Marco Rubio spoke to Congress for three hours. Brief retelling This is a brief retelling of the speech of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a hearing in the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate on January 28. The US will quickly return diplomats to Venezuela. We transferred money from the sale of Venezuelan oil to an account in Qatar. The United States has strict demands, but the Venezuelan interim authorities are ready to cooperate. We will establish democracy in the country.

A protocol was drawn up against the founder and director of the House with a Lighthouse charity foundation, Lida Moniava, for “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). The administrative case was received by the Izmailovsky District Court of Moscow, RBC reports. What prompted the case is not specified. “Nothing changes in the work of the Lighthouse House; we continue to help seriously ill children as before,” Moniava told the publication.

Two US Customs and Border Protection officers who shot Minneapolis resident Alex Pretty have been suspended pending an investigation into his murder, NBC News reports, citing a US Department of Homeland Security spokesman. The names of the agents have not been disclosed. The agency sent a report to Congress following a preliminary internal investigation into the incident that occurred during the migration raid on January 24.

The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) conducted searches at the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt am Main and at the bank's branch in Berlin, Der Spiegel reports. The Frankfurt am Main prosecutor's office said it was investigating "as yet unknown persons and employees of Deutsche Bank" on suspicion of money laundering.

Maxim Bogodvid / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia Low oil prices, a global glut of crude, a strong ruble, and sanctions are all weighing on Russia’s oil and gas revenues. As a result, oil and gas accounted for a record-low share of the federal budget’s income in 2025, marking Russia’s weakest dependence on commodities in at least two decades. The authorities are trying to boost other sources of revenue to offset the shortfall, primarily through higher taxes on households and businesses.

The acting head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Madhu Gottumukkala, uploaded confidential documents into a conversation with ChatGPT. Politico writes about this with reference to sources. The incident occurred in the summer of 2025. There were no classified documents among the downloaded data, but there were materials marked “for official use only.” The Department of Homeland Security, to which CISA reports, has begun an investigation into the incident.

Fazry Ismail / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Military aircraft on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln in Port Klang in Malaysia. November 26, 2024 Since January 26, a US aircraft carrier group led by the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln has been deployed in the Middle East. The arrival of the group “to ensure regional security and stability” was officially announced by the US Central Command.

Russian track and field athlete Daria Klishina reported that her one-room apartment in Tver, which the authorities gave her in 2011, was taken away from her. “As they gave it, they took it away,” she said in an interview with Vita Kravchenko. This is the only place where I was registered. The conditions of this apartment were such that I could transfer it into ownership if I participated in the Olympic Games, won a medal at the World Championships, or if I had reached my seniority.

Her body was found in a frozen apartment in Kyiv, where there was no heating, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported. Andrew Kravchenko / Bloomberg / Getty Images Kyiv. January 15, 2026 Update.

One thousand four hundred thirty-fifth day. First a peace agreement, then security guarantees for Ukraine. This is the US position in negotiations to end the war Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

That's what those who live in Europe say now. They believe life "will be harder for the next generation" Florian Gaertner / Photothek / Getty Images Residents of European countries are dissatisfied with the way things are going in their states, with the policies their governments are pursuing, and with how those governments are responding to threats from US President Donald Trump.

Russia is ready for direct negotiations between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, said Assistant to the Russian President Yuri Ushakov. He noted that Moscow has never refused “such contacts” if they are well prepared and focused on achieving specific results. Ushakov said that if Zelensky is “really ready” for the meeting, the Russian side invites him to Moscow.

Billionaire Alisher Usmanov won a lawsuit in Germany against the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), write Reuters, as well as RBC , Kommersant and Forbes, citing the press service of Usmanov himself and his lawyers. The Hamburg Regional Court, in a ruling dated January 23, banned FAZ from disseminating a number of allegations, including accusations that Usmanov had ties to senior Russian officials.

Meduza's source says that the appointment was lobbied by the director's influential friends with access to Putin Petr Kovalev / TASS / Profimedia On January 26, graduates and students of the Moscow Art Theater School wrote an open letter to the Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova. They ask to consider other candidates for the post of rector, except for Konstantin Bogomolov, who was appointed acting.

EPA/Scanpix/LETA Director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk have already spent a thousand days in prison. They were detained on May 4, 2023, on absurd charges of “justifying terrorism.” The reason for the criminal prosecution was the play “Finist the Clear Falcon” - this is the story of Russian women deceived and recruited by the terrorists of the Islamic State. In Petriychuk's play, which Berkovich staged, documentary texts are combined with motifs from folk tales.