Fireworks that are too accessible lead to “acts of sabotage” and therefore their sale should be prohibited.

Evgeny Komolov was born and raised in Yekaterinburg - where as a child he climbed the abandoned White Tower and flattened beer caps under the wheels of locomotives. Now he is photographing the city: sellers at the flea market and riot police officers on the ice. Yekaterinburg - in the new “Cold” section, where we will publish selections of photographs of Russian cities.

In the week since the crash of fuel oil tankers near the Kerch Strait, volunteers discovered 11 dead Black Sea dolphins. Tatyana Beley, director of the Krasnodar scientific and environmental center "Delfa", told RIA Novosti agency about this. Six marine mammals were found on the shore, the rest were found in the water in Novorossiysk and off the beach of the coastal village of Blagoveshchenskaya.

A group of investigative journalists from the STRG_F project of the German television company ARD discovered special chats in the Telegram messenger where people gather, sharing their experience of organizing sexualized violence. More than 70,000 people from different countries participated in these chats, the British The Telegraph reported . Participants in these telegram chats most often shared advice on how to put to sleep and then rape sleeping women, the investigation showed.

The Ministry of Transport has announced the time frame within which Russian Railways plans to remove the Sapsan high-speed trains from the Moscow-St. Petersburg route. The head of the department, Roman Starovoit, said in an interview with TASS that this will happen in the second quarter of 2028. The service life of the Sapsan electric traction trains, which were supplied to Russia by the German Siemens corporation until 2022, is 30 years, the minister said.

A resident of St. Petersburg arrived at her apartment in the city center and found a murdered woman on the floor in one of the rooms. The Investigative Committee opened a murder case, Fontanka reported, citing sources in law enforcement agencies. The murder took place on Kolomenskaya Street in the Central district of the city. The owner of the apartment rents out the apartment, journalists found out. She arrived at the tenants' address because of complaints from neighbors.

On inauguration day, US President-elect Donald Trump intends to withdraw the country from the World Health Organization, the Financial Times reported , citing sources. For the WHO, the United States is the largest donor and the country's withdrawal from the organization would be “catastrophic for global health,” the newspaper’s experts said.

On the night of Saturday to Sunday, December 21-22, a rematch for the world heavyweight boxing champion title took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk was able to defeat the previous champion, Briton Tyson Fury, also known by the nickname “Gypsy King,” for the second time in a year. The fight lasted 12 rounds and ended with Usik winning by unanimous decision.

Activists of the organization “Union of Orthodox Women” suggested that Stavropol students refuse abortions by handing out plastic figurines of human embryos at 12 weeks of pregnancy. The organization outlined a series of events on its website. The publication was noticed by the publication “7x7. Horizontal Russia". Lecturers from the Union visited several educational institutions with “conversations on the topic of protecting life,” the organization reported.

Anneliese Michel was born and raised in Germany. As a child, she developed a rare disease that could not be accurately diagnosed. Every year she became worse, and at some point she and her parents turned to the priest to have the demons cast out of her. The priests performed 67 ceremonies - they took place in Michel's house once or twice a week. What this led to is in the material of the weekly true crime column “Cold”. A young girl suffered from a strange illness since childhood.