Non-Moscow news for the night of February 7
🔹 A defendant in the "Kansk teenagers" case Nikita Uvarova sent to solitary confinement, the support group reported, citing the young man's mother. "Tomorrow she was planning to go see her son for a short visit and also to drop off a parcel. Now the visit won't take place and the parcel won't be accepted—prisoners are deprived of these rights while in solitary confinement. Nikita's mother wasn't informed of the length of his solitary confinement or the reasons for the penalty," writes the support group.
🔹 Searches of a journalist Eugene Anisimova The incident occurred on the very day of the court hearing that could have dismissed his first case, Vecherniye Vedomosti noted. A new case against Evgeny was opened on January 22. He is currently being held in a temporary detention facility. A pretrial detention measure for Anisimov will likely be decided today. "The grounds for initiating the case are simply absurd. But this time, I see they've launched an even more extensive disinformation campaign, involving the state news agency TASS. They're bringing in Ukraine and other nonsense that has nothing to do with Anisimov," The editor-in-chief of the Vecherniye Vedomosti newspaper commented Vladislav Postnikov.
🔹 In Dzerzhinsk A member of the "SVO" militia stabbed a man to death at a bus stop. Surveillance footage shows him approaching 55-year-old Chechen resident Abubakar Umayev with a knife in his hand and suddenly stabbing him twice in the chest. The wounded man fell to the ground almost immediately. According to Baza, the attack was prompted by a verbal dispute. "The killer is a 45-year-old repeat offender who served his sentence in a penal colony before joining the SVO as a stormtrooper," The Telegram channel writes: "The man was detained."
🔹 The State Duma stated that the use of donkeys (and other animals) on the front lines is normal, as there are "major difficulties" with the delivery of ammunition and food. "It's better to kill a donkey than two men in a car carrying supplies needed for battle. They're probably loading packs onto that donkey. It knows where to go if it's been trained." — said Lieutenant General, member of the State Duma Defense Committee Victor SobolevThe day before, a donkey was issued to the military for transporting cargo instead of a car. "[They tell us:] You have a terrible transportation situation? Ural trucks burning? Here's a donkey for you—use it to carry people to the front.""The military explained, assuring that it wasn't a gift from volunteers. The donkey was officially sent by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
🔹 Russian Ethnographic Museum St. Petersburg The museum closed the hall housing the exhibition "History and Culture of the Jewish People in Russia." It closed on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The museum's website states that the hall was closed "due to the expiration of the exhibition period." "We're talking about reformatting. Opinions have been expressed that it would be more appropriate for the museum to present the North Caucasus, Novorossiya, and Crimea today." — said the museum director Julia Bush.
