In mid-January, the Moscow authorities fired the director of the Gulag Museum, Roman Romanov, and appointed the head of the Museum of Moscow, Anna Trapkova, in his place. In the context of what is happening - the liquidation of Memorial, the ban on commemorative events and the demolition of monuments - these actions look like an attempt to destroy the museum in its current form.

Several teenagers in the Vladimir region beat up a 70-year-old resident of the city of Gus-Khrustalny named Evgeniy when he went to the Cruise shopping center to buy groceries. This was reported by the Shot telegram channel. According to the telegram channel, the incident occurred at the entrance to the shopping center. The teenagers threw the pensioner to the ground and began hitting him in the head. After this, the attackers fled.

The Central Election Commission of Belarus reported that on the main voting day for the presidential election, polling stations opened at eight in the morning local time. Voting will last until eight o'clock in the evening, RBC reports . This time you can only vote in the elections inside Belarus - all foreign polling stations are closed.

When 19-year-old Anna Apatchenko from Tomsk stopped answering her calls, her mother suspected something was wrong. She was even more worried when she received a strange SMS from her daughter’s number. Anna didn’t get in touch again, and police and volunteers started looking for her.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated at a press conference with Moldova President Maya Sandu in Kyiv that he forbade negotiations with Vladimir Putin to “stop separatism”. His words are conveyed by "Ukrainian Truth." According to Zelensky, only he, as the president of the country, can be a leader in negotiations from Ukraine, so all other officials are prohibited from negotiating with Putin.

The owner of the social network of X and Tesla, Ilon Musk, proposed renaming the La-Channel, spilling between France and Great Britain, into the “George Washington channel” in honor of the first president of the United States. Mask wrote about this on his page in Kh. “The new name for the water sharing England and France,” Musk commented and posted a map on which the La-Channel was signed by the new name.

In Pennsylvania, the man turned to the police to report the death of his 64-year-old brother Michael Bebut. It soon became clear that Bubut was dead for at least six months. All this time, three members of his family lived in the house. This is reported by PEOPLE with reference to the local police. According to the publication, Babut's brother turned to the police on January 16 this year.

The CIA has changed the opinion regarding the origin of coronavirus and now believes that the pandemic of the Covid-19 “more likely” occurred due to the leakage of the virus from the laboratory in China, rather than due to contact with the natural source. This is reported by Bloomberg and CNN .

A 26-year-old resident of Kanonersky Island in St. Petersburg named Ivan was detained by the police after the mother of a 15-year-old schoolboy, whose real name was not given, wrote a statement and accused the man of harassing her son. This was reported by the telegram channel “Mash on the Moika”.

In China, the first police dog of the Korgi breed, nicknamed Fuzai, was deprived of a bonus following the results of annual work for sleeping at the workplace and urination in his own bowl of food. It is reported by South China Morning Post. According to the publication, the dog was born on August 28, 2023. The owner of the puppy handed it to the police base of dog training in the urban district of Wifean at the age of about two months.