One of the main annual holidays - the baptism of the Lord - comes for the Orthodox on January 19. But according to tradition, already tonight, after committing the reign of the great consecration of water in the churches and at the reservoirs of the rank of great consecration, the believers will plunge into the Epiphany hole.

“Everyone has their own fears - and the fears of a political observer who plays with words and historical examples can be very different from the fears of a citizen.

Disney Studio is negotiating about the acquisition of rights to demonstrate the Russian animated series "Jinliki" with the author and producer of the series Oleg Roem. "The Open Aliance Media animation studio, which creates the animated series" Jezinliki ", is negotiating with Disney Studios on the sale of 53 episodes based on Oleg Roy's books," the RNS source said.

David Bowie Blackstar's last album took the first line of the American chart Billboard . In the first week after the release of the album and the death of the musician, 181 thousand copies were sold. This is the first achievement of this kind for Bowie. Previously, the penalty of The Next Day, which has risen to the second line of the hit parade, enjoyed the greatest success in the USA. The top 200 includes another 10 of his works.

The defense of the main person involved in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a fighter of the Chechen battalion of the North Ministry of Internal Affairs Zaura Dadaev, announced the Ukrainian trace, which, in her opinion, should be paid attention to the investigation.

About 30% of the owners of special accounts for which contributions for overhaul in Moscow did not submit reports to the Moszhilin Inspection, and therefore they are facing a fine. This was reported on Monday RIA "Novosti" with reference to the press service of the department.

The mentor of the Russian national hockey team, Oleg Znarok, advises the St. Petersburg SKA, despite the ban on combining coaching posts. It is too early to talk about his future in the club, said Alexander Medvedev, a member of the board of directors of SKA. “We just returned from Latvia, where we held a match in honor of the anniversary of Vladimir Yurzinov. There Oleg (Znarok) was recognized as the best player in the national team of Latvia.

“In an attempt to prove, probably to ourselves, that everything is fine with us, that Western sanctions against us do not work, and the pressure of geese with a bulldozer, on the contrary, terrifies Wall Street businessmen, Russian propaganda is reaching the point of utter despair. I don’t know. who they are trying to convince with this.

The Verkhovna Rada deputies are preparing a decision to impose sanctions against the Russian state company Rosneft, which is accused of receiving income in Ukraine by criminal means using corruption schemes. Moreover, the governor of the Odessa region and former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili convicted in relations with Rosneft through his assistant Vladimir Zhmak. About this on his Facebook page in a post called "Bloody gasoline" Rosneft.

The homeless businessman Vasily Shchedrin, who, according to the media, organized the destruction of the bas-relief of Mephistopheles on Lakhtinskaya Street in St. Petersburg, proposed compensating for the damage in cash. As the journalists found out, for this purpose, the entrepreneur appealed to the Committee on State Control, the use and Protection of History and Culture Monuments last summer. In this regard, the case of the destruction of sculpture was closed in St. Petersburg.

Russian woman Svetlana Kuznetsova made her way into the second round of the first series of the Big Slam series, the Australian Open Championship in tennis . In the match of the first round of Kuznetsov, sown under the 23rd number, she defeated the word Daniel Gantukhova with a score of 6: 0, 6: 2. In the second circle, Kuznetsova will measure his strength with the winner of the game of the hostess Ila Tomlyanovich and Ukrainian Katerina Bondarenko.

Information was received from Israel about the second Arab attack with a knife on a woman in a Jewish settlement in Judea. The new incident occurred in the village of Tekoa, located 15 km from Jerusalem on the edge of the Jewish desert and entering the group of Jewish settlements of the Gush-Etzion. There, 17-year-old Arab, armed with a knife, wounded a 30-year-old pregnant Israeli.

Former Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov may act in court in defense of his son-in-law Valery Puzikov, who headed the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "St. Petersburg Engineering and Construction Center", in the case of embezzlement of 12 million rubles at the enterprise. In 2013, the ex-head of the ministry himself was “saved” by a relative from accusations in the framework of a “road-oral case” , but as a result was still accused of negligence .

The Russian delegation decided not to go to the first session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which opens a week later in Strasbourg, the head of the State Duma committee on the CIS, Leonid Slutsky, told Interfax . The decision on non -participation was final and was made by the leaders of both chambers of the parliament with the support of all factions. "The discussion about Russian participation unfolded at the Friday meeting of the Council of People's Commissars.

Russian experts will check security measures at Cairo Airport, which were strengthened after the collapse of the Russian aircraft over the Egyptian Sinai. The delegation, headed by the deputy head of the transport security department of the Federal Air Transport Agency Oleg Sotnikov, arrived in the capital of Egypt and on Tuesday, January 19, will proceed to the inspection, TASS reports.