Director of the Hermitage and President of the Union of Museums of Russia (SMR) Mikhail Piotrovsky sent a letter to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, with a request to "temporarily withdraw" the application for the transfer to the use of the Church of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

A native of the Perm Territory, Yuri Tiunov, who was detained on January 17 in Orenburg on suspicion of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl, confessed to committing crimes against children in 2011 and 2013, including murder. After the arrest of the man, it turned out that his genotype coincides with the genotype of a person who committed sexual crimes against two boys in the Perm region in 2011.

US President Donald Trump said in an interview with ABC News that he considers torture, including simulated drowning, to be an effective means. He explained that he recently asked senior intelligence officials whether torture works. “The answer was: yes, absolutely,” said the US President. Trump added that, in his opinion, “you have to fight fire with fire,” and cited the example of terrorists killing Christians in the Middle East.

US President Donald Trump on January 25 signed executive orders to build a wall on the border with Mexico and tighten the policy on illegal migrants. The second decree, in particular, deprives federal grants of the so-called cities of refuge, in which illegal migrants are not prosecuted for violating immigration laws.

"Medusa" publishes video features of the two former students of the League of Schools.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, criticized the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Olga Vasilyeva, for her statements against wearing hijabs in schools.

The plan for the implementation of the state strategy to combat HIV until 2020, sent by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation to the government, does not provide for the allocation of additional money to fight the virus. This was reported by RBC, which had the document at its disposal. We are talking about an additional 17.5 billion rubles a year, which, according to the publication, was supposed to be directed to the implementation of the program.

For the first time since 1998, a Japanese has received the highest rank in sumo. On January 25, wrestler Yutaka Kisenosato became a yokozuna. Yutaka Kisenosato became a yokozuna after winning just one tournament, although the title is usually awarded after two victories. Therefore, in Japan, there is a double impression of receiving the highest sumo rank by a compatriot: many are happy, but there are those who believe that the title was given only for the sake of popularizing sumo .

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that reports of the deployment of mobile complexes with Dongfeng-41 (DF-41) intercontinental ballistic missiles on the border with the Russian Federation are nothing more than "rumors circulating on the Internet." Hua Chunying noted that China took notice of the "positive" reaction to these messages from the Kremlin.

Residents of the Irish town of Westport cannot sleep peacefully. They jump up at night and answer unexpected phone calls. Interlocutors demand phone sex. Sudden night calls have an explanation. Westport's dialing code is 098. This is also the start of the Babestation TV channel's phone number, where scantily clad models talk to viewers. The Irish often forget to dial the UK code and call not models, but their compatriots in Westport.

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order on foreign prisons for the detention of suspected terrorists. The decree has not yet been signed. According to The New York Times, which obtained a three-page draft, the Enemy Detention and Interrogation Executive Order would allow the CIA to reopen overseas "secret prisons" where terrorist suspects were held and tortured. The prison program was phased out under Barack Obama.

On January 25, police officers searched the home of Svetlana and Mikhail Dely, from whom the guardianship authorities seized ten children in January. This was announced by lawyer Ivan Pavlov, representing the interests of the family. Within the framework of what case the searches are being carried out, he did not specify. Earlier it became known that a criminal case of beatings was initiated against Mikhail Del.

Photo: Kirill Kallinikov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta President of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in the United States Sergey Millian at an investment summit in Moscow, April 19, 2016 In early January, Buzzfeed published Dossier Donald Trump-a collection of documents, which, in particular, talked about the connections of the 45th US president with the Russian special services. In particular, the “dossier” stated that at the disposal of the FSB there is a video that compromises Trump.

The head of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, intends to dig a tunnel that will allow him to get to work bypassing traffic jams. It all started back in December 2016, when Musk, who very often moves between the offices of two companies (one located in Los Angeles and the other in Silicon Valley), complained about traffic jams: “The traffic jams are annoying.

In Washington, seven Greenpeace activists climbed a construction crane and unfurled a banner reading Resist. According to The Washington Post, some of them chained themselves to a crane.