The tournament is under threat due to the persecution of protesters in Belarus The automaker Skoda and cosmetics brand Nivea have announced they will not sponsor the upcoming Ice Hockey World Championship if its matches are held in Belarus. Later, a similar statement was made by the manufacturer of automotive oils Liqui Moly. According to the decision of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), adopted in 2017, the 2021 tournament should be hosted by two countries - Belarus and Latvia.

Stefani Reynolds / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta soldiers of the National Guard before the distribution of weapons in the Capitol in Washington. January 14, 2021 January 20 in Washington should take place in the inauguration of Joe Biden.

From January 27, Russia resumes flights with Vietnam, India, Finland and Qatar, RIA Novosti reports. Air traffic will be resumed on a reciprocal basis. Russia suspended international flights in March 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic.

15 ridiculous issues of "Yeralash", by which we will remember the main creation of Boris Grachevsky Yuri Mashkov / TASS This week, January 14, Boris Grachevsky died from the coronavirus - director, screenwriter and creator of the children's humorous film magazine "Eralash", founded in 1974. For several decades, 341 releases of the film magazine was published, the latter was published in 2019. We have chosen 15 ridiculous Eralash series, thanks to which we will remember this movie magazine.

The head of the Civil Defense and Emergency Situations Department of the Norilsk administration was detained in connection with the death of people under an avalanche, reports the Investigative Committee of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to investigators, he did not exercise "proper control over the activities of his subordinates." on January 9 due to an avalanche at the Gora Otdelnaya ski resort in the suburbs of Norilsk . died A man, a 38-year-old woman, and her 18-month-old child

Armin Laschet, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, has been elected as the new chairman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Focus reports. Laschet's rivals in the elections were Friedrich Merz, who in 2002-2004 headed the CDU faction in the Bundestag, and Norbert Rettgen, chairman of the Bundestag foreign policy committee. The latter dropped out in the first round of voting, in the second, Laschet received 521 votes against Merz's 466.

Jean-Francois Badias / Ap / Scanpix / Leta On the next Sunday, Alexei Navalny will return to Russia from Germany, where he had been treated from August 2020 from August 2020 after military poisoning from the Novice group. The politician announced that he would fly to Moscow on January 17 with a flight of Victory airline, which, on schedule, should land in Vnukovo in the evening.

The Nivea Men brand will not be a sponsor of the 2021 Ice Hockey World Championship if it takes place in Belarus. Nivea announced this on Instagram. “Nivea Men stands for respect, unity and against all forms of discrimination and violence. Looking at the situation, we have decided that Nivea Men will not sponsor the 2021 Ice Hockey World Championship if it is confirmed to take place in Belarus.

Answer the main questions about the show HBO / Everett Collection / Vida Press The creators of the series "Sex and the City" reported that in 2021 they would begin shooting a new season. On January 11, actresses Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Christin Davis laid out the continuation teaser in their social networks. In total, there will be 10 episodes that will tell you about the life of the three main characters of the series after 50 years.

The Federal Office for Justice of Germany has responded to four requests from Russia in the case of the poisoning of politician Alexei Navalny, reports Deutsche Welle. In particular, protocols of interrogation of the politician in the prosecutor's office of Berlin were handed over to Moscow. “The federal government proceeds from the fact that the government of the Russian Federation will now immediately take all necessary steps to investigate the crime against Mr. Navalny.

The WhatsApp messenger has postponed the start of the updated user agreement from February 8 to May 15, the company said. “We are rescheduling the date when users will be asked to review and accept the [new] terms,” the post reads. “During this time, users will be able to better familiarize themselves with the updates and accept them.” The company promised they would work to eliminate misinformation about privacy updates.

The reader wants to know who the killer, but the authors offer questions more interesting Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich talks about two “wrong” detectives: “Western Western” Samantha Harvey and “floodplain” by Joe Lancendeil. In the first, the main character’s changes are much more important than the disclosure of the crime that happened in the medieval English village.

Ultra -short reviews (140 characters!) On the main films of the week Every weekend at Medusa, ultra -short reviews come out - approximately 140 signs each - from the film critic of Anton Valley, which help to navigate in the box office. This week in the cinemas, the continuation of “Wonder Woman”, an erotic drama with Sergey Polunin “Ordinary Passion”, the melodrama for the teenagers “Heaven will wait” and the cartoon about the Lovecraft “Howard and the Underwater Kingdom” will be shown.

Lukashenko’s secret authorization, plus Tatiana Stanovaya forecasts Navalny’s future and Vladimir Slivyak considers free speech and national context Friday, January 15, 2021 ( Meduza ’s newsletter will return on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. Happy Martin Luther King Jr.

Russian director Kantemir Balagov (Dylda) has been appointed to direct the pilot episode of the HBO series The Last of Us, based on the PlayStation video game of the same name. This is stated in a press release from Non-Stop Production, received by Meduza. “I write with trembling hands. Dreams Come True. I am a big fan of The Last of Us and I will never forget how this game opened something new in me, showed me something that I had not seen in myself before.