Former Deputy Minister of Education Marina Rakova, who is accused of fraud, saved the life of her cellmate in the Pechatniki pretrial detention center. This was reported by TASS, citing Moscow POC member Eva Merkacheva. According to Merkacheva, one of Rakova's cellmates attempted suicide. "When the former official saw this, she gave her cellmate first aid and called the guards, which helped prevent the tragedy," Merkacheva noted.

Aeroflot resumes flights to the capital of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, interrupted due to protests in the country. This is reported on the carrier's website. Flights to Nur-Sultan will be operated daily starting from January 10. From the same day they will open free sale of tickets. Aeroflot did not announce the resumption of flights to Almaty. Aeroflot stopped operating flights to Kazakhstan on the evening of January 5.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has excluded the Kuban organization "Civil Initiative Against Environmental Crime" from the register of NGOs - "foreign agents". The notification about this, received by activists from the department, was published by the head of the organization Dmitry Shevchenko.

Steve Marcus / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Remember the robot named Ameca with incredibly lively and plausible facial expressions? Well, which the British manufacturer of the Humanoid robots of Enginered Arts presented at the end of December 2021 - the too expressive face of the car of many then scared. Enginered Arts So: it turned out that in reality it was still more surprising (and frightening) than we thought.

The James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its primary mirror on January 8, marking the end of the telescope's deployment phase, NASA said. The telescope previously deployed its solar array, protective shield and secondary mirror. James Webb is now continuing its journey toward the L2 Lagrange point , where it is expected to arrive in late January. The James Webb telescope was launched into space on December 25.

Russian TikToker and singer Danya Milokhin reported in his Instagram stories that he was not allowed into Ukraine. "We arrived in Kyiv and we are being held captive. Swag," he said in a recording filmed at the Kyiv airport (in the video, Milokhin sits freely in a chair with a half-lowered mask on his face). An hour later, Milokhin recorded a new video: "Guys, they didn't let me in. I'm an enemy. They turned us back, ***** (damn it)," he said.

Since January 9, Israeli authorities have opened their borders to foreign citizens vaccinated with any coronavirus vaccines, including the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, The Times of Israel reports. Israel's Health Ministry has updated its entry rules for foreigners, saying the country will recognize vaccinations for foreigners who have received vaccines approved by the World Health Organization, as well as Russia's Sputnik.

"Medusa" decided to give readers all the best at once-and spoke with the owners of the Great Schlet, Kota Jazz and Siba-Ata Chims and Steve How does human life change after his pet becomes a meme? How much money does such glory bring and how do pets-memes behave in ordinary life? Medusa asked this owners of animals who have more fans than most two -legged celebrities. Vladimir Lavrov, owner of Siba-Inu Steve Saint Petersburg Archive of Vladimir Lavrov The dog appeared in me in 2016.

Update. The Kazakh Ministry of Health told Orda.kz that they did not disseminate information about those killed during the protests. This information initially appeared on a Telegram channel run by the Ministry of Information and Social Development. The ministry explained the publication as a “technical error.” During the January protests in Kazakhstan, 164 people died, most of them - 103 people - in Almaty, Sputnik Kazakhstan and RIA Novosti reported, citing the country's Health Ministry.

The New Year holidays are almost over… But winter is not here! So, you still have time to make a snowman or arrange a shootout with snowballs. However, there is a more interesting idea - to make ducks out of snow! In Japan, they were almost put on conveyor production thanks to a special snow maker (which, judging by the photo below, was intended for sand modeling). The snowcap looks exactly as you imagine - tongs in the form of a duck. Of course, yellow.

We tell the history of neon signs and we propose to acquire “foreign” - from the “Medusa” and the workshop “Rocket” Sydlow / Pictorial Parade / Archive Photos / Getty images Hong Kong 1965 The historically the main task of Neon is to sell. Even the strangest things look spectacular in his light. For example, the status of a foreign agent . We tell the story of a bright symbol of consumerism in the capitalist West and in the USSR. And a beautiful neon sign can be bought in our "Magaze" !

Kazakhstan's state television channels Qazaqstan and Khabar 24 published a video on their social networks of a detainee who allegedly flew in from Kyrgyzstan and received 90 thousand tenge (approximately 15.6 thousand rubles) for participating in the protests. According to the hero of the video, on January 1, he was contacted by "strangers" who offered to take part in the rally.

At least seven people were killed and three more went missing after in the southeast of Brazil on Lake Furnash Skala collapsed to walking boats with tourists, reports Reuters, referring to the local fire service. Part of the cliff collapsed on January 8, when tourists examined the waterfall on the lake in several walking boats. In social networks, a record was distributed, where you can see how a stone block falls on people.

The first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, himself decided to leave the post of head of the Security Council, Interfax quotes a statement by Nazarbayev's press secretary Aidos Ukibay.

The wealth of four billionaires from Kazakhstan, including the daughter and son-in-law of the first president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has decreased by a total of three billion dollars over several days of protests, according to Forbes. The wealth of billionaires declined due to the fall in the value of the shares of two large banks in the country - Kaspi Bank and Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan - by 30 and 15 percent, respectively.