The Federation Council ahead of schedule terminated the powers of Senator Arnold Tulokhonov, who represented the executive power of the Republic of Buryatia in the Chamber, TASS reports. The upper house of the parliament adopted the corresponding resolution on Wednesday, January 18, at the first plenary meeting of the spring session.

An employee of the Biysk Oleum Plant, who suffered in the explosion the day before, died on the website of the enterprise. "January 17 at 15:02, when dismantling the foundations using the pneumatic tool, a" cotton "occurred with the release of fragments of the foundation. At the same time, four employees of the enterprise were injured. One of them died in the hospital," the press service said.

The Kremlin reacted to the statement of the Ukrainian deputy and the former Russian prison, Nadezhda Savchenko, who suggested that there was only one way to peacefully resolve the situation in the Donbass - it was to recognize Crimea by the Russian one. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov fundamentally disagree with such a formulation of the issue.

In the United States, Omar Matina, who shot 49 visitors to the Pulse nightclub in Orlando (Florida), threatens a lifelong opinion in June 2016: she was charged with her husband’s assistance, as well as the assistance of the Islamic State terrorist group (IG, prohibited in Russia). Nur Salman on Tuesday, accusations were read out in the courtroom in Auckland (California), Interfax reports with reference to the Ar.

Ten children with Del’s foster family in Zelenograd on January 13, will not be returned back. The police opened a criminal case against the head of the family under Art. 116 ("beatings") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, reports TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

Volunteers from 22 US states raised 56 thousand dollars to help 108-year-old Kerry Lau Raush to stay in the boarding house for the elderly after the woman ended her own funds to pay for residence. Raush lives in the Sunrise on the Scioto boarding house in Columbus, Ohio, the last three years and very happy with it. During this time, she spent all the funds that she put off for her retirement.

Russian hotels, hotels and sanatoriums began to publish prices for their services in 2017, warning customers that the cost could change, since the price lists were drawn up without taking into account the resort fee, which the authorities are going to introduce this year. This is told by the "Russian newspaper" . As you know, President Vladimir Putin instructed to introduce a resort fee in the country.

The European parliament at the first meeting in 2017 elected a new chairman. It was the Italian conservative politician Antonio Taiani, former spokesman Silvio Berlusconi. Taiani said he wanted to become a representative for the entire European Parliament, including small factions, DW reports. At Taiani at the meeting on January 17, 351 parliamentarians voted, while his rival, the Italian Social Democrat Gianni Pitell, supported 282 deputies.

The Institute for the Development of the Internet (IRI) dismisses most of its employees. This was written by the newspaper "Vedomosti" with reference to people close to this organization. The cause of staff reduction is a reduction in financing.

More than 40 million people in 2016 paid a fine with a 50 percent discount, follows from the traffic police. At the same time, the proportion of citizens who took advantage of the discount has decreased by 10%in recent months. Experts interviewed by Kommersant explain this by the fact that “letters of happiness” reach citizens late, and offer to rewrite the law.

Housing availability for the population minimal in four Asian cities: households with average incomes in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Beijing and Shanghai need to save for more than 30 years for apartment of 90 sq. meters, Bloomberg writes, citing a study by analysts at Oxford Economics. The top five megacities with the most unaffordable housing is London, where prices, despite Brexit, continue to rise . IN The top ten also included Tokyo, Singapore, Paris, New York and Seoul.

The President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Aleksander Cheferin, sees no reason to take away from Russia the right to hold the 2018 World Cup. "I do not see any rational or legal grounds to take the 2018 World Cup from Russia. I am sure that the Russian Football Union and the local organizing committee will do excellent work and in 2018 we are waiting for a wonderful world championship. I am not at all worried about this," Cheferin said in an interview with TASS.

More than 50% of Americans believe that the Russian authorities intervened in the 2016 US presidential election. This is evidenced by the data of a joint survey of the NBC television company and The Wall Street Journal. 51% of respondents said they believe in Russia's intervention in the American elections. At the same time, 26% of this number believe that hacker attacks had an impact on the outcome of the elections.

In the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the United Russia fought with Yablochik Mikhail Amosov due to the adoption of a decision on the Isaacievsky Council, reports Fontanka . The representative of the Yabloko party opposed the adoption of a resolution of United Russia and the LDPR in favor of the transfer of Isaac to the Russian Orthodox Church. He said that he would like to amend the decision, but was ignored by the speaker of the St. Petersburg parliament Vyacheslav Makarov.

The head of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko, who was on a visit to the Crimea , called the traitors of the inhabitants of Donbass, who, in the midst of military operations in the east of Ukraine, bought real estate in Yalta and moved to the peninsula. "According to our data, the Republic of Crimea accepted from the DPR about 12 thousand people - those people whom we can safely call refugees," he told reporters in Simferopol on January 17.