US President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years. According to The New York Times, Manning will be released on May 17, 2017. In total, on January 17, Obama commuted the sentence of 273 prisoners, 64 of whom were pardoned. In total, during his reign, he reduced the sentence of 1385 people, of whom more than 500 were sentenced to life.

Deutsche Bank analysts believe that the United States has a 65 percent chance of easing sanctions against Russia in the spring of 2017. It is reported by RBC with reference to the review received by the editors. In favor of easing sanctions, according to analysts, speak the statements of the future US President Donald Trump, the future Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and a number of other officials of the next US government.

The organizers of the project "Instead of Putin" by Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced the launch of an annual quest for regional politicians, according to the results of which the participants should become "serious federal politicians." This was reported by Dozhd with reference to the executive director of Open Russia, Timur Valeev.

Iraq War veteran Esteban Santiago, who killed five people at a Florida airport on January 6, said during interrogation that he acted on behalf of terrorists from the Islamic State. This was stated by an FBI agent at a bail hearing. According to CNN, the agent did not specify whether Santiago, in his own words, had ties to ISIS. On January 6, 26-year-old Esteban Santiago opened fire at a Florida airport, killing five people and injuring eight. He was arrested.

And you can follow them on Yutube Shot: Old / YouTube In mid -January, several videos were laid out on Yetube, colorfully describing the life of one of the porches of a multi -storey building in Tver. The video captures the rowdy (presumably drunk), who bursts at the door to the neighbor, as well as two women trying to destroy the observation camera. "Medusa" tells the history of the entrance, in which the residents of one apartment keep in fear of all their neighbors.

Gambian President Yaya Jammeh, who was defeated in the elections in December 2016, declared a state of emergency in the country for a period of 90 days. This was announced on state television, according to the Associated Press. In his address, the president spoke about the "unprecedented interference" of other states in the elections, the agency reports. Jammeh declared a state of emergency two days before the expected inauguration of opposition leader Adam Barrow.

In Nigeria, a military aircraft mistakenly struck a refugee camp in Borno state. The Associated Press, citing a local government official, reports more than 100 deaths. Médecins Sans Frontières staffers said they "saw 120 injured and 50 dead," reports . AFP The "International Committee of the Red Cross" announced the death of six of its employees. There is no official information on the number of dead.

Ambulance paramedic Irina Shcherbakova, who took the call of one of the drowning children from Syamozero as a joke and is accused of negligence, partially admitted her guilt. This was announced by the official representative of the RF IC Svetlana Petrenko. “Until now, the accused pleads guilty only partially, considering what happened a mistake,” said Petrenko. On January 17, the Investigative Committee announced the end of the investigation against Shcherbakova.

The only undisclosed case of the theft of the aircraft moved from the dead point Photo: FBI photobot Dan Cooper On November 24, 1971, a man who introduced himself to Dan Cooper announced the theft of the Boeing 727 aircraft. Cooper exchanged hostages for 200 thousand dollars, demanded to raise the plane into the air, and then jumped out of the parachute liner over the forests of Washington.

The second charity rock festival "Different People", which will be held on February 22 in Moscow, will be dedicated to the memory of Elizaveta Glinka (Doctor Liza), who died on December 25 in a plane crash near Sochi. According to the organizers of the festival, Boris Grebenshchikov, who will perform at the event, came up with such an initiative.

Designer Artemy Lebedev called opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a debate. “Alexey, won’t you merge?” he turned to his opponent. The challenge followed critical posts by Lebedev and Navalny against each other. Lebedev wrote that Navalny was no different from small-scale officials and would be a bad president. Navalny responded with a post about the cooperation of the Art. Lebedev Studio with the state and suspected it of corruption .

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article “inciting hatred or enmity” (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against a teacher from the Oryol region Alexander Byvshev, who was previously convicted under the same article for publishing a poem in support of Ukraine. According to Byvshev, the new case is also related to the poem. It is called “For the Independence of Ukraine” and was published on his VKontakte page in February 2015.

Photo: Gary Cameron / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Klebsiella Pneumoniae bacterium from the Berkeley Medical Center laboratory (USA) In mid-January, it became known that in the United States a 70-year-old woman (her name is not disclosed) found an infection caused by Klebsiella Pneumoniae superbacteria. The patient developed sepsis (blood poisoning), she died.

Photo: Vincent Kessler / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On January 17, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recognized the Russian law on the prohibition of the adoption of orphans by the Americans to be discriminatory. Thus, the court satisfied the lawsuit of 45 American applicants, who had to terminate the adoption of Russian children after the adoption of the document in 2012. Medusa found out what the decision of the ECHR will affect, and tells how Russian officials reacted to him.

A resident of Moscow, Svetlana Del, from whom 10 foster children were taken, sued the guardianship authorities, the social security department and the police department. This was announced by lawyer Ivan Pavlov, representing her interests. Del asks the Zelenogradsky District Court to recognize the actions of the guardianship and police authorities that seized the children as illegal. The plaintiff also asks the court to order the return of her children.