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China called on the United States to stop depriving the Cuban people of their rights to existence and development.

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Tuesday called on the United States to stop depriving the Cuban people of their rights to existence and development.

The Chinese diplomat made the statement in response to a media request to comment on the Cuban government's condemnation of the US plan to strengthen the illegal blockade of Cuba. -0-

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RUDN University students are creating a digital platform for runners using artificial intelligence.

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A team of students from the RUDN University Graduate School of Management is developing Run Community, a digital aggregation platform for runners and race organizers. The project, which is participating in the RUDN.VC accelerator, has already received a grant of 1,000,000 rubles from the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE).

Team composition:

Kirill Kovalev, a second-year undergraduate student at the Graduate School of Management, is responsible for project development strategy, product development, interaction with partners and investors, and overseeing the implementation of key stages. Natalia Zlatovchena, a fourth-year undergraduate student at the Graduate School of Management, is responsible for project promotion, brand development, target audience engagement, digital communications, and participation in marketing activities. Madina Shokirova, a first-year Master's student at the Graduate School of Management, analyzes user behavior, collects and interprets data, and prepares reports and analytics for product development and management decision-making.

Technologies for activity and health care

"The problem our project solves is that the mass running market in Russia is fragmented: event information is posted on dozens of disparate websites, participant registration is often done manually, and organizers are forced to use outdated and non-automated tools. Athletes face difficulties finding relevant races, storing results history, and analyzing training, while organizers face significant time and resource expenditures on event administration and data management," says Kirill Kovalev.

The student-run project Run Community offers a comprehensive solution—a single web platform that will integrate the race calendar, online event registration, personal accounts for participants and organizers, and analytics and gamification tools. The platform will be complemented by a Telegram bot with an intelligent assistant for training analysis and personalized recommendations.

"Run Community isn't just a platform for registering for races. It's a step toward the systematic digitalization of mass sports and the creation of a community where technology helps people be more active and mindful of their health. Participating in the accelerator gave me valuable experience, helped me see the project from a new perspective, and significantly accelerated my development as an entrepreneur," says Kirill Kovalev.

First successes and plans for the future

The project has already achieved significant results. In addition to receiving the grant, the team successfully completed the first stage of development and is now working on creating a prototype of the web platform and key functionality. The students actively present their startup at pitching sessions and scientific conferences, such as StartUP.

The RUDN.VC accelerator helped the students structure their business model, refine their value proposition, and prepare for investor dialogue. The team also participated in the GEN AI MVP Lab, where they worked on creating a prototype using intelligent technologies.

The platform is expected to be in demand not only by private organizers, but also by sports communities, universities, municipalities, and corporate employee wellness programs, helping to promote mass sports and a healthy lifestyle in Russia.

"In a year, I expect to have a working service with its first users and partners. The main thing is to conduct a test launch and ensure the product meets the audience's needs. For me, this will be proof that my team and I are moving in the right direction," says Kirill Kovalev.

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Moscow's Tenement Buildings: How They Came to Be, Who Built Them, and What's Happening to Them Today

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The M.A. Svetlov Library's Youth Media Center invites you to a lecture on the history of tenement houses. Local historian Elena Krizhevskaya will deliver the lecture. Attendees will learn how tenement house architects were inspired by Venetian palazzos and English castles and designed buildings in Russian, classical, Gothic, and Baroque styles.

The lecturer will discuss 10 apartment buildings. The design of one is reminiscent of the murals in St. Basil's Cathedral, a second is reminiscent of the carved decoration of St. Demetrius Cathedral in Vladimir, and a third is reminiscent of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.

Elena Krizhevskaya is a local historian, photographer, blogger, and author of books about Moscow. She hosts the popular channel "Uncertain Moscow." She is also the author of the photo exhibition "Behind the Front Doors."

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Sobyanin opened a new building for the Shcherbinka District Police Department.

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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Oleg Baranov, Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the City of Moscow, opened the new building of the Shcherbinka District Police Department, where they met with Moscow police officers.

"This is a modern, bright, and well-appointed building, perfectly suited for work. It has everything needed for both police officers and the public who will seek assistance there. So, congratulations, friends, on your new home!" said the Moscow Mayor.

Sergei Sobyanin presented Mikhail Romanitsa, Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky Administrative Districts of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the City of Moscow, with a certificate of transfer of the right to free use of a non-residential building with an area of 7,600 square meters, located at 2 Zakharyinskie Dvoriki Street, to the Internal Affairs Directorate for the New Moscow Administrative Districts.

"On behalf of our personnel, I can assure you that we will ensure the safety of Muscovites," Mikhail Romanitsa emphasized.

Sergei Sobyanin noted that the city continues to improve the material resources of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow.

"A lot has been accomplished. Most of the buildings are already in good condition, but there's still a lot of work to be done. In 2025, we built four new buildings, and in 2026, two more. We're continuing the reconstruction," the Moscow Mayor said.

Compared to 2010, the overall number of offenses in Moscow has decreased by 35 percent, and the number of the most dangerous crimes against the life, health, and property of Muscovites has decreased several times.

"The Moscow government provides systematic support to the Moscow police. Since 2011, over 250 police facilities have been built and reconstructed in Moscow. Units are located in

comfortable, well-equipped buildings, which certainly improves the quality of performance of official duties,” the Mayor of Moscow wrote on his channel in MAX messenger.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin's channel inMAX messenger

The new building of the Shcherbinka district police department

Before moving to a new building, the Department of Internal Affairs (OVD) for the Shcherbinka District of Moscow occupied a two-story building at 6 Zheleznodorozhnaya Street. The total floor area of the premises was only 813.5 square meters. This was insufficient for the full-fledged and effective operation of the department, which employed over 180 people and served the rapidly developing Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug with a population of over 135,000.

 

The new 7,600-square-meter district department building was constructed according to a custom design at 2 Zakharyinskie Dvoriki Street, approximately a 20-minute walk from the Shcherbinka train station on the Moscow Central Diameter 2 (MCD-2). Construction lasted from June 2022 to August 2025. The work was financed by the Moscow city budget under the "Safe City" program.

"The building on Zakharyinskiye Dvoriki Street is nine times larger than the department's previous building. It is now a 20-minute walk from the Shcherbinka MCD-2 train station. It offers comfortable conditions for police officers to work, study, train, and rest. The building is equipped with modern utility systems, furniture, office equipment, and all necessary facilities. The surrounding area has also been landscaped," Sergei Sobyanin noted on his MAX messenger channel.

Source: Moscow Mayor's channelMAX messenger

The building's ventilated façade is made of porcelain tile. The basement is also clad in porcelain tile. The surrounding area is landscaped.

The four-story administrative building (including a technical floor and basement) provides comfortable conditions for police officers to work, study, train, and rest. The department is equipped with modern utility systems, furniture, office equipment, and all necessary facilities.

Combat and training facilities have been set up for the staff. These include a rifle and laser (multimedia) range, as well as offices for the duty station, the investigative department, the criminal investigation and inquiry departments, the security and suspect escort teams, and the logistics department. The building also houses a wrestling hall and a gym with locker rooms and showers.

A conference room with a modern multimedia system is equipped for holding operational meetings and other work events.

For the accommodation of service vehicles, there is a built-in garage for eight cars and an above-ground parking lot for 19 cars.

The move to the new building on Zakharyinskie Dvoriki Street will be completed in the near future.

Security, openness, and comfort: a new standard for the Metropolitan Police's buildings

The city provides systematic assistance to the Moscow police in modernizing its material and technical resources. The newly constructed and renovated buildings of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the City of Moscow provide comfortable conditions for service. They are equipped with modern duty stations, offices, laboratories, break rooms, gyms, shooting ranges, cafeterias, and refreshment areas, and the surrounding area has been landscaped.

The safety of employees and visitors is ensured by modern electronic security, surveillance and access control systems.

Since 2010, 30 new Metropolitan Police facilities have been commissioned in the capital. These include the building complexes of the Internal Affairs Directorates for the Western, Southern, and Eastern Administrative Districts, the police departments for the Akademichesky, Beskudnikovsky, Golyanovo, Danilovsky, Kotlovka, Molzhaninovsky, Ochakovo-Matveyevskoye, Rostokino, Severny, Tverskoy, Khovrino, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, Shcherbinka, Yuzhnoportovy, and Yakimanka districts, as well as the Moskovsky police station, the Kommunarsky Inter-Municipal Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Canine Service Center, and a complex of administrative buildings on Ryabinovaya Street.

In 2026, construction of the facility in the Losinoostrovsky district (six thousand square meters) will be completed, and in 2027 – in the Prospekt Vernadskogo district (6.4 thousand square meters).

Plans for 2027–2030 include the construction of 20 facilities. Modern administrative buildings will be built in the districts of Tverskoy, Bekasovo, Obruchevsky, Zyuzino, Prospekt Vernadskogo, Chertanovo Tsentralnoye, Chertanovo Yuzhnoye, Tsaritsyno, Filevsky Park, Kryukovo, Vykhino, Troparevo-Nikulino, Shchukino, Filimonkovsky, Voronovo, Vnukovo, Krasnopakhorsky, and Troitsk.

At the same time, comprehensive reconstruction and improvement work is underway at the facilities of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow. Since 2011, work has been completed on 222 facilities. These include:

— 80 buildings of district departments of internal affairs;

– six residential buildings – family dormitories for police officers;

— 91 sports and hockey fields for training and recreation of personnel;

— 45 other departmental objects.

This year, major repairs are planned for five facilities, including the Krylatskoye District Department of Internal Affairs and the administrative buildings of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow.

"Work to improve the capital's police facilities will continue. Plans include the construction and renovation of approximately 30 more facilities," the Moscow Mayor emphasized in his MAX channel.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin's channel inMAX messenger

Detailed information about service in the Moscow police is presented inspecial section on the mos.ru portal. Here you can also find out about working conditions, social benefits, requirements for candidates, and submit online questionnaireIn addition, the page contains answers to frequently asked questions.

Safe City: On the State of Crime in Moscow

Between 2010 and 2025, the total number of crimes committed in Moscow decreased by 35 percent, from 185,900 to 120,900. Last year, the number of crimes decreased by 7.7 percent compared to 2024.

The crime rate per 100,000 people decreased by 48.5 percent, from 1,770 to 911.

The number of murders has decreased by more than 3.5 times, apartment burglaries by 64 times, car thefts by almost 47 times, robberies by 13 times, robberies by 20 times, and hooliganism by almost five times.

The number of crimes in public places has decreased more than threefold.

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China's Foreign Ministry: Japan has no right to comment on Taiwan's affairs.

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BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday that Japan has no right to comment on China's Taiwan affairs from either a historical or legal perspective, and called on the Japanese side to stop making trouble over the Taiwan question.

The Chinese diplomat made the statement at a regular departmental press conference in response to a request to comment on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent statement regarding Taiwan. -0-

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China's Heilongjiang Province is seeking to expand cooperation with Russia in the area of ice and snow resources.

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HARBIN, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province is actively expanding cooperation with Russia amid the rapid development of the region's ice and snow economy, officials and experts said.

Zhang Yu, an official with the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports and Fitness Administration, noted that Heilongjiang Province actively cooperates with Russia, conducting joint training sessions with hockey and figure skating teams. Russian coaches in speed skating, cross-country skiing, and other winter sports are also invited to improve the skills of local athletes.

According to him, building on Heilongjiang's scientific and educational potential, the Chinese-Russian Regional Association of Winter Sports Universities was established in November 2025 in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province. Within the framework of this association, 15 universities from China and Russia are jointly training personnel and conducting scientific research.

In addition, Harbin University of Physical Education and Heilongjiang Professional College of Ice and Snow Sports signed cooperation agreements with the Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health and Moscow City Pedagogical University to strengthen collaboration in areas such as faculty and student exchange visits and laboratory development.

Du Bingyang, coach of the Harbin 3A Speed Skating Club, explained that Russia has traditional advantages in winter sports such as figure skating and hockey. In recent years, the club has invited several Russian figure skating and speed skating coaches to train young athletes.

"Russia has traditional advantages in figure skating. The advanced concepts of Russian figure skating coaches are worth studying. At the same time, Russia is strong in ice hockey, and Russian coaches have a unique understanding of technical movements, tactics, physical training, and so on," he said.

In addition, an important area of cooperation is the regular holding of winter sports competitions among professional and amateur athletes from the two countries.

Since the beginning of this year, the province has already hosted similar competitions, including the China-Russia Snow Football Tournament, the 4th International Jingbo Lake Ice Race, the China-Russia Ice and Snow Off-Road Driving Competition, and many others, which vividly demonstrates the close cooperation and strengthening of friendship between the two countries.

An important example of the joint development of ice and snow resources for the purposes of common development is the cable car project between Heihe, China, and Blagoveshchensk, Russia.

Heihe and Blagoveshchensk are separated by a few hundred meters of the Heilongjiang (Amur) River. According to Gao Yiyang, deputy general director of the Jinlonggang Construction Company in Heihe, the project is scheduled to begin trial operation in June 2026. In the future, residents of both countries will be able to cross the Heilongjiang River in just 2.5 minutes. The project's capacity will be 2.6 million people per year in both directions.

"This project will not only be a convenient means of transportation but also a landmark project for Chinese-Russian cooperation in the new era. The construction of the cableway not only reflects the deepening of cooperation between the two countries in infrastructure construction but will also give new impetus to the development of tourism and the economy between the two banks of the Heilongjiang River," he added.

At a business meeting held earlier this month on the sidelines of the 2026 International Ice and Snow Economy Fair in Harbin, Ma Yujun, a leading expert at the Institute of Northeast Asian Strategies at the Harbin Academy of Social Sciences, shared his views on the prospects and approaches for strengthening cooperation between the province and Russia, with an emphasis on unlocking the potential for developing the ice and snow economy.

He said that promoting trade with Russia through ice and snow and creating a cross-border tourism community is one of the key approaches to the economic development of Heilongjiang Province.

In particular, it is necessary to stimulate the modernization of trade with Russia in winter sports equipment and gear and to form a regional tourism cooperation network that covers not only this province but also Vladivostok and Blagoveshchensk, the expert emphasized.

As a reminder, the 2026 International Ice and Snow Economy Fair was held from January 6 to 8 this year and brought together diplomatic representatives accredited in China, representatives of foreign cities, and officials from leading enterprises from more than 20 countries and regions.

A report from the China Tourism Academy shows that by 2025, the scale of China's ice and snow economy will exceed 1 trillion yuan, with more than 14,000 winter tourism-related enterprises operating across China.

China positions the ice and snow economy as a key driver of development and consumption. Its size is expected to reach 1.2 trillion yuan by 2027 and 1.5 trillion yuan by 2030.

At the Central Economic Work Conference in December 2025, China reiterated the importance of efforts to “expand the supply of high-quality goods and services,” and experts expect the tourism market to become even more vibrant this winter. -0-

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Librarian. Fairytale

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The Theatre on Trubnaya will present the musical and poetic performance "Librarian. Fairytale," based on the idea of combining various musical and literary works, as well as relaxed interaction with the audience.

For each "issue" of the project, the artists come up with a new theme and fill it with poetry, prose, songs, music, and their own stories. Therefore, each meeting is unique, and no two "Librarians" are alike.

The project's creator and artistic director is Mikhail Umanets. Participants include Ekaterina Grishaeva, Alina Khodzhevanova, Alexander Davydov, Maxim Maltsev, Maxim Maminov, and Dmitry Repin.

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Rosneft improves pipeline transport reliability

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Specialists from Rosneft's Ufa Research Institute have developed a unique software and analytical system for monitoring the integrity and improving the reliability of pipeline transport.

The software package continuously processes information about the properties of the hydrocarbons being pumped, as well as data from pressure sensors received at a frequency of up to 20 times per second, and if deviations are detected, it provides coordinates of the point of loss of pipeline integrity.

The new technology will help effectively monitor the integrity of pipelines transporting both processed commercial oil and liquid hydrocarbons with low gas content. To ensure reliable operation, methods and algorithms have been developed that take into account the specific installation conditions, design, and flow patterns of the pipelines. For partially processed hydrocarbons, this integrity loss detection technology is unique on the domestic market.

The implementation of the software package will significantly reduce environmental risks and the costs of eliminating the consequences of pipeline failures.

The results of pilot tests at the production facilities of Bashneft-Dobycha, Rospan International, and Samaraneftegaz demonstrated the high efficiency of the developed solutions. The project's economic efficiency includes reduced hydrocarbon losses, optimized operating costs, and increased pipeline infrastructure reliability.

Based on the results of the pilot implementation of the innovation, it is planned to scale it up to the Company’s entire pipeline complex.

Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft January 27, 2026

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Masquerade

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The School of Dramatic Art Theatre will present the play "Masquerade," based on the works of Mikhail Lermontov. It will be performed by actors from the A.N. Ostrovsky Kineshma Drama Theatre.

Viewers will experience a story about how one insignificant incident led to a series of tragic consequences, and whether they could have been avoided. A mystical, icy Petersburg, beneath whose surface cold, simmering human passions. The music, light, and movement are so captivating that at times it's unclear: is the action taking place two centuries ago or today? Is this the real world or the world of our souls? Is everything happening crudely earthly or already spiritually heavenly?

Poems by Mikhail Lermontov and songs based on his words will be performed.

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In a busy place

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The School of Dramatic Art Theatre will present the play "In a Busy Place," based on Alexander Ostrovsky's play. Performers from the A.N. Ostrovsky Kineshma Drama Theatre will perform it.

A fascinating and intriguing play awaits the audience, revealing life in the Russian provinces of the late 19th century. A single inn, known as a "busy place," brings together both swindlers and honest folk. A whirlwind of events unfolds around the innkeeper's sister. She is driven by the opinions of others, but like any young woman, she strives to escape this vicious cycle and find love. Will she succeed?

The cruel customs of the Russian provinces of the century before last reflect the present day as if in a mirror.

Duration: two hours with intermission.

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