Photo: Adam Kadyrov / Instagram The son of the head of Chechnya, Adam Kadyrov, was in a serious car accident, after which he was hospitalized in serious condition, unconscious. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii and the opposition Chechen telegram channel Niyso . Ramzan Kadyrov’s son was taken to the new republican hospital in Grozny, a source told Kavkaz.Realii. The interlocutor of Novaya Gazeta Europe confirmed that the hospital is closed to new patients and visitors.

Photo: “Arig Us” In Podolsk near Moscow, police officers detained Maria Tsydenova, a native of Buryatia, on the night of January 8. She was held at the police station for about 5 p.m., where she was beaten and insulted. The victim told the regional TV channel “Arig Us” about this. Tsydenova told reporters that that night she was returning home from friends with her daughter and her friends. Not far from the entrance, police stopped them and asked for documents.

Photo: Belarusfilm / Telegram Anatoly Zabolotsky. Photo: Belarusfilm / Telegram At the age of 91, the writer, cameraman and director, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Anatoly Zabolotsky died, the telegram channel of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia reported . The cause of death was not reported there. The obituary was also published by the Belarusfilm studio, which was one of Zabolotsky’s places of work. “For Belarusfilm, Anatoly Dmitrievich is a special, dear figure.

Russia’s Central Bank building, Moscow, Russia, 28 June 2022. Photo: EPA / YURY KOCHETKOV American investment fund Noble Capital RSD has filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against Russia, its Finance Ministry, Central Bank and Sovereign Wealth Fund, to demand repayment on a bond issued by the Russian Empire in 1916, state-affiliated business news outlet RBC reported on Thursday.

How the authorities in Chelyabinsk are floundering as the war in Ukraine draws ever closer Illustration: Novaya Gazeta Europe As Russia continues its relentless campaign of airstrikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure this winter, Kyiv is applying more and more pressure of its own to bring Moscow’s war of aggression home to the Russian people.

Thriller "The Maid" and the Sydney Sweeney phenomenon Sydney Sweeney as Millie and Amanda Seyfried as Nina in The Housemaid. Photo: Daniel McFadden/Lionsgate “The Maid” is an audience hit of the winter and a rare mainstream thriller that pretends to be a detective story for one evening, but turns out to be a litmus test for the beginning of 2026. How do we look at female vulnerability—and how is the erotic thriller perceived after decades of stagnation as a genre?

Yulia Tymoshenko attends a conference in Carcavelos, Portugal, 2 September 2022. Photo: EPA / Jose Sena Goulao Ukraine’s former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, was released from police custody in Kyiv on Friday after being officially placed under investigation for bribery by Ukraine’s two powerful anti-corruption agencies on Wednesday.

Vladimir Kekhman. Photo: Mikhailovsky Theater / VK Vladimir Kekhman left the post of artistic director of the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg. The contract with him was terminated by agreement of the parties, Fontanka and TASS reported. The Mikhailovsky Theater confirmed the information, adding that since January 16, the duties of artistic director have been performed by chief conductor Alexander Solovyov. Kekhman has worked at the Mikhailovsky Theater since 2007.

Photo: AFP / Scanpix / LETA The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine released on bail in the amount of 33 million hryvnia (about 760 thousand dollars or 60 million rubles) the leader of the Batkovshchina party, Yulia Tymoshenko, who was previously suspected of bribing deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, writes RBC-Ukraine.

The results of Trump’s migration policy for the year: 600 thousand people were deported, more than 1.6 million people lost the right to legally stay in the country. What else has changed? Police clash with protesters against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota, USA, January 15, 2026.

Photo: Leonid Volkov / Telegram The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine did not bring charges against Russian opposition politician Leonid Volkov. A department representative told Deutsche Welle about this. They noted that proceedings under the article on justifying Russian aggression and glorifying its participants are indeed underway. As part of it, statements by Leonid Volkov about the head of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) Denis Kapustin and Ukrainian officials are being verified.

Scandal in Ukraine: an underground Russian school operated on the territory of a pro-Moscow monastery. To whom there were questions before Illustration: “New newspaper Europe” The scandal surrounding the illegal Russian-language school in the Goloseevsky Monastery in Kyiv is a special case of the catastrophe experienced by the Ukrainian Church, canonically associated with the Moscow Patriarchate.

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper speaks to the press in Athens, Greece, 18 December 2025. Photo: EPA / George Vitsaras Believing Moscow has yet to show genuine interest in ending the war in Ukraine, the UK has broken ranks with France and Italy, both of which are pushing for renewed European dialogue with Vladimir Putin to end the conflict, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told POLITICO on Thursday.

30 years ago, the Kremlin ordered the storming of the Pervomaiskaya village, captured by Chechen militants led by Raduev and Ibragimov. Was it a failure or a betrayal? Chechen militants near the village of Pervomaiskoye in Dagestan, January 11, 1996. Photo: Oleg Nikishin / EPA The terrorist attack almost exactly repeated the hostage taking in Budyonnovsk in June 1995. Then Shamil Basayev and almost two hundred militants drove more than one and a half thousand people into the city hospital.

Since January 1, China has completely stopped purchasing electricity from Russia due to high export prices, Kommersant writes , citing sources. The Chinese authorities refused to purchase even the minimum contract volumes of 12 MW. According to the publication’s interlocutors, electricity purchases are unlikely to resume in 2026. The reason for this decision was high export prices, which exceeded domestic prices for electricity in China - thus, further purchases became unprofitable for Beijing.