The artistic director of the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Kekhman, left his post, representatives of the theater reported this on their social networks. According to Fontanka, the parties terminated the employment contract by mutual agreement. Alexander Solovyov has been appointed acting artistic director since January 16. He has been the theater conductor since 2020, and in 2022 he became music director.

Still from video of the Investigative Committee of Komi Security forces detained a teacher at the Professional Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Syktyvkar, who is suspected of exploding a flash-noise grenade, the Komi Investigative Committee reported . The press service of the investigators said: during a lesson, the teacher took out a training grenade, and “there was a bang,” followed by a fire.

The Ministry of Justice updated the register of “foreign agents” after a month of silence: the last time this happened was December 12, 2025. In addition to Dubnov and “People of Baikal”, the list includes: Ivan Kurilla*, Americanist; Olga Kurnosova*, activist; Maxim Mironov*, economist; Alexey Tabalov*, human rights activist; TV2 Media*.

Russian literature begins with Avvakum the son of Petrov, the prophet who ascended into the sky of the north with smoke - and with Georgiy Vladimov, the last of those whose word had weight, flesh and pain, it ends Photo: Andrey Borodulin / Kommersant Persecuted, kicked out, as the rhymer Trediakovsky was kicked out of the lordly choir, sitting in jail for the obituary of Gogol, as Turgenev sat, sent to the prison, as Chernyshevsky and Shalamov were sent, receiving a bullet in the basement, as

Ivan Vyrypaev* presented his new text in Tel Aviv - The Desire, or “Desire” Ivan Vyrypaev. Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT VYRYPAEV IVAN ALEXANDROVICH OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT VYRYPAEV IVAN ALEXANDROVICH Two people wake up in an Amsterdam hotel room with a great recovery - the day before, everything that usually happens to them in this free city happened to them.

Part 2. Memory as a construct: from Soviet archives to digital traces Photo: Alexey Smagin / Kommersant This publication continues a series of articles by sociologist Alexey Semyonov-Troyat about the phenomenon of memory and the state’s attempts to use it to serve itself. In the first part, we followed how philosophers from Socrates to Bergson wrestled with the riddle: where does the past exist if it no longer exists?

Historian Alexey Kuznetsov explains Why the League of Nations failed in its main task. How the experience of the League influenced the creation of the UN. Which in the modern agenda is reminiscent of the Monroe Doctrine. Parallels with today arise naturally, but we analyze them through history, not slogans.

The Investigative Committee for Ingushetia began to investigate a criminal case of violence against a local resident by members of her family, the press service reported . The name of the victim is not indicated, but it is reported that security forces discovered information about “illegal actions” on January 15 while monitoring the Internet.

A party has been founded in Georgia, the goal of which is to declare the country a neutral state, not a member of either NATO or the EU Photo: David Mdzinarishvili / TASS A party has been founded in Georgia, the main and only programmatic goal of which is to achieve the declaration of the Caucasian country as a neutral state, which, in essence, means refusal to join NATO and the EU.

The mayor of Krasnodar nevertheless signed a decree on the construction of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which residents are protesting against Photo: news93.ru The mayor of Krasnodar, Evgeny Naumov, signed a resolution on the planning and surveying of the territory on Rozhdestvenskaya embankment in the Yubileiny district of the city, where the authorities intend to build a huge temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and residents are protesting against the construction.

In the Vladimir region, correctional colony No. 2, which was located in Pokrov, was officially closed, reports the publication “Chesnok” with reference to the Federal Penitentiary Service. The prison existed for almost 30 years. According to the department, all prisoners have been transferred to other institutions, and the fate of the empty buildings will be decided later. Prisoners began to be sent to IK-2 in 1996.

How Iran went from an “oil miracle” to an “economy of resistance” Photo: AP / TASS To understand the situation in the modern Iranian economy, you need to look at the numbers, the dynamics of which reflect the process of systemic destruction of a once successful and promising economic system. Iran today is not just a “country under sanctions.” The story of the Iranian economy is not one of sudden collapse, but of slow suffocation stretching over decades.

China stopped purchasing electricity from Russia on January 1, refusing even the minimum contract volumes. Kommersant writes about this with reference to sources. According to the publication, the reason was the high export price: from the beginning of 2026, it exceeded domestic electricity tariffs in China, which made supplies economically unprofitable. As a result, a resumption of exports this year is unlikely, Kommersant’s interlocutors say.

Maria Corino Machado arrived for a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House. There she gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal, which she would receive in 2025. She called the meeting itself “historic” and “incredible.” Trump later wrote on Truth Social that Machado was “a wonderful woman who has been through a lot.” “Maria presented me with the Nobel Peace Prize for my work. It was a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you, Maria!” - Trump added.

The intelligence demarche against the Patriarchate of Constantinople can be regarded as incompetence and ingratitude Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I.