Russian journalists Orkhan Dzhemal, Aleksandr Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko were killed in the Central African Republic for the purpose of robbery. Deputy head of the Russian Investigative Committee Igor Krasnov stated this in an interview with Kommersant.

A chain of events Alexey Nikolsky / Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation / TASS / Vida Press September 8, 2019 ↓ In a partially recognized republic, Abkhazia passed the second round of the presidential election. The current president Raul Hadjimba won , gaining 47.4% of the vote. His rival, the leader of the opposition party of Amtsahara, Alhas Quitsinia received 46.2% of the vote.

President of Abkhazia Raul Khadzhimba decided to resign. He confirmed this information to Interfax. “Yes, I left,” Khajimba said. When asked about participation in the early presidential elections in Abkhazia, he said: "Life will show." In his resignation letter, Khadzhimba said that he had decided to leave the presidency in order to maintain stability in the republic, writes . TASS The Parliament of Abkhazia will consider Khajimba's resignation on January 13.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who ran for President of the United States from the Democratic Party, did not rule out that he would spend a billion dollars on the presidential race. He stated this at a meeting with his supporters in Texas, according to The New York Times. Bloomberg said he was ready to provide a billion dollars of his own funds, even if he himself does not become a candidate from the Democratic Party.

In the Kyiv region, suspects were detained in the attempt on the life of a native of Chechnya, Adam Osmayev, and his wife Amina Okueva, as a result of which Okueva died. The regional prosecutor's office reported this. The names of those detained are not disclosed. According to investigators, they were part of a criminal group involved in contract killings and could have been involved in the assassination attempt on Osmaev and Okueva.

Judge Gramm / YouTube Activist from Tatarstan published a video about the trial of Putin, Peskov and Sechin. The last two in it was executed Karim Yamadaev is a 38-year-old opposition activist from Tatarstan, a resident of Naberezhnye Chelny. It consists in a local “ unlimited protest ”, organized a discussion club on political topics in the city and participated in protests. The police repeatedly detained Yamadaev for his activities.

Anti-government protests resumed in Iran, which began the day before after the authorities admitted that they had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane. About it writes Reuters with reference to posts in social networks. reportedly The protests were staged by students from several universities in Tehran.

An employee was fired from the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of Moscow, due to whose mistake the police and special forces came with a search to the senior assistant to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for special assignments Marina Gridneva. about this Sources told TASS and Baza . The incident happened in December 2019. According to Baza, he was linked to case a murder against former members of the FSB special forces.

First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergey Shvetsov told Rossiyskaya Gazeta the details of a new scheme for voluntary accumulation of pensions - the Guaranteed Pension Plan (GPP). It will be possible to receive a pension through the SPP 30 years after the start of savings or upon the onset of retirement age (whichever comes first).

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has scheduled repeated presidential elections after the results of the previous ones were canceled by the Supreme Court. New elections will be held on March 22, 2020, said CEC Chairman Tamaz Gogia. He added that the CEC does not agree with the decision of the Supreme Court of Abkhazia, but recognizes it and executes it. At the same time, the commission does not rule out appealing the verdict, Gogia added. Updated .

Netflix On the British television channel BBC and the Netflix online cinema-cinema, the Dracula mini-series was released-the modern adaptation of the classic text of Bram Stoker from Sherlock’s authors, Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Film critic Yegor Moskvitin tells why the series turned out to be ambiguous, but beautiful and witty.

Taekwondo player Kimia Alizade, 21, the only Iranian athlete to win a medal at the Olympics, left the country for political reasons. Alizade announced this on her Instagram. Alizadeh has described herself as "one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran". “They sent me wherever they wanted. I wore what they said. I repeated every suggestion. They exploited me when they saw fit,” wrote the athlete.

The families of Ukrainians who died in the crash of the Boeing in Iran will receive 200 thousand hryvnias (8.3 thousand dollars) from the Ukrainian government. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk. He promised that the Ukrainian authorities would also monitor the progress of payments to the families of the victims under the Montreal Convention and help obtain compensation from Iran.

The RAS Commission achieved almost 900 scientific articles. Member of the Commission Mikhail Gelfand - About the largest test of honesty in the history of Russian science Evgeny Gurko / Kommersant On January 6, the Commission on Combating the Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced the recall of 869 articles published in 263 scientific journals from the Russian scientific quoting index (RSCI) .

Washington has threatened Baghdad with deprivation of access to the Iraqi government account in the United States, which holds funds from the sale of oil. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed officials in Baghdad. This is an account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It can be blocked if the US has to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abd al-Mahdi received a warning on January 8, writes The Wall Street Journal.