The American private space company SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with Iridium communications satellites. The missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 20:54 Moscow time. The launch is streaming on YouTube. Eight minutes after launch, the first stage successfully landed on the Just Read the Instructions unmanned platform in the Pacific Ocean. Falcon 9 launched ten Iridium NEXT satellite telephones into orbit.

In St. Petersburg, the police interrupted the production of "Teatr.doc", mistaking the actions of the artists for a real suicide attempt. Actress Marina Karlysheva and director Vsevolod Lisovsky were taken to the department. Maria Baronova , .

The police banned the bike ride of Ded Morozov and Snegurochka in the center of St. Petersburg. They threatened the assembled with detention if the column moved at the same time. After discussing the situation, the participants decided to drive through the streets of the city in small groups of 10-20 people, without violating the rules of the road. In total, according to the Fontanka correspondent, from 100 to 200 people gathered for the event.

The British trio recorded the first large record of 2017 On January 13, “I See You” was released - the third album of The XX, one of the most successful and influential British groups of recent years. At the request of Medusa, the music critic Lev Gankin explains what is important to The XX, what is their new album interesting and why it is worthwhile to love this music.

On January 14, opposition activists staged a popular gathering near the Chistye Prudy metro station in Moscow. The organizers planned an event in support of political prisoners, including Ildar Dadin, who complained about torture, and also demanded that an anti-crisis rally be coordinated. As noted by OVD-Info, soon after the start of the gathering, the police began to detain those who had gathered. According to the latest data, more than 30 people have been detained.

“History of one German” Hafner and “I” means “hawk” ”McDonald The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich talks about two excellent book novelties - autobiographies that talk more about readers than their authors: “History of one German” Sebastian Hafner and “I” means “hawk” Helen McDonald. Sebastian Hafner. The story of one German. SPb.: "Publishing House of Ivan Lumbach", 2016. Translation from German N.

Showtime presented the next teaser for the third season of the series Twin Pix. In a short video, Kyle Maklahlen appears as the protagonist - agent of the FBI Dale Cooper. Twin Peaks Twin Peaks | Kyle Maclachlan Returns as Fbi Special Agent Dale Cooper | Showtime Series (2017) The new teaser, like the two previous ones, ends with a frame with a “Welcome to Twin Peaks” sign.

In Beijing, the linguist Zhou Yuguang, who created the pinyin system for writing Chinese characters in Latin letters, died. Zhou Youguang died on January 14, the day after his 111th birthday. Zhou Youguang was born in 1906, he received a Western education at Shanghai St. John's University, after which he worked as a banker and economist in New York and London.

The examination found that the human bone found by the Dutch journalist Michel Speckers in Donbass belongs to one of the victims of the MH17 disaster in 2014. This was told in the prosecutor's office of the Netherlands. Investigators have already notified the relatives of the deceased about the discovery. The prosecutor's office also noted that other finds seized earlier from Speckers were not of interest to the investigation.

Thanks to journalists, Apple corrected the error affecting the work of the battery Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez / Ap / Scanpix / Leta At the end of December 2016, the authoritative American magazine Consumer Reports has released a review of the new MacBook Pro laptops. The tests showed such a different time of the computer from one battery charge that the publication did not dare to recommend to buy it - for the first time in the history of the MacBook line.

In the south of Thailand in the city of Hat Yai, a military fighter crashed during an air show. The country's Ministry of Defense told AFP that the pilot was killed. The crash occurred at a distance from spectators, so no one except the 35-year-old pilot was injured. The crashed aircraft was a Swedish-made Saab JAS 39 fourth-generation fighter.

Michael Flynn, who US President-elect Donald Trump is about to appoint as national security adviser, spoke five times on the phone with Russian Ambassador to Washington, Sergei Kislyak, on the day the new sanctions against Russia were announced. According to Reuters sources, the calls came after President Barack Obama announced the sanctions, but pending the decision of Russian leader Vladimir Putin to take no action.

On the night of January 13, several armed men tried to enter the territory of a closed chemical plant in Krasnouralsk. They fired at the guards at the enterprise, said the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, Valery Gorelykh. The employees of the private security company were not armed, as a result of the attack, three of them were injured and were taken to the hospital.

US President Barack Obama, seven days before the end of his term, published an extraordinary notice to extend sanctions against Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine. The document addressed to Congress, published on January 13 on the White House website, extends the sanctions until March 6, 2018. Without notice, the sanctions decree would have expired in March 2017. Prior to that, Obama had renewed sanctions every year a few days before they expired in March.