Best Actor Oscar winner Casey Affleck will not be announcing the Best Actress winner at the 2018 ceremony. About this, according to Deadline, he notified the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Affleck pulled out of the ceremony amid allegations of harassment against him, determined not to divert the attention that should be focused on the nominees.

Russians launch an online flashmob to push back against slut-shaming the victim of a brutal murder The first post in the #этонеповодубить (“This is no excuse for murder”) flashmob, by Minsk blogger Nu Ta Anastasisya On January 22, a university student named Artem Iskhakov murdered his ex-girlfriend, Tatyana Strakhova, and then killed himself. In a suicide letter, Iskhakov confessed to raping Strakhova’s corpse several times after strangling her.

Advisor to the Mayor of Moscow, State Duma deputy Vladimir Resin said that the projects of new microdistricts built under the renovation program involve the construction of new Orthodox churches. “Now the preparation of draft plans is being completed, where there will be housing, churches, social and cultural facilities, roads. That is, the approach is integrated - and in this integrated approach there is also a temple, ”TASS quotes him.

The conciliation commission of the State Duma and the Federation Council approved amendments to the law on hunting, which are designed to ban contact grafting - training of hunting dogs, during which they are allowed to attack tied wild animals. It is reported by RBC.

In Moscow, two men put marks in their passports about the registration of marriage between them in Denmark. They told about this on the air of Dozhd, showing their passports. According to them, this happened on January 25 in one of the multifunctional centers. They registered their marriage on January 4 in Copenhagen. “We came to the employee. She took the papers without question. Not changing in the face, not a single muscle flinched, ”said one of the men, Yevgeny Voitsekhovsky. Update.

A court fined Mikhail Listov, a resident of Arkhangelsk, 1,000 rubles for publicly displaying Nazi symbols over a photo posted on social media of Soviet soldiers standing with lowered banners of German troops at the Victory Parade in 1945. This was announced on January 24 by Navalny's headquarters in Arkhangelsk, in which Listov is a volunteer. The trial itself took place on January 19.

The Doomsday Clock, symbolizing the threat of global catastrophe, has been moved forward by 30 seconds. It now shows 23:58:00, the American journal Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports. The change in clocks in 2018 is mainly due to nuclear tests in North Korea, the confrontation between Russia and the United States, and the unpredictability of US policy under the leadership of Donald Trump, the magazine notes. It's two minutes to midnight.

Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant On January 25, Bloomberg reported that the head of the Innopractics Foundation Katerina Tikhonov, who is called the daughter of Vladimir Putin, broke up with a member of the board of the Sybur petrochemical company Kirill Shamalov. Back in April 2017, Shamalov sold a large stake in Sibura; Bloomberg believes that they could be a kind of guarantor of trust from Putin's entourage. Kirill Shamalov was born in 1982.

January 25. Divorce of Putin's daughter and Vysotsky's birthday Main The Ministry of Finance decided to resolve the procedure for the release and exchange of cryptocurrencies - now there are no laws in this area in Russia. As planned by the department, it will be possible to buy cryptocurrencies only through special “digital financial assets exchange operators”, and it will not be possible to pay bitcoins in the Russian Federation.

There is a flash mob on social networks against the condemnation of victims of violence. It is dedicated to Tatyana Strakhova, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend The first post of the flash mob #this is no way to kill was published by blogger from Minsk Nu Ta Anastasisya On January 22, student Artem Iskhakov killed his ex-girlfriend Tatyana Strakhova, with whom they rented an apartment, and then committed suicide.

The empire tried to destroy the "death star" On the evening of January 23, in the space MMORPG EVE Online , which has existed for almost 15 years, one of the largest battles in the history of the game was held - thousands of players tried to destroy the giant structure belonging to their rivals. This fight had everything to be remembered for many years: a rich background; insidious betrayal; loud announcement; Record number of participants. But nothing good came of it.

The IOC has approved the final application of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) for the Pyeongchang Olympics. 169 Russian athletes will go to the Games, Interfax reports, citing ROC First Vice President Stanislav Pozdnyakov. Together with accompanying personnel from Russia, 340 people will go to the Olympics. The ROC has published the names of the athletes who will travel to the Games.

The Ministry of Culture will check media reports that Moscow's Pioneer cinema screened the film The Death of Stalin, which had its distribution license revoked. If the information is confirmed, an administrative offense case will be initiated against the cinema, the Ministry of Culture said. The department explained that they had notified the distributor of the picture, Volgafilm LLC, in advance about the refusal of the rental certificate.

The rector of the Mining University in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Litvinenko, filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against Transparency International - Russia. The reason for the lawsuit was an investigation by Transparency called "Billionaire from the Mountain", dedicated to Litvinenko's connection with the elite residential complex "Vasilyevsky Quarter". Litvinenko demands that the information contained in the investigation be recognized as untrue.

Russian officials withdrew the distribution license for the French-British comedy “The Death of Stalin.” On January 23, two days before the film’s scheduled release, the Culture Ministry announced the move, after an advance screening for state officials and Public Council members enraged audience members and renewed criticism of Armando Iannucci's movie. In a nutshell, people think the film is an insult to Soviet history. Movieclips Trailers The Death of Stalin Trailer Yup.