Mayor of Omsk Sergey Shelest has criticized a project that would install statues of pigeons painted in various colors along the Irtysh River embankment. “First of all, I’m confused by the birds’ color scheme. It definitely points in the direction of LGBT. Secondly, you see what happens to our monuments, even the ones that cause no negative emotions, people break them. These pigeons, if they have that color scheme, I 100 percent guarantee that they’ll get broken in the near future.

The Russian investigative outlet iStories reports that the district administration in the Bryansk district of Russia’s Bryansk region has ordered at least six elementary schools to prepare to host Russian troops. The outlet obtained a recording, on which Alla Azarkina, the head of the district’s department of education, says, “Emergency services will come and look around with the aim of accommodating military personnel in these schools in case of emergency.

The Moscow Investigative Committee is reviewing Telegram channel Nexta Live for posting calls to terrorist activities, report both state broadcasting corporation RBC and online news outlet Baza . According to an RBC source, the calls to terrorism appeared in March 2022. Investigators believe that the channel’s owner posted them. Baza writes that a 27-year old Muscovite named Oleg S. is under investigation for his involvement with Nexta. RBC gives his surname as Seliverov.

The Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee is conducting an investigation into the posting of calls for terrorist activities on the Nexta Live telegram channel, RBC and Baza report. According to an RBC source, a message in which such calls were seen appeared on the Nexta Live telegram channel in March 2022. The investigation believes that it was posted by the owner of the channel. 27-year-old Moscow resident Oleg S. is being checked for involvement in Nexta, Baza claims.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on Hungary’s Ambassador to Ukraine, István Íjgyártó, to have a “frank conversation,” following recent remarks by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that Ukrainian troops used a HIMARS rocket launcher to shell a regional hospital in the village of Novoaidar, in a Russian-annexed area of Ukraine’s Luhansk region. According to a Defense Ministry announcement, the strike killed 14 people and injured 24 patients and medical personnel at the hospital.

The retired general, the former chairman of the NATO military committee, Peter Pavel won the presidential election in the Czech Republic. In the second round of elections, the 61-year-old general went around the opponent, former Prime Minister Andrei Babish. According to preliminary results, Pavel scored more than 58%, reports Reuters. The turnout in the elections amounted to almost 70%.

The police of the city of Memphis, Tennessee, posted on January 27 four videos on how five police officers were detained, and then beaten the 29-year-old African American Tyrir Nichols, who died three days after the incident, Reuters reported . The police published records from the underwear of police officers, as well as from video surveillance cameras. They can see how five police officers on January 7 stopped Nichols's car on January 7, and demanded that the man lay down on the ground.

Artdocfest In early March, Latvia will host the 3rd International Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest/Riga. In Russia, the films presented at the festival will most likely fail - at least the authorities do everything possible for this. And certainly it will not fall into the Manifesto cinemas - a film created from videos that Russian teenagers post on social networks, and an Angie Vincito, mounted under the pseudonym, who performs under the pseudonym.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that Ukrainian troops fired at a regional hospital in the annexed village of Novoaydar in the Lugansk region of Ukraine with a HIMARS MLRS. “As a result of rockets with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead hitting the building, 14 were killed and 24 hospital patients and medical personnel were injured of varying degrees of severity,” the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

Remittances of individuals from Russia to neighboring countries in 2022 increased several times, follows from the statistics of transfers to Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, which were studied by RBC journalists. The publication noted that the statistics take into account transfers through banks and the Zolotaya Korona, Unistream and Contact systems.

Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Biometric foreign passports of citizens of the Russian Federation in the Moscow printing house - a branch of Goznak JSC. September 5, 2018 In different cities of Russia, they temporarily stopped drawing up biometric foreign passports that have been valid for 10 years. This information was confirmed by the regional media in the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tver and Orenburg regions.

What will happen to the animated series without Justin Roland Cartoon Network / Everett Collection / Vida Press On January 13, NBC News , Variety and other publications, citing court documents, reported that one of the creators of the animated series “Rick and Morty”, actor and animator Justin Royland was charged with domestic violence. After the press found out about the proceedings, he lost his job in all the projects where he was involved.

An excerpt from Julie Otsuki’s novel “Swims” - about how people are united by a joint hobby and how to accept the news of dementia in a loved one Patrick Landmann / Getty Images At the end of January 2023, the Livibuk publishing house was published by Julie Otsuki's book, swimmers . This is a novel about how amateur swimmers who visit the pool together become very close to each other. And about the life of one of these swimmers - Alice. She develops dementia.

Russia's casualties due to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' missile strike on annexed Makeyevka in the Donetsk region are likely to be more than 300, the UK Ministry of Defense said in its daily review of the situation in Ukraine. “We estimate that most of them were most likely killed or missing rather than injured,” the ministry said in a statement. The Russian side previously claimed that 89 people were killed due to the strike on Makeyevka. Ukrainian authorities said about 400 people were killed.