A cat named Bublik, who entered politics in the spring of 2012, held a meeting with the mayor of Sukhoi Log, Sverdlovsk region, Stanislav Sukhanov. This was reported on Monday, January 28, by the Good News About Animals website. The city hall gave the cat food, a tray and litter. In addition, Bublik was allowed to sit in Sukhanov’s chair. The mayor himself personally talked to the cat, stroked it and held it in his arms.

Porndance Sex, Pussy Riot, rock and roll: results of Sundance Still from the film "Lovelace" In the American Park City, Utah, Sundance ended - the main indie festival, a celebration of independent cinema, a source of talent for Cannes, Rotterdam and Berlin. Among non-American films, the awards were won by the Cambodian documentary “The River Changes Its Tide,” about villagers moving to Phnom Penh, and the Korean feature film “Chiseul,” about the 1948 uprising on Jeju Island.

The Aeroflot company fired its employee who published a photo on the VKontakte social network with an indecent gesture towards passengers. This was reported on the company's microblog on Twitter on January 28. “We are a customer-centric company,” the airline said in a statement. “The flight attendant, whose photograph @varlamov drew attention to, no longer works at Aeroflot.” Another message clarifies that we are talking about T. Kozlenko.

In May 2013, it will be 20 years since the article “Sodomy” was removed from the Russian Criminal Code. Perhaps by this time a ban on “homosexual propaganda” will already be in force in the country. By the way, some State Duma deputies began lobbying for this ban exactly ten years ago. Lenta.ru studied the historical experience of combating homosexuality and its propaganda in Russia and the world. Throughout its history, humanity has repeatedly made attempts to eradicate homosexuality.

Corporate debt of Chinese companies has increased from $604 billion to $1.7 trillion over the past five years. Bloomberg writes about this with reference to its own calculations. The publication calculated the debts of 3,895 non-financial organizations whose shares are traded on the stock exchange. In 2012, Chinese banks provided 8.2 trillion yuan ($1.3 trillion) in new loans to companies. The figure increased by ten percent compared to last year.

The sun rises again in the north Georgians were asked to choose between Russia and the USA A clash between supporters of friendship with Russia and NATO supporters. Photo: Alexander Imedashvili / News Georgia The Russian trend in Georgian politics, which is gradually strengthening at the instigation of the new Georgian government, has another supporter.

Apple will release a version of the iPad tablet with 128 gigabytes of internal memory, the 9to5Mac blog reports, citing anonymous sources. The fourth-generation iPad tablets, which Apple announced on October 24, have storage capacities ranging from 16 to 64 gigabytes. Thus, the new device will have twice as much memory as the most capacious modern iPad.

Three Russian hockey players made their NHL debuts in the 2012/13 season: Vladimir Tarasenko, Nail Yakupov and Mikhail Grigorenko. In the first game week, Tarasenko became one of the top scorers in the league, Yakupov was remembered for celebrating the saving goal for his team, and Grigorenko, who did not score a single point, risks going to the farm club. Lenta.ru quotes statements from North American journalists and bloggers about Russian NHL newcomers.

The Moscow State Construction Supervision Committee (Mosgosstroynadzor) plans to carry out a large-scale inspection of high-rise buildings under construction in the capital in the near future. According to RIA Novosti , this was stated by the acting department Valentin Pakhomov. According to him, the inspection will be carried out for violations that are directly related to construction work, as well as to the residence of workers on construction sites.

The US Department of Education published a report according to which in 2010 American schools produced the highest number of graduates since the 1970s. Experts find it difficult to determine what exactly caused the success of the educational system. Meanwhile, American politicians have been sounding the alarm for several years over the acute “crisis of dropouts” and the insufficient level of training of graduates.

A Piper PA-32 light aircraft crashed into the Hudson River in the United States. The New York Times reports this. The incident occurred on the afternoon of Sunday, January 27, near the city of Yonkers, a few kilometers north of New York. There were two people on board the plane, a man and a woman, who managed to get out of the cockpit before the aircraft sank.

The circle of omnipotence The Kremlin has become a hostage to the 2018 problem Vladimir Putin. Photo: Pavel Kassin / Kommersant The footage of Vladimir Putin crying with joy has hardly been forgotten, and Russia is already beginning to show interest in the next presidential elections. In an interview with Bloomberg on January 23, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev once again stated that he does not rule out participating in the presidential elections in 2018.

United Russia deputy Alexander Vasiliev submitted to the State Duma a bill on introducing warranty periods for the construction and operation of highways. reported this on Monday, January 28 Interfax . In the explanatory note to the document, according to the agency, it is noted that currently the federal legislation of Russia does not directly provide for warranty periods in the field of construction, reconstruction and repair of roads and other artificial structures.

Raw material suppliers from Poland are responsible for the contamination of horse meat in beef burgers sold in supermarkets in the UK and Ireland. The Guardian newspaper writes about this, citing the preliminary results of an investigation by Irish authorities. According to Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney, more than 140 tests on burger raw materials arriving at the local Silvercrest Foods plant found “significant amounts” of horse DNA in several imported samples.

Russian Ekaterina Tudegesheva won gold at the Snowboard World Championships in the parallel slalom discipline. This was reported by All Sport. The world championship took place in Stoneham, Canada. In the final race, the Russian woman was stronger than the representative of Switzerland, Patricia Kummer. Amelie Kober from Germany won the bronze medal. Tudegesheva's gold became the second award for the Russian team at the World Championships.