The Leninsky District Court of Kursk arrested the director of the Kursk Trading House company, Denis Fedorov, on charges of embezzling funds allocated for the construction of defensive structures in the region. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts. Fedorov is accused of stealing more than 43.5 million rubles as part of a group of persons by prior conspiracy. Speaking in court, Fedorov asked not to be sent into custody.

Tomas Benedikovic / AFP / Scanpix / LETA On the evening of January 24, thousands of people gathered in the center of the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, protesting against the policies of Prime Minister Robert Fico and his rapprochement with Moscow. The action was organized by the “Peace for Ukraine” initiative together with opposition political parties. They claim that 60 thousand people came to it.

The law firm “Mushailov, Uzdensky, Rybakov and Partners” stated that employees of the Moscow Region police department tortured their client with a stun gun and raped him with a mop. The report says that one of the bureau's lawyers could not find his client for three days. After “repeated calls to the emergency response service,” the lawyer managed to find out that the man was in the Razvilkovsky police department in the town of Vidnoye near Moscow.

In the Rostov region, the FSB officers detained the organizer and ten gang participants, who are suspected of abduction of military personnel participating in the war in Ukraine. This was announced by TASS with reference to the regional department of the FSB.

Hamas published the names of the four Israelis, which the terrorist group plans to release on January 25 as part of an agreement on the termination of fire with Israel. As notes The Times of Israel, Israeli media do not publish names at the request of the authorities who must first notify the hostage families. The list is published in telegram channels related to grouping. The authorities of Israel consider the listed by Hamas a list of agreements, writes The Times of ISRAEL.

Russian troops of the Vostok troops have established a Russian flag on one of the buildings in the center of the village of Velikaya Novoselka in the Donetsk region. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

On January 23, in the Helsinki county court, a meeting was held in the case of the Russian neo-Nazi and one of the commanders of the diversion and gym intelligence group (DShRG) “Rusich” by Voislav Torden (previously known as Jan Petrovsky), who is accused of military crimes committed in the east of Ukraine in September 2014 years, reports Yle. During the meeting, as the publication writes, the court heard Torden himself. He answered questions with the help of a translator and lawyer.

Almost every day Trump and Putin are exchanged by statements about the possible end of the war. What does Kyiv think about this? Interview with Mikhail Podolyak Evgeniy Maloletka / Scanpix / Leta Ukrainian self -propelled howitzer Dita Azov brigade is firing in Russian positions in the advanced in the Donetsk region. January 23, 2025 Almost every day Trump reports something new about his plan to complete the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Briefly about the prospects for forcing the Kremlin to peace Donald Trump continues to seek leverage on Vladimir Putin to make peace with Ukraine. During a speech via video link in Davos on January 23, the US President said that he would ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to reduce world oil prices. “They should lower [prices]. I admit I'm surprised this didn't happen before the [US Presidential] election. “Right now prices are high enough to keep the war [in Ukraine] going,” Trump said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting on Donald Trump's statements about the need for negotiations to stop the war in Ukraine, said that if in 2022 the US President was Trump, then perhaps the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war would not have begun. He said this in an interview with the correspondent of the Rossiya TV channel Pavel Zarubin. “Russia has never refused contacts with the US administration. And not our fault that the previous administration refused these contacts.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How the Kremlin is going to occupy political strategists in a country where elections are almost not held The political block of the presidential administration (AP) launched a competition for "social architects." So the Kremlin wants to take political strategists who actually remain without work due to a reduction in the number of elections, “corporate mobilization”, falsifications and electronic voting.

The Russian Foreign Ministry does not expect any “drastic positive developments” in Russian-American relations in connection with the return of Donald Trump to the White House. This is stated on the department’s website in a publication with answers to journalists’ questions for Sergei Lavrov’s press conference.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has updated the register of “foreign agents”. It included rapper Vladi (Vladislav Leshkevich), as well as the project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial".

The Telegram channel “Sudzha in Telegram” published a list of missing residents of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region. It was compiled based on data from relatives of residents who remain in the territory of the region occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Alexander Kozlov, reported to Vladimir Putin that the restoration of Anapa beaches after a fuel oil spill during a tanker crash in the Kerch Strait will begin only at the end of 2025. According to Kozlov, who reported at a government meeting on January 23, the regional authorities are starting to develop documentation for the phased restoration of the Anapa coast and plan to do this by September 1.