US Congress. Photo: House.gov The US Senate did not support the bill on the extension of financing the government, the Voice of America reports . As a result, federal departments should now send most of the employees on vacation. This situation is called Shutdown. In the United States, the budget year begins in October. In the fall of 2017, the budget bill was not adopted. Government financing is supported by resolutions lasting several weeks.

Turkish troops. Photo: TSK.TR Türkiye began the military operation "olive branch" in the area of ​​the city of Afrin in the north of Syria, which is under the control of the formations of the Syrian Kurds. This was announced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports Hurriyet Daily News. Erdogan called the operation "anti -terrorism." According to the president, the fighting of the Syrian opposition "with the support of the Turkish Armed Forces" conducts fighting.

Illustration from Blog.twitter.com The Twitter administration has blocked more than a thousand accounts with which Russian propaganda was published during a presidential campaign in the United States. This is stated in the company's press release . "We identified and suspended the action of a number of accounts that were potentially related to the propaganda efforts of the Russian Property Organization, known as the" Internet research agency ".

Alexander Zaldostanov and Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Grozny-inform.ru Ramzan Kadyrov, by his decree, awarded the leader of the Prochrevsky bike club "Night Wolves" Alexander Zaldostanov (surgeon) of the highest award of Chechnya, the Order of Akhmat Kadyrov. The head of Chechnya wrote about this on his page on the VKontakte social network The award was dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the Zaldostanov. "He is a man of specific affairs in the name of our beloved Motherland - Russia!

Flag of the International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee reduced the pool of Russian athletes, who can be allowed before the 2018 Olympics, from 500 to 389 people. This was reported on the website of the IOC. In a pool, 80 percent belongs to the "new generation" of Russian athletes who did not participate in the Sochi Olympics. It is still unknown which of them will fall on the games. The list is preliminary, qualifications are still ongoing.

One hundred years ago, on January 20, 1918, Andrei Shingarev and Fyodor Kokoshkin, deputies of the Constituent Assembly from the Kadet Party and former members of the Provisional Government, were lynched in the Petrograd Mariinsky Prison Hospital by a guard of soldiers and sailors with the words "we are killing you for 1905, enough of our blood to drink." Eight murderers were soon arrested, but two of their leaders, sailors Oscar Kreis and Yakov Matveev, were never extradited by naval crews.

Alexander Valov. Photo with personal FB page The editor -in -chief of the Sochi Blog, Alexander Valov was detained 48 hours on suspicion of extorting money from the State Duma deputy from the LDPR Yuri Napso. This was reported by lawyer Alexander Popkov. The day before, the employees of the TFR conducted a search from Valov. Phones, documents, computer and photo technique were seized. They did not find anything forbidden during the search.