SK published fragments of a video of the interrogation of Pavel Shapovalov, who demanded from the pilots of the flight Surgut - Moscow to send the plane to Afghanistan. In the published video, Shapovalov does not explain his actions, but he admits that he “did not have to fly” to Afghanistan.

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the White House to begin enforcing restrictions on transgender military service. The new rules were not in effect due to lawsuits filed against the US government. Consideration of these claims in the lower courts will continue. The Supreme Court refused, against the government's request, to take these cases to trial. Rules introduced under President Donald Trump generally ban transgender people from serving in the US military.

The call to the police of the director of the comedy "Holiday" about the besieged Leningrad, Alexei Krasovsky, is connected, according to the director, with the search for sources of financing for the film. This was reported by the RTVI TV channel with reference to its own broadcast with the participation of Krasovsky. Krasovsky said that he “continues to be harassed” by an investigator who deals with economic crimes.

Advisor to the President of the Central African Republic Valery Zakharov, whom journalists associate with Yevgeny Prigozhin’s companies, commented to Fontanka on the Dossier Center’s investigation into the murder of Russian journalists in the CAR .

Sex trainers and RussiaGate, Moscow's penthouse family, and the unintended results of indirect mayoral elections Tuesday, January 22, 2019 This day in history (39 years ago): On January 22, 1980, nuclear physicist and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was arrested on his way to work in Moscow and exiled without trial to the closed city of Gorky (modern-day Nizhny Novgorod).

The TON blockchain payment platform based on Telegram will be launched in March, The Bell reports, citing a newsletter for the project's investors and sources. According to the publication, the test version of the platform will be shown to investors in January, and February will be spent “searching for errors and shortcomings.” The launch dates for the new blockchain platform have been postponed several times.

In St. Petersburg, a jury acquitted three defendants in a case involving an armed attack on police officers who were illegally transporting money and the murder of one of them. This was reported by the press service of the city courts. Arkady Nusimovich, who the prosecution believes was the organizer of the attack, was found guilty of illegal possession of weapons and "deserving leniency." The defendants were released from custody, and Nusimovich was ordered to sign a pledge not to leave.

The Russian LGBT Network, which announced on January 14 that it had received word of a new wave of arrests and torture in the Russian republic of Chechnya, has begun facilitating the evacuation of those affected by the current crisis. The LGBT Network noted in a press release that new information about the anti-LGBTQ persecution has emerged as some victims have been able to escape Chechnya and reach the Network’s representatives.

Oscar nominees have been announced in Los Angeles. There is no favorite, but there are 10 nominations for "Favorite" (😉) and the same number for "Roma" (it goes not to the cinema, but to Netflix); The films A Star Is Born and Power have 8 nominations each, Black Klansman has 6, and Green Book has 5. Alfonso Cuarón has been nominated as a director, producer, screenwriter and even cameraman.

In China, in six hours, the rails were replaced by the station in the city of Sian, the province of Sheanxi. More than a thousand people and about 20 units of equipment were involved in the work. The reconstruction of the station, writes Sinhua, must be completed by February 4, 2019, when the celebration of the New Year on the lunar calendar will begin.

Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Cloro Cloud, which was used in the city of Tikrite on March 10, 2015 The prison of the anti-terrorist department of Iraqi Kurdistan contains Suleiman al-Afari, a geologist from the city of Mosul, who in 2014-2016 took an active part in the development of chemical weapons for terrorists from the Islamic State. Al-Afari is sentenced to death.

Opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has asked Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee to press felony charges against the billionaire Oleg Deripaska. In a statement shared online on Tuesday, Navalny’s organization said Deripaska and several of his associates are responsible for “ordering” and “bankrolling” a prostitution case against the “sex trainers” Anastasia Vashukevich (also known as “Nastya Rybka”) and Alexander Kirillov (“Alex Leslie”).

A special button for beer, beer bellies, lots of jokes about “pull my finger” - on Twitter under the hashtag #IfDadsRanSocialMedia , they imagine what the Internet would be like under the control of a typical dad.

With negotiations between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin set to take place today, 11 protestors have reportedly been arrested outside the Japanese Embassy in Moscow. The activists, who are associated with the Left Front movement and the Russian Communist Party, were protesting in opposition to the possibility that the Kuril Islands would be transferred from Russian to Japanese control.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation has asked the Russian Investigative Committee to open a criminal case against businessman Oleg Deripaska under several articles. As follows from the statement, the FBK believes that the criminal case against Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie was initiated "on the instructions and for a fee" from Deripaska and people close to him .