The 2010 Olympic champion Lindsay Vonn won the first victory in a high -speed descent at the World Cup in Germany after returning to the slope. The American in the German Garmish-Parthenkirhen became the fastest with the result of 1 minute 43.41 seconds. “Awesome feelings. I just burst into tears below,” the winner quotes the official website of the international skiing federation. “It was very difficult to return, many forget how much time, energy, blood, sweat and tears was spent on this.

In the village in the north of Dagestan, a counter -terrorist operation undergoes on Saturday, one of the houses was blocked there, Interfax reports. Soon, the sources of TASS and Interfax reported the elimination of two militants. Their personalities are established. According to preliminary information, these militants were part of the “Khasavyurt” gang group, whose dugout was discovered and destroyed in the Andireyevsky forest, the interlocutor of Interfax said.

The Turkish parliament with a majority vote approved a package of changes to the Constitution, involving a transition to the presidential form of government and extending the term during which President Recep Erdogan can return to power until 2029. As Reuters notes, the law was approved with an advantage of only 9 votes.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is working on the issue of removing fingerprints of all foreigners entering the country, Olga Kirillova, head of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, said on Saturday. Now, only labor migrants are dactyloscopy, in the base of the prints of millions of people.

Forward of the Ufa "Salavat Yulaev" Enver Lisin with a record defeated the speed in the master show of the match of the KHL-2017 stars. The forward overcame a circle with a result of 12.450 seconds. Last year, Brandon Kozun (13.548) showed the best time. The previous record in 2015 set Vohetek Volsky (13,178), which is now restored after a severe injury . “I ran around the distance for the first time,” said the winner of the competition to journalists.

The President of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Anders Besseberg on Saturday, January 21, announced a complete excuse of 22 of 29 Russian athletes who appeared in Richard McLaren on the large -scale use of doping in the Russian Federation. The corresponding statement was made after an emergency meeting of the IBU executive committee in Italian Anterselva. “First of all, I want to say that we were discussing a big problem at the table.

In South Korea, against the backdrop of a corruption scandal in the highest echelons, the current minister was first taken under arrest. He became the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Cho Yun Song. According to the investigation, it has compiled a list of thousands of cultural figures, who must be deprived of the opportunity to receive state funding, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Kyodo. According to Reuters , on Saturday it should be its first interrogation in a new status.

At least two people died on Saturday, January 21, as a result of shooting at one of Tel Aviv's central streets. Currently, the incident is cordoned off by law enforcement officers, an investigation is being conducted on this fact. TASS, citing local media, reports that shooting occurred in an underground parking in one of the central streets of the city. According to sources, the police do not consider the incident a terrorist attack and connects the incident with the crime rampant in the city.

The premiere of the film "Icarus", in which the former head of the Moscow anti -doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, said that he considers it impossible to win at the Olympic Games without the use of pharmacology, took place at the Sandance Film Festival in the United States. The film was shot by the American director and amateur bike amateur Brian Fogel.

In Saratov, the head of the largest energy company "Energosbyt Plus" was taken when trying to give a bribe an FSB officer. On Saturday, the court elected 37-year-old Alexander Fedotov a preventive measure in the form of house arrest, the regional department of the Investigative Committee reports .

State Duma deputies opposed the introduction of fines for downloading pirate content, considering this measure excessively strict, given the ignorance of the laws in this area, the vice-speaker of the lower house of parliament Petr Tolstoy told RNS after the discussion of the relevant initiative of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

US President Donald Trump shortly after the inauguration signed his first decree as the head of state. The document concerns the reform of the Obamacare available medical care program, introduced by former President Barack Obama. According to Reuters, the decree calls on the heads of the relevant departments to use their powers to “cancel, postpone or delay the execution of the health law” in order to reduce the budget load on the states.

In St. Petersburg, a group of National Bolshes burned flags hanging on the Gazprom building on the English embankment, Business Petersburg reports. Photos from the scene are published by the APN . The action took place on the day of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolsheviks and the leader of the 1917 revolution.

The names of the dead pilots of the American bomber "Boston" from the times of the Great Patriotic War, discovered at sea near Sochi after the December crash of the Tu-154 , are established by the search engines of the Krasnodar Territory from the Kuban bridgehead society. Fragments of the aircraft were found 500 meters from the coast of the Adler district. The fuselage with a combat body kit lay at a 12-meter depth.

The head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov announced the proposal to limit cash calculations. As a positive example, he led India, where sudden monetary reform led to a collapse of cash circulation.