News The Insider 6 January 2026 Доступно на русском The world’s most popular porn site, Pornhub, publishes annual statistics on user preferences, including country-by-country data. The Insider examined Pornhub’s reviews over the past five years as they relate to Russia, and also spoke with sex educator Sasha Kazantseva about why Russian users in 2025 have shown heightened interest in banned transgender content.

About a thousand people were detained during mass protests in Iranian cities, which have continued for the tenth day. According to various sources, between 25 and 35 people died during the demonstrations, they write with reference to human rights organizations Reuters and Associated Press . In particular, Reuters, citing the Kurdish human rights group Hengaw, reports 25 deaths, including four people under 18 years of age. AP writes about 35 dead. More than a thousand people were arrested.

Hungarian director Bela Tarr died at the age of 71. This was reported by the Hungarian news agency MTI and Index . As follows from a statement by the Hungarian Film Association, Tarr died on the morning of January 6 after a serious and long illness. He was 70 years old, Tarr was born in 1955 in the Hungarian city of Pecs. He began his career as a film enthusiast at the age of 16.

Photo: Alexander Ryumin / TASS ECONOMICS Vadim Belkin 6 January 2026 The Russian economy moved into an unmistakable period of decline in 2025: businesses lost money, the treasury remained solvent only by raising taxes, and inflation was brought under control only thanks to high central bank interest rates. At the same time, the year resolved a few key contradictions.

Bonds of the Telegram messenger worth half a billion dollars were blocked in the National Settlement Depository (NSD) due to Western sanctions. The Financial Times newspaper writes about this, citing sources. The company has issued a series of bonds in recent years, including $1.7 billion in debt issued in May of this year. According to FT sources, Telegram has now bought most of the bonds maturing in 2026, however, due to Western sanctions, bonds worth $500 million are still blocked at NSD.

The UK authorities and the European Commission demanded an explanation from the xAI company of businessman Elon Musk due to the dissemination on social networks of images of half-naked women and minors created using the artificial intelligence Grok. The Guardian and the BBC write about this. The ability to generate such images, or rather, process real photos, became available to users after updating the chatbot in December.

There will be no new elections in Venezuela in the next 30 days, US President Donald Trump said. In an interview with NBC News, he suggested that the conflict will last much longer. “First we must restore order in the country. Elections are impossible. People won't even be able to vote. <...> No, this will take time. We must - we must help the country recover,” the TV channel quotes him as saying.

News The Insider January 5, 2026 #Military report In today's summary In the Kupyansk direction, a resumption of Russian attacks on Kupyansk is expected with the support of calculations from the Rubicon center On the Seversky salient, Russian attack aircraft cross the Seversky Donets for an offensive northwest of Seversk In the Pokrovsk direction, active fighting shifted to the Rodinsky area north of Pokrovsk Reshuffles in the military-political leadership of Ukraine: the heads of the Ministry of

The Russian economy moved into an unmistakable period of decline in 2025: businesses lost money, the treasury remained solvent only by raising taxes, and inflation was brought under control only thanks to high central bank interest rates. At the same time, the year resolved a few key contradictions. Unlike in 2024, when The Insider described Russian inflation as “embarrassingly high for a country with a strong budget,” 2025 saw a noticeably weaker budget, but lower inflation.

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Contents 1. 2021: Hentai and “Russian” 2. 2022-2023: A patriotic upswing 3. 2024: Anal 4. 2025: A transgender turn Доступно на русском The world’s most popular porn site, Pornhub, publishes annual statistics on user preferences, including country-by-country data. The Insider examined Pornhub’s reviews over the past five years as they relate to Russia, and also spoke with sex educator Sasha Kazantseva about why Russian users in 2025 have shown heightened interest in banned transgender content.

Politics Karina Olikova January 6, 2026 The UN Security Council, under pressure from the US administration, clearly sided with Morocco in its conflict with the inhabitants of Western Sahara, which the Moroccans annexed several decades ago. Probably dictated by Donald Trump’s desire to chalk up another completed conflict as soon as possible, the Security Council’s decision nullifies years of searching for a compromise on this extremely difficult issue.