Armed groups of the Syrian opposition said that they freeze all contacts related to preparations for negotiations in Astana, planned at the end of January. The opposition claims that the government army and the auxiliary detachments supporting it several times violated the ceasefire. According to the Syrian Free Army (SSA), the truce was broken in the Vadi Barada valley and the East Guta under Damascus, as well as in the provinces of Hama and Deraa.

The Book of Adolf Hitler "My Struggle" (Mein Kampf), reprinted and commented on by the Institute of Modern History in Munich, has become a bestseller of 2016 in Germany and is now preparing for the publication in French, the Der Tagesspiegel newspaper reports. The first circulation of the book amounted to four thousand copies, but “We have now sold 85 thousand books,” Andreas Virting, director of the Institute of Modern History, told the newspaper.

Opposition activist Mark Halperin spent a single picket on Red Square in Moscow, demanding from the Federal Penitentiary Service to report the whereabouts of the only convicted person in the Russian Federation under article 212.1 ("repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or conducting a rally or picket") Ildar Dadin, who spoke about torture and beatings in the Karelian colony N7, reports radio, reports radio radio "Freedom" .

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office decided to refuse to issue a citizen of Georgia, the former director of the anti -terrorism center Zurab Maisuradze, detained on December 3, 2016 at Vilnius Airport on the basis of the Interpol warrant, on Tuesday, January 3, on the website of the Lithuanian prosecutor's office. Masuradze, who in the statement of the department is called the "citizen Z.M.", is recognized as the persecuted by Moscow for political reasons.

In China, the know-how of teachers from the province of Ankhoy is widely discussed, who decided to fight the problem of writing off in school classes with the help of newspapers. According to Asiaone , the solution turned out to be extremely inexpensive and also effective. The hats were made from entire newspaper sheets in which round holes for the top of the students were cut out. Low hanging fields narrow the review so much that it is impossible to look into a neighbor’s notebook on the desk.

The 28-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan Lakhe Mashrapov is checked for involvement in the terrorist attack in the nightclub in Istanbul. The image of a passport issued in his name is published in the press and in social networks. However, after the arrest, Mashrapov himself told the Kyrgyz investigators that he was innocent in the murders of people. The Kyrgyz special services adhere to the same version. On January 3, at 7:00, the Lakhe Mashrap merchant flew from Turkey to Manas airport.

The statement of the presidential candidate, the leader of the National Front party, Marine Le Pen that she does not consider the illegal annexation of Crimea, caused the response of the Ukrainian authorities. In Kyiv, it is not excluded that the French policy after a resonance statement will close the entrance to the territory of Ukraine. This was reported to the Ukrainian publication "Observer" by the head of the apparatus of the head of the SBU, Alexander Tkachuk.

The Government of the Russian Federation ordered to assign the name of the People’s Artist of Russia, the artistic director of the ensemble named after Alexandrov Valery Khalilov, who died in the Tu-154 plane over the Black Sea. The document signed on December 30 is posted today on the Cabinet's website . The Tu-154 plane of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in which Khalilov flew, suffered a disaster on December 25, two minutes after take-off from the Airport Adler.

Under the Great Ustyug in the Vologda Oblast, as a result of a collision of two cars, from eight to 11 people, four of which are children were injured. The victims were hospitalized. The circumstances of the accident are clarified.

In Vietnam, doctors from the Northern Province of Thainguen, with the help of doctors from Hanoi, removed medical scissors from the abdomen of 54-year-old patient Ma Van Nhatta, forgotten there during the operation 18 years ago, The Daily Mail reports. According to the Vietnamese site Tuoi Tre News , the operation to extract scissors was carried out on Saturday, December 31. She went to the hospital in Thaingen and lasted about three hours.

In the village of Basevka near Lviv on Monday, January 2, a dugout burned to the ground, in which the museum of the Ukrainian rebel army (UPA) was located. The museum administration claims that fire could not begin to spread from under the ground, and they suspect arson. The first of the fire was announced on Facebook by deputy of the Lviv Rada Igor Zinkevich. According to him, the fire area was 150 square meters, the locals coped with fire until the firefighters arrived.

On Sunday evening, a video appeared on the Internet, in which two residents of Omsk arrange a shootout using fireworks as a weapon. A video with dangerous pranks was published in the evening of January 1, 2017 in the ChP Omsk group on the VKontakte social network. The frames show how two young people stood about 10 steps from each other and set fire to pyrotechnic products in the form of two "Roman candles". Then the jokers began to produce charges, depicting a "duel".

Alexey Roshchin “With some amazing consistency, every New Year, mass denunciations of Zhenya Lukashin appear on social networks. Spiteful critics, among whom, as I could see, there are approximately equal numbers of men and women, with inescapable rage, just like the first time, call the unfortunate character Andrei Myagkov names.” "loser", "boor", "scoundrel" and "mama's boy". Where does this come from? And the main thing is that literally all the accusations are absolutely unfair!

The Yakut master Mikhail Bopposov, who became famous for his sculptures from manure, to the new one, 2017, by tradition, sculpted the symbol of the year - Rooster. The bird turned out to be 3.5 meters high and 4.2 meters long, reports Sakhalife . In the past, a resident of the village of Walba Tattinsky ulus sculpted from the cow manure called Balbach, a two -meter cobra, a couple of horses, monkeys and other symbols of the year, as well as a tank.

Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier and atomic missile cruiser Peter the Great can already be returned from the coast of Syria in the Mediterranean Sea to the main base of the Northern Fleet of Russia in Severomorsk, Interfax reports with reference to an informed source. "It is expected that in January" Admiral Kuznetsov and Peter the Great "will complete the long campaign and go to their native shores," the agency’s interlocutor said.