Businessman Viktor Vekselberg was expelled from the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Radio Liberty found out. The university itself confirmed this information. They said that Vekselberg was expelled shortly after the US Treasury announced sanctions against him and his companies in April 2018.

Lawyer for producer Harvey Weinstein Benjamin Brafman does not want to defend his client during the rape trial and intends to recuse himself. This is according to NBC News sources. According to the channel, a disagreement has recently arisen between Brafman and Weinstein, the nature of which is not specified. Weinstein was formally charged with sexual offenses in May 2018. He was released on bail of one million dollars.

The Moscow City Hall has approved a protest against the transfer of the Kuril Islands to Japan. The event will take place on Suvorovskaya Square on January 20. As the coordinator of the Left Front movement Sergey Udaltsov said, initially several organizations intended to hold rallies, but in the end the action will be joint. The declared number of its participants is up to a thousand people.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine officially announced suspicion of treason in the interests of Russia and undermining the country's defense capability to former Defense Minister Dmitry Salamatin. According to the prosecution, in 2012 Salamatin contributed to the disruption of the contract between Ukrainian enterprises and Iraq for the supply and repair of military equipment. This caused $560 million worth of damage.

Race car driver Mick Schumacher, son of Michael Schumacher, will sign a contract with Ferrari. According to Motorsport, this will be officially announced in the coming days. As part of the contract, 19-year-old Mick Schumacher will become a member of Ferrari's youth racing academy and will also take part in test sessions behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car during the 2019 season. Michael Schumacher played for Ferrari from 1996 to 2006.

The RF RF machine, on which Russian journalists moved around the CAC on the day of the attack - July 31, 2018 On January 11, the New Gazeta and the Rain television channel published the results of the investigation of the death of Alexander Rastorguev, Orhan Jemal and Kirill Radchenko - Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic on July 31, 2018.

Attention! The text contains spoilers for the "Game of Thrones." If this is unacceptable to you, read about how the singer Robbie Williams mocks his neighbor - Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. This teaser is a metaphor The HBO TV channel released several promo-rollers by the last season of Game of Thrones. The first of them shows a Vesteros map - ice and flame move along it towards each other. Obviously, ice is the forces of the King of the Night, and the flame is Deineeris and its allies.

The Meshchansky District Court received a lawsuit to protect the honor, dignity and business reputation of journalist Yuri Dud and blogger and TV presenter Anastasia Ivleeva. As the court's press service told RNS, the plaintiff, a certain Bestayev A.A., is demanding that Dud and Ivleeva pay 50 million rubles each and that the information published in the interview that Ivleeva gave to Dud be refuted. The court did not specify what information was the reason for filing the lawsuit.

Police of the Netherlands Ali Motamed In December 2015, 56-year-old Ali Motamed, a native of Iran, who worked as an electrician in the ENECO energy company, was shot down in the small Dutch city of Almer. Motamed lived in a prosperous area, had a wife and a 17-year-old son. Relatives and acquaintances knew him as a friendly, but secretive person. He often missed family and corporate celebrations, including due to regular business trips.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has agreed to add the nerve agent Novichok to its list of banned substances. 41 members of the OPCW executive committee voted in favour of the decision. A joint request to add Novichok to Schedule 1 of the Chemical Weapons Convention was submitted by the United States, Great Britain and the Netherlands following the assassination attempt on the Skripals .

Judge of the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg, Yevgenia Ratnikova, rejected the claim of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central District against Mediazona and Yana Teplitskaya, a member of the city POC, regarding the news of torture in the 78th police department. This was told to Meduza by Team 29 lawyer Daryana Gryaznova, who represented the interests of Teplitskaya. The police did not appear in court to hear the complaint.

ODD andersen / AFP / Scanpix / Leta James Watson James Watson is an outstanding American biologist and geneticist, who in 1953, together with Francis, deciphered the structure of DNA. In 1962, they (together with one of the authors of the X -ray of DNA Maurice Wilkins) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

The mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz, who was attacked with a knife during a charity concert the day before, has died. Adamovich was attacked by a 27-year-old criminal previously convicted of bank robberies. He called his actions revenge against the Civic Platform party, one of whose founders was the politician - the attacker claimed that he was tortured and imprisoned, although he was innocent. Pawel Adamowicz has been the mayor of Gdansk since 1998.

Since December 22, 2018, the longest US government shutdown has been ongoing, causing employees of a number of ministries and agencies to take unpaid leave or continue working without receiving a salary. In particular, air traffic controllers did not receive their first salary on January 11. Canadian air traffic controllers decided to bail them out — and sent several hundred pizzas to the US.

Arden Arkman / AP / Scanpix / Leta police detain activists who collect signatures against gay persecution in Chechnya near the Prosecutor General’s building. Moscow, May 11, 2017 New Gazeta and LGBT network reported a new wave of gay persecution in Chechnya.