On December 27, FSB officers detained two Russians suspected of planning a terrorist attack in crowded places in St. Petersburg during the New Year holidays. According to the intelligence service, the information that contributed to the capture of the suspects was obtained from American partners. A criminal case has been initiated against the detainees under articles on preparation for a terrorist attack and participation in terrorist activities.

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Donald Trump on the evening of December 29. During the conversation, the President of the Russian Federation thanked his American counterpart for the information transmitted through the special services, which helped prevent the commission of terrorist attacks in Russia, the Kremlin press service reports. Putin and Trump agreed to continue bilateral cooperation in the fight against terrorism.

This is the second completed agreement of Putin and Zelensky Evgeny Savilov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta former Ukrainian prisoners before the transfer of the DPR and LPR in "Major". December 29, 2019 On December 29, the first exchange of prisoners and prisoners took place between Ukraine and the self -proclaimed republics of Donbass.

The personal data of more than 28,000 users of the public services portal have become publicly available, Kommersant reports. According to DeviceLock, the information can be downloaded from one of the shady forums that specialize in database leaks. Its name is not given for the safety of the victims. The leak occurred, possibly, as early as the beginning of December - due to an erroneous configuration of the software of one of the site's servers.

The artistic director of the Sovremennik Theater Galina Volchek is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow next to the graves of Mark Zakharov, Oleg Tabakov and Leonid Bronevoy. The ceremony was attended only by close artists, TASS reports. On the afternoon of December 29, a farewell ceremony was held at the theater, which was attended by hundreds of people. Galina Volchek died on the evening of December 26 in a hospital where she was hospitalized with a lung disease.

The other day, a street artist from St. Petersburg, Vladimir Abikh, showed a graffiti he made on an abandoned house in the center of Nizhny Novgorod. The inscription looks like a rebus from the "Field of Miracles" - this is a six-letter word, where only the second "I" and the last "C" are known. “If you take a walk around the area of ​​Sennaya Square in Nizhny, the answer becomes obvious. But we are no strangers to it, ”the artist commented on the work on his Instagram.

The personal data of the recipients of the highest state awards in the UK was mistakenly published on the government website. A list of celebrities honored by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of the New Year was available on gov.uk from Friday evening to Saturday. It contained the full details of 1,097 people, including their home addresses. Among them are singer Elton John, former leader of the Conservative Party Ian Duncan Smith, British cricketer Ben Stokes and many others.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Underestimated the Internet. Why the Channel One became unprofitable and who will save it The first channel over the past few years is unprofitable - the channel debts exceeded 20 billion rubles in 2018. Because of this, the work of the Ostankino television center was threatened: as Mikhail Shubin, the general director of the television center, reported in October of this year, the staff began to reduce the staff in Ostankin.

The American rapper Travis Scott published a video for the song “Gang Gang” of his new Jackboys project. The action of the video in which the participants of the Cactus Jack musical association are present are unfolding in a car dump. Other personnel were shot in an empty parking lot - you can see Tesla Cybertruck on them. Also in the video shows the ATV Cyberquad and the flamethrower from The Boring Company Ilona Mask.

Interview of the Dutch historian of Russian art Sheng Scheien - about Tatlin, Malevich and the Bolsheviks Photoxpress The Dutch historian, specialist in Russian art, Scheng Schemeen presented in Russia his new book “Avangardists. Russian revolution in art. 1917–1935 ". In an interview with Medusa, he told what discoveries he managed to make in the process of work, how Tatlin created Fake News and for which the avant -garde players hated the Bolsheviks, and the Bolsheviks - avant -garde players.

Nazanin Tabatabae / Wana / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Protesters block the road in Tehran. November 16, 2019 This week, Reuters reported that, according to the classified reports of the authorities, about 1,500 people, including law enforcement officials, could die in Iran in November. This is a huge figure on any scale, but even called earlier-342 dead-suggests that in Iran the largest bloodshed occurred from the moment the Islamic regime was established in the late 1970s.

"Bad Guy", "Evil", "Coemor" and another 97 tracks TIM MOSENFELDER / GETTY IMAGES As usual, the whole of 2019 we listened carefully to the music and watched clips, weekly selecting the most remarkable news for expensive readers. And here is the result - a playlist of the hundreds of the main tracks of the outgoing year according to the editorial office of Medusa. From annoying pop and rap huts to non-obvious guitar and electronic tracks, which we will remember 2019.

New Year's Eve bingo "Medusa" By the end of the year, I want to say about many things “burn it with a blue flame.” We invite you to publicly say goodbye to the things you got. Choose what you want to leave behind and tell everyone about it.

Updated . As part of the exchange, Donetsk handed over 51 people to Kyiv and took away 61 of its supporters. In turn, Lugansk handed over 25 people to Kyiv, taking 63 supporters. The authorities of Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics held the first prisoner exchange in two years. It took place on December 29 at a checkpoint near Gorlovka, TASS reports. An agreement on the exchange of prisoners was reached at the Normandy Four summit in Paris on 9 December.

US astronaut Christina Koch has broken the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. On December 28, Koch spent her 289th day on the International Space Station, where she arrived on her next mission on March 14, 2019. Thus, she already improved by a day the previous record of continuous stay on the ISS for women, which belonged to her compatriot Peggy Whitson. “It's great for science.