Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How many lies are in films on real events? Alexey Ponomarev and Sasha Sulim are discussing with the basketball journalist Nikolai Tsynkevich the sensational sports blockbuster “Up”, as well as with the director and screenwriter Mikhail Radutsky (who worked in particular on the script “Legends No. 17”) about whether it is possible to make a feature film on real events without inventing anything.

Netflix streaming service at the end of 2017 added the series “Friends” to his base in the UK. And the people who watched him at the holidays found inadvertible jokes in him. “Millennials, who watched“ friends ”for the first time at Netflix, say that this is a sexist, homophobic and transofobic series. How have our values ​​have changed in 15 years?

On January 11, a severe snow storm occurred in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. A state of emergency was declared in the city. About 80 people sought medical help with bruises and injuries; The snowstorm damaged 82 cars and 131 traffic lights, and 177 accidents occurred in the city. Meduza collected photographs and videos taken during the storm.

US President Donald Trump at a closed meeting called a number of countries where immigrants come from, “smelly holes”. It was, in particular, about Haiti, Salvador and some African countries. Trump noted that it would be better for migrants from Norway in the United States. The president’s statements fell into the press ... and it began! SAUL LOEB / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Is Trump Racist? 🤔 Leading evening shows reacted to the president’s statement.

January 12. In the army without a summons Main The draftee will be in the military registration and enlistment office, even if he was not handed the summons personally. Such a bill is submitted to the State Duma . They are going to send the summons by registered letter: one of the family members will leave a signature on receiving a letter-and the agenda will be considered handed. For evasion of the call - up to two years in the colony.

(It contains the main rumors, gossip and bikes from the White House) Oliver Contreras / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta On January 20, 2018, it has been exactly a year since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.

The investigation did not petition for an extension of the arrest of 95 million rubles on the accounts of the former head of the Russian Post, Dmitry Strashnov. The funds were seized until January 13th. The press service of the Basmanny Court explained to Interfax that if "the established period of arrest has passed, then the arrest has been lifted." “This is due to the fact that the investigation no longer has grounds for seizing these funds,” the source said.

In Omsk, an explosion of household gas occurred in a multi-storey building, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies. As a result, eight people were injured, Interfax quotes the regional Ministry of Health. Among them are two adults and four children from the apartment where the explosion allegedly occurred, as well as two other men. Earlier it was reported about six victims. 20 people were evacuated, TASS reports .

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on the obligation of potential conscripts to appear at the military registration and enlistment office themselves. Update. The first version of this material was published in January 2018, before the bill was considered in the first reading. They remembered about him only four years later. On February 22, 2022, on the eve of the start of the war with Ukraine, some changes were made to it.

Mariko Yasaka / Japanese Tip At the end of December 2017, an exhibition opened in Tokyo, which collected several thousand origami from packaging of food sticks. The owner of the collection is Japanese Yuki Tatsumi. When Tatsumi worked as a waiter, he noticed that visitors were leaving a crumpled color package on the table-someone made simple origami out of it, someone-a paper accordion.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the murder in Syria of members of a "sabotage group of militants" who on December 31 fired at the Russian Khmeimim air base. The location of the militants in the province of Idlib was established by a group of special operations forces.

The Aeroflot airline intends to seek compensation from the wife of football player Andrei Arshavin through the courts for expenses related to the fact that she was taken off the flight. In particular, Aeroflot said in a statement that it is about the costs associated with "repeated procedures for ground handling of the aircraft", as well as compensation for excessive fuel consumption. The amount that the airline is going to demand from Alisa Arshavina is not specified in the message of Aeroflot.

General Motors General Motors showed what its unmanned car without a steering wheel and pedals will look like. The Cruise AV electric car, developed on the basis of the Chevrolet Bolt, may appear on the roads in 2019 if the American authorities give appropriate permission. According to General Motors plans , at least seven American states will begin to test 2500 such machines.

Russia’s Central Election Commission has formally registered a second official candidate in the country’s March presidential election. Businessman Pavel Grudinin will represent Russia’s Communist Party. January 12 was the last day presidential hopefuls could submit candidacy applications to federal election officials. Seventy individuals filed applications this year: 24 candidates from registered political parties and 46 independents.

The Russian government is planning to allocate 500 million rubles ($8.9 million) to a search for IT vulnerabilities, according to a new report by the newspaper Vedomosti about Moscow’s digital economy program. The work has been delegated to the Competence Center for Import Substitution in the Information-Computer Technologies Field, which will look for security flaws in both government and private systems.