Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol Alexey Chaly, who announced his resignation in December, decided to remain in office. RBC reports this with reference to sources close to the administration of the President of the Russian Federation and the leadership of Sevastopol. According to RBC, on January 11, Chaly met with the first deputy head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Vyacheslav Volodin.

Al Jazeera America will close by April 30, 2016. The decision is due to the unviability of the channel’s business model given the existing economic realities of the American media market, according to a statement on the channel’s website. The management of the Al-Jazeera network has no complaints about the quality of work of journalists, emphasized the head of the TV channel, Al Anstey. At the same time, Al Jazeera intends to expand its presence in the digital media market in the United States.

An avalanche in the French Alps killed a 16-year-old schoolgirl from Lyon. Earlier, two more deaths were reported - a 14-year-old schoolboy and a citizen of Ukraine. The teacher who accompanied the group of schoolchildren is in a Grenoble hospital in serious condition. The remaining members of the group were not injured, AFP reports, citing the French Ministry of Education.

In the Rostov region, border guards detained a Ukrainian contract soldier. On the territory of the Russian Federation, he was illegally, Interfax reports with reference to the local border department of the FSB. The name of the detainee is Shlyakhova, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency was told at the headquarters of the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation. He was detained on the road between the border villages of Melovoye (Lugansk region of Ukraine) and Chertkovo (Russian Federation).

The price of North Sea Brent oil on the ICE exchange in London fell below $30 per barrel. At 22:22 Moscow time, the price per barrel was $29.99 per barrel. Seven minutes later, the price rose to $30.33. World oil prices accelerated their decline in late 2015 and early 2016, hitting seven-year lows. The fall in oil prices is considered the main reason for the devaluation of the Russian national currency.

The Russian citizens detained in Ukraine on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts are Olga Sheveleva and Pavel Pyatakov. This became known from court materials that were at the disposal of Dozhd. According to the channel, Sheveleva and Pyatakov participated in the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine as part of the Right Sector Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (the organization was recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), they had the call signs Hilda and Ragnar.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has confirmed that the perpetrator of the Istanbul attack arrived in Turkey from Syria as a refugee, AFP reports. The suicide bomber's movements were not tracked because his name was not on the list of suspected terrorists, Davutoglu said. “Turkey is looking for those who are really behind the attack and who used ISIS as a contractor,” he [Davutoglu] added without further explanation.

Photo: Craig Mercer / ActionPlus / Corbis / Vida Press Comedy actor Stephen Fry told how the writer Joan Rowling avenged him for the not enough warm technique of Harry Potter. Visitors to the live performances of Fry in Australia and New Zealand, who heard this story, retold her to Reddit, from where she migrated to the Petty-Revenge-Stories blog (small revenge stories) on Tumblr.

Shot: Universal Pictures / YouTube Universal Pictures has published a new trailer for the Coen brothers comedy “Long live Caesar!” In the video, the hero of Raifa Fins, director Lawrence Lorenz tries to teach the young actor to correctly pronounce the phrase “if it were so simple” (“WOLD that it was so simple”). One and a half minutes in a row. In the final of the trailer, it is shown that the director lost in this confrontation: the actor’s phrase was replaced with "this ...

Photo: Valery Mityashov / Photobank Lori On January 13, Russian media distributed fake news about the Moscow employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was allegedly raped by prostitutes. "Medusa" tells how the events developed. The first to rape the policeman was the 360º Moscow Region TV channel, at the disposal of which was the “report” of the victim. The report states that on the night of December 12, he went to the stash for the “control purchase”.

An avalanche in the French Alps killed two people - a 14-year-old schoolboy from Lyon and a Ukrainian citizen. Three people were injured. The whereabouts of five more people have not been established - they fell under the avalanche or not, it is unknown. During the avalanche, there was a group of about 10 schoolchildren with a teacher on the slope. The deceased Ukrainian had nothing to do with this group.

Four people have been arrested in connection with the Istanbul attack, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. He did not provide other details. Earlier on January 13, it was reported about the arrest of one suspected of involvement in the terrorist attack, which killed 10 people. The explosion at Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul occurred on January 12. The explosion in the city center killed 10 German citizens. Six people who were injured remain in hospitals.

What Russian economists at the Gaidar forum showed Photo: Alexander Astafyev / TASS / Scanpix The Gaidarovsky Forum is one of the few sites on which both representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Central Bank, are gathering together, and economic experts that are not connected (at least now) with the authorities - for example, the head of the civil initiative committee Alexei Kudrin.

Vasily Sychev - about the admissibility of Russia's use of cassette ammunition Photo: Dmitry Vinogradov / RIA Novosti / Scanpix The Russian research group Conflict Intelligence Team has announced that it has evidence of the use of the Russian aerial-cosmic forces in Syria of cassette ammunition. Judging by the photographs and videos presented, the planes are really at the Khmeimim air base in Syria and carry bomb cassettes of various types.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against a user of the social network VKontakte, who published in one of the communities “a comment containing humiliating characteristics and negative emotional assessments of a number of religious groups and the social group ‘atheists’.” The case was opened under the “extremist” article on inciting hatred. The suspect is a 19-year-old resident of the town of Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region.