Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a telegram channel , according to Erdogan's official twitter. Erdogan's account has already been verified . The first post says that the Turkish president has set up a messenger account, followed by a photo of a cat. At the time of publication of the news, almost 132 thousand people subscribed to Erdogan's telegram channel.

Update. According to updated data , the number of poisoned people in Buynaksk has grown to 71, including 61 children. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements. Several dozen children in Buynaksk were hospitalized with poisoning, according to the city administration's Instagram. “The number of poisoned children in Buynaksk has exceeded 50,” the post says.

Investigative journalists say they’ve uncovered evidence of a conflict of interest involving Yulia Okuneva, the Moscow judge due to hear the Federal Penitentiary Service’s request to imprison opposition figure Alexey Navalny for violating the terms of his parole.

In Moscow, police officers shot and killed a man who attacked them with a knife in an apartment building on Guryevskiy proezd, SK reports. According to the investigation, on January 12, the police were called by ambulance doctors who came to a call to a man who “behaved aggressively towards medical personnel and neighbors in an inadequate state.” He did not respond to the warnings of the police and, "expressing death threats to others, attacked the police," the IC said.

Russian woman who called for help on Twitter among eight people killed in Yekaterinburg apartment fire Russian Emergency Services Ministry In the early hours of January 12, eight people were killed in a fire that broke out in an apartment building in Yekaterinburg. Among the victims was a seven-year-old child and her mother, who called for help on Twitter after reportedly being unable to get through to the emergency services.

Automakers BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen (VW) sold a total of almost 600,000 electric cars in Europe in 2020, overtaking Tesla in sales. This is reported by the Financial Times (FT). Thus, according to its own data, VW alone sold 159,000 electric and hybrid cars in Europe in 2020. According to analyst Matthias Schmidt, cited by the FT, 117,000 VW cars sold in Europe were fully electric. Tesla delivered 96,000 vehicles to European customers in 2020, writes FT.

ODAY DAIBES / Apaimages / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta Palestinians and Israeli military for promotions against the construction of Jewish settlements on the western coast The Israeli human rights organization "Beacher" issued a report in which she called the situation in Israel an apartheid . Belitse was founded in 1989 by human rights activists, scientists and activists of the left -wing part. Now it is among the most influential human rights organizations in the country.

Interpol has placed two Russian citizens on the wanted list in connection with the investigation into the explosion of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut in August 2020. The case concerns the captain of the vessel on which the saltpeter was delivered, Boris Prokoshev, as well as the owner of the vessel, Igor Grechushkin. Along with them, the Portuguese Georges Moreira, who bought this saltpeter at a factory in Georgia, has been declared wanted.

Navalny is being asked for a real sentence. We'll tell you what's going on with WhatsApp. And why is the USSR long gone, but rudeness is still with us Good evening - and hurray! "Evening Medusa" returns. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, this daily newsletter gave way to the Coronavirus Evening. But since then, Covid, unfortunately, has become what is called “an integral part of our lives,” so from now on we will talk about it along with other news.

Donald Trump called the impeachment proceedings against him "the continuation of the greatest witch hunt" and said he does not want further violence in connection with the results of the presidential election, CNN reports . "Impeachment is a terrible anger. But I don't want any violence," Trump told reporters. Reuters' online text about the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol also published Trump's response to a question about whether he felt responsible for what happened.

On Tuesday, January 12, the Moscow City Court reduced the sentences of some of the defendants in the controversial “Novoe Velichie” (New Greatness) extremism case , RIA Novosti reported. Two of the three defendants serving time in prison saw their terms reduced by three months. Ruslan Kostylenkov’s sentence was reduced to six and a half years in prison, while Pyotr Karamzin’s sentence was reduced to six years and three months.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In 2020, Moscow suffered failures in the post -Soviet space. We discuss with political scientist Arkady Dubnov, as the Kremlin plans to recoup in 2021 In early January, negotiations were held in Moscow between the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilham Aliyev and Nikola Pashinyan. Also, the participant in these negotiations was Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia’s federal media watchdog and state censor, Roskomnadzor, has written up eight protocols for violations of the rules for labeling information disseminated by “foreign-agent media.” This was announced on the agency’s website on Tuesday, January 12. The protocols, drawn up under article 19.34.1 of the Russian Administrative Code, concern four different websites that failed to label content appropriately. These complaints will go to court for a decision on fines in the coming days.

The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has published a list of 100 articles in Russian that were most frequently visited in 2020.

A stray dog ​​sits at the exit of the Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai. And she sits for a reason: she shakes hands with visitors and blesses those who bow before her. Yes, yes, some people really bow to the dog! In response, the animal touches the heads of visitors with its paw, as if letting go of other people's sins. Sometimes the dog is kissed in gratitude. According to local residents, the animal goes to the temple as if to work, almost every day - and always sits in the same place.