Russian Leonid Volkov became a third triumph in the history of dancing competitions in the Wind Games 2016 aero tube, which were held in Spain. The Petersburger excited artistic freestyle in the discipline. The tournament was attended by athletes from 18 countries. Three participants who perform in two disciplines represented Russia: Leonid Volkov and Olga Bakulina (artistic freestyle) and the Black Cat team (group acrobatics).

Against the background of a racial scandal due to the lack of black actors in the Oscar nominations on social networks, a violent discussion has unfolded, related to the choice of British actor Joseph Faines for the role of singer Michael Jackson, reports Page Six . Many Internet users expressed perplexity that the white actor would play the role of a musician of African American origin.

The famous Russian pianist Denis Matsuev successfully performed on Wednesday, January 27, with an anniversary, tenth in a row, a solo concert in the New York Carnegie Hall. The concert was held at a full house - the audience staged a apparatus of the musician, TASS reports. In the first part of the concert program, Matsuev was performed by Peter Tchaikovsky, in the second part he played Robert Schumann "Kreislerian.

All secondary schools, as well as additional education institutions in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from Friday will close in captain and SARS, the press service of the city hall of the regional center reports on Thursday. "Forced holidays were introduced for students of all classes of all 38 schools of the city from January 29 to February 6 inclusive," the report said.

Two suicide bombers were blown up on Thursday, January 28, at school in the north of Cameroon, reports Reuters with reference to a representative of local authorities. It is known that the terrorists died, there are no data on other dead and victims. "Double terrorist attack occurred at the school of the city of Kerav," said a representative of local authorities. Reuters reports that the fact of the double attack was also confirmed by another source of the agency.

The AlphaGo program, developed by DeepMind (one of Google's subsidiaries), beat a professional Go player several games in a row. According to N+1 , the program won five games out of five according to tournament rules against Fan Hui, the European Go champion. In addition, the program defeats other computer players 99.8% of the time.

Most Russians, as the Levada Center survey showed, consider the statement of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov about the representatives of the non-systemic opposition. In addition, the Chechen leader, who equated the opposition to the enemies of the people and traitors, began to like twice less in a year, shows statistics. At the same time, almost a quarter of respondents consider critics to be justified about the receipt of fake scientific degrees and inappropriate to use budget funds.

In South America, from the Cosmodrome Kuru, located in French Guiana, the Ariane-5 launch vehicle successfully started. As reported on the website of Arianespace, the launch went without interference. The missile should bring into orbit an IntelSat 29 telecommunication satellite. "This 70th Ariane-5 successful launch begins the next ambitious year for Arianespace, which plans to launch up to eight Ariane-5 missiles in 2016," the description of the launch vehicle starts on YouTube .

After a short reduction in world oil prices on Thursday morning, the cost of March Brent oil futures jumped by more than 5%, rising above $ 35 per barrel. The cost of Brent on the ICE exchange has grown sharply. Experts associate this trend with the emergence of information about the impending meeting of the Russian authorities with representatives of OPEC.

Over the seven years of Kaliningrad, the mayor Alexander Yaroshuk has achieved the modernization of water supply and sanitation. The head of the city himself reported this in the program "Main Hour" on the air of local television. "When I got it in 1999, water was supplied by the clock (...) it was really a problem. Here you don’t have electricity - you can light a candle. There is no gas - you can cook food, there are a lot of options.

The General Director of the First Musical Publishing House (PMI) Maxim Dmitriev said that his company agreed with the VKontakte social network on the paid use of music tracks. TJ writes about this. According to Dmitriev, he will pay the “VKontakte” itself for the music of the labels, nevertheless, he refused to disclose the details of the agreement. The businessman noted that the transaction has not yet been officially announced, but VKontakte plans to do this in the near future.

Not only the Chinese military forces them to train semi -naked in the cold. The joint winter exercises of the fighters of the 3rd Expeditionary Corps of the US Marine Corps and their South Korean soldiers took place in one of the provinces of the Republic of Korea at a temperature of -20 degrees Celsius. The photo report from the training of marines publishes The Daily Mail .

The attendance of the popular Rutracker torrent tracker on Tuesday, a day after it was blocked by Roskomnadzor, was reduced by 33% to 484,081 from 725,417 people on Monday, they write Vedomosti with reference to LiveInternet data. At the same time, the attendance of the resource from other countries increased, for example, from the Netherlands and Germany - almost double ( +93% and +75%).

In Australia, the details of terrorist attacks prepared by a group of teenagers last spring last year became known. According to BBC , teenagers discussed their actions on the network. According to their correspondence, they were going to organize a series of attacks on law enforcement officials. At the same time, the newly -minted terrorists planned to use the local fauna, or rather, a kangaroo. In total, the police detained five teenagers.

“And a little more about fair elections. Observers who are not liked by the police or members of the commission will be fined. The bill has not yet been adopted, but United Russia will not introduce it in vain. If an observer wants to check the authenticity of the ballots, everything, including a fine, interferes with the normal course of the elections.