The market of relics, the excommunication of priests, scandals. What happens in the Russian Orthodox Church? 2024 began with an exacerbation in the Russian Orthodox Church. First, the church court suspended from the ministry of one of the most famous priests - Alexei Uminsky.

Blogger Nastya Ivleeva, who was fined 100 thousand rubles by the Lefortovo District Court for organizing a “naked” party, did not admit guilt. This follows from the resolution published on the official portal of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow. At the trial, Ivleeva’s lawyer stated that she was not aware that her guests were at the event in a manner that offended human dignity.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced local resident Vladimir Yarotsky to one year and six months in a general regime colony in the case of desecration of symbols of military glory (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of a picture of Putin in the form of a penis. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts.

In Britain, advertising with a naked singer FKA Twigs was banned. She didn't like it The British Advertising Standards Administration banned the advertising campaign of Calvin Klein with the singer FKA Twigs. The brand was accused of objectifying women, according to the regulator website. The singer herself did not agree with such an assessment. In order not to miss the main materials of the "cold", subscribe to our Instagram and telegram .

On January 11, the International Court of Justice in The Hague began to consider South Africa's lawsuit against Israel. The country is accused of genocide against Palestinians during the war in the Gaza Strip. The 20-member South African delegation argues that Israel's actions exceed the limits of necessary self-defense and contravene the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.

Rosstat has recorded a record number of female sterilization operations over the past 16 years. Since 2010, the number of such interventions has increased by 20%. about this with reference to the service’s statistics . writes Medvestnik According to Rosstat, by the end of 2022, the number of sterilization operations for women aged 15 to 49 years old reached 15 thousand. There was more only in 2006 - more than 17 thousand interventions.

The Moscow Department of Health has ordered the installation of audio recording devices in the offices of the capital’s clinics to “conduct audio monitoring” of the work of doctors. Telegram channels Baza and Astra reported this with reference to the document . They published scans of it. The decree specifies phrases that doctors are not recommended to utter during an appointment.

Journalist Ekaterina Duntsova called for support for collecting signatures in support of Boris Nadezhdin in the upcoming presidential elections. She said she would like to see “at least one candidate on the ballot with a peace agenda.” about this Duntsova wrote in her Telegram channel. She first supported Nadezhdin's nomination as a candidate on December 27.

The Supreme Court rejected two claims of Alexei Navalny against the Ministry of Justice, writes Mediazona. One of them concerned religious literature, the second - food intake. Navalny challenged the right to have no more than one book in the punishment cell, PKT and EPKT, including religious content. “Do you want to have the Koran in your cell? This means that you will have nothing except the Koran. You won't even have a newspaper if you demand the Koran.

The Patriarchate of Georgia wants to rewrite the icon of the Matrona of Moscow with the image of Joseph Stalin, which is kept in the Tbilisi Cathedral of the Holy Trinity “Sameba”.

The prosecutor's office appealed the verdict against Svetlana Zotova. Previously, she was found guilty of justifying terrorism and sentenced to a fine due to comments in telegram channels. Zotova’s lawyer Nadezhda Demidova told Kholod about this. “I knew that they [the prosecutors] were not happy that I was only given a fine, and immediately after the trial I understood that they would appeal,” says Zotova.

In Novosibirsk, more than a hundred houses were left without heat due to an accident in the heating network, writes Siberian Express. The Investigative Committee began an investigation. The authorities promise to eliminate the consequences by the evening of January 11. The air temperature in the city dropped to -15 degrees Celsius today. The accident occurred on the main heating network in the Leninsky district of Novosibirsk on Parkhomenko Street.

The Ministry of Justice removed the addresses of four “foreign agents” from its website, drew attention to. the First Department project We are talking about the home addresses of blogger Nikolai Sobolev, Golos activist Sergei Piskunov, as well as journalists Ekaterina Lushnikova and Denis Konstantinov.

Moscow was covered by a snowstorm. According to the Yandex Weather service, snow and rain are falling in places throughout almost the entire capital. Traffic jams formed in the city. In some areas, visibility dropped to zero. Snow is accompanied by strong gusts of wind. Some areas of Moscow are covered by the so-called “black blizzard” - the wind blows with such force that visibility does not exceed several meters.

The Ministry of Defense reported on drone attacks in several regions of the country. Four drones were intercepted and destroyed over the territories of the Rostov, Tula and Kaluga regions. Another one is in the Voronezh region. According to the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev, air defense forces shot down two drones in the Kamensky district. According to him, there were no casualties. The Shot telegram channel adds that at night explosions were heard in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.