About a thousand Russians cannot move into their new apartments, which they bought as shareholders. The market leader, the developer Samolet, delays issuing keys for almost a year and is in no hurry to correct shortcomings in already completed housing. Buyers complain about disgusting renovations: roofs are leaking in apartments, there is mold, and workers living right on the construction site allegedly leave their feces there.

A resident of Novosibirsk accused the teacher of the fundamentals of security and defense of the Motherland (OBZR, previously the subject was called life safety) of beating her 14-year-old son. The student said that the teacher hit the back of his head against the wall. This is reported by Siberian Express and Novosibirsk Online . According to them, the day before the morning the teenager called his mother from school and told about the beating.

A Russian military man from the Tyumen region, 47-year-old Sergei (name changed), was found guilty of “violent acts of a sexual nature using the helpless state of a victim under 14 years of age” and was sentenced to 14 years in prison in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the Tyumen Online portal. According to him, Sergei signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense in March last year, while in prison. At that time he was serving a sentence for theft.

In 1929, 43-year-old North Carolina farmer Charles Lawson took his wife and seven children into town for a family photo. Two weeks later, everyone in that photograph was found dead - except Charles's eldest son, 16-year-old Arthur. The Christmas murder, the reasons for which still cannot be explained, is in the material from “Cold.” Two weeks before Christmas 1929, the family took a souvenir photograph.

BBC culture commentator Annabelle Rackham has compiled a list of the top six fashion trends for 2026, based on designer runway shows for the upcoming spring/summer season previously held in London, Paris, Milan and New York. Major fashion houses such as Loewe, Dior and Fendi used bright solid colors in their collections instead of the floral prints and pastels typically associated with spring, Rackham said.

During the 25 years of Vladimir Putin's rule, Russian billionaires have lost their political influence and turned into “silent supporters” of the regime, writes the BBC. The publication notes that since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of billionaires in Russia has reached a record level. Moreover, on the day of the full-scale invasion, when Putin gathered them in the Kremlin, the billionaires could not object to him, even knowing that their fortunes would suffer due to the war.

The Moscow environmental prosecutor's office began an investigation against a Moscow blogger who kept a 2.5-month-old lion cub in his apartment in Moscow City. This was reported on the telegram channel of the prosecutor's office. The day before, the network drew attention to 22-year-old blogger Dmitry Kotov, who kept a lion cub as a “pet.” Telegram channel “112” published several videos in which a lion cub appeared, and the blogger wrote that he was looking for a nanny for the animal.

French actress Brigitte Bardot died at the age of 92. This was reported by Le Figaro and BFMTV with reference to the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. Le Figaro calls Bardot the most beautiful woman of the twentieth century, and BFMTV notes that the actress had the most famous initials in the history of cinema. Bardot was born in 1934 in Paris and made her film debut at the age of 18 in the comedy Le Normandy by Jean Boyer.

Politico has compiled an annual anti-rating of politicians, influential and public figures who were awarded Backhanded Awards for the “brightest political facepalms” of this year. The compilers of the list emphasized that these awards can be considered an “Oscar” for the failures of the laureates.