The International Olympic Committee has reduced the list of Russian athletes who may be admitted to the Olympics in Pyeongchang from 500 to 389 people. This was reported by the IOC press service. It is not yet known which athletes from the preliminary list will go to the Games. This will be decided by a special commission at the IOC based on a proposal from the Russian Olympic Committee. The final list of Russian athletes admitted to the Olympics will be published no earlier than January 27.

Police have detained the former CEO of the former advertising contractor for the Moscow metro, Avto Sell, Gyulya Kogan, Life reports, citing sources in law enforcement agencies. TASS and Vedomosti also report Kogan's detention, citing sources. Kogan was detained during interrogation on January 17, a TASS source reported. She was detained as part of a criminal case on fraud, opened in the spring of 2017.

FSB officers discovered malicious programs at dozens of gas stations that made it possible to quietly underfill paid for fuel and erase all information about the “underfill.” The creator of the viruses has been arrested, Rosbalt reports, citing a source in law enforcement. Malicious programs were installed at dozens of gas stations in southern Russia, owned by the largest oil companies (Rosbalt does not say which ones).

January 19. The second attack on school for a week - with an ax and Molotov cocktail " In the morning, a 9th grade student Anton B. came to school No. 5 in a closed military town of Sosnovy Bor in Ulan-Ude. He burst into the office, where there was a lesson at the seventh grade, threw the Molotov cocktail and began to beat the teacher and children with an ax. Then the teenager hit himself several times with a knife in the chest and jumped out of the window.

Vladimir Putin won’t be taking any time away from the presidency to run for re-election, says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Russia’s Central Election Commission has ruled that election laws allow the commander in chief to remain at work during an election season, though other civil servants are not permitted to perform their official duties during political campaigns.

Lyudmila Osipova, the director of a prestigious high school in Kaliningrad, gets to keep her job , despite local prosecutors’ efforts to boot her out, following her school’s celebration of “subcultures” last October, when students came dressed as punks, goths, soccer hooligans, and more, carrying fake bottles of vodka and a severed pig’s head, among other things. Local officials didn’t like the weird event and accused her of promoting drug culture and even suicide.

Russia has suffered two school attacks in a single week. In both Perm and Ulan-Ude, upperclassmen armed with blades assaulted teachers and fellow students. It’s not yet clear what motivated these crimes, but preliminary reports indicate that the young men in both incidents were out for petty revenge (for expulsion, for a bad grade). What do Russians make of this bloody week? Many of them probably aren’t even aware of it.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How to avoid violence in schools? Alexei Ponomarev and Evgeny Berg are discussing a series of armed attacks in Russian schools and how to warn such situations with Anton Ostrovsky, who heads the Center for Mediation and Public Interaction of the Russian State Service. The podcast sounds evidence of eyewitnesses of attacks on schools in Ulan-Ude (thanks for the recording of our colleagues from the Arig Cad trolleys) and Perm.

High school students from different cities of Russia-about attacks on schools in Perm and Ulan-Ude Anastasia Yakovleva / URA.ru / TASS School No. 127 in Perm the day after two teenagers attacked fourth graders and their teachers, January 18, 2018 Within one week in two cities of Russia-in Perm and in Ulan-Ude-high schools with cold weapons attacked teachers and other schoolchildren.

The backlash from state and school officials to a homoerotic dance video by underwear-clad civil aviation cadets in Ulyanovsk has sparked a flashmob of support from students at other technical institutes across the country. Go online today, and you can find half-naked Russian young people in training for nearly every walk of life — all shaking their booties and pumping their hips to the beat of Benny Benassi's “Satisfaction.” Future pilots Here’s where it all started.

The Ministry of Culture refused to postpone the premiere of "Paddington - 2". Now the film will be released on January 20, two days after the scheduled premiere, said Sergey Ershov, head of the Volgafilm distribution company. The decision was made at a meeting with Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, which took place on January 19. The reasons for this decision are not reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to go on vacation during the elections, in which he is nominated for a fourth term. This was stated by the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “The President is not planning. By law, he is not obliged to do this, ”Peskov said, answering the question whether Putin is planning a vacation before March 18.

This will be the largest placement of tokens in history Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg / Getty Images All January, high technology publications write about the possible primary placement of tokens (ICO) messenger Pavel Durov Telegram. The placement promises to be a record in volume: Durov, according to rumors, wants to raise two billion dollars, and this spring. Officially in Telegram, rumors do not comment.

Andrey Ogorodnik / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta School No. 5 in Ulan-Ude On the morning of January 19, in one of the classes of school No. 5 in the military town of Sosnovy Bor in Ulan-Ude (the capital of Buryatia), a nine-grader with an ax and Molotov cocktail burst . He attacked the students and the teacher, and then set fire to the class. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation claims that the attacker acted alone; According to other sources, he could have assistants.

On July 17, 2017, an African turtle named Millennium disappeared from the ALLEY POND reserve in Kuins, one of the areas of New York. Spread turtles are one of the largest in the world, Millennium also does not differ in modest size, it weighs almost 45 kilograms. The 37-year-old resident of Kuins Sean Waters, a big fan of turtles, met the abductors and bought an animal from them-at least he claims so.