Bi-2 groups violated the country's legislation, having held concerts without work permission. About this, as reports Bangkok Post, said the head of the Thai Foreign Ministry Panpr Pkhitthanukon. “If people do not do anything bad, we cannot extradite them. This is regulated by international law. But if they are offenders, it is necessary to take measures, ”the official said.

All members of the Bi-2 group left Thailand. They fly to Israel. This was announced by the lawyer of the group. According to him, this was preceded by a meeting of the consuls of Israel and Australia with the Foreign Ministry of Thailand. There should also be a meeting of the Russian consul. Whether they met together or separately - unclear, says the lawyer. “The meeting lasted several hours. Representatives of the group did not participate in it.

The St. Petersburg authorities reported that at night there was an incident in the city, which “demanded attention from law enforcement agencies,” and said that no one was injured. Residents of the city heard loud explosions. According to Fontanka, the reason for this was a drone, shot down by air defense systems and falling in the Nevsky district in the territory of the Nevsky Fuel Office.

The Khamovnican Court of Moscow sentenced the former President of Zayprombank Larisa Marcus in the theft case. As Interfax was informed in court, Marcus, previously convicted in another case, imposed a final punishment in the form of 13 years of the colony. In 2017, she was sentenced to 9 years on charges of fraud and assignment of funds on an especially large scale, later reducing the sentence of six months.

The Kuban activist Daria Polyudova, serving a sentence in the correctional colony No. 4 of Kabardino-Balkaria, told the lawyer who visited her lawyer to the Cales. The reason for this was her “opposition views,” reports “Caucasus. Realities ". Mother Polyudova Tatyana, through a lawyer, received a letter from her daughter, in which she spoke about the reason for conflicts with a cell neighbor. The neighbor was indignant at the fact that the activist criticizes Vladimir Putin.

The European Parliament has launched an internal investigation into Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka following the release of The Insider’s investigation into her ties to the FSB. According to a statement from spokesperson Jüri Lass cited by Deutsche Welle , European Parliament President Roberta Metsola is taking the allegations against the Latvian MEP “very seriously” and has referred the matter to the Advisory Committee on the Code of Conduct.

Over £27,000 in British government grant money has ended up in the hands of an Iranian propaganda network — Tehran-based Press TV — leaked documents analyzed by The Insider show. The funds were distributed as part of a furlough scheme aimed at helping UK workers whose hours had been reduced due the COVID-19 pandemic. Two London production companies that received these grants subsequently transferred funds obtained through the relief program to Press TV.

The Khabarovsk Regional Court sentenced a resident of Khabarovsk to 8 years in a colony in the public case, reports the Amur Mash Telegram channel. The girl, whose name is not called, was accused of allegedly transferring money to the armed forces of Ukraine. The FSB detained Khabarovsk in March, after which she was taken out for investigative actions to Moscow.