The head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Alexander Kozlov, promised to clean the beaches of the Krasnodar Territory from fuel oil only by the end of May 2026. On Thursday, January 23, he stated at a meeting of members of the government with Vladimir Putin. In less than a day, Kozlov promised to bring the beaches “to the normative state” to the summer of this year.

RU A Gallup Institute poll conducted in Ukraine in August and October 2024 showed — for the first time since the full-scale invasion began — that most respondents were ready for a ceasefire. 52% favored a stop to the fighting “as soon as possible,” versus 38% who called for continuing the war until complete victory. This does not mean that Ukrainian society — not even 52% of it — is ready for a ceasefire at any price.

The US Senate approved the Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe. According to the Associated Press, part of the Democratic senators opposed (74 votes “For”, 25-“against”). During the first presidential term, Donald Trump Ratcliffe was the director of national intelligence; Thus, as AP notes, he became the first person in the history of the United States, who headed both national intelligence and the CIA.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a lawsuit against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is accused of crimes against humanity related to the mass persecution of journalists. “We call on prosecutor Karim Khan to investigate and bring those responsible to justice,” RSF said in a statement. According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, journalists have been arrested 589 times in Belarus since 2020.

The court in Helsinki yesterday, January 23, interrogated Russian Vojislav Torden (also known as Jan Petrovsky), accused of war crimes. According to Yle, the pro-Kremlin neo-Nazi said that he did not take part in hostilities and did not fire a single shot during the war. The defendant answered questions through an interpreter and his lawyer Heikki Lampela. In response to questions from the court, Thorden said that in 2014 he went to Lugansk for “humanitarian reasons” to help local residents.

The Kremniy El plant, one of Russia’s largest manufacturers of microelectronics, has suspended operations after being hit by a Ukrainian drone attack. According to a report by the Russian state-run news agency TASS , citing the plant’s press service, six drones attacked the facility on the night of Jan. 24, causing damage to parts of the production facilities and to a warehouse containing finished products. No injuries were reported.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban demanded that the European Union achieve the resumption of Kiev by the transit of Russian gas to Europe. Otherwise, he threatened to block the sanctions against Moscow: their extension should be approved unanimously by all 27 EU members. Orban stated his demand on the air of the Hungarian radio station Kossuth.

Saudi Arabia has acquired 39 Pantsir-S1M air defense systems from Russia in a deal worth €2.2 billion (over $2.3 billion), according to an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which cited leaked internal documents from Ruselectronics (Roselektronika), a subsidiary of Russia’s Rostec defense corporation.

The question “How many Russians endorse the war?” raises another question: can public opinion polls be trusted under a military dictatorship? And if so, how should they be interpreted? Wording is critical. Even the small percentage of respondents who agreed to participate in a poll would have provided a drastically different answer had the choice before them been presented in a slightly different manner.

Donald Trump prohibited placing transgender women in women's prisons and centers of detention, as well as pay for medical procedures related to the transgender transition to prisoners from the federal budget. These orders were included in the document signed by the President of the United States entitled “Protection of Women from Extremism of Gender Ideology and the Restoration of Biological Truth”.

Fuel oil from Russian tankers that crashed in the Kerch Strait washed up on the coast of the Odessa region. Ukrainian scientist and head of the research department of the Tuzlovsky Estuaries national park Ivan Rusev wrote about this on Facebook. As Rusev writes, fragments of fuel oil washed ashore near the Katranka resort, as well as on the coast near the Danube Biosphere Reserve and the Tuzlovsky Estuaries National Park - approximately 100–140 km southwest of Odessa.

News The Insider January 24, 2025 Umit Ozdağ Recently it became known that the Turkish Prosecutor General's Office has launched an investigation against the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu. The reason was the politician’s statements to the city’s chief prosecutor, which the prosecutor’s office called threats. In addition, the leader of the Turkish Zafer party, Umit Ozdag, was detained and then arrested. He was accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and inciting hatred.

The corporateist Pavel Krisevich was released after serving a sentence. In 2022, he was sentenced to five years in a colony for performance on Red Square, where he staged suicide. The release of Krisevich is reported by the publication "Paper" with reference to his wife Elena, as well as the artist support group. Relatives and friends could not meet Paul at once, as they expected his exit from the colony later, the newspaper writes.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced to 14 years in prison, Ukrainian Nikolai Oleinik, who allegedly prepared an attempt on the head of a rural settlement in the Zaporizhzhya region. According to TASS, citing law enforcement agencies, the convicted person will spend the first three years in prison, the rest is in the colony. The verdict also provides a fine of 200 thousand rubles.

Police officers from the Razvilkovsky police station in the Moscow region tortured a detainee in order to find out the password for his phone. This is stated in a statement from the law firm “Mushailov, Uzdensky, Rybakov and Partners.” According to lawyers, the police hid the location of his client from one of the defense attorneys for three days. He was found only on January 24.