Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, January 15, sent a letter to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, which contained a plan for a ceasefire in southeastern Ukraine. This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov According to Peskov, Putin suggested that both sides of the conflict withdraw heavy artillery from the line of contact. Peskov said that the Ukrainian president did not accept this plan and did not make any counter proposals.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Armenian leader Serzh Sargsyan, during which he stated that the murder of a family of six in Gyumri would be investigated as soon as possible, and those responsible would be punished. Putin also expressed condolences to the relatives of those killed and to the entire Armenian people.

The Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has begun checking the Lentach community on the VKontakte social network. According to the publication Znak.com, the reason was the posts concerning the attack of terrorists on the editorial office of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The beginning of the check is also reported by the Vedomosti Ural publication.

Teriberka village and its inhabitants in Bigpicture photographs Photo: Mikhail Mordasov / Bigpicture.ru Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “Leviathan” on January 12 received the Golden Globe Award, and a few days later he was nominated for an Oscar. Each new success of the tape at the international level causes another round of discussion - between officials, creators of the picture and spectators who give the film completely opposite assessments.

The German anti-Islamic movement PEGIDA has canceled a mass demonstration that was to take place on Monday, January 19, in Dresden. This was done for security reasons. On January 16, the German authorities learned from foreign intelligence agencies that the Islamic State was threatening to kill Lutz Bachmann, one of the organizers of PEGIDA.

The command of the Ukrainian military operation in the east of the country and representatives of the DPR reported massive artillery shelling in the conflict zone in Donbass. According to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), separatists are attacking Ukrainian positions with multiple rocket launchers, artillery and mortars in several areas of the Donetsk region. The DPR reported massive shelling of Donetsk, Gorlovka and Avdiivka.

The terrorists of the Kouachi brothers, who attacked the editorial office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, were buried in unmarked graves so that their burial places would not turn into places of pilgrimage for Islamists. Sheriff Kouachi was buried on the evening of January 17 in Genvilliers, a suburb of Paris. His wife refused to attend the ceremony. His older brother Said was buried on January 16 in the city of Reims.

In Kyiv, a march began in memory of those killed in the shelling of a regular bus near the city of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region. The protesters marched from Shevchenko Park to Maidan, where about 20,000 people gathered. People hold posters with the inscriptions "I am Volnovakha" and "Je suis Volnovakha". Representatives of the clergy and authorities, including head of state Petro Poroshenko, also gathered on the Maidan, where a prayer service for the dead is to be held.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that more than a million demonstrators would come out to the action "Love for the Prophet Muhammad and protest against cartoons" to be held on January 19 in Grozny. According to him, not only residents of the Chechen Republic, but also other regions of Russia will take part in the rally and procession.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission established the direction of the shelling, under which a regular bus fell near the town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region. The mission examined the explosion craters, including a crater located 10 meters from the bus, and concluded that the rockets had come from the north-northeast. In this direction from Volnovakha is the city of Dokuchaevsk.

About 200 masked men attacked a passenger train on the evening of January 17 and staged a mass brawl with fans on their way to a mixed martial arts competition in Sopot. The attack was allegedly staged by the fans of the football club Lechia (Gdansk), and their opponents were the fans of Arka (Gdynia). In one of the cars, a stop crane was torn off, after which the attackers began to throw stones at the train.

In Indonesia, on the night of January 18, six people convicted of drug-related crimes between 2000 and 2011 were executed. Five of them were foreigners - citizens of Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Nigeria and Malawi. In addition, one Indonesian woman was executed. Brazil and the Netherlands have approached the Indonesian authorities with a request to commute the sentence and cancel the death sentence.

Investigators believe that the explosion at the Yuzhnaya mine on January 17 was due to the involuntary detonation of 12 kilograms of explosive. This was announced by Alexander Shulga, senior assistant to the head of the investigative department of the RF Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk region. According to him, more detailed information will appear after a forensic explosive examination is carried out.