Still learning like Lenin, truckers protest again, and Wagner guards Maduro in Venezuela Friday, January 25, 2019 This day in history (81 years ago): On January 25, 1938, the legendary singer-songwriter, poet, and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was born in Moscow. He died in 1980 at the age of 42, due to an advanced coronary condition brought about by years of tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse, aggravated by stress.

‘Meduza’ visits a Russian school where Soviet youth lives on Danil Aikin for ‘Meduza’ Young pioneers sing and salute in Novokuznetsk’s Lyceum 35. January 24, 2019 Mass youth organizations were a childhood staple in the Soviet Union. The Little Octobrists (ages 7 – 9), the Young Pioneers (ages 9 – 14), and the Komsomol (ages 14 – 28) served an analogous purpose to the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in the United States, but in 1991, they collapsed along with the state that sponsored them.

Note to readers: Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov was not involved in the writing of this article. Once upon a time, Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov noticed that a street light not far from Vnukovo Airport had stopped working. Good Samaritan that he is, Golunov reported the outage on Moscow’s “My City” Web portal, where fellow citizens can notify local officials about problems in the area.

Russian mercenaries from the so-called Wagner PMC have gone to Venezuela to protect President Nicolas Maduro, Reuters reports, citing sources close to the organization. According to one of the sources, one group of mercenaries arrived there before the presidential elections in May 2018 (it is unclear from the publication whether they remained in the country), and another recently.

Flight delays began at U.S. airports on January 25 due to a shortage of air traffic controllers amid the government's funding freeze . The delays primarily affected LaGuardia Airport in New York and airports from which planes were supposed to fly to New York, according to an interactive map on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) website as of 19:50 Moscow time. The FAA attributed the problems to an increase in sick leave.

Aeroflot has canceled 131 flights from Moscow scheduled for January 26-27. The corresponding message was published on the company's website. Dozens of other flights from Sheremetyevo Airport have been rescheduled to take place on January 26 and 27, but usually a few hours later than scheduled. The reason for the cancellation and rescheduling of flights is snowfall, which meteorologists predict.

Transparency International - Russia placed an advertisement in the Kommersant Saint Petersburg newspaper calling on the rector of the Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko , to take back the million rubles that the court awarded him in October. In the ad, Transparency asks Litvinenko to provide bank details for transferring money. It is not explained how it happened that the organization did not have Litvinenko's details.

Adike / Shutterstock.com In 2018, the rector of Pyatigorsk State University, Alexander Gorbunov, published a scientific article in the journal Vestnik Pyatigorsk State University with this heading: “The supernatuality of the speedy superpusions to the supervio -integration (supernovation, supervision sociality) in the method of thinking, worldview - and thereby to super -state disciplinaryivity and super -seventhodologism, to supervioxovence in science and in the training of personnel.” Did you

Dmitry Chernyakov put in Paris the "Trojans" of Berlioz - the Great Opera about the war and its consequences Vincent Pontet / Opera National de Paris Almost simultaneously with the release of the Dau project, Ilya Khrzhanovsky in Paris, another premiere of the director from Russia took place. On January 25, the opera of the Bastille represent the opera “Trojans” of Hector Berlioz - perhaps the most significant French composer of the 19th century.

FSB officers gave the arrested people alcohol so that they would confirm their guilt in conversation. This was reported by Sergei Valiulin, a lawyer for the Otkrytka Human Rights Defense group, with reference to the case materials. The case of Dmitry Tretyakov involves a four-hour video recording made in the FSB office for Primorsky Krai in April 2018.

The British Youberus The Unusual Suspect glues fragments of hundreds of famous films - and turns them into no less famous songs. His last work was Remix on the “Paper Planes” of the singer MIA, in which the blogger used fragments of 210 films: “Crime Fit”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Puzzles” and many others. He recreated the famous thousand-pier-tale-pierces in the chorus with the help of sounds of slap in the face and blows of light swords.

The Prosecutor General's Office instructed the regional divisions to check the cancellations of music concerts, which happened en masse at the end of 2018. The department sent a corresponding notification to the head of the youth parliament under the State Duma, Maria Voropayeva. Demands to verify the legality of the activities of law enforcement officers who canceled concerts were sent to Dagestan, Yakutia, Tatarstan, Krasnodar Territory, Belgorod and Nizhny Novgorod Regions.

The Greek Parliament ratified an agreement with Macedonia, according to which this country will be called North Macedonia. 153 deputies voted in favor of the agreement, 146 voted against. The discussion of the deal lasted 36 hours. During the vote, MPs from the far-right Golden Dawn party yelled at other MPs that they were traitors.

This is a retelling of the words of the former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio, Nina Maslyaeva, from the online of Mediazona. Maslyaeva admitted her guilt during the investigation and testified against the other defendants. Direct quotes from Maslyaeva are given in quotation marks, and the fact check and objections of the defense are in the footnotes.

SWRI / JHUAPL / NASA NEW Horizons Sunda handed over to Earth a new photo of the transneptunal object Ultim Tule is the most clear picture received by NASA scientists at the moment. On the surface of the object, holes are visible with a diameter of several kilometers, as well as white spots, the origin of which is still unclear. It is assumed that they could form at the very beginning of the existence of the solar system.