US President Donald Trump's top adviser Stephen Bannon said the US mainstream media "must keep quiet" because it failed to predict the outcome of the presidential election and supported Trump's rival Hillary Clinton during the campaign. “The media should feel shame and humiliation, shut up and just listen,” he told The New York Times. According to Bannon, the media "doesn't understand the country" and "still doesn't understand why Donald Trump is president." “You are an opposition party.

Former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Denis Voronenkov testified to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine in a treason case against former President Viktor Yanukovych. It is reported by "Kommersant". According to a newspaper source close to the department, Voronenkov "himself took the initiative, contacted the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko and testified in the Yanukovych case." When exactly this happened is not specified.

Scientists from the Salk Institute in California have created pig embryos with human cells. They published the results of their work in the scientific journal Cell. According to The Guardian, this is the first case of the creation of chimeras (organisms with genetically heterogeneous cells) of two large and genetically distant species. Of the 2075 embryos, 186 developed to 28 days before they were removed. According to scientists, the human cells in these embryos functioned, reports the BBC.

In Moscow, the police detained a taxi driver who forced a woman with a small child out of the car. A criminal case was initiated against him under the article “Beatings” (Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The incident took place on January 26 on Vorontsovskaya Street. According to police, a conflict arose between the driver and the woman due to the fact that the child soiled the seat in the car.

In Simferopol, the court arrested for ten days the lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, who represents the interests of several Crimean Tatar activists, including Ilmi Umerov, a member of the banned Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people accused of extremism. Kurbedinov was found guilty of publicly displaying the symbols of a banned organization (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has canceled a January 31 meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington. “This morning we informed the White House that I will be absent from the working meeting with the President of the United States scheduled for next Tuesday,” . the President of Mexico tweeted Hours earlier, Trump had tweeted that the meeting should be canceled if Mexico was "unwilling to pay for a much-needed wall" at the border.

The Swedish athlete Daniel Bodin was able to make a double somersault back - riding a snowmobile. And he is the first in the world who succeeded! Red Bull Daniel Bodin Lands Huge Double Backflip on a Snowmobile! “I did it! I can't believe it! It is impossible to explain - no one in the world can understand this feeling. I cherished the dream of performing this trick for more than two years, ”Bodin said .

Marvel studio announced a new game based on comics about the Avengers. Its development will be engaged in two studios of Square Enix: Crystal Dynamics (released Rise of the Tomb Raider) and Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex: Mankind Divated). In the short Tiser of the project, shots from the game are not shown - only a short story about the gloomy future after the reunification of the Avengers.

During a lecture at the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, German Klimenko, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on the development of the Internet, said that the only way to ensure the information security of the Russian Federation is the “Chinese version” of restricting the Internet. “The only way is the Chinese version. <...> China is less scrupulous about the opinion of society, they assessed the threat and limited the Internet, ”Interfax quotes him.

How to increase the uniqueness of the thesis? There are very tricky ways Photo: Elena Palm / Interpress / Photoxpress Teachers of two Russian universities talked about cunning attempts to deceive the Anti -Plagiat system, on which they caught students. “Antiplagiat” compares the texts of work (in particular, scientific) with sources available on the Internet - and reports how many percent of the text the author borrowed, and how much he wrote. Associate Professor of the Omsk State University.

The hands of the Doomsday Clock, indicating the threat of a global catastrophe, have been moved forward 30 seconds. Now they show 23:57:30. The Doomsday Clock is a project of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Their decision to move the arrows was influenced by US President Donald Trump's statements about nuclear weapons and climate change, as well as the growth of nationalist sentiment in the world. Trump said before taking office that the United States should strengthen its nuclear arsenal.

"Medusa" followed the discussion on the "rain" live In mid -January, two almost the most active Russian bloggers - Artemy Lebedev and Alexey Navalny publicly quarreled. The latter suspected Lebedev in corruption due to cooperation with the state in state contracts; The designer, in turn, said that Navalny is no different from "small -wide officials." The parties agreed to hold the debate on the Rain TV channel. Medusa watched and commented on them live.

Former teachers of the "League of Schools" published the text of the "appeal to the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation" with a request to protect the honor and dignity of the school administration. The appeal was drawn up in connection with the publication of an investigation by Meduza about sexual harassment of female students by the school principal and his deputy. The text was published on the Ekho Moskvy website.

Psychologists and teachers answer Photo: Semyon Katz for "Medusa" On January 23, Medusa published an investigation about the League of Schools - a small Moscow school, where children have been subjected to sexual harassment for many years: graduates and former employees of the educational institution told about this. Similar events took place in the capital's 57th school, this became known in 2016.

As part of a criminal case against the head of one of the departments of the information security center (CIB) of the FSB, Sergei Mikhailov, accused of treason, two more people were arrested, including one CIB officer. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to its own sources. According to RNS (the publication also refers to an unnamed source), we are talking about Dmitry Dokuchaev, who worked as a senior security officer of the CIB.