AFP via Getty Images During his speech at Capital One Arena after Donald Trump's inauguration, businessman Elon Musk saluted the new president's supporters several times. Users of social networks noticed that this gesture is similar to a Nazi salute. Musk emphasized that he was going to “work his butt off” for Trump’s supporters and noted that he considered his victory in the presidential race “really important.” "Thank you! From my heart to you! This is what real victory looks like!

35-year-old activist Evgeny Kikeev, a participant in the Moscow protests in 2019, was placed in a pre-trial detention center. “Caution News” reports this without naming the source of information. The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested Kikeev in absentia on August 6, 2024. The man was charged with a criminal offense of inciting hatred or enmity with the use of violence or the threat of its use (clause “a”, part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

EPA-EFE/SAUL LOEB/POOL The inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump has begun at the Capitol in Washington. CNN reports this. Donald Trump and JD Vance, whom Trump announced as his vice presidential candidate, took the oath with their hand on the Bible, CNN writes. After being sworn in, the US President will give an inaugural address, in which he will outline his goals for the next four years.

US President Donald Trump and US Vice President JD Vance during the inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC, 20 January 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE / JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON / POOL Donald Trump has taken the oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States in a ceremony held in the US Capitol’s Rotunda on Monday due to abnormally cold weather conditions in Washington.

Ilya Azar spoke with activist Konstantin Kotov, who left the country after six months of house arrest in the case of donations to FBK Konstantin Kotov. Photo: Dasha Trofimova for OVD-Info In October 2024, Ildar Dadin, a Russian opposition activist who decided to fight on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, died in the Kharkov region.

Photo: kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin has preemptively congratulated Donald Trump on returning to the White House during a meeting of the Russian Security Council on Monday, hours before Trump’s inauguration is due to take place in Washington. In a video published by the Kremlin, Putin welcomed comments made by Trump and his team “about their readiness to resume direct contacts with Russia”, which he said had been broken off by the Biden administration “through no fault” of Moscow.

A car following the shelling of the village of Horlivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, 20 January 2025. Photo: Telegram / t.me/Prikhodko1970 Ukrainian shelling of a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s southeastern Kherson region on Monday morning left two people dead and injured another 25, according to Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed regional governor.

UPD Gleb Babich was brought to the Military Commissariat of the Novomoskovsky and Troitsky administrative districts of Moscow at 16:31 (Moscow time). He has now been released. In Moscow, independent left-wing politician Gleb Babich, who took part in the Moscow City Duma elections in the summer of 2024, was detained. Babich himself spoke about this in his Telegram channel.

The sudden change of director of the Pushkin Museum means that simple loyalty is no longer enough. We talk about Elizaveta Likhacheva and Olga Galaktionova Elizaveta Likhacheva during the closing of the festival “December Evenings of Svyatoslav Richter” in the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, December 25, 2024.

As a result of the Ukrainian shelling of the village of Bekhteri in the occupied part of the Kherson region, 25 people were injured, including two dead. This was stated by the Russian-appointed Kherson “governor” Vladimir Saldo. According to him, the attack on Bekhter took place on January 20 at about 8:00 local time. Saldo claims that two shells landed near a local school. He stressed that among the victims, three are in very serious condition, including a 17-year-old girl.

A Russian soldier with a BM-21 Grad jet rocket system in Russia’s western Kursk region. Photo: EPA-EFE / RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY The number of bodies discovered in a recently recaptured village in Russia’s western Kursk region that was previously under occupation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has risen to nine, state-owned news agency TASS reported on Monday.

How the Internet was killed in Russia The Internet of the 2000s included forums, the first online media, political “assholes” in LiveJournal, Masyanya. And also VKontakte, the same one with the “wall”. Then there was the rise of Youtube, “Thank you, Eva”, Kamikaze Di, Max +10500. And later - Dud and rap battles. It was a unique space of freedom and creativity, but with the advent of government money and censorship, Runet changed beyond recognition. With this video we confirm his death.

Photo: bloodysx / Telegram Russian Tu-160 M strategic bombers at Kazan’s Gorbunov Aviation Plant, 21 February 2024. The Tu-160. Photo: EPA-EFE / KRISTINA KORMILITSYNA / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN Ukrainian drones attacked industrial targets in the city of Kazan in Russia’s Volga region early on Monday, as well as elsewhere in the republic of Tatarstan, according to Radio Svoboda, the Russian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

According to media reports, the man was arrested and a criminal case has been opened against him. In Kyzyl, a serviceman on the territory of military unit No. 55115 beat two wounded contract soldiers with a baton and a shocker. Footage of the incident was published by Z-bloggers, and the video also appeared in the group of the 55th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 41st Army of the Russian Armed Forces on Vkontakte.

The sun rises behind the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. Photo: EPA-EFE / ALLISON DINNER Ukrainians braced themselves for an unpredictable new phase of its almost three-year war with Russia on Monday as Donald Trump prepared for his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States in Washington, DC.