Anastasia Oskolkova’s parents drank, her father beat her mother. She had to take care of her younger brothers and sister alone while her parents fought or shot with an air pistol while drinking. Throughout her childhood, Anastasia was afraid that one day her father would kill her mother. She left home at 15 to become a model, but still felt guilty that she wasn't doing enough to save her.

Residents of Moscow began to receive summonses for the draft commission and medical examination en masse through the city website Mos.ru, reported the human rights project “Walk through the Forest.” They said that over the past 24 hours they have received many calls to the helpline from Moscow residents. The appearance dates in many agendas are much ahead: for the spring months, and in one case even for June and July, human rights activists noted.

A Russian drone attacked a bus with miners in the Dnepropetrovsk region. 15 people were killed and seven more were injured, the energy company DTEK reported . The attack occurred this afternoon in the Pavlograd district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the head of the regional administration, Alexander Ganzha. According to DTEK, one of the drones struck near a bus that was transporting miners after their shift.

A resident of Omsk stabbed his mother to death, and also beat his father, sister and girlfriend with a bat, the telegram channels “Omsk Incident” and “Omsk News | Tough." Eyewitnesses told reporters that the man “suddenly fell into a state of uncontrollable rage.” First, he killed the cat that lived at home, after which he attacked his relatives with a bat and knife, telegram channels said. The attacker's sister and girlfriend were allegedly able to escape by jumping out of the window.

In Thailand, police discovered the remains of businessman from St. Petersburg Mikhail Emelyanov, who disappeared in early January, Pattaya News reported . The police said that the person to whom the found body belonged was brutally killed and dismembered. The remains were buried in five different places on the shore of a pond near Padtanakan 4 Street in Pattaya, the material says. The murder suspect was detained - he turned out to be a foreigner, journalists learned.

Russia is trying to get rid of its dependence on imported foreign technology, but is facing serious difficulties in doing so. This was reported by the Financial Times. A February 2025 report from the Russian Ministry of Economy, reviewed by journalists, said the country remains critically dependent on imports in areas key to the war in Ukraine, including mechanical engineering, drone production and energy.

Crypto investor and Muay Thai fighter Maxim Garbuzov from St. Petersburg disappeared in the resort city of Pattaya in Thailand. This was reported by RIA Novosti. The head of one of the groups of Russian volunteers in Thailand, Svetlana Sherstoboeva, told the agency that 24-year-old Garbuzov disappeared on December 24, 2025, but this became known only on January 30, when the St. Petersburg resident’s brother contacted the public.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan performed with his musical group “Varchaband” in Yerevan. The politician published a video from the concert, which took place on the evening of January 30, on his Telegram channel. The head of the Armenian government played drums while behind glass. The group also included two female vocalists, a pianist, a saxophonist and a guitarist. The event took place at the Palladium Hall restaurant complex.

Former Soviet and Russian intelligence officer and advisor to the president of Rosneft Andrei Bezrukov, in an interview on Viktor Zubik’s YouTube channel “Smarent Pro Real Estate,” said that the world economy will soon face a crisis. According to him, the value of many markets, from gold to capital markets, has now skyrocketed.

The FBI report, which was published on Friday by the US Department of Justice along with other documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case, names the American financier as the manager of Vladimir Putin's wealth. The Agency drew attention to this. The FBI report in question is dated November 27, 2017.

Former Soviet and Russian intelligence officer and adviser to the president of Rosneft, Andrei Bezrukov, spoke in an interview on Viktor Zubik’s YouTube channel “Smarent Pro Real Estate” about how, in his opinion, the war in Ukraine could end. Bezrukov said that the war in Ukraine began after Russia put forward a “presentation” against NATO and the United States, referring to Vladimir Putin’s ultimatum for security guarantees amid the accumulation of Russian troops near the borders with Ukraine.

American plastic surgeons said that recently the eyebrow transplant procedure has been gaining popularity among women. It's typically done by women who over-plucked their eyebrows in the 1990s and 2000s and now want fuller brows, The Washington Post reports . According to the publication, this procedure is performed under local anesthesia, and its cost can reach up to 18 thousand dollars.

A fire broke out in a private sauna in Prokopyevsk the day before, as a result of which five teenagers died, the Kemerovo Region Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . According to Mash, they celebrated three birthdays at once - three of the teenagers turned 16 and 17 this week. It is reported that the fire area was 70 square meters, 38 firefighters and 12 pieces of equipment went to the scene.

The territorial issue remains one of the most difficult in negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States, the second stage of which is scheduled for February 1 in Abu Dhabi, writes the New York Times. The publication explained why Vladimir Putin wants to acquire the not yet captured part of Donbass.

The rapid rise of the euro has threatened the European economy and forced European policymakers to question the shortcomings of their goal of making the euro the world's reserve currency instead of the dollar. Politico writes about this. It is noted that the status of the world reserve currency implies that it is in it that most of the world trade takes place and in which the governments of the world keep most of their foreign exchange reserves.