59-year-old resident of Khanty-Mansiysk Valery Ledkov became a defendant in a criminal case on financing an extremist organization due to a donation of 300 rubles to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to his lawyer Pavel Rusakov. The case against Ledkov was opened on December 24, 2024. Four days later, the Khanty-Mansiysk City Court placed the man under house arrest. He is on the list of “terrorists and extremists” of Rosfinmonitoring.

Vadim Kudyushchev, the owner of the Podye!bar bar in Ulyanovsk, was subject to a report on “LGBT propaganda” due to the design of the establishment. This was reported by bar manager Olga Kudyushcheva on the “Podye!bara” telegram channel. The protocol itself was published by the project “Caution, News”.

FSIN officers came to the wife of activist Konstantin Kotov, who escaped from house arrest, Anna Pavlikova, to pick up equipment for monitoring those kept under house arrest. They spent more than an hour with her, trying to find out on what day Kotov left Russia. The activist himself told Mediazona about this. “They’ve just been there for an hour trying to figure it out, when I actually left the apartment,” Kotov wrote to Mediazona when the security forces were still in the apartment.

About 50 residents of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region, who fled their homes due to the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, went to a spontaneous rally on Red Square in Kursk. Videos of them are published by the telegram channels “Sekundochka” and “Tin Kursk” . Former adviser to the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Alekhin, wrote that people demanded that the authorities leave their land behind them when issuing housing certificates and complained about the lack of assistance.

In Kamchatka, 49 people were identified as infected with hepatitis C and B after undergoing a computed tomography scan at the Kamchatka Regional Oncology Center. The regional government reports this. Minister of Health of the Kamchatka Territory Alexander Gashkov said that 36 patients have acute forms of hepatitis B and C. Some of them have already undergone treatment. According to authorities, all patients became infected with hepatitis from November 2023 to December 2024.

The court has seized the property of rapper Alisher Morgenstern, accused in a criminal case of evading the duties of a “foreign agent.” The Moscow prosecutor's office reports this. The musician was prohibited from taking any legal actions with a land plot and a residential building in the Istra district of the Moscow region, as well as with a non-residential building and three premises, the department added. This was demanded by the Savelovsk interdistrict prosecutor's office.

At least two judges were killed in a shooting near the Iranian Supreme Court building in Tehran, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported . An unknown person opened fire in the square in front of the court. Another judge was injured, IRNA writes, citing sources. The dead were judges Ali Razini and Mohammad Mokiseh. They tried cases of terrorism and espionage. They tried to detain the shooter, but he committed suicide, Iranian judicial authorities said .

During the night of January 18, air defense systems shot down 46 Ukrainian drones in six regions of Russia: Belgorod, Kursk, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk and Voronezh regions, the Ministry of Defense reports . In the Tula region, as a result of a drone attack, a fire occurred on the territory of one of the enterprises, said the regional governor Dmitry Milyaev. According to him, a container with fuel and lubricants caught fire.

Four people were killed and three more were injured as a result of Russian shelling of the Shevchenkovsky district of Kiev, according to the head of the city military administration Timur Tkachenko. The impact damaged a business center, a store, an administrative building, 13 cars and a main water supply system, reports the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations.