The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution suspects Russian hackers of involvement in two cyber attacks of a similar profile: hacking the computer network of the Bundestag and the computers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Five people were arrested as part of the investigation into the murder of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov at the opening of a photo exhibition in Ankara, cites data from the Izmir prosecutor's office. Anadolu Agency One of those arrested, Suleiman Ergen, is called by the prosecutor's office an activist of the Fetullah Gülan movement (FETÖ), who allegedly supervised the cadets of the Rushtu Unsal Police School in Izmir, where the killer of Ambassador Mevlüt Mert Altintas studied.

In the forest near one of the villages of the Pyshminsky district of the Sverdlovsk region, the bodies of two teenagers were found who ran away from home due to disputes with their parents who forbade them to meet, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda Ural. According to the publication, the parents “categorically forbade” the 17-year-old young man and the 18-year-old girl from dating. On New Year's Eve they ran away from their parents, and a few days later their bodies were found in the forest.

All relatives of the participants in the attack on police officers in Grozny were released from the police by January 5, writes the Caucasian Knot. According to the publication, on December 30, all the relatives of those killed during the special operation in Grozny were released, but then the second cousin of one of the killed was detained again. “My husband, sons, his brothers and nephews were detained on December 18.

on Instagram The speaker of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, published a post with a call to “rip out a couple of fangs of “wisdom”” and “shorten the tongue” of “a dog named “Swede””; The message was probably addressed to the editor-in-chief of the online publication “Caucasian Knot” Grigory Shvedov. In his allegorical post, Daudov calls the journalist a “strange dog”: “He looks formidable, but is a coward. Mongrel, but impudent. Nicknamed "Swede".

Activist Alexey Knedlyakovsky, who received 15 days of arrest for protesting with a cross on the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky in Krasnodar, has been released, his wife, artist Lusine Janyan, writes on Twitter. On December 23, the court sentenced Knedlyakovsky to 15 days for an action at the monument to Dzerzhinsky on the Day of Security Agencies Worker.

In the city of Tartus in the southern Turkish province of Mersin, police detained four people from Chechnya who are suspected of trying to travel to Syria to join the ranks of the Islamic State terrorist group, Haberturk reports . According to the publication, employees of the Mersin Anti-Terrorism Police Department received information that Chechens with fake documents are trying to get into the border province of Hatay in order to cross the border with Syria.

Apple and Google have removed a mobile application for accessing the social network LinkedIn from their Russian online stores at the request of Russian authorities, the writes . New York Times Links to the application are not available in Russian versions of application stores for iOS and Android operating systems; The Apple iTunes Store informs the user that the app is still available in the US version of the store.

Moscow Christmas tree decorations. Photo: Kunov Valentin / Photokhronika TASS The anti -religious campaign, which unfolded after the formation of the USSR, resulted in a persecution of those who openly celebrated church holidays. Since the end of the 1920s, Christmas and New Year fell under the actual ban, however, a few years later they returned the Christmas tree, turning it from Christmas to the New Year and adding Soviet attributes.

In Lyubertsy, near Moscow, the electricity supply has been completely restored, according to the city administration’s website. Heating and hot water supply have been partially restored. According to the head of the Lyubertsy district and the city of Lyubertsy, Vladimir Ruzhitsky, heating will be restored in full within two to three hours. At the same time, it is not specified what the situation with electricity supply is in Lytkarino, Dzerzhinsky and the Belaya Dacha microdistrict.

US intelligence named Russian President Vladimir Putin as the initiator of interference in the American election campaign, according to a report published on the website of the US Intelligence Community. However, only the unclassified part of the report is posted on the website.