Every fifth Russian worked during the New Year holidays. At the same time, as a survey of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) showed, 73% of citizens were satisfied with how they spent the festive New Year's week. The All-Russian survey "VTsIOM-Satnik" was conducted on January 8-9, 2018 among two thousand respondents aged 18 years. The survey method is a telephone interview, the statistical error does not exceed 2.2%.

According to the results of 2017, the volume of sales of smartphones in Russia increased by 5% and amounted to 28 million pieces, setting a new record, they write Vedomosti with reference to the data of M. Video. According to representatives of Euroset and MTS, the sales of smartphones were even a little higher and amounted to 28.5 million devices. The previous sales record was set in 2014.

In Prague, on the Presidential election at the polling station where the current head of state Milos Zeman voted, the incident occurred. The Ukrainian activist Femen suddenly jumped out of the crowd of journalists and exposed her chest, on which there was the inscription "Zeman - Potaskukha Putin." She shouted the same phrase several times. According to Czech television , we are talking about activist Angelina Diash.

On the Lena River, while trying to cross it under her under the ice, a tanker with 20 tons of oil products failed. The incident occurred on the night of January 10 to January 11 in the Irkutsk region near the settlement of Kriva Luka of the Kirensky district.

Residents of the American city of New Gloster (Maine) received a warning about the danger threatening them from the air. Eyewitnesses reported the appearance in the area of ​​an aggressive "diving" owl. The owl "bomber" lives in the forest in the area of ​​ski tracks, AP reports with reference to the leadership of the local park. According to its employees, it is already known at least one victim. The victim of the attack of the “terrorist” was the man to whom she injured her head.

The highest leadership of Ukraine responded to the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to transfer military equipment left in the Crimea after its accession to Russia in March 2014. The Ukrainian government proposed to return the peninsula itself together with ships and aircraft. So Putin’s proposal answered the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman, RIA Novosti reports. "Oncoming proposal to the President of the Russian Federation: I propose to return the Crimea with the fleet.

On January 12, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow rejected the request for the parole of Vladimir Anikeev, the alleged leader of the hacker group "Anonymous International", also known as "Shali-Boltai". The representative of the pre -trial detention center, where the convicted person is now, refused to clarify RIA Novosti , he supported the petition for parole or not. The judge said that the decision may be appealed in the Moscow City Court, Kommersant writes.

US President Donald Trump suggested that he had a good relationship with the North Korean leader Kim Jong -un, despite mutual public insults. In a big interview, The Wall Street Journal Trump said: "I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong -un. I have a relationship with people. I think you are surprised." When he was asked to clarify whether he was talking to the head of the DPRK, Trump replied: "I do not want to comment on it.

US President Donald Trump made a mistake by reporting Norway F-52 fighters Norway, which exist only in the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, The Washington Post writes. The American leader agreed during a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Ernaya Sulberg in the White House. “In November, we began the supply of the first F-52 and F-35 fighters,” Trump said, adding that the order cost of $ 10 billion.

Scientists of the Land of the Leopard National Park received a series of touching and at the same time valuable personnel from the life of the Amur Tiger family. Within a month, a tigress and her three cubs living near the photoeumrabs showed their usual life in front of the camera. The photographs received by the employees of the National Park mounted in the video. A female with three tigers appeared in front of the cameras almost every day for a month, the reserve website reports.

Omsk investigators began to verify the information that on January 11, a woman in labor had fallen from the hospital. As a result of the fall, she received an insignificant injury, the child was not injured. The incident occurred with a 20-year-old patient in the n2 hospital. “Our readers report that today a young pregnant girl fell out of the second floor window in the hospital number 2. Landed into a snowdrift. Alive.

Investigators of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug find out the circumstances of the brutal murder committed in one of the cultural centers after a solemn feast on the occasion of the Cossack oath. The victim of the killer was the Cossack Alexander Lavrov, whose body was found divided. On the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation, confirmation of information about the death of the Cossack, a resident of Khanty -Mansiysk born in 1976, was published.

Ex-governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, accused of receiving bribes, was again hospitalized. He was transferred from the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center to the hospital of the Sailor Silence. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the lawyer of the White Andrei Grokhotov. The lawyer learned about the hospitalization of his client in the morning from the judge.

The metropolitan police are looking for criminals who abducted the merchant, and then beat him and took possession of a large amount of money. According to preliminary data, the attackers were armed with automatic weapons. The crime was committed on the evening of January 11 near the house N4 and along Molodtsov Street in the Medvedkovo area.

In Guatemala, the Bitkov family, who owned the cellulose-paper enterprise in the Kaliningrad region, was sentenced to long time, the Kommersant newspaper writes. Igor Bitkov, who was looking for VTB Bank for several years, was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment, his wife Irina and daughter Anastasia received 14 years. The family was found guilty of a whole series of crimes related to the falsification of documents and their subsequent use.