Russian musician Chris Kelmi died on January 1 at the age of 63. RIA Novosti was reported about his death in the Naro-Fominsky morgue. Chris Kelmi was a participant or founder of several famous Soviet rock bands-“leap summer”, “autograph” and “rock studio”. Photoxpress The most famous song by Kelmi is “Closing Circle”, which he wrote with the poetess Margarita Pushkin and recorded with a number of popular Soviet performers of the late 1980s. Alexander Ivanov "Closing Circle"

Ilya Moskovets / TASS / Scanpix / Leta in Magnitogorsk at a multi -storey building, where on December 31 the entrance collapsed and several dozen people were killed , a memorial was arranged. People carry flowers and candles there. According to Governor Boris Dubrovsky, it is located "a few meters from the tragedy." Read the report of Eugene Berg from Magnitogorsk.

The new Senator from Utah, Republican Mitt Romney published an op-ed in The Washington Post criticizing Donald Trump. In his opinion, the president should unite the country, give it a sense of mutual respect and "show important qualities of honesty and decency" - and this is not enough for Trump.

In St. Petersburg, three people were injured as a result of the fall of a billboard on Nevsky Prospekt. The Ministry of Emergency Situations said that three people were taken to hospitals, Fontanka reports. Forecasters warned of worsening weather in early January, heavy snowfall, black ice and gusty winds came to St. Petersburg. Fontanka.ru

Rajat Gupta / EPA / Scanpix / Leta residents of New Delhi support the promotion for gender equality in Kerala, January 1, 2019 Two women-gunners entered the Indian temple. After that, the clergy arranged a rite of cleansing the temple, and protesters blocked the roads Two pilgrims of 42 and 44 years under the protection of hundreds of police officers were able to get into the temple of Sabarimal in the south of India.

Rescuers removed from the rubble in Magnitogorsk the bodies of 32 people who died during the collapse of part of a residential building on December 31. This was reported by the Ministry of Emergency Situations at 23:05 Moscow time (01:05 local time). Nine people remain missing. Rescuers also dismantled one of the walls of the entrance, which posed the greatest threat to the participants in the search operation. Update. Initially, the news reported 24 dead.

On January 2, Russia granted the US consular access to the American Paul Whelan, who was detained on suspicion of espionage. This was reported to CNN by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. 48-year-old Paul Whelan is a former American Marine, whose detention during the commission of a “spy action” before the New Year was announced by the FSB. What exactly the action was, is unknown.

In Khibiny, during an avalanche on January 2, a woman born in 1991 died, the department of the RF Investigative Committee for the Murmansk region reported. According to the agency, a group of tourists from St. Petersburg climbed the Kukisvumchorr mountain in Kirovsk on a lift and went down an unequipped slope, provoking an avalanche. The UK reports that two of the three hikers participated in the descent; a man born in 1985 was able to get out from under the snow on his own.

“Riga Balsam” is a symbolic award from Meduza, with the help of which the editors recognize the best, in their opinion, texts in Russian. The award is subjective - we focus solely on our own preferences. This year, Meduza honors a dozen and a half outstanding texts with the “Riga Balsam”, but, of course, this is not an exhaustive list.

Alexander Gorbachev sums up the results of the year when the music became the main of the arts in Russia Talib Shillaev Festival "Pain" in the recreation center "ZIL" in Moscow, June 2018 In 2018, it became finally clear that the musical heroes of the late 1990s and the early 2000s-that is, mainly Russian-speaking rockers-faded into the background. In Russian music, new, as a rule, young voices appeared - and we are not only about rappers.

The governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Boris Dubrovsky, said there was no connection between the collapse of a residential building and an explosion in a minibus in Magnitogorsk. “Don't believe these rumors. This is a series of circumstances that outwardly look [related], but in general everything is different, ”he said. The connection between the two incidents was reported with reference to sources by regional Znak.com and 74.ru.

Death and conspiracy theories in Magnitogorsk, Meduza's best investigative reports in 2018, and Moscow's new ‘American spy’ Wednesday, January 2, 2019 This day in history (114 years ago): On January 2, 1905, Russian troops surrendered to Japan, ending the Siege of Port Arthur and the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War.

Six people were killed and 16 injured in a train accident on the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark on the morning of January 2. Police said the cause of the accident was that the passenger train, which was carrying more than 130 people, "collided with an unknown object." The incident occurred in very windy weather. According to unconfirmed reports, the train may have been hit by a tarpaulin from a passing freight train, causing emergency braking.

Meduza reports from on the ground in Magnitogorsk, at the site of a deadly apartment building collapse Federal Emergency Management Agency / AFP / Scanpix / LETA In the early morning hours on December 31, a gas line exploded in a 10-story apartment complex on Karl Marx Prospect in the city of Magnitogorsk, almost completely destroying one section of the building.

The company Netflix, at the request of the Saudi Arabian authorities, closed access to one of the issues of the satirical television show " Patriotic Act with Hassan Minage" for local users. According to The New York Times, in a blocked issue, the leading “as a Muslim and as an American” calls the US authorities to reconsider relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashogji .