Ukraine considers a plan for financing the state budget in case the help from the United States remains blocked, writes with reference to Bloomberg sources. It includes the release of bonds, increasing taxes and reducing expenses. This is proposed to be done in the hope of getting a tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This plan is supposed to be presented to the head of the IMF mission in Ukraine Gavin Gray, who should visit Kyiv on February 12.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia on Friday updated the list of "foreign Agents" and entered the Yolkin Carton company to the register. This legal entity belongs to the famous cartoonist artist Sergei Yolkin. He himself was entered in the register of "foreign Agents" in April 2022. Yalkin is one of the most famous Russian cartoon artists who have been working in this genre since 1999. Most of his works are devoted to political, economic and social problems.

US President Joe Biden spoke at an unplanned briefing, which was dedicated to investigating the special prosecutor Robert Hur about improper handling secret documents.

In the debate in the Ryazan Regional Court, the state prosecution requested 25 years in prison for the defendant of the case of the “network” Maxim Ivankin, accused of a double murder under Ryazan, Media Ksenia Sobchak “Caution, News”. In addition to the main punishment, the prosecutor also asked Ivankin to appoint two years of restriction of freedom.

In a recent interview with ex-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is ready to exchange journalist Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal for FSB-linked hitman Vadim Krasikov, who is serving a life sentence in Germany for the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a former Chechen commander who fought against Russia in the Second Chechen and the Russo-Georgian war.

The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation began to create a black list of Russian bloggers that are published on YouTube, Vedomosti reports with reference to the words of the OP Commission for the Development of the Information Community of Alexander Malkevich. During the round table “YOUR TO NOTTER?

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Soloptalu and appointed General Anatoly Bargilevich, who had previously commanded territorial defense forces for this post. Zelensky reported this in his evening handling. “The new head of the General Staff, at the suggestion of the Commander-in-Chief, Alexander Syrsky, was appointed by Major General Anatoly Bargilevich.

Anatoly Chubais creates a center of Russian research in Israel, writes Agency with reference to two sources that talked with him over the past last months. According to one of the sources, Chubais received affiliation with one of Tel Aviv’s universities and works on a project in which he will tell how Russian liberals “allowed what was happening in the country”. According to another source, Chubais creates a center of Russian research at the University of Tel Aviv.

Policy The leaky “dome”: the problems of the system of warning about the missile attack described by Ivan Safronov did not dare Vyacheslav Epurian 9 February 2024 In December 2023, a documentary was released on the Russia TV channel about the case of Ivan Safronov, a journalist convicted of 22 years on charges of Gosizmen. The FSB investigator Alexander Chaban claims from the screen that the ex-employee of Kommersant allegedly transmitted data on the GRU intelligence satellites.

Marocchi-branded rifles manufactured by C.D. Europe S.r.l. prior to the conflict, as indicated by state certificates of conformity, were brought into Russia by LLC Italruzhyo and LLC Attache. The latter continued to receive new shipments , with LLC Attache importing 275 Italian hunting rifles into Russia in 2023. The Russian-Italian partnership was so intimate that Italruzhyo acted as the sole founder and proprietor of Marocchi Russia until its dissolution in 2019.

SOCIETY Et tu, Beretta? Italian companies continue to supply weapons to Russia no matter what Sergey Panov 9 February 2024 The Italian firearms giant Beretta continues to funnel small arms into Russia via its subsidiary and companies linked to arms mogul Mikhail Khubutia. Despite the EU's 2014 ban on rifled barrels arms exports, a flood of rifles, pistols, and cartridges from Germany, Finland, and Italy, is still making its way into Russia.

Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to exchange The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich for Killer Vadim Krasikov, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Chechen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. According to Putin, a journalist whom the Russian authorities accuse of espionage can be exchanged if there is a “oncoming movement”. At the same time, Putin admitted that he himself was not sure whether the spy was Gershkovich.

On the IL-76 Russian military aircraft, which fell under Belgorod, there were no Ukrainian prisoners of war. Such a statement in an interview with Babel was made by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Alexei Danilov. “Were our prisoners there - I can definitely tell you: no. I say this on the basis of the experience that we had after Tehran, and on the basis of what happened next.

In Udmurtia, law enforcement officers arrested the circulation of the campaign newspaper politician Boris Nadezhdin. It amounted to 400 thousand copies and was intended for distribution in the Tatarstan and the Nizhny Novgorod region, they told the IDEL. Real to the Politics headquarters. “The circulation was arrested in a transport company that was supposed to send newspapers to the regions. The company itself explained that the material was arrested as extremist, ”said the headquarters.

News City battles in Avdeevka, Sickle and Hammer drive Russian attack aircraft to “meat assaults”.