US President-elect Donald Trump announced the appointment of “special envoys for Hollywood” on his social network Truth Social. The future president's special envoys will be actors Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight.

General Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Elizaveta Likhacheva will leave her post. Kommersant was the first to write about this, citing sources; Likhacheva herself confirmed this to RBC. Olga Galaktionova, head of the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO, will become the new director of the Pushkin Museum. According to Kommersant, the official presentation of Galaktionova to the museum staff will take place on January 17.

Director David Lynch has died, Variety reports. Lynch was 78 years old. In August 2024, the director said that he was diagnosed with emphysema and stopped leaving the house. Massimo Valicchia / NurPhoto / Getty Images David Lynch is one of the most important classics of auteur cinema. The distinctive features of his films are surrealism and many different interpretations.

Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico said that he will soon meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. This was reported by the publication Ireozhlas. “We are looking for another date [for the meeting], which should take place in the next few days,” Fico told reporters. Fico did not specify where the meeting will take place - in Ukraine, Slovakia or some third country.

Arabist Marianna Belenkaya told Meduza what the deal between them means Amir Levy/Getty Images Israel-Gaza border, January 2025 After 15 months of war, Israel and Hamas agreed on a truce, the gradual release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip. And although the agreement has not yet entered into force, it is already seen as the end, if not of the entire war, then at least of its most important phase.

A war participant who came there from a colony and deserted from the front caused a fatal accident in Novosibirsk. “Sibir.Realii” writes about this. The accident occurred on January 11. The driver of the car lost control and crashed into a pole. A 26-year-old passenger died, and two 17-year-old passengers and the driver himself were hospitalized. As it later turned out, 40-year-old Denis Gromov was driving. He was sentenced to 21 years for the gang murder of a woman in 2012.

Entrepreneur and former head of government of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ruben Vardanyan, who has been under arrest in Baku for more than a year, said that the investigation falsified protocols and recordings of his interrogations and put pressure on him, his lawyer and translator, demanding that they sign documents retroactively. This is stated in an open letter published on Vardanyan’s official account.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Deal between Israel and Hamas. How did it become possible? Why is she being criticized? And how long will the truce last? On January 15, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Al Thani announced that Israel and Hamas had signed a ceasefire agreement effective January 19. The agreement between the parties provides for the release of 33 of the 98 Israeli hostages taken by Hamas in exchange for several hundred Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

Nintendo has officially announced its new console, the Nintendo Switch 2. The corresponding video trailer is posted on the company’s YouTube channel. Nintendo of America The video does not provide any details about the console's characteristics. It can only be used to judge the appearance of the console - it will be larger than the previous model, and the removable Joy-Con controllers will now be attached using magnets.

US President-elect Donald Trump's team is considering two approaches to sanctions against the Russian oil and gas sector in search of a strategy to end the war, Bloomberg writes, citing sources. One “set of recommendations” includes some easing on sanctioned Russian oil producers — if the Trump team believes a peace deal is likely and close. The second approach, on the contrary, involves tightening and creating leverage to increase pressure on Russia, agency sources say.

On social networks, the empress is compared to Hitler and calls to remove Russia from the game Sid Meier's Civilization In mid-January, the American studio Firaxis Games announced that one of the historical leaders available in the new strategy game Sid Meier's Civilization VII will be Catherine II. The developers said that the Empress’s agenda will be called “Soul.” Catherine II does not like other leaders with a large number of masterpieces , preferring those who have few.

The UK and Ukraine entered into a 100-year political cooperation, free trade and strategic partnership agreement during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to Kyiv. The agreement assumes that the parties will deepen defense cooperation. In addition, it will promote military cooperation between the countries through a new structure to enhance security in the Baltic, Black and Azov Seas.

What they say about the Israel-Hamas agreement Amir Levy / Getty Images Participants in the rally for the return of Israeli hostages from Gaza rejoice at the truce. Tel Aviv, January 15, 2024 On January 15, it was officially announced that Israel and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, had agreed to a truce.

In the town of Spisska Stara Ves in eastern Slovakia, a schoolboy attacked other students with a knife, reports Ta3 TV channel. The attacker is 18 years old, his name has not been specified. According to preliminary data, he attacked a teacher and two classmates in the school building. Authorities reported that two people (who they were were not specified) were killed and another was in critical condition. It is unknown whether there are other victims.

Israel's Finance Minister and leader of the right-wing Religious Zionism party, Bezalel Smotrich, called the ceasefire deal "bad and dangerous" and said his faction would remain in government on the condition of resuming the war until Hamas is completely destroyed.