The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to introduce increased fines for propaganda or illegal advertising of drugs on the Internet. The corresponding draft law is posted on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts. According to the proposal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, fines for citizens should be from five to 30 thousand rubles, for officials - from 50 to 100 thousand rubles. For legal entities, a fine of one million rubles or suspension of activities for up to 90 days is envisaged.

The website of the US Embassy in Russia has ceased to be updated due to the partial blocking of the work of the US government. “Due to the delay in the adoption of the budget, updates to this site will be limited until the resumption of the work of US government agencies in full,” the site says. A message about the suspension of updates is also posted on the websites of US diplomatic missions in other countries, in particular, in Belarus , Kazakhstan , Estonia .

Konstantin Teplyakov, who allegedly participated in the hacker collective Anonymous International (better known in Russia as “Shaltai Boltai” or “Humpty Dumpty”), has been granted parole by a St. Petersburg municipal court. Anonymous International has leaked correspondence from several Russian government officials, including Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, state television pundit Dmitry Kiselyov , and multiple officials in the office of President Vladimir Putin.

Internet access appeared even with a piece of wood The Verge MUI looks like a simple wooden block, but in fact it is a disguised display, which also works as a smart column. With it, you can turn on music, control lighting in the room and even check the weather. Everything is due to the fact that the voice assistant Google Assistant is built in MUI.

The last head of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Anatoly Lukyanov, died on January 9 in Moscow. This was reported by RBC with reference to his daughter Elena Lukyanova. Anatoly Lukyanov was 88 years old. According to his daughter, he was seriously ill before his death. Smolensk Region Governor Alexey Ostrovsky also reported Lukyanov’s death on Twitter. Anatoly Lukyanov was born in Smolensk in 1930. He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow State University.

The actor and singer-songwriter Dima Bilan has offered to create a new government agency that would determine the quality of musical works before they are released, the BBC Russian Service reported. Bilan, who placed second in the Eurovision song contest in 2006 and won in 2008 , argued for his proposal during a festival in Abu Dhabi. “What’s happening right now in Western music is chaos.

Japanese Ambassador to Russia Toyohisa Kozuki was invited to the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the statements of the Japanese leadership about the Kuril Islands. This was reported on the Foreign Ministry website.

The Moscow Deputy Prosecutor for Supervision of Law Enforcement in Air Transport demanded that the Pobeda airline's ban on the transportation of registered weapons and ammunition on board its aircraft be declared illegal. This was reported to TASS in the Shcherbinsky Court of Moscow. The court accepted the corresponding statement of claim for proceedings on January 9.

AFP / Scanpix / Leta Davor Dragichevich at the rally on December 30, 2018, Bath-Luka In the Republic of Serbian-units of Bosnia and Herzegovina -since March 2018, protests have been continuing due to the murder of 21-year-old students David Dragichevich. They began with the single pickets of his father, who accused the authorities of covering the killers, and now have become the largest political demonstrations in recent years.

Five facts about the case against a key human rights activist in Chechnya Said Tsarnaev / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Oyub Titiev led the Chechen branch of Memorial , a Russian organization that records human rights violations of the Soviet era and advocates for civil rights in the present day. On January 9, 2018, Titiev was arrested in Chechnya. Local police officers announced that they found nearly 200 grams of marijuana in his car.

Saratov has seen three months' worth of precipitation since the beginning of winter, and municipal services are unable to cope with snow removal. On January 8, the city's mayor, Mikhail Isayev, asked residents to switch from their personal cars to public transport to avoid creating traffic jams. On January 9, Isayev decided to take the bus to work himself. He traveled for more than two hours and was late for the morning briefing.

Look at the schedule In January 2019, the total number of applications for the transition from one communication operator to another with the preservation of the number exceeded 20 million. Although such a service has been available for five years, almost half of the applications have been submitted over the past year - now almost 900 thousand subscribers have been asking for a month about changing the operator.

Adalberto Roque / AFP / Scanpix / Leta US Embassy in Cuba Researchers doubt that the Americans suffered from a secret sound weapon At the end of 2016, employees of the American embassy in Cuba began to report the strange sounds that they hear while at home, and then various symptoms like headache, hearing loss and sleep problems. As a result, the US government decided to evacuate diplomats and put forward a version of the Cuban “sound weapon”.

Sander Ilvest / Postimees / Scanpix / Leta On January 7, election posters in the Estonian and Russian languages ​​appeared at the tram stop in the center of Tallinn: in one part of the platform it was written “only Estonians”, “only Russians are here”.

The owners of the Chrysler Building skyscraper in New York are planning to sell the building, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing NYC Capital Markets Group Chairman Darcy Stacombe. The skyscraper is currently 90% owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, a state fund of Abu Dhabi. The remaining 10% is owned by Tishman Speyer Properties, a company that specializes in real estate investments. Who might buy the skyscraper and for what price it might be purchased is not specified.