Zaur Dadaev, who was convicted for the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, is being transferred to correctional colony No. 9 in Petrozavodsk. About this, with reference to unnamed sources, writes "Capital on Onego". According to the publication, now Dadaev is being transferred from Moscow to Petrozavodsk via St. Petersburg. His lawyer Shamsutdin Tsakaev spoke about the beginning of the transfer of Dadaev in early December 2017. Where exactly he will serve his sentence is not specified.

Russia’s Central Election Commission has received candidacy applications from 64 people for the March 2018 presidential election — “more than in recent years,” according to commission member Evgeny Shevchenko. Only 21 of these candidates are running as representatives of political parties, and 13 of these people have already begun campaign fundraising.

American video blogger Logan Paul posted a video called "We found a corpse in the Japanese 'suicide forest'". In the video, which appeared on December 31, Paul shows a man who, apparently, committed suicide. The man's face was blurred. “This is not clickbait. This is the most realistic vlog I have ever posted,” said at the beginning of the video. Paul The day after the publication of the video has collected more than 6 million views.

The Constitutional Court of Moldova temporarily suspended the powers of President Igor Dodon, as he twice rejected the candidacies of ministers and deputy prime ministers proposed by the head of government. The court will now determine who will act as head of state to approve candidates: Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu or Prime Minister Pavel Filip. The decree approving the nominations is expected to be signed on January 5.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tweeted on January 1 a link to MIA's "Paper Planes" music video and a strange cipher. It looks like this: fb4e568623b5f8cf7e932e6ba7eddc0db9f42a712718f488bdc0bf880dd3 Now Twitter users are speculating what Assange's message means. Some speculate that the WikiLeaks founder's account was hacked. on December 25, 2017 This may be true, given that Assange's profile simply vanished . Many decided to look for answers in the lyrics of the song.

Update. At a meeting on January 2, the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova , announced that 64 people had submitted documents for registration as candidates for the presidential elections. The Central Election Commission received almost 60 nomination documents for candidates for the post of President of Russia. This is the first time such a number has been observed in the CEC "in recent years," said Yevgeny Shevchenko, a member of the commission.

A male eastern clawless otter living at the Wellington Zoo, New Zealand, learned how to make a fountain. The animal presses its nose against the faucet, from which water flows, and it begins to splash in all directions. And the otter seems to enjoy this activity. Otters enjoy spraying water in their habitat #Keepercam!

In the president’s annual New Year’s greeting — where he addresses the nation at the stroke of midnight — Vladimir Putin didn’t say a word about the events of 2017, noting that Russians are greeting the new year “with special warmth and the expectation of important changes” that in his view “are sure to come to our lives, if each of us always remembers their parents [...] and if we better understand our children, their aspirations, and their dreams.” SputnikVladimir Putin's New Year 2018 Message

Ruslan Galiullin, a supporter of Vyacheslav Maltsev’s banned “Artpodgotovka” movement, has fled Russia, according to the website OVD-Info . Galiullin says he’s currently somewhere in Europe. Federal agents detained him on November 4 on suspicion of extremist activity and later released him, after he promised not to leave the country. Vyacheslav Maltsev him has been living in exile since the summer of 2017.

The writer Boris Akunin (Grigol Chkhartishvili) has shared the first chapter of the last book in his series on the adventures of Erast Fandorin, posting the cover art and first 30 pages in photographs on Facebook. The last Fandorin novel, titled “I’ll Be Back,” takes place in 1918, a year after the Bolshevik Revolution. НОВОГОДНИЙ ПОДАРОК ФАНДОРИНСКИМ ЧИТАТЕЛЯМПоследний роман серии "Приключения Эраста Фандорина" выйдет только в феврале, ... Опубликовано Акунином Чхартишвили 1 января 2018 г.

AFP / Scanpix / Leta participant in protests near Tehran University; The police used tear gas there, December 30, 2017 Mass protests in Iran began on December 28 and still do not stop. The first performances took place in Mesheda - the second largest city in the country. Then mass demonstrations and clashes with the police and the forces of the Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution began in other cities, on December 30, unrest began in Tehran.

The New Yorker - about what has changed in Hollywood after the case of Harvey Weinstein Lucy Nicholson / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta a woman for protests in Los Angeles.

Hollywood actresses, agents, screenwriters and directors launched the "Time's Up" movement . Among the 300 members of the movement are actresses Ashley Judd, Natalie Portman, Emma Stone, Reese Witherspoon and Grey's Anatomy producer Shonda Rhimes. “The time for assault, sexual harassment and inequality in the workplace is over. It’s time to take action,” reads the motto of the movement.

Writer Boris Akunin published on his Facebook the first chapter from the latest novel about the adventures of Erast Fandorin called "I do not say goodbye." Akunin posted the cover and the first 30 pages of the book in the form of photographs. NEW YEAR GIFT FOR FANDORIN READERS The last novel in the series "The Adventures of Erast Fandorin" will be released only in February, ... Posted by Akunin Chkhartishvili January 1, 2018 The novel takes place in 1918, a year after the October Revolution.

Residents of the Coromandel Peninsula in northern New Zealand have built a small island offshore to circumvent a ban on drinking in public on New Year's Eve. The ban extended to beaches as well; violators could be fined or arrested. A group of people began to build an island at the mouth of the Teirua River on the afternoon of December 31st. On the "land" they installed a bench and a portable refrigerator.