The North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has released the results of a toxicology report conducted following the death last October of 29-year-old grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky. A mixture of drugs was found in the chess player’s blood. As NBC News notes, methamphetamine, amphetamine, 7-hydroxymitragynine and mitragynine were found in Naroditsky’s blood at the time of death.

News The Insider 21 January 2026 Доступно на русском The Kremlin-linked online bot network known as “Matryoshka” has launched a disinformation campaign focused on the escalating dispute over Greenland, according to researchers from the Bot Blocker project ( @antibot4navalny ), which monitors Russian bot activity on social media. The researchers told The Insider that the campaign is aimed at amplifying tensions surrounding the standoff between the U.S. and several of its NATO allies.

Neanderthals crossing the Alps in Italy took a set of stone tools with them into the mountains and took refuge in high-altitude caves where bears lived. This conclusion was reached by scientists who studied artifacts from the Caverna Generosa cave, located at an altitude of 1450 meters. The results of the work were published in the Journal of Quaternary Science. Hundreds of bear skeletons were discovered in the cave.

News The Insider January 21, 2026 Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, nationalized last year, will be put up for auction again after a first attempt to sell it failed . According to the Vedomosti newspaper, it will be put up for auction with a reduction of up to 50%. The only buyer who showed up for the first auction turned out to be a little-known businessman from the Moscow region with an individual entrepreneur registered in Chechnya. New auctions will take place on January 29.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said that the participation of politicians running for election on evening or daytime talk shows requires that equal airtime be given to their opponents. This was reported by Reuters. Last September, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said the commission should consider whether ABC's The View violated equal time rules in its coverage of rival candidates.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at limiting the purchase of single-family homes by large institutional investors. The document is intended to maintain the supply of such housing for ordinary American families and expand opportunities for purchasing real estate.

Latvian TV channel TV3 Group will continue its policy of not broadcasting competitions involving athletes from Russia and Belarus under a neutral flag during the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Toms Circenis, director of Go3 sports programs, told LETA about this, Delfi reports .

Contents 1. The Greenland dispute 2. What is Matryoshka? Доступно на русском The Kremlin-linked online bot network known as “Matryoshka” has launched a disinformation campaign focused on the escalating dispute over Greenland, according to researchers from the Bot Blocker project ( @antibot4navalny ), which monitors Russian bot activity on social media. The researchers told The Insider that the campaign is aimed at amplifying tensions surrounding the standoff between the U.S.

Andrii Pereverzev returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity in the summer of 2025. Photo: United 24 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s investigative project Schemes (Skhemy) has identified two Russian doctors who they suspect mutilated Ukrainian serviceman Andrii Pereverzev. Pereverzev returned from captivity in the summer of 2025 bearing scars on his abdomen that read “Glory to Russia,” along with the letter Z.

The Moscow City Court upheld the lawsuit filed against Novaya Gazeta and ordered the publication to publish a refutation of the 2021 article “Money was poorly washed,” which discussed the confiscation of real estate in Latvia from Artyom Zuev, a person involved in schemes for withdrawing money from the Russian budget, uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky.

A woman was arrested in Berlin for allegedly collecting and transmitting information related to Russia’s war against Ukraine to Russian intelligence services. According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Germany, the suspect is a citizen of Germany and Ukraine, Ilona W. As part of this case, searches were carried out at the home of the suspect and two other people at addresses in the states of Brandenburg and Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as in Munich. According to the investigation, Ilona V.

Two US State Department officials tried to persuade a French judge and the Secretary General of the National Commission of Human Rights (CNCDH), Magali Lafourcade, to oppose the ban on far-right leader Marine Le Pen from participating in the elections. Lafourcade herself reported this to Agence France-Presse and the newspaper Politico .

For the first time in a century, the Canadian military has developed a model of a hypothetical US invasion of the country and a possible response to it. This was reported to the Canadian publication The Globe and Mail by two senior government officials who were not given permission to discuss the topic publicly. The Canadian military is considering an offensive from the south in which U.S.

World leaders see joining the Peace Council chaired by US President Donald Trump as an inevitability rather than an option. This conclusion was reached by Reuters, which surveyed 16 world leaders at the Davos forum, including politicians and delegates from Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. Officials gave this assessment of possible joining the Council in private conversations with journalists.

The United States has seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, the seventh since the naval blockade of Venezuela began in December. According to the US Southern Command, the Sagitta was detained on January 20 in the Caribbean Sea.