The Canadian team defeated the Russian team in the finals of the World Youth Ice Hockey Championship. The game ended with a score of 4:3 in favor of Canada. Russia played in the final of the Youth Ice Hockey World Cup for the first time since 2016. In the match for third place, which took place earlier on January 5, Sweden beat Finland with a score of 3:2. The Russian national team has not won the World Youth Championship since 2011.

The Venezuelan government announced that Luis Parra, a former member of the For Justice Party, has become the new chairman of the National Assembly (parliament) of the country. According to Reuters, opposition parliamentarians were going to re-elect Juan Guaidó, who has held this post since January 2019, as head of parliament. But many legislators were unable to attend parliament due to barricades set up by security forces in the center of Caracas.

Iran has announced a complete withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iranian authorities and six mediating countries, the Associated Press reports. Iranian state television reported that Iran would no longer follow any restrictions set under the nuclear deal. The decision was made after Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was killed in Baghdad on the orders of US President Donald Trump.

Police in the French city of Metz wounded a criminal who threw a knife at a group of policemen, Reuters reports citing local officials. According to the agency, the man shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is great"). He threatened with a police knife, after which they wounded him in the thigh. According to the police, the attacker was on the list of people who were monitored because of links with terrorists. The identity of the suspect has not been released.

Iraq's parliament has voted on a resolution asking the country's government to end a 2014 deal that allowed the United States and other countries to station troops in Iraq. According to Bloomberg, all 172 members of parliament present at the meeting voted for the resolution. The document was supported by Shiite MPs, who hold the majority of seats in parliament. However, almost 160 members of parliament, mostly Kurds and Sunnis, did not come to vote.

For the first time in his career, Russian skier Alexander Bolshunov won the overall standings of the Tour de Ski multi-day race, R-Sport reports. Bolshunov took third place in the free style mass start, but this allowed him to become the winner in the overall standings. Norway's Johannes Hösflot Klebo, who had led the overall standings prior to this race, finished 21st. The Norwegian Simen Hegstad Kruger won the mass start with a time of 30 minutes 55.8 seconds.

Oncologist Andrei Pavlenko died. Before his death, he led a blog, where he talked about his struggle against cancer as a doctor and as a patient Ksenia Ivanova / "Such things" On January 5, 2020, at the age of 41, one of the most successful operating oncologists of Russia Andrei Pavlenko died. In the spring of 2018, he was diagnosed with a stomach adenocarcinoma .

Forward of the Ottawa Senators hockey club Colin White during the match with Tampa Bay Lighting in the NHL regular season scored a miracle. In the last minutes of the meeting, the 22-year-old striker threw the puck against the enemy’s head. This is how it was: SPORTSNET GOTTA See It: Colin White Head-Butts Puck Into Net for No-Goal of the Year Candidate The judge of the match refused to count this goal.

"Medusa" sums up the development of astronautics over the past decade Cosmonautics is an area where at the same time a lot depends on long-term planning and at the same time, truly unpredictable things often occur. The fact that over the decade has happened in studies of distant space and fundamental astrophysics we will talk next time, and now we will focus on rocket science and space engineering.

Update. The police detained a man who came to the House of Creativity with a weapon, RT was told in the regional police. According to Baza, during interrogation, the detainee said that he had come to the cultural center for his daughter, and he needed a gas pistol and a knife for self-defense. The police of Rostov-on-Don launched a search for a man who came to the regional House of Folk Art on January 5 with "suspicious items", reports 161.ru, citing the local police.

MARU LOMBARDO / UNSPLASH The court in California on January 2 ordered the Girls Do Porn studio from San Diego to pay about $ 12.7 million 22 to Americans, who were forced to act in porn films with deceit and threats, Vice reports . The court decision says that women should receive compensation in the amount of 297 thousand to 547 thousand dollars. Seven women will receive maximum compensation by court order.

"Medusa" sums up the results of the decade. These 10 years have shown that the history of Russia is now in many ways in the courts. Mediazone journalist Maxim Litavrin talks about 30 sign processes - they clearly see what happened in Russia. The case of Denis Evsyukov. 2010 AP / Scanpix / Leta The essence.

Update. The St. Petersburg Center "E" canceled the criminal case and brought the protesters to administrative responsibility for petty hooliganism and crossing the road in the wrong place, writes Fontanka . According to the publication, protocols were drawn up against Zenit fans, who claim that they did not shout nationalist slogans. The St.

The Russian folk choir at the Omsk Philharmonic on January 1 released its version of the song "Pay the Witcher with a minted coin" from the TV series The Witcher . The choir performed a composition with sticky words in the Russian folk style. The authors of the cover version called on TV presenter Ivan Urgant to talk about the choir in his Evening Urgant program if the video of their performance was watched more than 10,000 times.

A surgeon-oncologist from St. Petersburg Andrei Pavlenko, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer, died on January 5. This was reported by the publication "Such cases" with reference to the spouse of the doctor Anna. He was 41 years old. “Such cases” published an appeal to Andrei Pavlenko, recorded before his death.