Two Himalayan bears at the Moscow Zoo, Aladdin and Granny, briefly emerged from hibernation in the middle of winter due to abnormally warm weather in the city. This was reported by the telegram channel “Caution, Moscow”. “They wandered around their den a little, but did not show themselves on the street. Now, due to the new cold weather, they have fallen asleep again,” the zoo’s press service said .

The editor-in-chief of the portal “Censor.net” Yuriy Butusov published a video in which, according to him, the Russian military shoots six Ukrainian prisoners. Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets called it a “cynical execution,” and the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced the start of an investigation into a war crime case.

At the end of December 2024, two conscripts died in military units near Moscow: 19-year-old Yuri Ubonov and Vladislav Belonogov. Both fell ill almost as soon as they arrived at the unit: probably both had meningococcal infection. Despite the cough and high temperature, they were not allowed to go to the hospital, and medical assistance was provided only after the soldiers lost consciousness. “Kholod” talked to the relatives of the deceased and tells their stories.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky explained how “fair” negotiations with Russia will differ from “unfair” ones. According to him, negotiations will be “fair”, within the framework of which Ukraine will receive guarantees that Russia will return to the 2022 borders. He said this in an interview with Bloomberg. “Negotiations can be fair or unfair. It may be different. The question is who will Ukraine be with at this time?

In St. Petersburg, a man killed his girlfriend who lived with him, and then until January 23, he hid the crime by corresponding with the woman’s relatives in instant messengers. The murder occurred on New Year's Eve, the St. Petersburg department of the Investigative Committee reported , citing the testimony of the detainee. The murder took place in the central Admiralteyskaya district of St. Petersburg, on Mozhaiskaya Street.

American comedian Amy Schumer said that she learned about her disease, which is called Cushing's syndrome, thanks to haters in the comments. Schumer spoke about this on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, The Independent writes . Help Kholod tell human stories We put people at the center of our journalism and talk about people who face injustice, but do not lose spirit and continue to fight for their rights and freedoms.

In the Kemerovo region, four local residents were accused of sexualized violence and murder of a woman. Her body was found in the house while putting out the fire. This is stated in the telegram channel of the regional department of the Investigative Committee for Kuzbass. The incident occurred on the night of January 21 in a residential building in the city of Kaltan on Kalinin Street.

The director of the Louvre in Paris, considered the largest museum in the world, Laurence de Carre wrote a confidential note to French Culture Minister Rachida Dati and spoke of “increasing damage in museum premises, some of which are in very poor condition.” The Guardian reports this.

Italian Rosa Vespa and her Senegalese husband Aqua Moses kidnapped a newborn girl named Sofia. Vespa pretended to be pregnant for nine months, and on January 8 she wrote on social networks that she had given birth and named the child Ansel. No one saw the baby, but she explained this by the fact that he was in the hospital for examinations. This is reported by L'Unione Sarda.

An unnamed man from France decided to divorce his 69-year-old wife because she “denied him sex.” The French court considered this a sufficient argument for divorce, but the European Court of Human Rights sided with the woman and condemned this decision. The appeal against the decision of the French court has been pending with the ECHR since 2021. The Guardian reports this. As the European Court found, a woman who denies her husband sex cannot be found guilty in divorce proceedings.

The Nikolai Gamaleya Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology intends to begin testing a vaccine against breast cancer, as well as vaccines against kidney and pancreatic cancer, by the end of the year. The director of the center, Alexander Ginzburg, told TASS that the condition for the success of scientific developments is the amount of funding. Scientists plan to create models of cancer diseases in order to then develop personalized mRNA vaccines for them, said the head of the research center.

The amount of electricity produced in Europe from solar energy in 2024 has surpassed the total electricity generation from coal power plants. The British newspaper The Guardian writes about this, citing a recent report from the Ember climate analysis center. Thus, the document states that last year the share of solar electricity generation in Europe amounted to 11% of the total, while coal power plants produced only 10% of electricity.

Vladimir Putin is increasingly concerned about the situation in the Russian economy. Reuters writes about this, citing several knowledgeable sources. The agency notes that the Russian economy has continued to grow over the past two years, fueled by exports of oil, gas and other minerals, despite a slew of sanctions imposed on Russia by Western countries since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The Kursk Garrison Military Court sentenced Russian serviceman Stanislav Lopatin, accused of looting. According to Mediazona , this is the first known case since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in which a Russian serviceman was convicted in his homeland under this article. It is unknown what sentence Stanislav Lopatin received. They refused to answer the publication's journalist's questions in court due to a ban from the chairman of the court.

The German publication Correctiv published an investigation into the Russian disinformation campaign before the Bundestag elections. Journalists found that over the past three months, the organizers have created about a hundred websites with fake news. Behind these sites, according to investigators, is the group Storm-1516, associated with the troll factory of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the GRU and former US police officer John Mark Dugan, who received asylum in Russia.