Residents of villages in the Donbass on different lines of the front are trying to live their lives against the backdrop of reports about the likely invasion of Russian troops. Moscow rejects reports of aggression against Ukraine, but demands from NATO not to expand east.

Who has the right to come to the theater with a dog or take a pony to the salon? As prepared by guide dogs, why the law calls them a “technical means of rehabilitation”. What is animal therapy, ESA and what have veterans of military operations in Iraq.

While diplomats meet, the guns are silent? Alexander Khara and Marat Gelman discuss Vitaly Portnikov: Western countries threaten Russia with catastrophic sanctions and isolation in the event of an attack on Ukraine. On January 21, as part of a European tour, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Geneva with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleboy

US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday, January 25, that he would consider the issue of imposing sanctions personally on Russian President Vladimir Putin if Moscow invades Ukraine. Bayden also made the probability that it would be necessary to accelerate the terms for the relocation of 8.5 thousand American soldiers to the territory of the allied states in eastern Europe.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleb urged Ukrainians not to panic, since the atmosphere of fear in society is beneficial to Vladimir Putin and undermines financial stability. In an interview with the Ukrainian Service, Radio Liberty Kuleb talks about a series of negotiations that took place in Kiev last week, about the difficult exchange of opinions with Germany about arms supplies, as well as the prospects for Ukraine’s membership in NATO.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, explained the statement he had made on the eve that Russia spends more than 300 billion rubles a year on the maintenance of the Chechen people, without which the republic will “not last a month”, insufficient knowledge of the Russian language. "My yesterday's live broadcast caused a lot of crooked pins, including a discussion of the budget of the Chechen Republic.

Inna Denisova talks about her book on new reproductive technologies

The district court in Saratov decided to block access to the clip of a 20-year-old pop singer Alena Shvets in Russia, seeing in it the "promotion of homosexual relations." This was reported by the regional issue of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda". We are talking about the video for the song "Two Girls", follows from the court decision of December 7. According to the plot, the heroine tells about love for her friend.

News Radio Liberty: accuracy, efficiency, impartiality

After the next round of negotiations between Anthony Biginen and Sergey Lavrov, we are again trying to answer the question: what is next, will there be a military denouement? Guests of Vitaly Portnikov - Alexander Hara, Ukrainian diplomat, expert of the Center for Defense Strategies and Marat Gelman, Russian publicist and galleryist.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, made after a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (National Security and Defense Council), said that Kiev is working on settling the situation in the Donbass and tension in the east of the country should not be a reason for panic. “Everything is under control. There are no reasons for panic,” Zelensky said.

Vaccine "Epivaccoron" The Ministry of Health of Russia temporarily suspended the purchases and supply of vaccine from the Covid-19 "Epivaccoron". Since the beginning of the year, not a single batch of the drug has been distributed to the regions. This was reported by the newspaper "Vedomosti" with reference to the register of permits to introduce drugs to the civil circulation of Roszdravnadzor.

Information digest "Freedom time", January 25 A few days ago, the Bloomberg news agency reported with reference to diplomatic sources that the PRC Chairman of Xi Jinping transferred the request to Vladimir Putin to "not attack Ukraine during the Beijing Olympic Games in February." It is unlikely that we will find out for certain whether there was such a request in reality.