The US National Science Foundation's ground-based solar telescope has captured the most detailed images of the sun's surface in history. For the first time, objects up to 30 kilometers in size are visible on them. published by the National Solar Laboratory A film shows the movement of matter in the convective cells of the Sun. The Inouye Solar Telescope gives unprecedented close-ups of the Sun's surface, but it will ultimately measure the solar corona - and no total solar eclipse is required.

Pyotr Kovalyov / TASS / Vida Press The Russian Constitution currently does not define the role of the Constitutional Court, Russia’s highest judicial body when it comes to interpreting the foundational law of the land.

A 47-year-old man from Omsk has been sentenced to 2.5 years in a Russian prison colony on charges of justifying terrorism and publicly calling for extremist acts. He will also be barred from writing anything on the Internet for 2.5 years. The FSB’s branch for the Omsk region initially told Interfax about the sentence.

The XDA Developers community has discovered the phone call recording and transcription feature in the latest beta version of Google Phone (the pre-installed Android calling app). Google has not announced this feature. As XDA Developers found out, the Google Phone 44 beta warns the user that the consent of both parties may be required to record the conversation.

Since January 31, due to the coronavirus, Russia has limited railway communication with China by a direct Moscow-Beijing train. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova. The government will make a decision on air travel within two days, she said. In the next 24 hours, a period will be determined for which restrictions on pedestrians and cars will be extended in the Far Eastern regions bordering China. For now, the border is closed until February 2.

The European Parliament approved an agreement on the UK's exit from the EU, reports Reuters. The document was supported by 621 deputies, 49 voted against, 13 abstained. Brexit will be considered by the Council of the EU on January 30, then on January 31 the UK will formally leave the European Union. The UK will remain in the European common market and customs union until the end of 2020 while work on a new trade agreement continues.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow fined the Synergy University 150 thousand rubles for collecting fingerprints at a school in Krasnogorsk, Roskomnadzor reported. The university was fined for processing personal data in a case that did not correspond to the purpose of their collection (or was not provided for by Russian laws). The corresponding article of the Code of Administrative Offenses provides for a fine of 30-50 thousand rubles for legal entities.

Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Vida Press On January 29, the head of Chuvashia, Mikhail Ignatiev, was fired from his post by President Vladimir Putin with a strict formulation - “Loss of trust”. Usually, for this reason, the heads of the regions are fired against which criminal cases were instituted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order pardoning Israeli citizen Naama Issachar, who was convicted on drug possession and contraband charges. Issachar was in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on a layover between Delhi and Tel Aviv when a dog found 9.6 grams of hashish in her checked luggage, to which she did not have access at the time.

Adolescents are revealed in a new way, adults suffer from unresolved problems Netflix The second season of “sex education” was published on Netflix - a series about British high school students who are trying to solve problems related to sex. The continuation turned out to be less linear and simple, familiar teenage characters opened in a new way, and adults also started talking about relationships.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree pardoning Israeli citizen Naama Issachar, who was convicted of drug possession and smuggling. As Israeli media reported, in exchange for Issachar's release, Israel agreed to hand over the Alexander Compound in Jerusalem to Russia. This was not officially confirmed. Before Issachar's sentence was handed down, Russia offered Israel to exchange her for Russian citizen Alexei Burkov, suspected of credit card fraud.

Sergey Fadeichev / TASS Ivan Golunov in Moscow’s Basmanny Court. November 11, 2019 Five former Moscow police officers have been arrested in connection with the case of Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee , the officers are Denis Konovalov, Akbar Sergaliev, Roman Feofanov, Maxim Umetbayev, and Igor Lyakhovets, a list that corresponds with earlier reporting from TASS and Kommersant .

The largest airlines partially cancel or reduce flights to China due to coronavirus, writes Reuters. The demand for air tickets to the PRC is falling, because of this, for example, American Airlines canceled all flights from Los Angeles to Beijing and Shanghai until the end of March. Other carriers set restrictions for a period of two weeks to a month. As Reuters notes, the epidemic will strike a serious blow to the aircraft industry.

Jan Nedbal / Shutterstock.com Czech programmers have made an online store for two days for the sale of permits for travel on paid roads. A few days before, on January 14, the Czech Ministry of Transport reported that the work would last four years, and the contract without a public competition was concluded with the Asseco Central Europe.

Joshua Lott / CNP / Zuma Wire / Scanpix / Leta Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington, January 28, 2020 US President Donald Trump in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Beniamin Netanyahu announced the “deal of the century” by decision of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.