The speleologists have discovered in Mexico the largest flooded cave in the world 347 kilometers long. This was reported on the website of the research project Gran Acuífero Maya , dedicated to the study and preservation of the groundwater of the Yukatan Peninsula. Scientists believe that this discovery will allow you to shed more light on the ancient Mayan civilization.

"The main strategy of the presidential candidate is nonsense. During the campaign itself, nothing needs to be done, because everything that the candidate could do, he did before. The reverse law is very important: any nervous stirring leads to loss of votes," writes a publicist and political scientist on his Facebook page. "A simple example. In 2012, a candidate Prokhorov was nominated.

The rector of the Timiryazevo Academy Galina Zolina fired the dean of the faculty of agronomy and biotechnology Alexander Solovyov. He is going to protest reprimands, which became the basis for dismissal, but for now it remains to work for a quarter of the bet. Soloviev himself told RBC and Kommersant himself about this. “Today (on Tuesday) I signed an order to dismiss.

The chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and the author of the television program “poststallptum” Alexei Pushkov blocked the journalist “interlocutor” by Sergey Yezhov, after publishing the investigation in the newspaper, how Senator Pushkov, known for his patriotic statements, has a cottage on Rublevka and prefers to rest in Europe. The author of the material wrote about this on his Twitter .

The prosecutor's office of the city of Luneburg (Germany) rejected the petition for the pardon of the former SS soldier, 96-year-old Oscar Grening, known as the "Accounting of Auschwitz" . This was reported by the German television company Norddeutscher Rundfunk . The reasons for the decision of the prosecutor's office are not specified. The press secretary of the department explained that in such cases, motives, as a rule, were not disclosed.

The Chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova admitted that the videos of a number of regional television channels see signs of agitation for one of the candidates for the president of Russia. So she commented on the application of the movement in defense of voter rights "Voice" about the receipt of 55 reports about violations of the rules of agitation during the election campaign.

The father of the murder of the world and European murder in powerlifting Andrei Dragonchy Anara Allahveranov died in an accident in Khabarovsk. This was announced on Wednesday by the lawyer of the defendant Konstantin Lysenko. According to him, the incident occurred on the morning of January 16. The Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Khabarovsk Territory of TASS reported that the accident occurred in the Zheleznodorozhny district.

Activists of the Yabloko party reported on the presence of 105 thousand signatures with the necessary 100 thousand, collected in support of the nomination of the candidacy of Grigory Yavlinsky in the 2018 presidential election. This was reported on the site "Yabloko". “As of the morning of December 17, the headquarters of Grigory Yavlinsky has 105 thousand signatures from 79 regions of the country.

The family of a five-year-old model of Liam Mango from scandalous advertising photography of the Swedish brand H&M has moved from her home in Stockholm "for security reasons." This was told by his mother Terry Mango, reports BBC . According to her, after the brand was accused of racism, and she tried to protect it, the anger of critics spread to her. “They believe that I was sold. I am a shame on African American and all blacks. They believe that I sold my son for money,” the woman said.

The Otkritie Bank, sanitized with the participation of the Consolidation Fund created by the Central Bank, turned out to be the owner of 14.78% of the vote in the authorized capital of the State Bank of VTB at the expense of two management companies, Interfax reports. According to the materials of the “discovery”, at the direct disposal of the “opening” were 9.08% of the vote in the authorized capital of VTB.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed two government decrees that limit the amount of information disclosed by Russian legal entities. This is done to reduce the risks arising in transactions with authorized structures, Interfax reports. The first resolution establishes cases of the release of AO and LLC from the obligation to disclose information regarding large transactions and transactions in which there is an interest.

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko told how the history of the Holocaust touched her family. Her mother in the years of World War II saved the Jewish family and hid her in her house, risking her life. "My mother saved the Jewish family in the occupied territory - a woman with two children. She covered them in the cellar for nine months, risking her own life and life of her own family.

In the secondary housing market, Moscow by 107% (from 1.7 to 3.6 thousand) increased the number of apartments in new houses for sale. At the same time, their average cost increased from 9.6 million to 10.7 million rubles, RBC writes with reference to Inkom-Real Estate. Experts explain the growth of indicators with an “unprecedented” construction boom - since the end of 2016, sales in the primary market of the capital increased by 65.5%.

Ilya Milstein "Oyuba Titiev must be saved. And the methodology of liberation of hostages captured in Chechnya has not yet been developed, but some experience is already available, and we can evaluate the steps taken," the publicist writes in the column on the Brani.ru website. "For example, publicity in his business is a necessary thing, and at all levels, starting with the international one.

The tourist site about Zambia posted on his Facebook page the advertisement calling to visit the country, wittingly using the sensational words of US President Donald Trump, who in one of his recent performances called Africa countries "the ass of the world." “Come to the ass of the world - Zambia,” says the advertising banner.