The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones will begin airing in April 2019, actress Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark, has announced. “We will finish filming in December and air the first episode in April,” she told Metro. Other sources have not yet confirmed Williams' words. Previously , it was only announced that the season will be shown in 2019.

Businessman Yuri Milner, along with other investors, will take part in the initial token offering (ICO) of Pavel Durov's Telegram messenger. About this writes the publication Recode, citing sources. We are talking about investments in the amount of 20 million dollars. Recode notes that the ICO is expected to be attended by investors who have little experience in the cryptocurrency market, rather than experienced venture capital companies.

Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal, who had been in custody at the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh since November, was released on January 27. According to Reuters, he was released after entering into an agreement with the prosecutor's office, which is conducting a large-scale investigation into corruption. The amount of the payment that al-Waleed bin Talal could make is not called.

On January 22, the Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow sentenced Elena Misyurina, a hematologist, to two years in prison. She was found guilty of "providing unsafe services" following the death of a patient she performed a bone marrow biopsy on in 2013. The basis for the verdict was the testimony of a pathologist from another clinic, in which the patient died three days after the procedure. Misyurina pleads not guilty and insists that she performed the procedure correctly.

Interview with the head of the Karelian "Memorial" Yuri Dmitriev. He spent thirteen months in a pre -trial detention center Sergey Markelov Yuri Dmitriev House after returning from the pre -trial detention center, January 27, 2018 Update. On April 5, the court acquitted Yuri Dmitriev in the case of the manufacture of children's pornography.

Moscow police have opened administrative cases against Pavel Stotsko and Evgeny Voitsekhovsky, who registered a same-sex marriage concluded in Denmark at the MFC, for damaging passports (Article 19.16 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The article provides for a penalty in the form of a fine of one hundred to three hundred rubles.

The journalist, former State Duma deputy Boris Reznik, died. He was 77 years old. Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant For many years, Boris Lvovich headed the charity foundation for the help of seriously ill children “Nadezhda”, working on a voluntary basis. The Nadezhda Foundation was collected and aimed at developing the children's health care of the Khabarovsk Territory over 100 million rubles.

Mediazona journalists Sasha Bogino and David Frenkel were detained in St. Petersburg, according to the publication's website. They tried to get to a meeting on choosing a measure of restraint for the detained anti-fascist Igor Shishkin in the Dzerzhinsky court. Judge Vladimir Vasyukov ordered journalists not to be allowed in, explaining that Saturday is a day off.

A suicide bomber exploded in the Afghan capital Kabul on January 27. As a result, died at least 95 people and 158 were injured. Earlier it was reported about 63 dead. The explosion occurred in an area where government buildings and offices of international organizations are located; access is limited. The terrorist drove there in an ambulance. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the explosion Terror attacks regularly take place in Afghanistan, killing dozens and hundreds of people.

Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki won the Australian Open by beating Romanian Simona Halep 7:6, 3:6, 6:4. This is her first Grand Slam victory. After the match, she returned to the top spot in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings for the first time since 2012. Caroline Wozniacki is 27 years old. Until today, she has played in the finals of the Grand Slam tournament twice (it was the US Open) and lost both times.

The FBI released documents from an investigation into the death of Russian media manager Mikhail Lesin, who died in 2015 in Washington. The documents do not contain new information about the causes of death - among them is a press release published in October 2016 , according to which Lesin died in an accident.

Published by Vitaly Cherkasov on January 26, 2018 St. Petersburg activist Viktor Filinkov was arrested and accused of participating in a terrorist community. He himself says that he testified under torture The FSB is persecuting St. Petersburg anarchists and left-wing activists with the sanction of a court in one of the districts of Penza.

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In the Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya, the Veduchi ski resort opened on January 26. The opening ceremony was attended by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, the Russian Minister for the North Caucasus Lev Kuznetsov. Now the resort has a kilometer trail for beginners, an 800-meter chairlift and a service center with a rental office, writes . TASS The resort is planned to be fully completed in 2025.

During the search for the Vostok fishing vessel in the Sea of ​​Japan on January 27, two rafts without people were found. Both rafts were from Vostok, Interfax was told by the DV-flot company, which owns the ship. There were four rafts in total. The fishing vessel "Vostok", assigned to the Sakhalin port of Nevelsk, on January 25 gave a distress signal in the Sea of ​​Japan. There were 20 people on board. It was not possible to contact the crew.