British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that a vote to approve the deal to leave the European Union will take place on January 14. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has already said it is "unacceptable" for the country to wait another month and has tabled a motion in parliament calling for a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. The vote on the terms of Brexit was supposed to take place on December 11, but May cancelled it a day before the deadline.

The son of former head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, Andrei, filed a lawsuit to protect his reputation against Novaya Gazeta and journalist Irek Murtazin. Andrey Yakunin's claims are related to the article "A Particularly Important Murder," in which Murtazin writes about a possible connection between the murder of investigator for particularly important cases Evgenia Shishkina and Yakunin's business interests.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the inclusion of Jehovah's Witnesses on the list of extremist organizations "complete nonsense" and promised to deal with it. According to Putin, the authorities can and “even should, at some point, be much more liberal towards representatives of various religious sects.” "Jehovah's Witnesses" are also Christians, for which they are persecuted, I also do not really understand.

Businessmen Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg and the head of VTB Andrey Kostin are going to take part in the economic forum in Davos, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin. According to Oreshkin, the presence of businessmen at the forum will require compliance with certain "technical conditions" that will be associated with meetings with representatives of American business.

Alexander Kravchenko is a special effects artist from Irkutsk. He uploads his work to Vimeo video hosting . Usually there are clips with destroyed buildings or redrawn backdrops. For example, with the help of computer graphics, Kravchenko turns ordinary (seemingly Irkutsk!) thickets into an ominous dense forest, similar to the one through which the heroes of The Lord of the Rings traveled.

The Kremlin published a complete transcript of the meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. Including its closed part, on which President Vladimir Putin objectively discussed loud political affairs with human rights defenders. This is how this dialogue leaked. Below is a retelling of replicas, direct quotes are given in quotation marks.

A court in Missouri has sentenced local resident David Berry to a year in prison for poaching. In addition, the court ordered the poacher to watch the Bambi cartoon at least once a month. The court found that in three years, Berry and his accomplices killed several hundred deer. Often the criminals took only their heads, and the carcasses were left in the forest. Bambi was released by Walt Disney in 1942. Its main character is a deer whose mother is killed by hunters.

In short, IMAX is the general name for filming, processing and display formats. With their help, the image turns out to be very bright and contrasty, and the film becomes spectacular. Hence the name - it is short for Image Maximum, that is, “maximum image”. IMAX requires special equipment: not only for recording and processing the image, but also for showing the film in a cinema.

The company CD Land, which owns the copyright to Zhduna , and the mobile operator Megafon have entered into a settlement agreement. The terms of the agreement, which was approved by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on December 17, have not yet been disclosed. CD Land had previously filed a lawsuit against Megafon, demanding 10 million rubles in compensation for what it considered to be the illegal use of Zhdun. In August, the court ordered Megafon to pay 8.6 million rubles in the lawsuit .

The creation of a new church in Ukraine showed that there is no single world Orthodoxy: carnegie.ru Evgeny Savilov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Petro Poroshenko and Metropolitan Epiphanius, December 15, 2018 The “unifying” cathedral in Kyiv, on which it was announced to create a new, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, deconstructed the administrative structure of Orthodoxy, which has existed since the mid -20th century.

The state prosecutor asked to sentence Viktor Tikhonov, a bus driver who drove into an underground passage near the Slavyansky Bulvar metro station in Moscow, to five years in a colony-settlement. The prosecutor also asked to deprive Tikhonov of his driver's license for three years. Tikhonov is accused of violating the rules of the road, negligently resulting in the death of two or more persons. He faces up to seven years in prison. The defendant pleaded not guilty.

American Jody Grace posted on Twitter a photo of a plunger with a comb glued to it - she found this unusual design in a men's bathroom. Grace invited the girls to talk about other strange things found in the men's bathrooms. The list is extensive, from live kangaroos to drum kits and toilets shaped like Han Solo's spaceship! antique statue Slightly less antique statue real kangaroo A duck taking a bath and a rooster guarding it. And they are alive too!

How the Kremlin first lost the elections in Primorye - and now he returned his governor there. Reporting Ilya Zheguleva Yuri Smityuk / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Acting Governor of Primorye Oleg Kozhemyako at the polling station. Vladivostok, December 16, 2018 On December 16, governor's elections were held in the Primorsky Territory.

Shutterstock.com The Microsoft team won the first international competition for growing cucumbers using artificial intelligence. The competition was held from August 27 to December 7. It was organized by the University of Waglingen in the Netherlands, which specializes in agriculture. Five teams participated in the competition. They consisted of students of European universities and employees of technological companies, including Intel, Microsoft and Tencent.

Thomas Peter / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Observation tower in one of the "Professional Education Centers" in the Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous District of the PRC. September 2018 The leadership of China began the program “re -education” of ethnic and religious minorities living in the country, writes The New York Times with reference to previously not published documents.