Photos from Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar Rijasolo / AFP / Scanpix / Leta District Ankasin, Antananariva, Madagascar. January 28, 2022. The tropical storm “ANA”, which originated in the southwestern part of the Indian Ocean, reached the east coast of Africa on January 22.

Sex shops should be banned as they are "legalized debauchery". This was stated by the head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion. “I would think that such stores should be banned altogether,” Hilarion said, answering a question from a viewer on Rossiya 24’s “Church and Peace” program, who was concerned that these stores were being seen by children.

Canadian singer Joni Mitchell will remove all her music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young, who spoke out against the release of Joe Rogan's podcast, which made anti-science remarks. Neil Young vs Spotify The conflict between Neil Young and Spotify occurred after another episode of the Joe Rogan podcast was released on the platform, in which the presenter spoke with virologist Robert Malone. He is known for spreading misinformation about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.

Political scientist Daniel Traisman - about the possible development of the situation around Ukraine AP / Scanpix / Leta Column of Russian military equipment on the highway in Crimea, January 18, 2022 Russian military equipment has been concentrated for several months near the border with Ukraine; Western countries believe that Moscow can prepare an invasion.

Illinois Department of Corrections, Visions of America, LLC / Alamy / Vida Press In the United States, 44-year-old Kevin Dugar left prison, having left almost 20 years on charges of murder. The court in Chikago ordered the bail to release a bail nine years after his twin brother, Karl Smith, said that he actually committed the crime. The Guardian tells the story of the brothers. Children Kevin Dugar and Karl Smith were inseparable.

A court in Ingushetia has fined gynecologist Izanya Nalgieva 30,000 rubles for performing the mutilating operation of "female circumcision" on a nine-year-old girl. Nalgieva was found guilty under the article on causing minor bodily harm (Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court immediately released her from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Nalgieva committed the crime in June 2019.

The first racket of the world, Australian Ashleigh Barty won the Australian Open tennis championship. In the final, Barty defeated world No. 30 Danielle Collins of the United States. The match lasted an hour and 27 minutes and ended with the score 6:3, 7:6. The final of the men's part of the tournament will take place on January 30. It will play Russian Daniil Medvedev and Spaniard Rafael Nadal. Barty won the Australian Open for the first time in her career.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed his administration to explore the idea of ​​creating a "self-regulatory registry of toxic content." This was reported on the Kremlin website. The register was proposed by businessman Igor Ashmanov at Putin's meeting with the Human Rights Council in December. In his opinion, this list could include sites with information that is not prohibited by law, but may have an undesirable effect on young people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a number of instructions following his meeting with the Human Rights Council in December 2021. In particular, the president instructed the Ministry of Justice, together with the Prosecutor General's Office and the HRC, to analyze the legislation on "foreign agents", including the part regarding the exclusion of organizations from the relevant register - and "if necessary" provide proposals for changing it.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. It seems to be no war with Ukraine and NATO. But Russia has already suffered badly. Who is to blame for this? The political show "Pepperov and Haaz" returns with the second season! And the first episode is about the aggravation around Ukraine. The United States and NATO responded to Russia's proposals under security guarantees. They stated that they would not refuse an open door and called Moscow to de -escalation of tension.

The Ministry of Health of Russia does not publish data on clinical trials of Russian vaccines, as this information is a trade secret. Writes about this "Kommersant". According to the agency, the data included in the registration dossier contain "confidential information related to trade secrets" and therefore cannot be published without the consent of the developer. Kommersant notes that the developer of the Sputnik V vaccine is the Gamaleya Center, subordinate to the Ministry of Health.

Galina Yuzefovich - about the new novel of the Nobel laureate of Orhan Pamuke Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells about the novel by Orhan Pamuke “Plague Nights”, which is three works at once: a historical detective in a pandemic surroundings, a melancholy novel-medical and philosophical parable. And also an attempt by the Nobel laureate of Orhan Pamuke to build a historical alternative to Turkey, which, in his opinion, was not there at the beginning of the last century. Orhan Pamuk.

Over the past day, 113,122 cases of coronavirus have been detected in Russia, the operational headquarters reports. In Moscow, 26,488 new cases were detected per day, in St. Petersburg - 14,939. Across Russia, 668 people have died in the past 24 hours, according to the operational headquarters, and 30,010 people have recovered. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the headquarters has recorded 11,615,779 cases and 330,111 deaths from coronavirus.

"Sensor-Tech" Operation for the installation of the neuroimplant Elvis 6-year-old male Pavian At the end of January, employees of the Sensor-Technic Laboratory, together with neurosurgeons of the Research Institute of Medical Primatology in Sochi, for the first time in Russia, conducted an operation to install an implant in the brain of the monkey-this is the last stage of preclinical testing of ELVIS technology, which will probably allow blind people to distinguish objects by projecting the

Russia has begun delivering supplies of blood and medical supplies to the border with Ukraine. About it writes Reuters with reference to three American officials. According to the interlocutors of the agency, such subtle details at first glance are in fact crucial for assessing the level of Moscow's readiness to launch an invasion of Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal, in turn, writes that Russia has deployed medical units to the border.