US President Joe Biden gave a speech at the State Department about the results of his administration's foreign policy. His speech was broadcast by the White House press service. According to Biden, during his presidency, the United States and its allies have become stronger, while the country's adversaries and rivals have become weaker. Among other things, he mentioned the Russian-Ukrainian war and Vladimir Putin. “When Putin invaded Ukraine, he thought he would conquer Kyiv in a matter of days.

The Ukrainian military “made a massive attempt to launch a combined missile strike” on the Bryansk region, said the head of the region, Alexander Bogomaz. According to him, Russian air defenses destroyed all targets. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties. At the time of publication of this news, the Russian Ministry of Defense did not comment on the attack on the Bryansk region. Telegram channels were the first to report the shelling of the region, citing local residents.

Two natives of Ingushetia were detained in Siberia and are suspected of involvement in the murder of Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Kommersant reports. The detainees, according to the newspaper, were engaged in small business in Moscow and left the capital shortly after the murder of the general.

Moscow Art Theater star Evgenia Dobrovolskaya has died. She proved that intellectual theater can be emotional Picvario Media / Alamy / Vida Press On Friday, January 10, actress Evgenia Dobrovolskaya died. She was 60 years old. Dobrovolskaya worked at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhova is 33 years old: first she collaborated with Oleg Efremov, then with Kirill Serebrennikov, and remained the star of the troupe for all three decades.

One person was injured in a knife attack at Krasnoyarsk airport. The suspect in the attack was detained, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport in the Siberian Federal District reported. According to preliminary police reports, a 40-year-old man suddenly stabbed a 39-year-old victim several times on the ground floor of the airport building. Two eyewitnesses and transport police, who soon arrived at the scene, detained the attacker.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow made a decision on the first of three claims by the Moscow prosecutor's office against the city mayor's office in defense of victims of political repression, the BBC Russian Service reports. The court fully satisfied the demands of 76-year-old Elizaveta Mikhailova, whose parents were expelled from the capital during the years of the Great Terror.

Zelensky's party will change its name. It is unclear whether he will run for re-election, writes RBC-Ukraine. Julia Nikhinson / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA In connection with the upcoming return of Donald Trump to the White House and his intention (at least declared) to end the Russian-Ukrainian war in the near future, Ukrainian political circles are actively talking about parliamentary and presidential elections.

Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico invited President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to negotiations on the issue of transit of Russian gas. Fico stated this in an open appeal to Zelensky, which was published on the Slovak Prime Minister’s Facebook page. According to him, the meeting could take place on the territory of Slovakia, near the border with Ukraine.

Your browser does not support the audio element. How Elon Musk supports the far right and increases influence in Europe Donald Trump, after winning the US presidential election, made billionaire Elon Max, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of the social network X, his closest adviser. This appointment outraged not only American Democrats, but also European liberals. Because it turned out that Musk is actively interfering in the affairs of European countries.

The Russian Football Union fined the Sibiryak mini-football club from Novosibirsk 500 thousand rubles due to the actions of its fans “aimed at humiliating a person’s dignity on the basis of race.” This was announced by the control and disciplinary committee of the RFU. The incident, for which the club received disciplinary action, occurred on January 9 at the Russian Futsal Championship match between Sibiryak and Norilsk Nickel.

Athletes who participated in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris returned more than 100 defective medals to the organizing committee of the Games, La Lettre reports. Shortly after the 2024 Games, some athletes who received awards complained on social networks that the top layer was being erased from their medals, the publication recalls. The quality of the medals was criticized by US skateboarder Nyjah Huston, who took third place in the street discipline.

This is a private project that could compete with SpaceX New Glenn on the launch pad, January 11, 2025. Joe Skipper / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA On January 13, the first launch of the heavy, partially reusable New Glenn rocket, developed by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company, was to take place from the Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida.

Any actions that threaten the security of Hungary's energy supply must be considered an infringement on the country's sovereignty. This is how the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjártó, commented on the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense about Ukraine’s attempt to attack a compressor station in the Krasnodar Territory. According to the minister, the Turkish Stream gas pipeline is necessary for gas supplies to Hungary and Central Europe.

Your browser does not support the audio element. It seems that Russian authorities cannot cope with the elimination of fuel oil in the Black Sea. Why? And what does this threaten? In mid-December 2024, two tankers, carrying a total of nine thousand tons of petroleum products, crashed in the Black Sea. The fuel oil spill led to an environmental disaster . The water and tens of kilometers of shore in the Krasnodar Territory are polluted, and fuel oil has also washed up on the shores of Crimea.

Mediators in negotiations between Israel and Hamas have handed over the final draft of a truce agreement in the Gaza Strip to the parties, an official with knowledge of the negotiations told Reuters. According to him, on the night of January 13, a “breakthrough” was achieved in negotiations that have been going on for more than a year through intermediaries - the United States, Qatar and Egypt.