Volodymyr Zelensky has stripped Verkhovna Rada deputy Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of the pro-Kremlin party Opposition Platform – For Life who was charged with treason in 2021, of his Ukrainian citizenship, the president announced in an address on Tuesday. Parliamentarians Taras Kozak and Renat Kuzmin, who were both elected as members of Medvedchuk’s party, as well as Andrii Derkach, who doesn’t belong to a party faction, have also lost Ukrainian citizenship.

Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский лишил украинского гражданства депутата Верховной рады и бывшего главу политсовета пророссийской партии «Оппозиционная платформа — За жизнь» (ОПЗЖ) Виктора Медведчука. Об этом Зеленский сообщил в своем вечернем обращении. Кроме того, гражданства Украины лишены Тарас Козак и Ренат Кузьмин , избранные в Верховную раду от ОПЗЖ, а также внефракционный депутат Рады Андрей Деркач .

In his January 9 court hearing, the anti-war protester Igor Paskar, charged with terrorism for setting fire to the FSB building in Krasnodar, told the court that he was tortured by FSB operatives after throwing a Molotov cocktail at their headquarters in June 2022. Paskar is facing up to 15 years in prison. According to his lawyer, he admits the arson, but denies the allegations of terrorism.

Decorated general lambasted by Ramzan Kadyrov as ‘incompetent’ is appointed head of Russia’s Ground Forces Anna Mayorova / URA.RU / TASS Colonel General Alexander Lapin, who previously served as the commander of Russia’s Central Military District, has been appointed chief of staff of the country’s ground forces , according to sources from the Russian Defense Ministry who spoke to RBC and Ura.ru . The ministry itself has not officially commented on the claims.

In an open letter to President Putin, Russian doctors demand medical help for the imprisoned opposition politician Yulia Morozova / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA On January 9, Alexey Navalny’s Twitter account was updated with the news that the imprisoned politician had been sent on New Year’s Eve into “punitive confinement” — for the tenth consecutive time .

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has denied Russian national Sofia Sapega’s request for a pardon, the independent outlet Mediazona Belarus reported on Tuesday, citing Sapega’s lawyer. Sapega was sentenced to six years in prison by a Belarusian court in May 2022 on charges of illegally gathering personal data and “inciting social hostility” for her work as an editor for the Telegram channel Black Book of Belarus, which published Belarusian security officials’ personal data.

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