Director Zhenya Berkovich addresses the court Irina Buzhor / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Director Zhenya Berkovich in court. January 9, 2024. Zamoskvoretski District Court judge Larisa Semyonova extended the arrest term of director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk until March 10. They are accused of “justifying terrorism” because of the play “ Finist the Bright Falcon .” Berkovich and Petriychuk have been in pre-trial detention since May 2023.

The studio of the Ecuadorian television channel TC Televisión in the city of Guayaquil was seized by armed people during a live broadcast, reports . Reuters In a video published on social networks, people in balaclavas point guns to the heads of TV channel employees, forcing them to lie down, and show grenades to the camera. In the studio, as Reuters writes, shots and screams were heard.

A journalist, an expert on marine transportation and founder of the Naval Bulletin publication Mikhail Voitenko died in Thailand from a heart attack, RIA Novosti reports with reference to doctors. He was 65 years old. Mikhail Voitenko page on Facebook Doctors in the Hospital of Chonburi on the east coast of Thailand, where Voitenko lived in recent years, told the agency that the heart attack was sudden and the death of almost instantaneous.

The American space agency NASA has postponed the launch of the manned lunar mission Artemis II to September 2025, Associated Press reports . The flight was postponed due to technical problems, the agency writes. At the same time, the next mission, Artemis III, which was supposed to land people on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, has also been postponed for a year. It is now scheduled for September 2026.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is being treated for prostate cancer, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said in a statement, as quoted by CNN. The statement clarifies that Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in early December, and on the 22nd he underwent a “minimally invasive surgical procedure” called a prostatectomy. Doctors say Austin was under general anesthesia and returned home the next morning.

One Russian soldier talks about life on the front lines in Ukraine Stanislav Krasilnikov / Sputnik Russia / Scanpix / LETA A Russian soldier in Ukraine A volunteer Russian soldier, who spent a year at war in Ukraine, spoke to the independent news outlet iStories about his experiences on condition of anonymity.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Judging by statistics, fewer Russians go to church. How is this due to the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church supports the war with Ukraine? On January 5, Archpriest Alexei Uminsky was removed from his abbot in the Moscow Temple of the Life -Giving Trinity in Khokhlah and banned in service. The parishioners of the temple told reporters about this. Uminsky opposed the war in Ukraine.

In January, Mikhail Danilov, the owner of the Mutabor club where the “almost naked” party took place, donated fragments of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker to the Church of the Sign of the Icon of the Mother of God. The certificate certifying the authenticity of the relics was signed by a subdeacon of the Italian diocese who has not served there since 2015, Radio Liberty found out .

Podolsk City District Administration A man fixes the heating system in an apartment building in Podolsk On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin ordered the nationalization of the Klimovsk Ammunition Plant, a gun cartridge factory in the Moscow region where a mechanical failure last week caused tens of thousands of people to lose heating.

The National Commission for Rehabilitation in Ukraine, 50 years later, has rehabilitated film director Sergei Parajanov, who was convicted in the USSR under the article on sodomy, the reported . Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance The decision states that after a detailed analysis of the criminal case and other archival documents, a political motive was identified in the prosecution and conviction of the director.

This is more damage from the war of Russia with Ukraine, Pandemia and the global financial crisis. Bloomberg forecast Annabelle Chih / Getty images teachings on a military base in Taiwan. January 11, 2023 In the case of an armed conflict of China with Taiwan, damage to the global economy can be 10 trillion dollars or 10% of the global GDP - more damage from the Russian war with Ukraine, the Pandemia of Coronavirus and the Global Financial Crisis, Bloomberg writes .

For some time the enterprise was led by a former guard of Putin Administration of the city district Podolsk repair of the heating system in the Klimovsk microdistrict in Podolsk The general director of the Klimovsky specialized cartridge plant, due to the accident in the boiler room of which tens of thousands of Podolsk residents were left without heat, is the FSB Colonel Igor Kushnikov. In the 1990s, he was accused of the leadership of the Golyanov organized crime group.

On December 16, a secret meeting of representatives of Ukraine, the G7 countries and some states of the global South was held in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Ukrainian "peace formula" , Bloomberg reported , citing sources familiar with the meeting. Bloomberg lists India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey among the participants from the Global South. China, Brazil and the UAE, which had attended previous summits, did not send representatives to this meeting.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the lead singer of the group “Puppies” Maxim Tesli (real name Maxim Moiseev) for 10 days. He was found guilty of petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg courts. Maxim Tesli was detained on January 8 at Pulkovo airport, from where he was planning to fly to Yekaterinburg and then to Kazakhstan.

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed 34-year-old Education Minister Gabriel Attal as the country's new prime minister. this . reports Le Figaro Attal became the youngest prime minister in the history of France, as well as the first openly gay person in the history of the country to serve as head of the cabinet.