Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva instructed to check the dissertations of her deputies and heads of departments for plagiarism. It is reported by RBC with reference to sources in the department. According to one of the sources, if one of the officials is found to be plagiarized, but it will not be possible to deprive him of his degree because of the statute of limitations, he will be fired from the ministry.

1972 basketball Olympic champions and their relatives weigh in on a new blockbuster film that dramatizes the Soviet Union's upset victory over the U.S.A. Vyacheslav Un Da-Sin / TASS The USSR’s Olympic basketball team in 1972 In late December 2017, the blockbuster sports drama “Going Vertical” hit Russian movie theaters.

The head of the Chechen "Memorial" Oyub Titiev, who is accused of possession of drugs on a large scale, said in court that a police officer planted the drugs in his car. This was announced by his lawyer Peter Zaikin. According to the lawyer, Titiev wrote a statement to the UK to initiate proceedings against the policeman. He does not know the name of the officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, since he did not introduce himself and did not show his ID.

Dutch journalists remembered the new ambassador of the USA antimigrant statements. He tried (unsuccessfully) to hush up the topic John Thys / AFP / Scanpix / Leta US President Donald Trump appointed a new ambassador in the Netherlands. He was a resort politician, a former congressman Pete Khukstra, a native of Netherlands Groningen, who moved to the United States in early childhood. In 2015, Khukstra said about his homeland: “The Islamist movement is already able to immerse Europe in chaos.

Shooting Star / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta At once, five women familiar with actor James Franco publicly expressed the indignation that he appeared at the Golden Globe ceremony with a symbol of struggle against sexual harassment on the Latskan of a jacket. They accused him of unacceptable behavior on the set and abroad. Unlike the story with the producer of Harvey Weinstein, there is no talk of rape or sex in exchange for the opportunity to work with Franco.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received Ecuadorian citizenship on December 12, 2017, Reuters reports, citing Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa. Earlier, the minister said Ecuador was trying to negotiate with Britain over Assange's status. The British Foreign Office said it had rejected a request from Ecuador to grant Assange diplomatic immunity . Espinosa did not explain how granting citizenship could help Assange avoid arrest by British police.

Vladimir Putin told a gathering of journalists on Thursday that the U.S. government would like to see Alexey Navalny claim a leadership position in Russia. Asked about the Central Election Commission’s rejection of Navalny’s presidential candidacy application and Washington’s reaction, Putin said, “That individual you mentioned [Navalny] — he’s not the only person whose candidacy wasn’t allowed. For some reason, they’re not talking about anyone else.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the US administration would like to see Alexei Navalny among the leaders of Russia. The President expressed this opinion at a meeting with the editors-in-chief of the Russian media. Putin was asked about the decision of the CEC, which refused to allow Navalny to the presidential elections, and about the US reaction to this decision.

The court lowered the fine imposed on pensioner Tatyana Prishanova for commenting on VKontakte about the November 5 rally. Now the amount of the fine is half the minimum possible under the Code of Administrative Offenses, writes OVD-Info. Prishanova was fined because on the eve of the action on November 5 she wrote on the page “Team Navalny. Smolensk" in "VKontakte" the phrase "Let's go to Lenin Square" and indicated the start time of the action.

January 11. VIP cameras in a pre-trial detention center and pseudoscience in the House of Scientists Main Relatives of the head of the Grozny branch of the Memorial Oyub Titiev were kicked out of the house in Chechnya. New Gazeta reported that the police brought women out into the street, locked the house and left. The authorities of the republic refute everything. Titiev himself on January 11 was an official accusation of drug storage.

During the Olympics in Pyeongchang, the uniforms designed by the Russian company Bosco for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will have its logo removed. This was announced by the head of Bosco Mikhail Kusnirovich. “We have received a letter from the IOC agreeing to our proposal to remove the Bosco branding from the uniforms we equip the IOC with. They said they understand and accept our position,” he said.

Victoria Votonovskaya / TASS In Moscow, simultaneously with the elections of the President of Russia, they decided to hold a referendum on the unification of the areas of Maryino and Lublino, found out the Mediazona. There were suggestions that this can be done to increase the appearance of the presidential election. But this is only one of many questions that the proposed referendum. Who decided to unite Maryino and Lublino?

TripPlaar Kristoffer / Sipa / Vida Press office of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington The Hong Kong company Ja Energy seems to have successfully foresaw an increase in interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain. In 2016, it was renamed so that the word “blockchain” appeared in the name, and a year later her shares increased sharply in price.

In France, at the Voivre-les-les-Mans station, which is located in the province of Sarthe, passengers noticed a cat on the railway tracks. The animal did not want to leave the tracks, and train conductor Guillaume Chueka decided to take the kitten to the park near the station. But nothing happened: the cat followed Chuek to the platform. “I took her with me and said:“ you will go with me, baby, we’ll think of something when we are at Le Mans, ”the man said.

Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta on January 11 of the Russian Ministry of Defense showed the surviving drones who were intercepted on the night of January 6 during an attack on the Russian Federation in Syria . These devices, according to the Ministry of Defense, could not be produced in artisanal conditions, their creation required special knowledge. The militants, according to the department, received technologies and engineering solutions, received from abroad.