Governor of the Kamchatka Territory Vladimir Solodov said that he asked the federal authorities to lift restrictions on the operation of mobile Internet. He stated this at a meeting of the regional government on January 12, the publication “7×7” drew attention to this. “The restrictions introduced have certainly led to serious inconvenience for residents.

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) accused Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople of “schismatic activities in the Orthodox church space.” The department issued a press release on January 12 in which it called Bartholomew “the Antichrist in a cassock” and “the devil in the flesh, obsessed with the idea of ​​ousting Russian Orthodoxy from the territory of the Baltic states.” The SVR claims that in this it is being helped by the British intelligence services, “fuelling Russophobic sentiments

Newly declassified transcripts show a chummy Putin and Bush Jr. at the height of U.S.–Russia cooperation Eric Draper / Greg Mathieson / Mai / Getty Images George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin at Bush’s ranch in Texas. November 14, 2001. The National Security Archive at George Washington University has published eight newly declassified transcripts of conversations between Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush.

The head of the Cyprus Presidential Administration, Charalambos Charalambous, announced that he was resigning. He posted a message about this on Facebook on January 12. According to the official, he was the victim of a “targeted campaign to discredit the president” of Cyprus, and his statements were taken out of context.

Hundreds of apartment buildings still without heat after massive Russian attack on Kyiv Andriy Dubchak / Frontliner / Getty Images State Emergency Service workers set up warming tents in Kyiv. January 10, 2026. More than 800 apartment blocks in Kyiv are still without heat as a result of Russian strikes on the capital, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported on Monday. “Repair and restoration work continues around the clock,” he wrote on Telegram.

Real Madrid football club announced that head coach Xabi Alonso has left his post by mutual agreement of the parties. The club's new coach is 42-year-old Alvaro Arbeloa, who formerly coached Real Madrid's youth teams and has headed Castilla since May 2025. Alonso left his post as head coach of Real Madrid the day after the club lost to Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup with a score of 2:3. In La Liga, Real is in second place, Barcelona in first. Alonso has led Real Madrid since May 25, 2025.

Mattel, the manufacturer of Barbie, has released a doll depicting a girl with autism spectrum disorder. The doll has loose clothing designed to minimize contact of fabric with the body. Barbie's gaze is directed slightly to the side, which "reflects how some people with autism spectrum disorder tend to avoid direct eye contact," Mattel said. Mattel Inc.

Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu telephoned the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Ali Larijani amid ongoing protests in the country, Interfax reported on January 12.

Blizzards leave cities from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok buried in snow Heavy snow blanketed cities across Russia over the weekend, with powerful blizzards hitting Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok. Snowfall in Moscow broke a 50-year record on Friday, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe , after a severe storm struck the capital and surrounding regions.

This is the top manager who turned Uralkali into an international company. But most of all he is known as the “hostage” of Alexander Lukashenko in the “potassium war” Vladislav Baumgertner in the courthouse in Moscow, 2014. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Vladislav Baumgertner, one of the most famous Russian top managers of the 2010s, disappeared in Cyprus.

Over the weekend of January 10-11, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi contacted US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff amid Donald Trump's threats to use military force in response to the suppression of Iranian protests, Axios reports, citing sources. The publication’s interlocutors did not specify how exactly Araghchi and Witkoff communicated—they called or exchanged text messages.

Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin was summoned to the Armenian Foreign Ministry after host Vladimir Solovyov made statements about the possibility of conducting a military operation in this country.

43-year-old Colonel Sergei Karasev has become the deputy mayor of Samara; he will be involved in supporting participants in the war with Ukraine and their families, according to the website of the “Time of Heroes” program for retraining military officials as officials. The publication was noticed by the publication “7×7”. The mayor of Samara, Ivan Noskov, became Karasev’s curator within the program. The military man was born in 1982 in Pskov.

All conditions for revolution have developed in Iran. This is what Jack Goldstone (the most authoritative theorist of revolutions) and Karim Sajjadpour (the largest Iranian scholar) think so. MAHSA / MEI / SIPA / Scanpix / LETA Protests in Tehran, January 9, 2026 American sociologist Jack Goldstone of George Mason University is the leading contemporary academic theorist of revolutions.

Venezuela has been unable to use the S-300 and Buk-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems it received from Russia, leaving the country's airspace vulnerable to US strikes, former and current US officials told The New York Times. According to the publication's interlocutors, Venezuela's air defense systems were not even connected to radar during the attack by US helicopters and probably had not worked for years before that.