The founder of VKontakte and Telegram Pavel Durov criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal to ban all types of secure communications in order to fight terrorism. The IT entrepreneur outlined his arguments against this initiative in a post on the Medium blogging platform, TJ reports. According to Durov, attempts to ban communications whose content is inaccessible to law enforcement agencies and intelligence services will not help in the fight against the terrorist threat.

In the Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg, the oceanarium will be built on the site of 3.6 hectares. Construction is planned to be completed at the end of 2017. This was reported on Wednesday by the press service of the city investment committee. According to the adopted act, the Optima LLC, which is an investor of the project, is assigned to the implementation of the project in this territory for three years.

In Russia, they demanded to investigate the explosion of a bus near Volnovakha, of which Kiev accused the separatists. So far, the alleged evidence of the involvement of the Donetsk "People’s Republic" in the incident is distributed in the media, others put forward unexpected versions of what happened. Meanwhile, the incident can seriously complicate the peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Donbass.

The Franco-Russian art project, a huge mosaic of almost three hundred thousand traffic jams, which decorates the walls of the Giant Barrel art object and depicts, among other things, the French city of Bordeaux and Russian St. Petersburg, became the winner in the Ginnes Book Competition "Best Record. Fan Choice 2014", RIA Novosti reports.

The price of oil will be held at the level of $ 40 per barrel not long, but in the coming years it may dwell at around 60-70 dollars. So, according to RIA Novosti , the president of Sberbank, the former head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, believes. In his opinion, now you need to wait for the bottom. "It would be a mistake to sit and wait for the rebound of prices back ... There are a lot of people who want to predict now that there will be a rebound.

“But for some reason they made a noise right now, 22 days before the Russian premiere. And not because they managed to download the torrent - it’s no good for patriots to waste time on an art house when the “Fashionable Verdict” is on the box. They just heard the ringing, skimmed the summary of the script - and to the barricades. Expose, brand, curse.

The market for new cars in the Russian Federation in 2014 decreased by 2013 by 8% to 2.338 million pieces, TASS reports with reference to the study of the Avtostat rating agency. The market of light commercial cars, calculated the agency, decreased by 15% to 140 thousand units. Sales of new trucks decreased by 21% to 88 thousand units. Bus sales fell by 25% to 11 thousand pieces.

In the Crimea, an incomprehensible situation became clear around the Kerch crossing connecting the peninsula with mainland Russia. Since January 14, it introduced a temporary schedule for the Parromas pounding through the Kerch Strait, the United Transport Directorate (ETD) reports. The new schedule was entered in connection with the reconstruction of the pier in the port of Crimea. From 06:40 to 15:00, the movement of ferries at the crossing will not be carried out.

The tower crane on the tracked move overturned and fell to a car passing along Testovskaya Street. According to preliminary data, no one was injured. According to Interfax , the cause of the incident in the Moscow City area was icing of the arrow - during the night rain, cold metal was covered with an ice crust. During the fall, the crane touched the Subaru car. "January 14 at 08:49, a message about the crane falling on the cranberries at the caterpillar at the address of the Testovskaya st.

On the American segment of the International Space Station at 11:44 in Moscow, an emergency occurred on January 14. The Americans switched to the Russian segment, and wasolated their module. Houston (USA) and Korolev (Moscow Region) control centers have not yet been considering the urgent evacuation of astronauts and astronauts in connection with the release of ammonia on the American segment of the ISS. The available information about the causes is very contradictory.

The American Nascar racer Kurt Bush said in court that his ex -girlfriend Patricia Driscall, a hired killer who performed secret missions around the world, was reported by the R -Sport agency. Bush made this statement, speaking in a court in the case of Driscoll’s request to prohibit him to contact her. According to the racer, the girl showed him photos of bodies with gunshot wounds and he herself admitted that she was a mercenary.

The US administration has developed and recently submitted to the US Congress a cybersecurity bill aimed at strengthening the protection of American computer networks, including those used at strategically important national infrastructure facilities.

In the Irkutsk region, on Wednesday, a sentence was sentenced to the "Angarsk maniac", which was the former guard of order Mikhail Popkov. At the time of serial rape and murders, he worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an operational police officer in the Central District of Angarsk. Popkov was found guilty in 22 murders and two assassination assassinations.

In Sevastopol, the graffiti of the Russian President Vladimir Putin was restored at the end of the residential building, on which the other day suddenly “disappeared” the eyes. The local press suggests that the damage caused is the work of the attackers, but law enforcement officers rejected this version. As reported on January 12, the publication "Notes" , a portrait of Putin painted at the end of the house drew in Sevastopol.

State Duma deputies from United Russia Alexander Sidyakin and Oleg Savchenko were found in Antarctica, BBC reports with reference to the manager of the Russian tour operator "Seven pends" Olga Rumyantsev. “I want to say right away that the feedback was received. The ascent continues in the regular order. In the case of emergency, an ordinary rescue operation on American insurance with an airplane and local guides would undergo,” Rumyantseva said.