“In a month, the first primaries will be held in the United States, in key states - Iowa and New Hampshire. To understand what happened in the presidential race in 2015 and which and why of the candidates from both parties has a chance of being nominated, you need to know that: 1. The ratio of candidates from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party is currently 3 to 13.

The second part of the scandalous investigation of the independent commission of the World Doping Agency (WADA) will talk about the systematic use of prohibited drugs, as well as corruption and bribery among the highest athletics officials, Reuters reports.

Barcelona terminated the contract with the youth football player Serkha Guardiola a few hours after signing due to the player on social networks. On Monday, 19-year-old Guardiola signed a contract with Barcelona and was supposed to play for the youth team. A few hours later, the club terminated the agreement due to the posts of the player on Twitter, written in 2013.

A collective complaint was filed in the Moscow City Court on behalf of the seven thousand users of the Rutracker.org file exchanger with a request to cancel the decision on the “eternal blocking” of access to the resource, according to the website of the RoskoySvobod public organization.

The Belgian police detained two suspects in the preparation of terrorist attacks in Brussels on New Year's Eve. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the message of the Belgian prosecutor's office. The detentions occurred during police raids in Brussels and Liege. In total, six people were detained. Four of them were subsequently released, two were detained.

The former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received a year and a half prison for bribery. The court partially satisfied the appeal filed by the ex-Prime Minister for the verdict in the Holyland case . The judges acquitted the former head of government on charges of receiving a bribe in the amount of 500 thousand shekels, but unanimously found him guilty of receiving a bribe in the amount of 60 thousand shekels, reports Newsru Israel .

“Given the lack of money in the treasury, as well as the limited imagination of our legislators, I want to suggest a few ideas for new taxes. Their advantage is that these are all European taxes and it will always be possible to refer to best practices. In Great Britain, France, Spain and Scotland there were taxes on windows. Because of this, some windows in houses were bricked up. This was not enough for the French and they introduced taxes on doors.

The outgoing year was remembered by the Russians with a sharp jump in prices for a number of goods, including products, equipment and clothing, and in the new year this trend will remain, experts predict. According to experts interviewed by RBC , products rise in price by 10-15%, public transport-by 7-13%, housing and communal services-by 4-15%.

Alexey Chaly said at the session of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol, which is resigned. On Tuesday, December 29, TASS reports with reference to his adviser Alexei Filimonov. "Alexei Mikhailovich stated that the last year and a half in Sevastopol nothing has been done to implement the concept of the city’s development.

Former Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, the favorite of investors Alexei Kudrin, now heads of the Civil Initiatives Committee, is negotiating with Vladimir Putin and other senior officials to return to power to straighten the worsening economic situation in Russia. Sources of Bloomberg argue that he has already met in private with the President of the Russian Federation and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to discuss plans, but the official proposal has not yet been voiced.

The ruling bishop of the Omsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan and Tauride Vladimir warned believers from marital relations during the post. At the same time, he frightened them with the fact that most children conceived in the lean are born with schizophrenia. The hierarch spoke about this in the program "Blagovest", which was released on December 28 on the air of the regional GRK.

The Investigative Committee of Russia for the first time called the wanted by Ruslan Mukhudinov, the officer of the Sever battalion, the customer and organizer of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Interfax reports. According to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Vladimir Markin, his case will be allocated into separate production. It is worth noting that the investigation does not exclude other unidentified customers.

The series based on the books of George Martin "Game of Thrones" more often than anyone else, illegally downloaded on the Web in 2015, Torrentfreak calculated. At least 14.4 million downloads were recorded. This result allowed the series for the fourth time to take the first line in the list of preferences of Internet pirates. More than half of the downloads were the first week after the start of the new season.

The Tver Court of Moscow appointed the former leader of the Yabloko political party to Sergey Mitrokhin, detained on shares on the Constitution Day in the center of Moscow, an administrative punishment in the form of one thousand rubles of a fine, Interfax reports. This is stated in the decision of the judge Alena Orekhova, announced by the results of the consideration of the administrative protocol drawn up against Mitrokhin.

The American computer security expert Chris Vikeri discovered on the network a database with personal data of 191 million American voter. He reported this in his article on the Databreaches.net website. The database posted into open access contains names, addresses, date of birth, belonging to political parties, phone numbers and electronic addresses of voters from all 50 states and Colombia district, RBC reports. According to Vikeri, he discovered this source of information by chance.