Syrian Kurds have not received an invitation to talks on a peaceful settlement in Syria, which are scheduled to begin in Geneva on January 29. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the head of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party, Salih Muslim Muhammad. According to Muhammad, representatives of other Kurdish organizations also did not receive invitations.

Apple has published a report on the first quarter of the current fiscal year (October-December 2015), according to which the growth in iPhone sales compared to last year was 0.4 percent. These are record low figures since the release of the iPhone in 2007, reports Reuters. During the first quarter of the current financial year, the company sold 74 million 779 thousand iPhones, and during the same period last year - 74 million 468 thousand iPhones.

How Russia's state-appointed attorneys help prosecutors get convictions Photo: Evgeniya Guseva / Komsomolskaya Pravda / PhotoXPress More than 70 lawyers from 19 regions of the Russian Federation have signed a petition demanding that the country's system of state-appointed defense lawyers be reviewed and reformed. Free public attorneys are available in many countries around the world, offering legal defense to people who can't afford hired representation.

A man detained on suspicion of killing a woman in the south-east of Moscow has pleaded guilty. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the official representative of the Investigative Committee. As stated in the UK, the man admitted that he shot at a woman who was reading an advertisement through a loudspeaker on the street. A cartridge case was found on the balcony in the detainee's apartment. According to Interfax, a hunting rifle was also found in the apartment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks about the situation in Palestine "encourage terrorism." Netanyahu was criticized by .

The government of Ukraine liquidated the Antonov aircraft building concern. The decision was made in connection with the transfer of all its constituent enterprises to the Ukroboronprom concern. The Cabinet of Ministers also instructed the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine to create a liquidation commission and organize the liquidation of the concern.

The registration of unmanned vehicles in Russia will be handled by the FSB. This is stated in the draft resolution of the government of the Russian Federation. Unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured in Russia or imported from abroad are subject to registration. The following information about the drone must be provided to the FSB: state of manufacture, serial number, year of manufacture, purpose of the device, maximum takeoff weight, type and number of engines and their power.

In the south-east of Moscow, a 25-year-old woman was shot dead from the window of an apartment building as she was walking down the street. According to the Investigative Committee, the murder was committed on Sovkhoznaya Street near the Lyublino metro station. Passers-by carried the woman to a nearby store, where she died from her wounds. A criminal case has been initiated under articles on murder and illegal possession of weapons.

Photo: Giuseppe Lami / Ansa / Leta In the Capitol Museums, the ministers closed the naked antique statues with white panels by the arrival of President Iran Hassan Rukhani. It looks as if they were put on the statues. Thus, the Roman museum decided to express respect to the Iranian guest. In Italy itself, the news caused a stormy discussion.

The Danish Parliament has passed a law allowing the seizure of valuables from refugees entering the country. Under the new rules, the state will take away money and other property from people applying for asylum, which cost more than 10,000 crowns (1,400 dollars). This money will go to the maintenance of refugees. Wedding rings and other similar things will not be seized.

State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin said that Russian tourists will soon be able to return to the resorts of Egypt. Naryshkin discussed this issue at a meeting with the speaker of the Egyptian parliament. The Chairman of the State Duma did not name specific terms for lifting the ban on travel to Egypt. According to Naryshkin, the aviation authorities and security services of Russia and Egypt continue to work together to develop measures that will ensure the safety of Russian tourists.

Vladimir Putin confessed yesterday at a conference of the All-Russia People's Front (a political movement Putin started in 2011) that he is personally very fond of the ideas found in communism and socialism. According to Putin, the Code of the Builder of Communism (a set of 12 codified moral rules in the USSR guiding every Communist Party member and Communist youth member) “strongly resembles the Bible.” “This is not a joke; it was actually an excerpt from the Bible,” Putin explained.

Clients of the Austrian Raiffeisenbank, who took out loans in foreign currency, staged a protest at its branch in the center of Moscow demanding refinancing of the loans.

Six ideas for reform in the Russian Orthodox Church Photo: Photoxpress In January 2016, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin (shortly before that lost an influential post in the structure of the Russian Orthodox Church) began to collect signatures under the petition for the return of the clergy. In a couple of weeks, the initiative at Change.org could not collect even a thousand signatures, but caused a lot of talk about the urgent reforms in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Shot: Charlielyne / Twitter The British director Charlie Line forced the British Council in the Classification of Films (BBFC) for ten hours to watch how the paint dries on the wall. Thus, he opposed the cinema in the cinema and the roles of the BBFC in the verdict that people can be watched and what is impossible. To “punish” censors, Line shot a film where (carefully, spoiler!) The paint dries on the wall.