American basketball player Kobe Bryant has died at the age of 41, according to Reuters, citing TMZ . The helicopter carrying Bryant and eight other people crashed in Calabasas, California, 65 kilometers northwest of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office confirmed the crash, adding that there were no survivors of the crash. Among the dead is the 13-year-old daughter of the basketball player Gianna. Kobe Bryant played 20 seasons for the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers.

Two employees of the Russian embassy in Sofia, declared persona non grata due to suspicions of espionage, left the territory of Bulgaria on Sunday, TASS reports. Suspicions against the first secretary of the consular department of the Russian embassy and an employee of the trade mission of the Russian Federation were raised by the Bulgarian prosecutor's office on January 24.

Ivan Secretarev / AP / Scanpix / Leta Father Vsevolod Chaplin at a rally of opposition in Moscow, July 22, 2012 On January 26, in Moscow, at the age of 51, Vsevolod Chaplin died - one of the brightest and most contradictory Russian priests. According to preliminary data, his heart stopped-this happened right at the entrance to the temple of St. Theodore Studit at the Nikitsky Gate, the abbot of which he has been since 2016.

The Russian team set an anti-record for the number of races in a row in which the athletes failed to win any awards. The women's mass start, which took place on January 26 at the World Cup in Pokljuka, Slovenia, became the 26th race in which the Russians could not enter the top three. The winless streak began on December 15 at the second stage of the World Cup in Austrian Hochfilzen. At the next four stages in Annecy, Oberhof, Ruhpolding and Pokljuka, the Russians were also left with nothing.

In the Polish city of Wroclaw, unknown attackers robbed the house in which the writer and Nobel laureate in literature Olga Tokarczuk lived, Radio Wroclaw reports. The robbery took place on the night of January 26 in a quiet urban area of ​​Kshiki. The writer herself was not at home at the time of the crime, she is currently abroad. The theft was reported to the police by Tokarczuk's sister, who lives in the same house.

The priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin suddenly died on January 26 at the 52nd year of life. It is reported by Interfax with reference to parishioners. He was the rector of the Moscow Church of St. Theodore Studit at the Nikitsky Gate. The press service of the temple confirmed information about the death of the priest. A preliminary cause of death is a sudden cardiac arrest. Pavel Bednyakov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta “Everything happened around 16:30.

Israeli Naama Issachar, who was sentenced by a Russian court to seven and a half years in prison in the case of hashish smuggling, sent a petition to Russian President Vladimir Putin for clemency. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Issachar's defense statement. “Today we discussed with Naama Issahar the statement of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov that a personal appeal to the president is necessary for her pardon.

At least 25 people have been detained in several locations in Chechnya for distributing a photo collage showing the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, dressed as an Orthodox clergyman. It is reported by Kavkaz.Realii, citing sources. According to the publication, detentions were carried out on January 24 in the city of Shali, the village of Germenchuk and the Kurchaloy district.

An explosion of domestic gas occurred on the afternoon of January 26 on the first floor of a five-story residential building in Makhachkala, Interfax reports. As a result of the incident, an eight-year-old boy was injured, passing by a house on Hamidov Street, the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Dagestan said. The victim was taken to the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital, his condition is assessed as mild.

American media published an entry on which Trump demands to dismiss the US ambassador in Ukraine Jonathan Ernst / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Marie Yovanovich, former US Ambassador to Ukraine, gives evidence as part of the hearing about impeachment to US President Donald Trump in the US House. Washington, November 15, 2019 On January 25, 2020, several American media, including the Associated Press, published an hour and a half video with the participation of the US president.

A mother of many children from the Perm region, suspected of killing two of her children, died in a hospital, Parma Novosti reports. This information was also confirmed to Interfax in the regional Ministry of Health. dead in Kudymkar were found On January 23 , two children born in 2014 and 2019 . Their 32-year-old mother, who tried to commit suicide, was suspected of murder. She was hospitalized in serious condition.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week (plus another 20 tracks of January!) The Medusa musical section returns after the winter break - we again tell in the ultra -brotten format about the most remarkable clips and songs of the week. In this issue: the most discussed videos from Caste and Billy Ailish, return Pet Shop Boys and Pearl Jam, as well as a very beautiful Russian-French duet. Listen to another 20 tracks with a bonus that has come out since the beginning of the year.

The Investigative Committee closed the criminal case on embezzlement against the former head of Rosnano, Leonid Melamed, and the former financial director of the company, Svyatoslav Ponurov, TASS reports, citing a law enforcement source. The interlocutor of the agency said that the case, initiated in 2009, was terminated "due to the expiration of the statute of limitations on non-rehabilitating grounds." Melamed's defense declined to comment on this information. Updated .

The new long-haul Boeing 777X aircraft has completed its first test flight. The airliner took off from Everett, Washington, and landed safely in Seattle four hours later. The flight was broadcast on the company's website. The new Boeing, which has been in development since 2013, is expected to be the largest twin-engine wide-body aircraft in the world. The airliner will be able to accommodate up to 426 passengers and will cost $442 million.

The first bass player "Kino" Alexander Titov is about the reunification of the group. In the fall, the team will play two stadium concerts Page of Alexander Titov in VKontakte At the end of December, the musicians from the Kino group published a clip in which they played a new version of the song “Trolleybus” - thirty years after the death of Viktor Tsoi. So they announced the reunification of the team. In the fall of 2020, in Moscow and St.