A Russian Molniya-2 UAV equipped with a Starlink satellite communications terminal SOCIETY Anastasia Ulyanova 23 January 2026 In Russia’s border regions, where thousands of troops have been concentrated since the start of the war in Ukraine, women are increasingly facing violence and hostility from soldiers. Many of the troops are former convicts; others simply feel a sense of impunity, knowing that instead of being sent to prison for their actions, they will merely be sent back to the front.

Theater and film director Konstantin Bogomolov was appointed acting director. O. Rector of the Moscow Art Theater School. Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova announced this in her Telegram channel. The post has been held since 2013 by actor Igor Zolotovitsky, who died on January 14 at the age of 64. Bogomolov now already runs two Moscow theaters - the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya and the Roman Viktyuk Theater, which was renamed the Melnikov Stage.

The oil tanker Progress (IMO: 9306627), which is under sanctions for transporting Russian oil, has lost control off the coast of Algeria and is drifting in the Mediterranean Sea. This is evidenced by ship tracking data collected by Bloomberg. The LR2 class vessel was sailing east along the northern coast of Africa towards the Suez Canal with a cargo of about 730 thousand barrels of Russian Urals oil.

POLITICS Danya Bearman 23 January 2026 The 2026 G20 summit is set to take place in Miami this December, and Trump has already officially stated that South Africa will not be invited, citing “the genocide of the white population.” Trump has long criticized South Africa for the “oppression of Afrikaners” and, under the same pretext, in early 2025 halted all economic assistance to Pretoria.

The United States on Thursday, January 22, officially completed the process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO). At the same time, the states left an outstanding debt to the organization in the amount of $260 million. Bloomberg and Reuters write about this. Under current law, the United States was required to give WHO a year's notice of withdrawal from the organization and pay all outstanding debts during that time.

News The Insider January 23, 2026 Russian UAV "Molniya-2", equipped with a Starlink satellite communication terminal Russian companies continue to import Starlink systems, which are used, among other things, by the Russian Armed Forces in the war with Ukraine. As the Nordsint investigative project found , systems whose sale to Russia is officially prohibited appeared in government compliance databases as complying with Russian technical regulations.

News The Insider 23 January 2026 A Russian Molniya-2 UAV equipped with a Starlink satellite communications terminal Russian companies continue to import Starlink systems, which the Russian Armed Forces have made extensive use of in the war in Ukraine. As the Nordsint investigative project found , systems that fall under the official ban on sale to Russia have appeared in state databases. In some cases, the listed manufacturer is not U.S.-based SpaceX, but companies from third countries.

The oil tanker Progress (IMO: 9306627), which is under sanctions for transporting Russian crude, has lost control off the coast of Algeria and is drifting in the Mediterranean Sea, according to vessel-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg . The LR2-class tanker had been sailing east along the northern coast of Africa toward the Suez Canal carrying about 730,000 barrels of Russian Urals crude.

TikTok, a day before the deadline set for the sale of the American business, announced the completion of the transaction. This is stated on the company's website. The result of the transaction was the joint venture TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC.

The head of the department of the Federal Agency for National Affairs (FADN), Sergei Razzhivin, was detained in Moscow. This was reported the night before by Kommersant and RTVI . According to media reports, he is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale and abuse of power. Since August 2023, Razzhivin has headed the FADN department for the North Caucasus Federal District, Crimea and Sevastopol.

Theater and film actor Vadim Dzyuba gave a speech about political prisoners at the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior. He mentioned, in particular, those accused of “justifying terrorism”: director Evgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, journalist Maria Ponomarenko , as well as deputy Alexei Gorinov . The actor published a video of the performance on his Telegram channel in early December.

The structure of Rosselkhozbank - the company RSHB-Finance - became the managing organization of JSC Conditerus Com, the parent company of the largest manufacturer of snacks and confectionery products in Russia, KDV. As follows from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the changes were made on January 22, RBC notes.

The Donald Trump administration is considering imposing a complete blockade on Cuba's oil imports, three sources familiar with the plan told Politico. This move could be one of the measures proposed to the US President to force a change in the communist government in Havana. A total ban on crude oil supplies to the island is supported by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and some critics of the Cuban government in the administration, two of the three sources said.

Almost one in four adults in the world - more than a billion people - suffer from a lack of social connections, an international team of researchers from the universities of Toronto, Portland, Reading and Iowa found. She conducted an extensive review of 213 scientific papers on loneliness in the workplace.

In short, the laws referred to in the Trump administration’s memorandum do in fact exist; however, they are not aimed at “discriminating against the white minority.” Meanwhile, the “disproportionate” violence against “white farmers” cited by the White House is not observed at all. According to a report released in 2025 by South Africa’s Institute for Security Studies, levels of violence against different population groups are far more strongly influenced by geography and living standards.