Semi-finals of the Youth Ice Hockey World Championship. How it was On the evening of January 4, the Russian youth hockey team met in the semifinal match of the World Championship in Toronto with the US team. The Russians have already played with the Americans in the group stage and lost with a score of 2:3. Meduza broadcast the meeting online, which ended with the victory of the Americans in shootouts with a score of 4:3. January 5, 2017 00:50:32 Damn bullies.

The leader of the French nationalist party "National Front" Marine Le Pen said that the countries included in the eurozone should abandon the single currency - the euro. According to Le Pen, the EU should return to the "common currency" that they used before the introduction of the euro. We are talking about the ecu - a synthetic currency used for non-cash payments between members of the eurozone.

In the New York district, Brooklyn got off the rails passenger train of Long Island Rail Road (Lirr). As a result of the incident, which occurred in the morning “hour of peak” at the Atlantic Terminal station, 76 people were injured, according to the latest data. The Governor of the state of New York Andrew Kuomo said that the injuries received by most affected in the accident do not threaten life.

Turkish law enforcement agencies detain about 40 people as part of the investigation into the terrorist attack in Istanbul The detentions, according to the Dogan agency, took place in different parts of the province of Izmir. Among those detained are about 20 minors, mostly people from Dagestan, as well as citizens of Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. The detainees are suspected of being linked to the Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the attack in Istanbul.

A resident of the capital of Turkey tried to destroy a snowman that she did not like, installed on one of the streets, but she herself suffered. CNN Turk's security camera footage shows a woman trying to knock down a snowman in a number of ways, including by kicking her. When, after several attempts, she manages to knock the snowman to the ground, she decides to jump on it, but slips and falls on her back.

The monthly magazine The Banker, dedicated to international finance, named the head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina the best head of the Central Bank in Europe. The editorial, among other things, notes the contribution of the head of the Bank of Russia in the fight against inflation, which at the beginning of 2016 was 12.9 percent, and by the end of the year fell below 6 percent.

Journalists of the two Bryansk publications arranged a public skirmish due to a meme based on the picture of Ilya Repin "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581." On January 3, “Bryansk Today” published a picture that beat the New Year's dialogue between the formidable and his son. The next day, the publication “Bryansk News” wrote about this publication.

A military tribunal found IDF soldier Elor Azaria guilty of killing a Palestinian who attacked his colleagues with a knife. The court considered that Azaria had exceeded the limits of self-defense by shooting dead Palestinian Abdul Fatah Sharif, who by that time had been wounded and was lying on the ground without a weapon.

The Wikileaks project has promised to pay $20,000 for information about attempts by members of the administration of US President Barack Obama to destroy any of the documents stored in the White House. The reward, according to a tweet posted by the project, will be paid for information that sheds light on attempts to destroy documents or prosecute someone in the Obama administration for such actions.

Update : By 5:15 pm Moscow time, all those detained for single-person pickets in support of Dadin were released . They drew up protocols on violation of the procedure for holding public events (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The Moscow police detained six participants in single-person pickets in support of Ildar Dadin.

The Mi-35M helicopter of the Iraqi Air Force crashed near the city of Mosul. Four people were on board the helicopter, all of them died. Representatives of the Iraqi command confirmed the loss of the helicopter and the death of the crew, saying that the cause of the crash, according to preliminary data, was a technical malfunction. The helicopter, according to the command statement, crashed during a regular mission south of Mosul.

"Medusa" tells how to cook panfate, truffle, gingerbread cookies and a fund Marina Pavlikovskaya for "Medusa" On the eve of 2016, the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich at the request of Medusa was a menu for the New Year's table based on recipes from old culinary books. This time we asked our critic (and cook) to tell what sweets should be prepared for Christmas and which of them can be used as gifts. In our list - panfort, chocolate truffle, cookies, cottage cheese stollen and chocolate funds.

Faraaday Future introduced, within the framework of the International Exhibition of Consumer Electronics (CES) in Las Vegas, a self-governing electric car FF 91. The car, whose serial production Faraday Future plans to start in 2018 is considered one of the main competitors of Tesla. During the presentation, reports The Verge, a technical failure occurred. FF 91 was unable to demonstrate the possibilities of automatic parking without the participation of the driver the first time.

Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson will cut all ties with the company if he takes over as US Secretary of State. This, according to Bloomberg, is stated in a joint statement released by ExxonMobil and Tillerson. If appointed head of the US Foreign Department, Tillerson, among other things, will sell about 600,000 ExxonMobil shares belonging to him. The value of this block of shares, according to Bloomberg estimates, is more than $55 million.

Law enforcement agencies managed to identify the terrorist who attacked the Reina club in Istanbul. This was announced on television by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Cavusoglu has yet to release the name of the suspect or other details, citing an ongoing investigation. On the night of January 1, in the Reina club in Istanbul, a criminal armed with a machine gun opened fire on visitors, killing 39 people, including Russian citizen Nurana Gasanova.