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French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking on January 20 at the World Economic Forum, which opened in the Swiss city of Davos, made a sharp assessment of the latest steps and statements of US President Donald Trump, although he refrained from directly criticizing Trump personally. Macron expressed fears that rules may disappear in the world, and everything will be decided only by the rule of the strong. He noted that he advocates the rule of law as opposed to brute force.

Italian fashion designer Valentino Information digest “Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky.” Tuesday, January 20 Information digest “Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky.” Tuesday, January 20 General Alexander Syrsky promises a counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is the Ukrainian army capable of it now?

Biathlete Daria Dolidovich and her father, a former famous Belarusian skier Sergei Dolidovich, in an interview with Present Time TV channel journalist Alexei Alexandrov, talk about the refugee team and participation in the Biathlon World Cup.

Denis Kapustin is first on the right A court in St. Petersburg sentenced 17-year-old schoolgirl Eva Bagrova, who posted photographs of the leaders of the Russian Volunteer Corps fighting for Ukraine on a school stand, to 4 years in prison. The verdict of the military court was passed back in the fall, it became known today - lawyer Dmitry Arevkin told Vorstka about the verdict. According to the court file, the verdict was handed down in October 2025. The schoolgirl was detained in December 2024.

A rally of solidarity with Greenland in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. January 17, 2026 Donald Trump continues to insist on the “inevitability” and necessity of Danish Autonomous Greenland joining the United States, by any means and in any form. In the new world realities, the military-strategic and economic importance of Greenland has increased many times over.

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Dmitriev (left) and Witkoff in Moscow In Davos in Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is taking place with the participation of many heads of state and government, talks were held on Tuesday between Kirill Dmitriev, a representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and special envoys of US President Donald Trump Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Operation of the air defense system. Illustrative photo In the village of New Adygea in the Republic of Adygea on Tuesday evening, explosions occurred and a multi-storey residential building caught fire. According to the head of the region, Murat Kumpilov, 11 people were injured, of whom nine were hospitalized, including two children. The fire in the house started during an alert due to the danger of drone strikes. Were closed airports of Krasnodar, Sochi and Gelendzhik.

We talk about Moldova’s exit from the CIS, how the Kremlin is losing influence in this commonwealth, and Russia’s relations with Armenia in the program “Facing the Event” with journalists Vladimir Solovyov and Vadim Dubnov.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday officially signed a document on Belarus’ accession to the so-called Peace Council, an international body created on the initiative of US President Donald Trump. The day before it became known that Lukashenko, like a number of other world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, received an invitation from Trump to join the Peace Council.

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Kyiv on the night of January 20 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said late Tuesday that in Kiev, as of the evening of January 20, more than a million consumers remain without electricity after Russian shelling. He also confirmed that more than 4 thousand multi-storey buildings in the capital of Ukraine remain without heat. In the morning, about 5,600 houses were without heat supply; subsequently, some of them were able to be connected.