Moscow proctologist Vyacheslav Bulaev told Kholod about why toilet paper should not be used, how alcohol and nutrition affects the condition of the walls of blood vessels and the formation of stool, as well as the widespread internal homophobia among men, because of which they are afraid to go to the doctor.

Some senior Russian security officials are dissatisfied with Vladimir Putin's approach in the war with Ukraine because he “likes fighting, there is excitement.” A source in the presidential administration told Meduza about this, according to whom the current degree of militarization of the country is not enough for the security forces to match Putin’s mood. Vladimir Putin “likes to fight, you can feel the excitement.

Nominees for the Academy Award will be announced later than usual this year. This was reported by CBS News with reference to a letter from representatives of the organization. “The announcement of nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards has been postponed from Friday, January 17th to Sunday, January 19th due to wildfires,” it reads. In addition, voting to select nominees will be extended by two days until January 14.

In the Solnechnogorsk region, a suspect was detained for setting fire to a house where he saw his ex-wife along with another man. According to the Office of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region, the woman died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The incident occurred in a private house in the village of Alabushevo on the night of January 8th. According to investigators, that night the suspect arrived at his ex-wife’s house and, looking through the window, saw her with another man.

Russian singer and actor Alexei Vorobyov, along with his dog Mozart, evacuated from his home in Los Angeles, California, where fires are now raging. He himself spoke about this on his Instagram. Judging by Vorobyov’s Instagram, before evacuating, he went to the store for new hoses and used an electricity generator. According to him, he evacuated a little later than his neighbors. Hollywood is burning Los Angeles is engulfed in the most destructive fire in history.

Director and propagandist Tigran Keosayan survived clinical death and is in a coma. This was reported by his wife, the head of the propaganda television channel RT, Margarita Simonyan. “I didn’t want to until recently, but since reporters have already started calling, I’ll write it myself. My husband, Tigran Keosayan, experienced clinical death and is in a coma. As many people know, he had a very sick heart for a long time.

Top Iranian general Behrouz Esbati said Russia misled Iran by claiming its planes were bombing Syrian rebels. Russia was actually dropping bombs on open fields, he said. The New York Times writes about this with reference to an audio recording of Esbati’s speech in one of the mosques in Tehran.

One of the closest supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk, is privately discussing with “right-wing allies” the possibility of removing current British Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his post. The Financial Times newspaper writes about this. According to her, we are talking about leaving Starmer until the next general elections in the UK, which by law must take place no later than August 15, 2029.

The grandson of former South African President and anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela was arrested on suspicion of car theft. This happened in the South African city of Johannesburg, reports the local newspaper TimesLIVE, citing the police. Security forces allegedly detained the grandson of the ex-president on the territory of Mandela's former residence. Along with him, the police also detained four more people - three men and one woman.

In the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Bari on January 2, a baby was found dead, left in a baby box - a special heated cradle in which parents can leave their child anonymously. Preliminary autopsy results published on January 8 showed that the newborn baby died due to hypothermia, ANSA reported .

The website of the international online retailer Shein was declared banned in the Russian Federation due to the products sold on it with LGBT symbols . This decision was made by the Central District Court of Tula, and was later discovered in the court file by the publication “Vestka”. Employees of the Tula branch of Rospotrebnadzor complained about the online goods platform.

Proctologist Vyacheslav Bulaev from Moscow makes funny films about the butt and poop so that people stop being ashamed of this part of their body and start monitoring its health. He told Kholod about how, due to internal homophobia, some men are afraid to even touch their anus and therefore trigger diseases, and about why most people don’t even know simple truths, for example, that you can’t use toilet paper. I work as a proctologist, and they constantly write to me that I am gay.

In Chechnya, 19-year-old resident of the city of Argun Viskhan Tazurkayev died after being kidnapped and tortured by local police. The publication “Kavkaz.Realii” reports this with reference to its own source. According to him, before his death, Tazurkayev was brought home, explaining his condition as a sudden illness. The young man's relatives were ordered to bury him and call the cause of death suicide. It will be even easier to condemn a person to a life without rights.

Experts from different fields of medicine, in conversation with The Guardian, listed techniques that can be used to detect misinformation about health and a healthy lifestyle on the Internet. Doctors also listed personality traits that influence susceptibility to false information. Clinical psychologist Jonathan Stia said health misinformation can often relate to areas such as nutrition, dermatology, parenting and psychology.

Paleontologists from the United States have discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived about 230 million years ago in northern Pangea. This is reported by the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. It was previously thought that the dinosaur fauna of Laurasia, a continent that emerged from the northern part of Pangea during the Mesozoic, appeared 6-10 million years later than the dinosaur fauna of Gondwana, the southern hemisphere.