In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on the night of January 1, a city Christmas tree set up on Lenin Square burned down. According to Interfax, it was an artificial 25-meter Christmas tree. The cause of the fire was believed to be fireworks. As a result of the incident, no one was injured. Judging by the video from the scene, at that moment a festive concert was taking place on the square. The host asked the audience not to panic, not to approach the Christmas tree and asked them to “make some noise”.

In Iran, where protests have been ongoing since December 28, the Telegram messenger and the social network Instagram are blocked. The authorities explained this decision by the need to "maintain the peace and security of citizens," the Associated Press reported on state television. According to a source cited on TV, the decision was made by Iran's Supreme National Security Council and is temporary. According to unconfirmed reports , Internet access is also restricted in many Iranian cities.

Without spoilers! Jonathan Prime / Netflix The fourth season of the Black Mirror was released on the Internet channel of Netflix-the last truly interesting series of this year. The film critic Yegor Moskvitin looked at all six episodes and (without spoilers) tells that they are good in them and what is not very good. The episodes are arranged in order from the worst to the better. 6.

A suspect in the explosion at the Crossroads in St. Petersburg on December 27 was charged with committing a terrorist act (Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This is reported by the Investigative Committee.

The New Year's appeal of Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared on the Internet to citizens of the country. It was shown in Kamchatka and Chukotka (there, midnight came at 15:00 in Moscow). The president did not say anything about the events of 2017.

Alexander Demyanchuk / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Crossroads, in which a bomb exploded on December 27 On December 30, the FSB announced the detention of a person suspected of committing an explosion in the St. Petersburg Perekarty on December 27 - crimes in which 18 people were injured and the responsibility for which the Islamic State terrorist organization took upon itself.

Data on the salaries of Russian ministers in 2016, published in December, disappeared from the website of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. According to RBC, the data was deleted on December 28, the day after the publication noticed their publication. For what reason the information was deleted, RBC could not find out.

Too passionate arguments about what music to play can overshadow any New Year's Eve party. Meduza offers the perfect solution: an eight-hour, all-night playlist compiled by the editors that will make anyone dance. Introduction - songs of a more elegant nature, suitable for gathering guests and final preparations; by the end of the second hour, all shame disappears from the playlist. In principle, you can listen from any moment. Happy New Year!

And what to do if you still lost it New Year's Eve is a great reason to have fun with relatives or friends, eat olivier, launch fireworks and enjoy the fact that 2017 was finally over. But in the turmoil and fun it can be very easy to lose the phone: one of the guests can accidentally pick it up, he can fall out of his pocket or (as it happens in 99% of cases) magically teleport under the bed.

The Telegram messenger blocked the amadnews channel, which was used by protesters in Iran. This was announced by the founder of the company Pavel Durov. According to him, the channel was closed for violating the rules prohibiting incitement to violence - the channel published advice on the use of "Molotov cocktails" against the police. The “mirrors” of the channel that existed at the time of the violation were also blocked; new "mirrors", according to Durov, will not be blocked.

In Iran, during the protests, which have been going on since December 28, people have died. Two people died in the city of Dorud on the night of December 31, the Associated Press reports, citing the local Mehr news agency. About their death, without specifying the cause of the incident, said the representative of the authorities of the province of Lorestan. Reports are circulating on social media that they were shot dead by police, Reuters reports . blamed for the deaths .

Russian mixed martial artist Khabib Nurmagomedov defeated Brazilian Edson Barboza at UFC 219 in Las Vegas. The fight lasted three rounds. The judges awarded Nurmagomedov a victory with a score of 30:25, 30:25, 30:24. After the fight, Nurmagomedov said that if he was given an hour to rest, he could fight again - with UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor or interim champion Tony Ferguson. On the eve of the fight , it became known that Khabib Nurmagomedov had a son.

Fontanka published a video on which, as the publication writes, Dmitry Lukyanenko, who was detained for organizing an explosion in St. Petersburg, writes with the operatives. In the video, the man talks about the " Dair School", which he calls "a sect of psychics." “I went there, and in order for people to know, I made this bomb, put it and left two flash drives that are in this store,” the man says in the video.