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January 18. 52 people died in the tanned bus

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In Kazakhstan , a bus burned , on which citizens of Uzbekistan went to Russia. 52 people were killed, only five managed to escape. According to preliminary data, the fire began due to a short circuit; The situation was aggravated by the fact that the side door was blocked, and in the cabin, presumably, there were cans of fuel. The term of inspection at the bus expired almost two years ago; The owner of the car did not have licenses for passenger transportation.

The attack on the "Memorial" in Chechnya continues. Today, the household in Grozny, where the office is located, came to the mistress of the security forces and demanded the keys to her (she did not have them). And the day before, Ramzan Kadyrovcalled the drug addict the head of the department, the 60-year-old human rights activist Oyub Titiev. We remind the main episodes of the persecution of the Memorial and other human rights activists in the Caucasus-from the 1990s to the murder of Natalia Estemirova and the case of Titiev.

In the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in different cities, searches are carried out and leaflets are seized . The agitmaterials printed for the “voter strikes” were seized in Murmansk, Pskov, Kaluga, Smolensk, Cheboksary and Novgorod. Something similar happened last summer, when the supporters of Navalny were preparing for the “campaign subbotnik” - then the authorities, under various pretexts, removed leaflets both in headquarters and from transport campaigns.

The Association of Cinema Owners publicly criticized the Ministry of Culture and Vladimir Medinsky for the transfer Prime Minister of foreign films for the sake of Russian. The reason for this was the transfer of the premiere of the “Adventures of Paddington - 2” the day before the intended date - as it is believed that Russian films “Scythian” and “Up movement” have fewer competitors. The distributors said the Ministry of Culture is harmful to the development of the film industry.

Dance of the Ulyanovsk students

The other day, students of the Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation posted a parody video on the Internet, in which they dance in underwear and caps under the composition of Benny Benany “Satisfection”. The video fell into the popular public MDK, and there almost four million people watched it. The scandal began - the rector of the university said that the students were “mocking the saint”, and compared them to Pussy Riot; The transport prosecutor’s office conducted an audit and offered to punish teachers; Ulyanovsk Governor Sergei Morozov promised to meet students and their parents and talk with them “as a personnel officer”.

What happened to the missing singer Zelimkhan Bakaev?

The 26-year-old singer Zelimkhan Bakaev disappeared in August 2017, when he arrived in Chechnya from Moscow for the wedding of his sister. Since then, nothing is known about his fate. The versions were expressed that he left due to a conflict with his relatives, that he could be abducted by the security forces and that his disappearance was associated with the persecution of gays in the Republic. Ramzan Kadyrov publicly spoke about Bakaev:

What Kadyrov had in mind by the words “this one” and what a man from the Bakayev clan should admit, is not explained.

Form of Russians at the Olympics

Sketches of the form of “Olympic athletes from Russia” - Russians who will allow the future games in Pyeongchang are published . As required, there is no coat of arms, flag, the words “Russia”, and only two colors of Russian tricolor were used - red and white.

What else

• The film "Dark Times" is released in the cinema - about Winston Churchill in 1940. British prime minister was played by Gary Oldman. According to Anton Dolina, the actor in this role "did something unthinkable." The review of the valley can be readhere .
• Look at the Harry relaxed koala from the Australian Zoo "Simbio Wildlife". He loves when he is scratching his stomach.

Victor Davydov