International human rights organization Open Doors presented an annual list of 50 countries where Christians are being persecuted. Russia was in 41st place in it, between Kenya and Malaysia. The authors of the report note that while the Russian Orthodox Church has the support of the state, small Christian groups face opposition from the authorities.

Juventus Turin won the Italian Super Cup. Juve beat AC Milan 1-0 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Cristiano Ronaldo scored the only goal of the match. For him, the trophy won was the first in Juventus. Juventus won the Italian Super Cup for the eighth time in history and came out on this indicator in first place in the country. Milan have seven Super Cup victories. Cristiano Ronaldo has won a total of 15 trophies with Real Madrid and nine with Manchester United.

The House of Commons of Great Britain did not support a vote of no confidence in the government of Theresa May. 306 deputies voted in favor of the vote of no confidence in the cabinet, 325 voted against. May herself said after the vote that she would fulfill the will of the people of Great Britain and carry out the exit from the European Union.

EU officials are considering postponing the UK's exit from the union until early 2020, writes The Times, citing sources. According to the newspaper, this option began to be considered after Germany and France made it clear that they were ready to extend negotiations with London. Under the current arrangements, the UK will formally cease to be a member of the EU on March 29, 2019. Earlier in Brussels, it was unofficially assumed that the country could receive a three-month delay.

Employees of the Russian art house “Seventh Studio” were accused in 2017 of siphoning 133 million rubles, or approximately 2 million dollars, from government funds provided for a theater project. Numerous prominent figures in the media and the arts have since argued that the case is politically motivated. The studio’s founder, Kirill Serebrennikov, as well as all but one of its employees have denied the allegations against them.

Sberbank overtook Rosneft and came out on top in the list of Russian companies with the largest capitalization. During trading on the Moscow Exchange on January 16, Sberbank shares rose by 1.7%, due to which the company's total capitalization reached 4.51 trillion rubles. Rosneft shares fell 0.8%, and its value fell to 4.48 trillion. The most valuable company in the world right now is Amazon. Its capitalization is 825 billion dollars (approximately 54.7 trillion rubles).

Entertainment Weekly has released a teaser trailer for the new (as yet untitled) Ghostbusters movie. The video shows the Ecto-1 hearse covered with a tarpaulin, on which the main characters of the previous tapes rode. In the video, you can see flashes of proton beams - they lure ghosts into traps. We Got This Covered The picture will be a continuation of the first and second films and will not take into account the restart of 2016.

Philipp Guelland / AFP / Scanpix / Leta members of Alternatives for Germany perform the country's national anthem at the congress in Stuttgart May 1, 2016 The German Federal Service for the Protection of the Constitution (SZK) began to study the “grounds for investigating” the “alternatives for Germany” (ADG).

The Russian Olympic Committee will ask the Russian Bobsleigh Federation to "immediately" comply with the IBSF's demand that Alexander Zubkov step down as president. This was announced by the head of the ROC, Stanislav Pozdnyakov. “I hope that we will be able to resolve the problem through joint efforts in a working manner, otherwise all activities of the ROC and interaction with international sports organizations may be undermined,” he said.

Mahershal Ali - about the main role in the third season of the "real detective" Robert Ha Nashiro / USA Today / Sipa USA / Vida Press The third season of the series “Real Detective” began to be released on the American HBO and in the Russian “Amediak” . Its action takes place in a small town in Arkansas in 1980, 1990 and 2015.

Cern the Proposed Layout of the Future Circular Collider The European organization for nuclear research (CERN) introduced the concept of the future ring collider (Future Circular Collider, FCC) - a new large -scale project, which is proposed to be launched after the expiration of the large Adron Collider (BAC) in Geneva. Work on the concept has gone since 2014 with the participation of 1300 scientists from 150 institutions from around the world .

ODED BALILITY / AP / Scanpix / Leta Since August 2018, the Haifa Art Museum has been undergoing an exhibition “Sacred Products”. As stated on the museum’s website, she explores the issues of religion and faith in modern society, where consumption culture dominates. Exhibits of the exhibition are referred to different religions, including Christianity. One of the sculptures is a Clown of Ronald McDonald crucified on the cross. It is called Machisus.

In November, Russian lawyer Sergey Golubok received a letter from the Pulkovskaya customs agency asking whether a book he had ordered on Amazon contained “signs of propagandizing certain views and ideologies.” The book in question was journalist and political analyst Masha Gessen’s The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia , which won the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction.

An explosion in the northern Syrian city of Manbij has killed 16 people, according to unconfirmed reports, Reuters reports . Four American servicemen were among the dead, according to a source at the agency. A spokesman for the US-led international coalition confirmed the deaths of the Americans, but did not specify their number. According to him, they were on routine patrol, NBC News reports. The explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.

Initially, #2009vs2019challenge (also known as #10yearchallenge and #2009vs2019) is a flash mob in which participants post their photos of 2009 on social networks and compare them with pictures taken in 2019. has changed during this time Here, for example, is how Maria Motuznaya . And here's what happened to Jerry the cat, who lives with Meduza editor Andrey Kozenko.