The government will create a new platform for the interaction of the authorities, business and the population on the development of single -industry towns. The base will be the VKontakte social network, and up to 2 billion rubles are ready to allocate up to 2 billion rubles to study officials at the Skolkovo management school, the first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov said.

The delegation of the Syrian opposition will arrive in Geneva to participate in intersiral negotiations on Saturday evening, reports TASS with reference to the representative of the Supreme Committee on negotiations (BCP). The day before, the opposition gave its consent after the guarantees provided by the United States and the UN. The diplomat said that the meeting of the opposition with the representative of the UN Secretary General in Syria Stefan de Mistura could take place on Sunday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlyut Chavushoglu announced that the aircraft of Russian VKS again unauthorizedly invaded the country's airspace. The relations of the two countries were sharply aggravated by the Su-24 bomber shot down by the Turkish fighter: the Russian authorities demanded apologies, and after repeated refusal imposed sanctions against one of the main trading partners. As Reuters reports, according to the information provided by Chavushogol, the next incident occurred on Friday.

Hackers, who in 2014 for several weeks attacked the internal network of the German Bundestag, acted on behalf of the Russian government. This was stated in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel a senior employee of the security structures of Germany. According to him, the “Russian military intelligence” is definitely behind cyber attacks. The interlocutor Der Spiegel recalled that in recent years a number of cyber attacks have been committed in the same scheme.

Police officers examined the Kazan and Kursk stations in the center of Moscow after anonymous messages about mining, no explosive devices were found. In total, according to preliminary data, more than two thousand people were taken to the streets. "At 20.28 Moscow time, the Kursk station was completed, at 20.51 - Kazan. Expert devices were not found," a source in emergency services told RIA Novosti .

The 11-time world surfing champion 43-year-old American surfer Kelly Slater saved a two-year-old child and his mother. Events occurred on one of the beaches in Hawaii. Sarah White with a 22-month-old son Wan walked along the path when they were covered with a giant wave. For their happiness, a professional surfer was nearby, who first pulled the child to the shore, and then saved his mother. After that, the athlete by car took a couple to their house.

A tourist bus got into an accident in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region: 22 people were injured, of which eight are in serious condition, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the regional services of the region. The accident occurred on the 158th km of the Scandinavia highway. According to TASS, the bus collided with a standing truck.

The delegation of the Syrian opposition supported by Riyadh has arrived today in Geneva for peace negotiations under the auspices of the UN. This was reported by TASS by a source close to the group of opposition. At the last moment, the group was replaced: the delegation is headed by the head of the ASAD AZ-Zubi negotiation group, and not the coordinator of the Supreme Committee on negotiations (BCP), ex-Prime Minister of Syria Riad Hijab, as previously expected.

The Dnepropetrovsk police opened a criminal case on the demolition of the monument to the Soviet revolutionary Grigory Petrovsky on the station square. We are talking about part 2 of Article 298 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal search work at the archaeological heritage object, destruction, destruction or damage to cultural heritage objects). "More than 200 activists took part in the action.

The German tennis player Angelik Kerber became the winner of the Australian Open Tennis Championship, which ends in Melbourne. In the final match, Angelik in three sets broke the resistance of the first racket of the competition and the world ranking of American Serena Williams - 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 4. The duel lasted 2 hours 8 minutes. “I have worked hard for this moment all my life. My dream came true. I became a big helmet tournament champion.

Russian skater Evgenia Medvedeva won the lonelines at the European Championship in Bratislava. The winner of the final Grand Prix of the current season and the current champion of Russia, who was leading after the short program , received an arbitrary 142.90 points and, with a total result of 215.45 points, became the best on the continent. “I will be brief: joy overwhelms me!” Said Evgenia Medvedev to the whole sport agency.

Singer David Bowie bequeathed to dispel his ashes "in accordance with the Buddhist rituals" on the Indonesian island of Bali. This is evidenced by the last will of the British singer, composer and producer, published on Friday in a court in New York, TASS reports. The musician died in New York on January 10 from liver cancer, which he fought for the past year and a half. Two days before his death, the last album of the performer Blackstar was released.

In the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the second wave of influenza is expected in the country in early spring. More than 150 people became victims of the disease due to the late appeal to doctors and complications. The current wave was declining, officials assure. In the Odessa region, where the largest number of deaths are recorded, quarantine in schools is canceled. But the authorities warn that in the early spring the situation may be repeated.

In California, Jonathan Tierta and Hussein Naeri, who is called the "second Hannibal Lecter", who fled about a week ago from prison in Santa-Ane, reports CBS . There were three fugitives in total, Back Douong previously voluntarily surrendered to the police. According to the sheriff of Orange Sandra Hatchens, Tierta and Nari were caught in San Francisco. “California may breathe a sigh of relief,” she said at a special press conference.

The California police managed to catch one of the prisoners who made a week ago from prison in Santa-Ane. As the sheriff of Orange Sandra Hatchens, Back Dung, voluntarily surrendered to the law enforcement officers on Friday, on January 29, CNN reports. Other fugitives - Jonathan Tierta and Hussein Nari, who is called the "second Hannibal Lecturer ," - still remain at large. In the case of the escape, as previously reported , at least ten people were detained.