Oil Production. Photos from the archive of the faces Brent and WTI oil prices at the auction on January 2 reached the minimum values ​​since May 2009. It is reported by Prime. During the session, the price of Brent on the intercontinental exchange of futures transactions in London fell to $ 55.48 per barrel, and the price of WTI on the New York Model Exchange was up to $ 52.03. By the end of Friday trading in London, Brent barrels, however, increased in price to $ 56.80.

Eduard Zinnurov. Photo: ulnovosti.ru Eduard Zinnurov, the son of the Ulyanovsk vice-governor Wildan Zinnurov, tried to kill the policeman. About this without links to sources report to Ulnovosti.ru. The case was opened under Article 30 - Article 105 of the Criminal Code (attempted murder). The incident, according to the publication, occurred shortly before the New Year among white day.

Vyacheslav Buchnev. Photo: 12.mvd.ru The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Mari El Major General of the police Vyacheslav Buchnev shot himself in his office in Yoshkar-Ola. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred on the afternoon of January 3. According to the interlocutor of the agency, Buchnev was officially on vacation from December 26 to January 8, but regularly came to work.

Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Photo: Wikipedia From January 1, the Intel Corporation disconnected the Russian -speaking forum for developers on the Intel Developer Zone resource. The corresponding message appears when trying to reach the forum. In addition, the possibility of publishing posts in Russian is now disabled and the commenting of Russian -language content placed before January 1 is not available.

Monument to the ideology of Juchhe in Pyongyang. Photo: Wikipedia The US Department of Finance imposed new sanctions against the DPRK after a hacker attack on the website of the Sony Pictures film studio. This was reported on the website of the department. Such a measure was adopted by order of President Barack Obama.

Victor Orban and Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru In Budapest on Friday, a rally was held against the course of rapprochement with Russia, which is conducting the offense government of Viktor Orban. It is reported by Deutsche Welle. About 5 thousand people took part in the Opera Theater. Last year, Moscow allocated a loan to Budapest for the completion of the nuclear power plant in Paksha. Due to this, the demonstrators are sure, Hungary falls into economic dependence on Russia.

A terrorist nicknamed a maniac. Hard video from the YouTube channel "GTRK LPR" The LPR State Radio Broadcasting Company published a series of plots on its YouTube channel , which states that terrorists from the “quick response group”, which was led by Alexander Bednov, who was murdered the other day (“Batman”), was engaged in torturing detainees and prisoners of war in an illegal prison.

Kobzon, Gazmanov and Valeria in the New Year show on the channel "Russia 1" The Ukrainian television channel "Inter", which is threatened by the deprivation of the license, canceled all the shows of festive concerts and musicals, "including its own production," - only two dozen programs canceled all the shows of the festive concerts and musicals. This was reported on the Inter website.

Elena Chukovskaya. Photo: Wikipedia In Moscow, on January 3, at the age of 83, the philologist and memoirist Elena Chukovskaya died. This was announced on his Facebook page by a professor at the Higher School of Economics Oleg Lekmanov. Chukovskaya was born on August 6, 1931 in Leningrad. She was the granddaughter of Korney Chukovsky and the daughter of the writer Lidia Chukovskaya and philologist Caesar Volpe.

Zhanna Karpenko. Lifenews frame The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the attack on Lifenews journalist Jeanne Karpenko in Kyiv during a torch march in the memory of Stepan Bandera on January 1. This was announced on Friday by the representative of the department Vladimir Markin. The case was opened under Articles 144 (the obstruction of the legal professional activity of journalists) and 161 of the Criminal Code (robbery).