General Director of the Sukhoi holding (which also includes the manufacturer of the SSJ-100 airliner) Igor Ozar will resign by the end of the week, Vedomosti writes, citing sources. The newspaper's interlocutors link the resignation with the supply of the Su-57 fighter. The delivery of the first production aircraft to the military in December 2019 was postponed until 2020 after the fighter crashed during testing in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Ivan Sekretarev / AP / Scanpix / LETA Father Vsevolod Chaplin at an opposition protest in Moscow. July 22, 2012 On January 26, Vsevolod Chaplin died in Moscow at age 51. He was among the most publicly visible and controversial members of the Russian Orthodox clergy. Initial reports indicate that Chaplin had a heart attack immediately outside the entrance to the Cathedral of St. Fyodor the Studite, where he had been archpriest since 2016.

Senator Lyudmila Bokova has been appointed Deputy Head of the Ministry of Communications, the order of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin has been published on the government website. Bokova, together with Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​is listed as the author of the bill on the isolation of the Russian segment of the Internet, which the State Duma adopted in April 2019.

The Minister of Health of the Rostov Region Tatyana Bykovskaya, accused of abuse of office, will return to work. This was reported to TASS by lawyer Pavel Lapshov. Bykovskaya has been under house arrest since November 2019, the preventive measure expires on January 27, but the court did not extend it on January 24. The minister is going to go to work on January 28, Lapshov added. He had previously specified that Bykovskaya remained a defendant.

that crashed in the Afghan province of Ghazni The plane really belongs to the United States, Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for the American contingent in Afghanistan, said on Twitter. The Taliban claim that they shot down the plane , Leggett called a lie. The cause of the crash is under investigation, he said. Leggett did not release the death toll, nor did he say who was on board the plane. Bombardier E-11A crashed in central Afghanistan on January 27th.

The fall of the RTS index, the main indicator of the Russian stock market, following the results of trading on January 27, amounted to 3.6%. According to Interfax, this was a record since August 2019, when the RTS fell by 3.5%. As a result of trading, the RTS amounted to 1541.9 points, the Moscow Exchange index fell by 1.9% to 3085.16 points. The market falls on fears due to the coronavirus spreading in China, Interfax clarifies.

Drew Angerar / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The US Senate, in which the majority belongs to the Republican Party, justified Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstructing the work of Congress - the case of impeachment of the president is closed. He will remain in power, at least until the next elections, which will take place in November 2019.

Joshua Roberts / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta John Bolton On Monday, January 27, the second week of hearings in the case of the impeachment of President Donald Trump begins in the US Senate. The republican majority tried to reduce them as much as possible, including refusing to call witnesses - thus, already on Friday Trump can be justified.

An international meme goes to Russia and Ukraine Some memes last a day. Others live on for years, forever finding new quirks and variations to keep them floating across the interwebs. The Woman Yelling at a Cat meme, derived from a frame in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , falls into the latter category. In fact, Meduza ’s readers Russian-speaking named this blond human-feline pair the best meme of 2019.

The Constitutional Court has ruled to review the sentence of Konstantin Kotov, who was convicted in the " Moscow case ." The court's ruling is published on its website.

Former Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky was excluded from the new cabinet composed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. While Medinsky’s former subordinate, Olga Lyubimova, took over his portfolio, the ex-minister became an aide to President Vladimir Putin. On January 27, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists that in Medinsky’s new position, he will be charged with curating state policy on history and the humanities.

Chinese state television reported the first coronavirus death in Beijing, Reuters reports. A 50-year-old man who traveled to Wuhan was diagnosed with the disease on January 22. In total, about 80 people fell ill in Beijing by the end of January. By January 27, 81 people had died in China due to the coronavirus outbreak, and 2,800 were infected.

His associates, an old friend and even a father -in -law colleague entered the office Dmitry Astakhov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The first meeting of the new government led by Mikhail Mishustin. Moscow, January 21, 2020 Mikhail Mishustin is the first prime minister under President Vladimir Putin, who managed to equip his government with close people. Before him, only Putin himself succeeded, and then not the first time.

Russia’s Central Election Commission has begun logistical preparations for a nationwide vote on a series of radical changes to the country’s Constitution proposed by President Vladimir Putin. The newspaper Kommersant reported that, according to multiple anonymous sources, the commission discussed a popular vote on the proposals during a closed-door meeting.

Instructions from a lawyer According to the study of the Levada Center for 2019 , 24% of the Russians surveyed came across domestic violence in the immediate environment, including in their own family. At the same time, few contact the police. According to expert estimates , about 60–70% of women faced with such a situation do not go to law enforcement agencies.