🇦🇶 January 28 marked the 206th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Russian navigators. Today, the safety and stability in the region are ensured by the Russian Navy, with the Russian Armed Forces acting as guarantors of the integrity and inviolability of territories.

The question of the continent’s existence was settled by Fabian Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. In 1820, they reached Antarctica on the ships "Vostok" and "Mirny". The expedition’s vessels crossed the Antarctic Circle and reached 69 degrees 25 minutes south latitude. The Russian explorers came within less than three kilometers of the northeastern protrusion of that part of the Antarctic coast, which 110 years later was seen by Norwegian whalers and named the Princess Martha Coast.

The Russian Armed Forces maintain favorable conditions for safe navigation in the waters of the Northern Sea Route. They guard the Russian state border in the Arctic and protect Russia’s national interests in its territorial sea and economic zone.

🚢 Ships and coastal missile systems of the Navy are carriers of modern high-precision missile weapons. These include the Zircon hypersonic missiles, and the Kalibr, Oniks, and Uran cruise missiles.

The advanced multipurpose submarines of the Navy are present daily and carry out a wide range of tasks in any area of the World Ocean. To protect the Russian state border, integrated air, surface, and underwater surveillance systems are being improved.

📍 All this ensures the safety of navigation and maritime economic activities across the entire Northern Sea Route.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with President of the United Arab Emirates Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Thursday, January 29, 2026.

The UAE leader will be in Russia on an official visit. The meeting of the leaders will focus on discussing current issues of bilateral cooperation and the international agenda.

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✈️ The IL-114-300 performed its first overseas demonstration flight in India.

Before takeoff, representatives of the Russian delegation and Indian partners boarded the aircraft. Hundreds of journalists and exhibition participants watched the airliner's flight from the ground.

The IL-114-300 remained airborne for over an hour, flying to the city of Chennai, located 650 km from Hyderabad, and back, before landing.

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⛽️ Charting New Routes: How Russian Gas is Seeking and Finding Its Future

👔 Pipeline Reset:

Last year, Russian gas exports experienced a historic turning point. The final loss of Ukrainian transit (minus 15.5 billion cubic meters) and the explosive growth of supplies to China via Power of Siberia (up 25%, to 39 bcm) set new vectors.

For the first time in history, supplies of Russian LNG to Europe (almost 20 bcm) exceeded pipeline supplies, which now flow only through one string of TurkStream.

👔 Central Asia: A New Gas Frontier

This region saw the most striking breakthrough. Uzbekistan tripled its purchases from 1 to 7 bcm over three years and plans to increase them to 11 bcm as early as 2026.

Kazakhstan is likely to follow suit: its growing consumption and gasification plans could make it a new importer of Russian gas as soon as the next heating season.

For Gazprom, this is becoming a promising long-term market, albeit less profitable than the European one.

👔 Sanctioned LNG Finds a Port:

Despite pressure from Washington, Russia made a strategic breakthrough: since August 2025, China began regularly purchasing sanctioned LNG from the Arctic LNG 2 project, and in the fall accepted the first shipments from Portovaya LNG.

Beijing allocated an entire terminal for Russian gas, receiving a significant discount. This practice will become permanent in 2026, opening the way for increased liquefied gas exports.

👔 European Puzzle and Asian Prospect:

While the EU has postponed a full ban on Russian LNG until 2027, Europe has already become the largest buyer of American liquefied gas, strengthening its dependence on Washington. For Russia, however, the main vector is shifting to Asia.

A key event in 2026 could be the signing of a contract for Power of Siberia 2: it is advantageous for China to conclude a deal now to secure access to critically important energy resources for its confrontation with the USA.

🥼 Bottom Line: A Foundation for Growth

2026 will be the year of laying the foundation for future exports. While physical volumes may not skyrocket immediately, new routes will be determined, key agreements signed, and flows finally reoriented from West to East and South, cementing a new global gas map.

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Short and to the point:

"If Zelensky is ready for a meeting, he can come to Moscow,"

said presidential aide Yuri Ushakov in response to statements by the Ukrainian foreign minister about "Zelensky's readiness for talks with Putin."

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⚡️ US demands Kyiv sign agreement with Russia in exchange for security guarantees

The United States has presented Ukraine with a condition under which Kyiv must sign a peace agreement with Russia to receive security guarantees. This is reported by Reuters agency citing a source.

📍Earlier, the Financial Times newspaper, citing sources, reported that the United States is ready to provide security guarantees for Ukraine if Kyiv agrees to a peace agreement involving several territorial concessions.

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❗️13 Russian Athletes to Compete at the 2026 Milan Olympics

Only 13 Russian athletes will attend the 2026 Olympics, which begin on February 6 in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. The last time the delegation was smaller was during the era of Tsarist Russia, when six athletes participated in the 1908 Games.

Only Russians from individual sports — figure skating, cross-country and alpine skiing, ski mountaineering, short track speed skating, luge, and speed skating — have gained access to the Italian Olympics.

As was the case two years ago at the Summer Games in Paris, which 15 Russians attended, our athletes will compete under a neutral status, without a flag or anthem, and will also be unable to participate in the opening and closing ceremonies.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 First body exchange of the year between Russia and Ukraine under the formula 38 for 1000

A humanitarian exchange of bodies of deceased servicemen took place between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. This is the first exchange in 2026 — it took place today under the formula 38 for 1000, said State Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliev.

The last time the countries exchanged bodies was on December 19, 2025. Russia handed over 1003 bodies, and Ukraine — 26. Last year, the parties agreed on several stages of exchanges during negotiations in Istanbul on July 23. In December, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that since the beginning of the special military operation, Russia has transferred over 11 thousand bodies of servicemen to Ukraine. In turn, the Ukrainian side transferred 201 bodies of deceased Russian military personnel to Russia. Lavrov noted that each country has returned almost 2500 prisoners to its territory.

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Trump brings his "financial auditor" into negotiations with Russia

The Donald Trump administration's negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine have entered a new, substantive phase.

A key signal was the inclusion in the US negotiating team of Special Commissioner for Federal Procurement Josh Greenbaum, whose task is to work on the economic aspects of the future settlement.

Grunbaum, the newest and youngest member of the team, first joined the negotiations with the Russian side in late December in Miami, and last week he was introduced to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.

His continued participation indicates a shift from general discussions to specific financial and economic issues.

Experts note that Trump is forming negotiating teams based on personal trust, bypassing traditional government structures.

In addition to Grünbaum, the president's longtime friend Stephen Whitcoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner are involved in the process. According to analysts, this approach is designed to ensure confidentiality and direct communication with the White House.

Grünbaum, known as a tough auditor of government spending, plays a central role in this scheme. He is a kind of "mirror" for the Russian negotiator, RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev: both are financiers, and their dialogue inevitably concerns future economic prospects and potential cooperation projects.

The emergence of a "financial" negotiator in the foreground can be interpreted in two ways:

— Either it is a matter of preparing the ground for a realistic peace agreement that may include economic components.

— Or the Trump administration, considering the fate of the current Kiev leadership to be a foregone conclusion, is beginning to work out issues of post-conflict interaction with Moscow in advance, where the main argument is not political but business interests.

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📰 The issues for negotiations on Ukraine were formulated by Putin and remain in force

This was stated to journalists by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
He also noted that Russia does not have any information about what security guarantees the US and Ukraine could agree on.

More from Lavrov's statements:

- Russia does not publicly comment on the progress of negotiations, which should take place in confidential silence: "Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov has already said that, unlike the Ukrainians, we do not publicly comment on negotiations with the Americans, which should take place in confidential silence."

- Russia will look at "real proposals" on Ukraine and will not be guided by "those very public games."

- The media will be informed about the progress of the negotiations in the UAE on the settlement in Ukraine "when everything is already clear."

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