The US Department of Justice has published another batch of documents in the case of financier Jeffrey Epstein. Newly declassified files include reports about the likely sexual predilections of billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, The Telegraph reports . On the night of January 31, the Ministry of Justice published more than 3 million pages of new documents in the Epstein case, as well as over 2,000 videos and about 180 thousand images.

Conservative American politician James Fishback wanted to introduce a “sin tax” and force OnlyFans models to give half of their income to the treasury, so that women would be discouraged from “selling their bodies.” In response, OnlyFans models criticized the politician, and the protest was led by Sophie Rein, one of the most popular bloggers on the platform, who earned about $100 million there. She calls the politician a hypocrite who wants to hype her name.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, met in Moscow with billionaire and senator from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov. Although the details of the conversation were not disclosed, the meeting was supposedly fruitful, Kadyrov said in his Telegram channel. “Had a fruitful meeting with Brother, Senator of the Russian Federation Suleiman Kerimov in Moscow. I believe that the people of Chechnya and the people of Dagestan are brothers, just like us.

Famous actress Catherine O'Hara died at the age of 72. The reasons for her death still remain unclear, TMZ reports , citing two sources. O'Hara had a rare genetic trait. Her internal organs were located in a mirror image - the actress’s heart was on the right, not on the left, which is considered in medicine to be one of the most difficult variants of this condition. However, the transposition of the organs did not in any way affect her health and well-being.

US President Donald Trump said that a “major armada” of the American fleet is currently heading towards Iran. According to him, it is “even larger than what was in Venezuela” before the takeover of President Nicolas Maduro, reports Clash Report. “We have the most powerful fleet in the world. We have the most powerful army in the world by a wide margin. And we have proven this more than once,” Trump said during a conversation with reporters.

The European Union wants to abandon the price ceiling on Russian oil and replace it with a ban on the provision of services necessary for its transportation. Bloomberg reports this, citing sources familiar with the discussions. According to them, if the proposal receives the support of all EU member states, European companies may be prohibited from providing insurance and transportation services for Russian oil, regardless of its price.

An apartment in Moscow turned into an impromptu cat shelter when a 35-year-old translator decided to take in several dozen cats so that they would not die on the street from the cold. However, due to unsuitable living conditions, the animals began to get sick and die, the telegram channel “Caution, News” reports . The owner of the apartment found out about the new guests by chance. One day a realtor came to fix the lock on the front door.

Larisa Dolina's concert was in jeopardy due to an unnamed attacker who was engaged in extortion. RBC writes about this with reference to the artist’s representative Sergei Pudovkin. According to him, the person who tried to interfere with the concert demanded money from Larisa Dolina. Now he is under recognizance not to leave the place.

Employees of the Brazilian Federal University of Viçosa have discovered a plant that can suppress hunger and protect the body from the negative effects of an unbalanced diet, acting as an analogue of Ozempic, reports the Daily Mail. Scientists divided the experimental mice into three groups. For the first eight weeks, they were fed to mimic an unhealthy human diet, high in animal fat and fructose. And then they added flour and chia seed oil to the mice’s diet.

In the regions, doctors began making plans to schedule patients for appointments through the MAX messenger. At the same time, the quality of implementation of these plans affects the size of premiums. This was reported by the telegram channel “Medical Russia” with reference to the words of the doctors themselves. In particular, this practice is now in effect at the Ufa Clinical Emergency Hospital.

At about three o'clock in the morning, a verbal altercation broke out between two men in the understreet passage of the Ilyich Square metro station in Moscow. At some point, the conflict escalated into a fight, the Moscow prosecutor's office reports . “During the conflict, the attacker punched and kicked his opponent in various parts of the body and disappeared,” the department notes.

The sale of oil major Lukoil's foreign assets is likely to be "the biggest collapse of Russian business's international ambitions" since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Agency came to this conclusion after studying data from other Russian companies that have lost assets since 2022. The fact that Lukoil entered into a deal to sell its foreign assets became known on January 29. The Russian oil company then announced that the buyer would be the American investment fund Carlyle Group.

The Ministry of Finance proposed limiting the amount of cash that Russians can deposit into accounts and deposits through ATMs. The limit for individuals may be 1 million rubles per month, Interfax reports , citing a source familiar with the department’s initiative. This proposal is part of the government’s plan to “whitewash” certain sectors of the economy. The bill has already been sent for approval to the Bank of Russia and Rosfinmonitoring.

A labor teacher at Lyceum No. 161 in the capital of Bashkortostan, Ufa, tied up and flogged a student who drew an offensive caricature of him. The telegram channels Mash and Baza reported this without specifying sources. According to them, a seventh grade student, whose name has not been released, tried in every possible way to attract the attention of his classmates and disrupt the lesson, shouting insults from the place.

The TASS agency shortened the quote from Patriarch Kirill, removing from it the wording “state-forming Russian people.” Pro-war bloggers and telegram channels drew attention to this. They accused journalists of distorting the meaning of the statement. The Patriarch's speech was made at the plenary session of the Christmas parliamentary meetings in the Federation Council.