The Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan refused to comment on unofficial information about the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, the department’s press service reported . “Prior to the publication of the preliminary report, the commission will not comment on data from the Internet that does not have any official source,” the department’s telegram channel says.

Some of the volunteers who clear the seashore of fuel oil in the Krasnodar Territory experienced signs of oil product poisoning in the first days of work. According to them, due to insufficient protection, they developed a cough and watery eyes. Volunteers told RBC about this. One of the victims of poisoning was volunteer Yuri, who has been cleaning the Black Sea beaches since December 17.

Advisers to US President-elect Donald Trump are developing a strategy of sanctions against the Russian oil industry in order to achieve a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine “in the coming months.” The strategy is based on adjusting the level of sanctions depending on the Russian side’s ability to negotiate, sources familiar with the Trump team’s plans told Bloomberg. If Russia moves closer to a peace agreement with Ukraine, Trump will ease sanctions against Russian oil.

The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida has filed a lawsuit from a woman who accused former UFC mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor of sexual assault. The victim reported to the police back in June 2023, but the prosecutor's office refused to initiate criminal proceedings. The Guardian writes about this. The victim is reported to be a 49-year-old woman who works as a vice president at a financial institution on Wall Street.

Eight physicists from Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain found out what ratio of cheese, water and starch allows for the most uniform, creamy sauce texture for the traditional Italian pasta cacio e pepe. They published their findings, as well as the recipe for the “ideal” pasta, in the scientific work “Phase behavior of cacio e pepe sauce,” the N+1 publication noted . Cacio e Pepe pasta is made with Pecorino Romano cheese and black pepper.

Cases of telephone scammers using children to steal their parents' money have become more frequent in Moscow. Over the past six days, at least four such cases have become known. Thus, scammers deceived a 15-year-old resident of the capital, forcing her to transfer more than 700 thousand rubles from the cards of her mother and grandmother, the Moscow prosecutor’s office reports . First, the schoolgirl received a call from a woman who introduced herself as an employee of a mobile operator.

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has updated its list of sites threatened by tourism, climate change, war and natural disasters. The organization noted that new missions, including with space tourists, could lead to the looting of unique places on the Moon associated with the landings of American astronauts and other human activities. Due to the absence of an atmosphere and liquid water on the Moon, the American landing sites remained in a relatively stable state, WMF notes.

Most Russians refuse to consider workaholism a disease. This is evidenced by data from a survey conducted by specialists from the SuperJob service, published by RBC. Thus, every fifth Russian employer is convinced that employees should be workaholics, while 66% of employers do not consider this quality obligatory for an employee. As RBC notes, the distribution of opinions on this issue has changed in recent years.

In one of the Russian Telegram channels, users hounded nine-year-old Roman Shogdzhiev from Kalmykia, who recently set a world record for the speed of completing the first norm of an international master. In the comments under the publication about the record, the boy was called a “chock” and offered to “kill and burn like a flea-ridden bastard.” The independent media of the Asian peoples of Russia, Asians of Russia, drew attention to this.

The US Constitution needs to be amended to allow the president of the country to be held accountable for crimes committed while in office. This was stated by current American President Joe Biden during his farewell address to the nation, which was broadcast on YouTube. “We need to amend the Constitution to make it clear that no president is immune from the crimes he or she commits while in office. The power of the president is not unlimited. It is not absolute.

In Italy, several women detained during a protest accused police of abuse and humiliation, demanding that the country's interior ministry launch an internal investigation. The British newspaper The Guardian writes about this. On January 13, 22 environmental activists participating in a protest near the plant of the Italian aerospace and defense company Leonardo were reportedly detained and taken to the main police station in the city of Brescia. What to do during a search?

The widow of a plastic surgery clinic patient, Timur Khaidarov, who died during gastric reduction surgery, filed a lawsuit to protect his honor and dignity against Ksenia Sobchak, who released a video about this case on her YouTube channel. RIA Novosti writes about this with reference to court documents. According to the news agency, the operation took place in February 2024 at Timur Khaidarov’s plastic surgery clinic IQ Plastique in northern Moscow.

Since mid-December, 146 people who cleared the seashore of fuel oil in the Krasnodar Territory have sought medical help. Regional Health Minister Evgeny Filippov announced this in his Telegram channel. According to him, in Anapa, six medical and paramedic posts have been installed to provide medical assistance to everyone who cleans up fuel oil on the beaches. In addition, reminders on safety measures when working with petroleum products are posted at heating points. What to do during a search?

In Latvia, a court sentenced a 72-year-old pensioner to eight years in prison. He was found guilty of illegal possession of explosives and espionage for Russia, reports LETA, citing a representative of the Latvian prosecutor's office. According to the department, the man, whose name has not been disclosed, served in the army in Latvia during the Soviet Union, and after leaving the reserve, he remained to live there. What to do during a search? How to prepare and behave to minimize risks.

In Belarus, tattoo artist Alla Romazanova, who specializes in hyperrealism, tattooed the eye of a man who lost it in an accident. The video of her work received almost a million views on the social network TikTok, and was also published by many Belarusian media, in particular, the news resource Onliner . In the published video, Alla said that a man named Pavel was in an accident in which he lost his eye and nose.