Jude Law, photo: Allison Dinner / EPA-EFE British actor Jude Law said he will star as Vladimir Putin in the film adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli's novel The Kremlin Wizard. He spoke about this in an interview with Deadline. The film will be shot by French director Olivier Assayas, and in addition to Lowe, actors Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Zach Galifianakis and Tom Sturridge will appear in it. It is unknown when it will be released in cinemas.

It will become more difficult for the Kremlin to sell oil using the “shadow fleet” An oil tanker in front of the headquarters of the Gazprom corporation in St. Petersburg, September 20, 2022. Photo: Anatoly Maltsev / EPA What sanctions have been imposed, against whom and why? For the first time, the United States introduced the most severe sanctions against two large Russian oil companies, Gazpromneft and Surgutneftegaz.

The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission extended the operation of elevators in Russia for 5 years, the service life of which was supposed to expire until February 15, 2025. RIA Real Estate writes about this with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Construction. The department said that replacing outdated equipment would require about 195 billion rubles, but this amount of funds was not included in the capital repair program.

Evgenia Dobrovolskaya, photo: social networks People's Artist of Russia Evegniya Dobrovolskaya died at the age of 60. This was reported by the press service of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, on whose stage she performed. They clarified that Dobrovolskaya had been struggling with a serious illness for the last year. Which one exactly is not specified. The theater promised to soon announce the date and place of farewell to the actress.

Before his inauguration, Trump was found guilty in the case of payments to a porn actress “for silence.” But the court did not punish him Donald Trump. Photo: Peter Foley/EPA A US court has sentenced Donald Trump in the case of payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels for keeping quiet about their alleged romantic relationship during the first election campaign. Thus, the politician became the first president in US history to be convicted of a crime.

Search team “Lisa Alert”, photo: social networks The list of “missing people” published by the Russian authorities in the Kursk region contains the data of already evacuated citizens and a murdered woman. “7x7” writes about this with reference to the words of local residents. This list was published the day before by Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova and Acting Governor of the Kursk Region Alexander Khinshtein . In total, it contains information about 517 citizens.

Timur Praliev receives a combat veteran certificate, photo: VKontakte group “Defenders of the Fatherland Bashkortostan” American border guards detained Timur Praliev, an employee of the Wagner PMC, when he was trying to illegally cross the border between Mexico and the United States. The press service of the department reports this. The publication says that the “Wagnerian” was detained on Saturday, January 4, while trying to ford the Rio Grande River.

Mikhail Verbitsky, photo: social networks Rosfinmonitoring included mathematician and blogger Mikhail Verbitsky in the list of “terrorists and extremists.” This follows from the data published on the service website. There is an asterisk next to Verbitsky's name - this means that a criminal case has been opened against him under a terrorist article.

Vadim Kobzev in court on 13 October 2023. Photo: Evgeniy Razumniy / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Vadim Kobzev in court on 13 October 2023. Photo: Evgeniy Razumniy / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Vadim Kobzev, one of three Russian lawyers currently on trial for “extremism” for their past work representing slain opposition leader Alexey Navalny, made his final statement to a court in the city of Petushki in Russia’s Vladimir region on Friday, Novaya Gazeta reported .

Yulia Navalnaya attends a memorial service for her late husband in Berlin, 4 June 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE Russian politician Yulia Navalnaya has failed in her bid to have her late husband Alexey Navalny removed from the country’s list of terrorists and extremists, she revealed on Friday.

News of a “new virus” from China has been spreading throughout the past month. Should you worry? A molecular biologist speaks A woman wears a protective mask on the street in Srinagar, India, January 7, 2025. Photo: Firdous Nazir / NurPhoto / Shutterstock / Vida Press Before the New Year holidays, it became known that a “new virus” was spreading in China, from which 43% of those infected would certainly die, and this infection, called human metapneumovirus (HMPV), is already coming to us.

A resident of Dagestan, who was hiding in Georgia due to hyper-control of her family and the threat of forced marriage, has returned home. Her relatives convinced her Illustration: Project “Wind” At the beginning of January, the human rights organization SK SOS published a post about another fugitive from Dagestan - 18-year-old Zaira Pirova. The girl's relatives put her on the wanted list, hired a private detective and wrote a statement to the police of Georgia, where the girl was at that time.

Photo: Norilsk Nickel press service Brazilian futsal player Nando walked off pitch midway through a match in the western Siberian city of Novosibirsk after racist chants were directed at him from the crowd, his club Norilsk Nickel said on Thursday.

The court overturned the acquittal of the fiance of murdered Russian woman Anastasia Emelyanova and will try him again Anastasia Emelyanova with a Turkish residence permit, photo from her personal Telegram channel Today, in the first criminal court of the Turkish city of Erzurum in the north-east of the country, a new stage of consideration of the criminal case regarding the death of 32-year-old femme activist from Russia Anastasia Emelyanova will begin.

Donelaitis Museum. Photo: Kaliningrad History and Art Museum Renaming the museum of the Lithuanian poet Kristionas Donelaitis in the Kaliningrad region is another unacceptable attempt to rewrite history. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda wrote about this on the social network X. “What's next? Burning books? - Nausėda added.