As a result of the Saturday of Israeli in the capital of Syria Damascus, the general of the Iranian Corps of the Islamic Revolution (KSIR) Corps, the commander of the special forces of the Al-KudS forces Yusef Omid Zade and four Iranian military advisers, the Iranian news agency IRNA reports . In addition to them, an unnamed number of Iranian officers and the Syrian military also died.

The jury of the Novocherkassk Garrison Military Court issued an acquittal against a contractor from Chechnya Zinda Takaev, accused of killing his colleague, Dagestan Magomed Shakhbanov, in the self -proclaimed LPR, Kommersant found out . Information about this is also contained on the court card. The publication notes that this is the first case of justification of the war participant in Ukraine accused of murder. The murder occurred on June 6, 2022 in Pervomaisk (self -proclaimed LPR).

The Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fitzo said on the air of the Slovak television channel RTVS that his country would block Ukraine's application for joining NATO.

News “Germany is approaching the psychological barrier of how many people are currently ready to accept” - political scientist The Insider January 20, 2024 In Germany, a law has been adopted to simplify the receipt of citizenship. According to him, the period that needs to be lived in the country to receive it is reduced from eight years to five, and in some cases it can be obtained in three years.

In large German cities on January 19, thousands of rallies were held against the ultra -right party "Alternative for Germany", writes Deutsche Welle. The audience demanded to ban her activities, calling her neo -Nazi. The action that took place in Hamburg was interrupted due to the fact that too many people gathered at it.

In Italy, fascist greetings were officially rehabilitated. According to CNN, the country's Supreme Court legitimized the fascist greeting, known as the Roman salute or Ziga, and allowed to use it at rallies in cases where it does not threaten public order, does not pursue the goals of racial discrimination and violence, and also does not contribute to the restoration of the Musolini National Fascist Party prohibited in Italy.

Tighting the conditions of mortgage programs with state support and the growth of market mortgage rates entail the risk of reducing housing demand in 2024 - both for under construction and apartments in the old fund. But a significant decrease in prices will not have to be expected, while in Moscow apartments will probably continue to rise even with a decrease in the number of transactions, the industry experts surveyed by The Insider say.

The Cat Twix, whom the conductor threw the train from the car in Kirov, while its owner was sleeping, died, volunteer Olga Kudryashova, who took part in search of a pet, told the 78 television channel. Earlier, the transport police refused to bring the conductor to criminal liability under the article “arbitrariness” for the lack of corpus delicti. The body of the cat was found in the snow eight kilometers from the Kirovsky station.

OPINION Rocking the boat: Vladislav Inozemtsev on the Putin regime's key weaknesses 20 January 2024 Vladislav Inozemtsev Founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Post-Industrial Society Studies (Moscow) In the midst of the seemingly predetermined Russian presidential elections, set to be held from March 15-17 of this year, discussions about potential scenarios for a change in Russian leadership have surged.

The BBC managed to get a video of the Public Court in North Korea over two 16-year-old teenagers who were accused of watching South Korean series. Judging by the video, they received 12 years of prison. Presumably, the video was shot in 2022. It shows two teenagers who are handcuffed in front of an audience consisting of several hundred high school students gathered at the open -air stadium.

The seven Russian contractors who refused to fight in Ukraine received up to 2.5 years in a colony settlement by decision of the 35th garrison military court in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Mediazona reports with reference to court decisions. The military were judged from December 27 to January 12, their cases were instituted under part 2.1 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code (failure to fulfill the order during the military conflict.

Antifacked The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation states that a missile blow destroyed the base of French mercenaries in Kharkov. But such a base could not be The Insider 20 January 2024 En The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that as a result of Kharkov’s missile shelling, on January 17, a certain “temporary deployment of foreign militants” was destroyed, mainly from France, and more than 60 French mercenaries were killed.

Russian Railways forbid the guides to plant animals from long-distance trains, the company's press service said . The reason for changing the rules for treating animals was the death of a Cat Twix, whom the conductor threw out of the car, taking for a homeless man. The company is preparing changes to regulatory documents. The tragedy with Twix occurred on January 11. The cat, along with the owner, was traveling on the train Yekaterinburg-St. Petersburg.

The Palestinian red crescent (a division of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent in Palestine) accused Israel of shelling al-Amal Hospital in Han-Junis, the second largest city of the Gas sector, Reuters reports . Israel began the investigation. The Israeli authorities have repeatedly accused Hamas of redding hospitals as a cover.

The Minister of Culture of Slovakia Martin Shimkovichov signed a decision on the resumption of cultural communication and cooperation with the Russian Federation and Belarus, the Slovak edition of Pravda reports with reference to the documents available to the editorial office. It was interrupted after the start of Russia's invasion to Ukraine, when the Slovak Ministry of Culture banned all such ties with these countries, condemning the actions of the Russian Federation.