“Thousands” of additional troops will be sent to the US southern border with Mexico in the near future, CNN writes , citing sources. It is not yet clear which units will be sent to the border, but the first wave will include about 1,500 troops, according to CNN.

American podcaster Lex Friedman, who interviewed Vladimir Zelensky in early January, said that he would travel to Russia to talk with Vladimir Putin. “There is probably a lot to be said about this war. I would say that I interviewed Zelensky and I will go to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin. I understand the risks, I accept the risks and my goal is simply to achieve peace, to make my small contribution to achieving peace,” Friedman said on the podcast of American host Joe Rogan.

Vladimir Pankov has become the artistic director of the Moscow Lenkom Mark Zakharov Theater, Interfax and Vedomosti write, citing a representative of the Moscow Department of Culture. Vladimir Pankov is an actor, musician, director, artistic director of the Center for Drama and Direction, as well as an honored artist. Also, the position of president appeared in the theater - this was Mark Varshaver, who had been the director of Lenkom since 1987.

The High Court of England and Wales sided with Google and prohibited Russian television channels from demanding the seizure of the corporation's assets in order to recover the fines imposed on it by a Russian court, which were already many times higher than the total GDP of all countries, Bloomberg reports . RBC also writes about the court decision with reference to a document that the editorial office has at its disposal.

In the city of Aschaffenburg in the German state of Bavaria, a 28-year-old man attacked a group of children with a knife in Schönthal Park, killing two people. According to preliminary data from German media, a two-year-old boy from Morocco and a 41-year-old man, a passerby who tried to protect the children, died. There are also casualties, according to Frankfurter Rundschau - two people. Among them is a two-year-old girl who came from Syria.

So do labels make money from leftover demos? Or is it a key piece of work that helps understand the rapper? More likely the latter On January 17, the album “Balloonerism” by American rapper Mac Miller (real name Malcolm James McCormick) was released. This is the second posthumous album by the artist, who died in 2018 after an overdose. Fans were alarmed after the release, suspecting the Warner Records label of commercializing the death of the author.

The BBC Russian Service spoke about their conflict Maxim Bogodvid / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia Alina Kabaeva at the BRICS Games in Kazan, June 21, 2024 Alina Kabaeva is one of the most famous Russian gymnasts, she won bronze at the 2000 Olympics and gold at the 2004 Olympics. But after the end of her sports career, Kabaeva became known primarily in the context of her relationship with Vladimir Putin.

The Czech Senate has approved a law that effectively prohibits Russians from obtaining citizenship of this country, writes Radio Liberty. The law called Lex Ukraine mainly concerns the extension of temporary protection of Ukrainian refugees, the provisions on passports for Russians were introduced there as amendments. In accordance with the new law, Radio Liberty emphasizes, applications for Czech citizenship will be considered only after the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

We tell the story of the site and its creator US Attorneyʼs Office for the Southern District of New York / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Photo of Ross Ulbricht presented in court in New York during the trial in 2015. It is unknown when exactly it was made On January 21, 2025, the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced that he had signed a "full and unconditional pardon" for Ross William Ulbricht.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose high taxes, tariffs and sanctions on everything Russia sells to the US and other countries if a peace deal with Ukraine is not reached soon. In a post on the social network TruthSocial, Trump wrote that he “does not want to harm Russia.” “I love the Russian people and have always had a very good relationship with President Putin - this despite the radical left’s hoaxes about Russia,” the post said.

In early January, the FSB published a list of 172 “structural units” of the organization “Forum of Free States of Post-Russia,” which had previously been declared terrorist. No information was found about 68 of them, the human rights project OVD-Info found out after studying the list.

Houthi rebels announced that they have freed the crew of the Galaxy Leader, which was captured in November 2023, the Associated Press reports. “This move is aimed at supporting the ceasefire agreement in Gaza,” the rebels said in an official statement. The release was mediated by the authorities of Oman, a country that, like Yemen, is located in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. A total of 25 people were released - citizens of the Philippines, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Mexico.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Fuel oil spill in the Black Sea. Russia will not recover from this disaster for at least 10 years. More than a month has passed since the tanker crash in the Kerch Strait. Due to the accident, thousands of tons of fuel oil ended up in the Black Sea and spread, covering a huge area. The situation is especially serious on the coast of the Krasnodar Territory. How do volunteers eliminate the consequences?

During negotiations on a peace agreement between Moscow and Kiev, which took place in March 2022 in Istanbul, the Russian side gave the Ukrainian ultimatum demanding that Ukraine be led by pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. Vladimir Zelensky stated this at a meeting with representatives of the International Media Council in Davos.

British Defense Secretary John Healey said that the Russian oceanographic ship Yantar entered British territorial waters. His words are quoted by BBC News. According to him, on January 20, the Yantar was spotted 45 miles off the British coast in the English Channel. He was escorted by two ships of the British Navy.