A wooden bridge collapsed in Gorky Park in Moscow. According to Interfax sources, five people were injured. The city hall's website says that 13 people sought help, none of them were seriously injured. “During the launch of fireworks and New Year’s greetings, the structure of a wooden bridge collapsed,” one of Interfax’s sources said. People fell from a height of five meters.

Rescuers found the bodies of three more dead as a result of a gas explosion and the collapse of an entrance to a residential building in Magnitogorsk. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Evgeny Zinichev. “We cannot extract them, we are working carefully, because there is a risk of structures collapsing,” the minister said. Earlier, the bodies of four people were found at the site of the explosion.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations distributed a list of residents of a house in Magnitogorsk, with whom it was not possible to get in touch after a gas explosion and the collapse of one of the entrances. In particular, the list was published by the local newspaper Verstov. Info". There are 35 names on the list in total. earlier The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Evgeny Zinichev, said that from 36 to 40 people could be under the rubble of the house.

Law enforcement agencies have discovered the body of the director of two Moscow Burger King restaurants, Irina Akhmatova, who disappeared after she picked up a fellow traveler through the BlaBlaCar service. This is reported by the agency "Moscow" with reference to a source in law enforcement. Irina Akhmatova was found near Serpukhov in the Moscow region. The man accused of killing her himself told investigators where he had left the woman's body, the source said.

The US Senator from Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren announced the creation of a research committee , which should determine whether her candidacy will be put forward for the presidential presidential in 2020. In the appeals published on Yetube, 69-year-old Warren called the topics of its election campaign: economic equality, government accountability and deterrence of large corporations.

The head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, Yevgeny Zinichev, said that from 36 to 40 people could allegedly be under the rubble of a 10-story residential building in Magnitogorsk, where gas exploded, according to Interfax. The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that the search for people is complicated by the existing threat of the collapse of the building.

Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time awarded the title of Honored Journalist of the Russian Federation to 15 media representatives. The presidential decree has been published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The New Year's address from Russian President Vladimir Putin was shown in the Far East. Residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky publish footage of the appeal on YouTube and social networks. MASH New Year's address from Russian President Vladimir Putin 2019 In his address, Putin does not mention a gas explosion in a residential building in Magnitogorsk, which resulted in the collapse of a section of the building. Update.

Update. Vladimir Putin has arrived in Magnitogorsk, Interfax reports . Russian President Vladimir Putin went to Magnitogorsk, where on the morning of December 31, gas exploded in a 10-story residential building. According to the publication 74.ru, employees of the hospital in Magnitogorsk, where the victims of the explosion were taken, spoke about the president's visit to the Chelyabinsk region.

On Channel One, the day before the New Year, “Blue Urgant” was released - a rethinking of the “blue lights” format from Ivan Urgant and young Russian musicians. According to Urgant, every year the genre of "lights" is losing its position, so Channel One decided to make it "stylish, relevant, modern" so that it becomes interesting to young people. First channel Blue Urgant. Issue dated 12/30/2018 The program included songs that were popular in Russia in the 1980s and 1990s.

The criminal stole seven million rubles from the Louis Vuitton store on Bolshaya Dmitrovka in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports citing a law enforcement source. The press service of the city police said that the disappearance of the money was discovered by a store guard when he came to work at 8:10 in the morning. The door to the store was open, the guard said. A daily receipt was stolen from a safe in a store, TASS reported , citing a source.

Throughout 2018, Meduza editor Alexander Gorbachev listened to new music and selected the best new songs and videos every week. It's time to take stock: below are our 100 favorite songs released this year. It’s the favorites, and not the “important” and not the most popular ones - that’s why there are neither “Colors of Mood”, nor Little Big, nor Janelle Monae, but there are groups “Hadn dadn” and “Lemniskata petrikor”.

The Russian Ministry of Defense rejected journalists' claims that the New Year's bonuses for servicemen of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division were reduced due to the collection of donations for the construction of the department's main church in the Moscow region. “Information about the alleged reduction in additional payments to military personnel <…> is not the first fake stuffing by Ukrainian propagandists,” the ministry’s Facebook post says.

A religious figure, the great-grandson of Sheikh Batal-Khadji Belkhoroev, Ibragim Belkhoroev, died during the assassination attempt, Kavkazsky Uzel reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the night of December 31, a Hyundai Solaris car carrying two men was fired at in Nazran, reported the Investigative Committee . The department did not give their names. It is known that the 28-year-old driver was injured during the assassination attempt.

Alexey Krasovsky Update. Alexey Krasovsky postponed the premiere of the film because of the gas explosion in a residential building in Magnitogorsk. "Holiday" appeared on Yetube on January 3. On December 31, 2018, director Alexei Krasovsky posts on YouTube for general access his film “Holiday”. You can watch it absolutely free. It is offered to pay for viewing exclusively at will.