The deal was first announced by US President-elect Donald Trump, his words confirmed by Israeli and Arab media. According to them, Hamas pledges to release 33 Israeli hostages, including children and IDF soldiers. In exchange, Israel must release several hundred Palestinian prisoners sentenced to up to life in prison. The deal also includes a six-week ceasefire and a phased withdrawal of IDF troops from the Gaza Strip.

At 15:00 local time, many companies and individual employees suspended work for three hours, writes Paper Kartuli. The strikers demand new elections and the release of all detained protesters in Georgia. Among those who supported the strike is the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili. Among the strikers are representatives of large businesses: the PSP pharmacy chain, residents of the Fabrika space, the Fresco chain of stores, the Rashi taxi service and others.

Whether religion can be a source of freedom does not depend on the Church. “Positive” and “negative” theology: creativity or duty Photo: Alexey Dushutin / Novaya Gazeta There is renewed talk about the need for a deeper integration of Orthodoxy into social life. The thought immediately arises: how much more?

The Sixth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction decided to exempt from military service the sons and brothers of conscripts who died during hostilities. The “Conscript School”* drew attention to the court’s decision. The plaintiff in this case is Ivan Smolnikov, a conscript from the Kirov region.

Nemtsov Bridge volunteer Viktor Levakov is on trial in Moscow for donating to FBK*. Report from the courtroom Victor Levakov. Photo: Elena Milchanovska The trial of the Nemtsov Bridge volunteer, 58-year-old Muscovite Viktor Levakov, continues in the capital's Meshchansky Court. For almost 10 years, he, along with other concerned activists, has been guarding the memorial at the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov near the Kremlin.

The document was adopted in the first reading on January 15. According to the bill, when issuing loans, financial organizations will not transfer money to the borrower immediately. For amounts from 50 to 200 thousand, the cooling period will be at least four hours, for amounts over 200 thousand - 48 hours. During this time, the borrower will be able to refuse to receive a loan, assessing its need and his solvency. Including if he contacted the bank under pressure from fraudsters.

Can the authorities freeze citizens' savings? Economics suggests not. But politics says - we need to think Photo: Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti / TASS Freezing deposits?.. First time I hear about it... Immediately after the end of the New Year holidays (and, it is possible that due to the lack of news reasons), a wave of mentions of a “possible freeze of deposits” rolled across the media and social networks - with reference to the data of the “FOM survey”.

At a meeting of the Russian Pobeda organizing committee, Vladimir Putin ordered that front-line soldiers, juvenile prisoners of concentration camps, and their widows be paid 80 thousand rubles each, news agencies report . Home front workers, residents of besieged Leningrad and those who worked at air defense facilities will, according to the document, receive a one-time payment of 55 thousand rubles.

On January 15, state media wrote about the case of Moscow pensioner Galina Archagova, who is accused under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (“justification of terrorism”) for posting a video on social networks in support of the “Freedom of Russia Legion”*. Archagova faces up to seven years in prison; the Tverskoy Court of Moscow decided to take her into custody, TASS reported.

Tube adaptation of the nostalgic novel by Chilean writer Hernán Rivera Letelier Still from the film “Tell Me the Movie” Movies about movies are often sentimental and tear-jerking, like Tornatore’s “New Cinema Paradiso.” Lone Scherfig connects the romantic fictional world of the screen with pictures of unsmooth reality.

Sergey Kustov. Photos from social networks To the editor-in-chief of the pro-government media “IvanovoNEWS | BARS" Sergei Kustov drew up an administrative protocol under Art. 20.3.3 Code of Administrative Offenses, writes “7×7”*. In November 2024, Kustov published the names of 17 Russian soldiers who disappeared during a special operation in Ukraine.

Photos from social networks Alexander Komin, a student at the Anapa Industrial College, died on the night of January 15. Local media claim that the teenager had chronic asthma, and on the day of his death he went to clean the shore. The young man’s cousin told 93.ru that the deceased actually helped remove fuel oil, but independently or as part of a group is unknown. He clarified that an ambulance was called for Alexandra, but it did not arrive in time.

Over the past two years, every tenth mayor and dozens of officials have been arrested in the Moscow region. What's happening and why Photo: Sergey Savostyanov / TASS “Thirteen officials from the governor’s team have been arrested, criminal cases have been opened, in this situation Vorobyov needs to resign,” a resident of Korolev responded on a social network to the plan pushed by the governor of the Moscow region to build a highway through the Losiny Ostrov national park.

Governor Alexander Beglov signed a decree on this on Wednesday, Fontanka writes . Restrictions are introduced today and until December 31, 2025. The publication notes that the ban includes the publication on the Internet of any information about the work of air defense in the city: photos and videos of the downing of drones, as well as the consequences of drone strikes. With the same document, Smolny extended the ban on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in St. Petersburg.

Anna Trapkova - director of the Gulag Museum: how her experience in managing the Museum of Moscow can affect the exhibition and attitude towards historical memory Photo: Sergey Fadeichev / TASS On January 13, it became known that Anna Trapkova, who has been holding the position of director of the Museum of Moscow since 2019 to this day, has become the new director of the Gulag Museum.