In Kharkov, a man who captured hostages released several people from the Ukrposhta branch on Shevchenko Street, Ukrainian Pravda reports. According to the police, after negotiations, the attacker released three women and two children 11 and 13 years old. Law enforcement officers believe that four more people remained with the criminal inside the building. The police reported that a special forces detachment of special forces cord flying to Kharkov from Kyiv by a special forces.

Unknown people attacked the St. Petersburg activist Vladimir Ivanenko, reports OVD-info with reference to information on social networks. He is in intensive care with stab wounds. Similar information about the attack was published on the evening of December 29 in the VKontakte accounts Diana Retinskaya and Larisa Pavlova . According to these data, on Ivanutenko attacked on the morning of December 28 at his own house.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in congratulations to the American colleague Donald Trump, urged him to build pragmatic cooperation. This was reported on the Kremlin’s website in big material about Putin's congratulations to the heads of state and international organizations. Trump is mentioned closer to the end of the material - after the heads of the CIS states and President of Syria Bashar al -Assad, but before Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Three American senators - Republicans Ron Johnson and John Barraso, as well as Democrat Joan Shain - planned to visit the Russian Federation in mid -January to meet with the current representatives of the authorities and the “next generation of Russian leaders,” but this event will not take place. As Politico found out, the Russian Embassy refused Shain to issue a visa, and other senators canceled the trip in solidarity with a colleague.

In Australia, the Air Force is brought into increased combat readiness due to the appearance of Russian strategic Tu-95MS bombers in neutral waters off the coast of Indonesia, reports The Guardian . By alarm, the combat readiness of the Air Force at the base in Darwin - the city in the north of the country has been increased. The measure was accepted for a short time, while two Russian bombers performed maneuvers. It is noted that the missile carriers did not violate the airspace of Australia.

In the American Buffalo, the Russian youth hockey team secured a access to the playoffs of the World Cup, having won 5: 2 over the team of Belarus in the third match of the group stage. As part of the winners of the puck, Alexei Polodyan (11 '), German Rubtsov (13'), Klim Kostin (24 ', 48') and Arthur Kayumov (45 ') were abandoned. The Belarusians have goals in the asset of Dmitry Deryabin (42 ') and Sergey Pishchuk (51').

In Iran, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of cities in the support of the current government, announced Tasnim on Saturday. The British television and radio broadcasting corporation of the Air Force indicates that the official Iranian agency writes about this after reports of protests that lasted two days. According to the Air Force, the personnel of the subboty manifestations in support of the government were shown on state television channels.

The Ambassador of Russia to the United States Anatoly Antonov commented on the proposal of US legislators to rename the square to the embassy in honor of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov. In an interview with RTVI , he said that Russian diplomats would make any decision. "To the American authorities to decide where, when and in honor of whom to name this or that area, one or another street ... We will make any decision of the United States on this subject," he said.

The founder and head of the Hermitage Capital Foundation William Brighter called to suspend Russia's membership in Interpol for "glaring abuse" by the mechanisms of the work of this organization. The day before, the Moscow court sentenced him in absentia to 9 years in prison, after which Russia expressed the intention to send a request to arrest in an international organization.

The construction of the Olympic village for the winter games of 2022 began on Friday near Beijing, in rural areas north of the city. It is assumed that the total area of ​​housing and recreational structures for members of the Olympic teams will be 200 thousand square meters. meters, the developer - Beijing State Investment Group Beijing Investment Group reports on its website. This is one of the three Olympic villages that will be built by 2022.

Two cult figures of the musical world are the drummer of The Beatles Ringo Starr and the founder and leader of the Bee Geees group Barry Gibb were awarded the knightly title. Their names are in the traditional New Year list of the British , released on the British Government’s website, to which the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II awarded high titles and ranks according to the results of the past 12 months.

The media find out the identity of the St. Petersburg explosive, the detention of which the FSB reported earlier. From these disparate sources it follows that 35 -year -old Dmitry Lukyanenko, a resident of St. Petersburg, who declared their belonging to a strange nationalist organization, was brought to the Ryukzak bomb in the Perekrestok store. There is no official data about him or his motives. Fontanka reports that they detained a resident of the Krasnoselsky district of the city.

The new law banned the transport of oil to the Severomasput Courts under foreign flags. Amendments to the trade navigation code were signed by President Vladimir Putin, TASS reports. This may affect the work of oil and gas companies that ship oil in the northern ports.

The collapse of the soil occurred during excavation in Saransk on Saturday: two workers who laid the pipeline were underground. The incident is reported by the Ministry of Emergencies of Mordovia. The consequences in the message of the Ministry of Emergencies at the time of writing of the note are not indicated. The Izvestia of Mordovia reports that the workers were killed, their bodies have already been removed from the ground.

In the Saratov region, a dangerous prisoner Sergey Dubovitsky, who does not have four fingers on his left hand, escaped from a penal colony. He is suspected of killing a mother of six children, whose body was found in the city of Engels on Friday. Information about the fugitive is published by the UFSIN website in the Saratov region. Sergey Dubovitsky born in 1974 served a five -year term for intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm.