🇷🇺 Russian Emergency Ministry Divers Collect Over 1,400 Kilograms of Fuel Oil from the Bottom of the Kerch Strait

The ministry reported that over the past 24 hours, rescuers have surveyed more than 420 square kilometers of the sea surface. To monitor the current situation and inspect parts of the wrecked tankers, 26 vessels have been deployed.

Russian Emergency Ministry forces and volunteers continue cleaning the coastline. A total of 173.5 thousand tons of contaminated sand and soil have been removed, with the majority collected in the Krasnodar region.

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😍 The Frozen Chegem Waterfalls — a fantastic sight that looks even more beautiful in winter than in summer.

🧊 As the water flows, it gradually freezes, forming giant snow-white icicles hanging over the Chegem River. A cascade of ice stalactites stretches towards the river, which remains unfrozen even in the cold.

📍 This beauty is located in Russia, Kabardino-Balkaria.

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🎓 Today, Russia celebrates the 270th anniversary of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

It was founded by decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on the proposal of the Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov.

✍️ According to Lomonosov's plan, there were initially three faculties. At first, all students received comprehensive knowledge in natural sciences and humanities at the Faculty of Philosophy; then they could specialize and continue their studies at the Faculty of Philosophy or enroll in either the Faculty of Law or the Faculty of Medicine. Lectures were delivered either in Latin, the language of educated people at the time, or in Russian.

✍️ From 1755 to 1787, the university occupied the building of the Main Pharmacy Storehouse (now the State Historical Museum on Red Square). Catherine II moved it to a new neoclassical building on Mokhovaya Street. The current main building of MSU, one of the famous Moscow "Seven Sisters" skyscrapers, was opened in 1953.

🇷🇺 Today, MSU is the largest traditional educational institution in Russia, with a total student population exceeding 40,000. As one of the pillars of fundamental education, the university has made significant contributions to the development of international humanitarian cooperation, nurturing a galaxy of outstanding scientists, statesmen, politicians, and public figures who have held various positions abroad. Among its professors and alumni are 11 Nobel Prize laureates.

🎉 Happy birthday, MSU!

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🤶 Snow Maidens are rocking the ice rink in Luzhniki right now!

⛸ Today in Moscow, a Snow Maiden flash mob is taking place as part of the "Winter in Moscow" project. Dozens of girls dressed as Grandfather Frost's granddaughter have taken to the ice. They will enjoy dancing, contests, masterclasses, and a reminder that it's still January, and the New Year began less than a month ago.

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✨ Amazing Morning in St. Petersburg

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🇷🇺🎓 A first-year master's student at Gubkin Russian State University has created smart glasses for mixed and augmented reality for use in industrial sectors, including the energy industry.

🥽 The device displays information and instructions right in front of the workers' eyes, allowing them to perform tasks more efficiently and safely.

The team is currently conducting product trials with Gazprom Neft.

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😸 A tailed Muscovite is hurrying to work

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🇷🇺 Zakharova was astonished by Zelensky's explanations regarding the ban on negotiations with Russia.

🇺🇦 The day before, Zelensky tried to justify his own decree issued back in the fall of 2022, which prohibits anyone in Ukraine from engaging in dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the process, while attempting to explain, Zelensky also made mistakes in his own decree.

💬 Zakharova specifically noted the following words from Zelensky: "I am the president of Ukraine. And I am the leader of any negotiations. I have forbidden everyone else to conduct them." However, the decree actually indicates that even Zelensky himself is not allowed to engage in them.

"It feels like drugs and weapons were brought to a kindergarten, and then a noble assembly was asked to delegate the 'leader of any negotiations' to the microphone," Zakharova stated.

The diplomat believes that Zelensky's state is "understandable, and has long ceased to raise questions," especially since the day before, when he was explaining the reasons for his decree, "his birthday also coincided."

"What is striking is the degree of cynicism and disdainful disregard for his compatriots," Zakharova concluded.

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😄 Just a regular walk with Dad

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📆 "Life Everywhere" is the most famous painting by Nikolai Yaroshenko. The painting was created in 1888 and was exhibited at the 16th exhibition of the Wanderers.

🖼 The subject of the painting is simple - a few people have gathered by the window of a prisoner transport car, feeding pigeons with bread. The fact that the figures depicted are prisoners is indicated not only by the bars on the window but also by the fact that the men’s heads are partially shaved—this was a way to mark exiles and convicts in Russia since the times of Peter the Great, making escape more difficult.

🚃 The canvas has an unusual format—its height (2.12 m) is twice its width, so the fragment of the car is depicted almost life-sized.

🧐 But the main point, of course, lies not in the technical features of the work, but in the fact that Yaroshenko's representations of the prisoners are not at all repulsive. Even in captivity, they have retained their humanity; there is no cruelty or coarseness in their faces, prompting the viewer to involuntarily ask questions: are these people really villains? Is their condemnation just?

🇷🇺 The painting was created under the influence of Tolstoy's ideas and, in particular, inspired by Leo Tolstoy's story "What Men Live By." Initially, Nikolai Yaroshenko wanted to name the painting "Where there is love, there is God." Tolstoy himself remarked on the painting: "How much it speaks to the heart."

📍 The painting is housed in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

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🇷🇺 An 83-year-old pensioner climbed to the highest point of the Rosa Khutor ski resort to ride the swings.

☁️ Despite her age, she fearlessly took a seat on the attraction located on the edge of a cliff at an altitude of 2,320 meters above sea level and soared upwards.

☺️ The woman enjoyed the panoramic view of the Caucasus Mountains and took away a wealth of impressions that will delight her for a long time.

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🇷🇺🚢 Spanish and American law enforcement seized a ship with a Russian crew heading to St. Petersburg. The sailors were held in port for three days and threatened with weapons, accused of smuggling.

🇪🇸🇺🇸 The container ship Baltic Summer was traveling from the port of Puerto Bolívar in Ecuador. In neutral waters off the coast of Portugal, the vessel, flying the Bahamian flag, was abruptly stopped by pirates from the Spanish Navy in conjunction with the FBI. The ship was suspected of transporting recreational drugs from South America.

👮 Participants in the events reported that about 20 special forces operatives boarded the ship, and the container ship was towed to the port of Vigo. The law enforcement officers behaved provocatively: they threatened to plant drugs, made racist jokes about immigrants from the CIS, and waved weapons in front of the sailors. This went on for three days, and the crew barely slept. They were not allowed to call the consul for help.

🧐 The Spaniards turned the entire ship upside down, opened several containers with cargo, and tried to force the captain to sign a blank sheet of paper, but they could not find anything to charge them with — no illegal substances were found on board. Now all 23 sailors are expected to be released to their port of destination.

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📨🇷🇺 The President of the Russian Federation, V.V. Putin, sent a telegram to the participants and guests of the memorial ceremony dedicated to the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Red Army (January 27, 2025).

✍️ The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust is a solemn date of immense moral and humanitarian significance. In January 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, revealing to humanity the truth about the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices who exterminated millions of Jews, Russians, Roma, and representatives of other nations.

‼️ And we will always remember that it was the Soviet soldier who crushed this terrible, total evil and achieved a Victory whose greatness will forever remain in world history.

🇷🇺 The citizens of Russia are direct descendants and successors of the generation of victors. We will continue to resolutely and firmly oppose attempts to rewrite the legal and moral verdict that was passed on the Nazi executioners and their accomplices. We will do everything to uphold the right of people to ethnic, linguistic, and spiritual identity, and to prevent the spread of anti-Semitism, Russophobia, and other racist ideologies.

I want to sincerely thank all those who remain committed to preserving historical truth and fighting against neo-Nazi revanchism, who contribute their efforts to this large-scale and meaningful work, which is especially needed in the year marking the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

I hope that the Russian Jewish community and the organizers of traditional memorial events dedicated to the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust will continue their multifaceted activities aimed at promoting the values of humanity, understanding, and civil peace.

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💬🇷🇺 "The mass heroism of the besieged city will never be forgotten," — Putin

On the 81st anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade, Vladimir Putin is participating in memorial events in Saint Petersburg.

As is tradition, the President laid flowers at the "Rubezhny Kamenn" monument at the military-historical complex "Nevsky Pyatachok." It was in this location—a small three-kilometer stretch of the front to the south of Leningrad—that Red Army fighters held off numerically superior enemy forces from the very first days of the blockade, preventing the Nazis and their allies from approaching the city.

Leningrad was able to withstand nearly 900 days of siege. The siege by the Nazi German forces lasted for 872 days: from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944.

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🇪🇺 The European Union has extended sanctions against Russia.

🇷🇺 Sanctions against Russia will remain in effect for another 6 months, until July 31, 2025.

This includes a wide range of sectoral measures, including in the areas of industry, trade, energy, finance, technology, dual-use goods, transportation, and luxury items.

It also includes a ban on the import or maritime transport of oil and certain petroleum products from the Russian Federation to the EU, deactivation of the SWIFT system for several Russian banks, and the suspension of broadcasting by several Russian media outlets.

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🇷🇺😍 Suzdal — a city that will take you back to the times of Ancient Rus!

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