The idea of ​​holding school referenda on the day of voting in the election of the President of the Russian Federation did not receive the support of the Central Election Commission. The head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova called her unacceptable, reports TASS. "I categorically declare that no additional actions, surveys, referenda cannot be in principle in any polling stations in principle," she said. Pamfilova also warned the election participants from the use of minors in the election campaign.

A resident of the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region, received an unusual birthday gift from friends. Natalya Konchakova was presented with a certificate of ownership of a plot of 2 square meters. meters at the New Voroshilovsky cemetery. “Yes, I definitely haven’t been given such a gift yet. I was very lucky with my friends. They say that they decided to give a good investment in the future.

In Germany, the 37-year-old local historian Christian Bormann discovered in the forest in the city center, between the districts of Raickendorf (former West Germany) and Schenholz (former East Germany), the 80-meter section of the Berlin wall, considered dismantled, Die Welt reports. The Berlin historian identified the rest of the brick wall in the northeast of the city.

Investigators of the Stavropol Territory established the identity of a man accused of killing a motorist during a road quarrel. The reason for the conflict was a puddle, the spray from which flew on a passerby when the victim’s car drove nearby. Currently, a suspect of a 35-year-old resident of Stavropol has been elected a preventive measure in the form of detention, the official website of the regional administration of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

Finance Minister Stephen Mnuchin called the weakening of the dollar a blessing for the US economy, Bloomberg reports. “Obviously, the weakening of the dollar is good for us, since it favors trade and opportunities,” Mnuchin told reporters on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Swiss Davos. The short -term cost of the currency “does not bother us at all,” he said, violating the many years of the head of the American Treasury to act in support of a strong national currency.

French President Emmanuel Macron , speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Davos, said that the globalization process "is undergoing a strong crisis." According to him, Europe is already vital to develop a strategy for the next 10 years, Reuters reports. The French leader emphasized that the general European strategy is necessary in order to show the peoples of Europe and the rest of the world "a new force that can interact with others." “France returned to the heart of Europe.

In Yakutsk, the local volunteer Anton Vasiliev gathered 14 packets of garbage at the place of font, where traditional baptismal bathing took place at the end of last week. According to him, basically negligent locals left the garbage and slippers behind, said the enthusiast on the air "Yakutsk TV" . “To be honest, I was driving after another garbage. In the social networks there was information that someone threw out the rotten eggs in the green meadow. I searched for them, did not find them.

Just a few weeks before the famous Brazilian carnival, which is traditionally held 40 days before Easter and marks the beginning of the Great Lent (this year 9-14 of Frali), yellow fever spread in Brazil. Every year, hundreds of people are infected throughout the country after mosquito bites. Over the past 10 days, the number of those killed from yellow fever has doubled. According to the Ministry of Health of the country, in total in Brazil, 130 cases of yellow fever were recorded.

The Kazan police began a check after the unknown trampled the word "thieves" on the slope of the local Kremlin. To whom the message was addressed, its authors did not specify, but in the media they pay attention to the fact that on Wednesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Kazan. According to Prokazan.ru , law enforcement officers intend to withdraw records from video surveillance cameras in order to consider the incident in detail.

Zoya Svetova “It agreed that today, as my father was arrested, and today is 95 years old to the Supreme Court. The current chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev, being the chairman of the Moscow City Court, sentenced Felix Svetov to the year of prison and five years of exile,” the human rights activist writes on Facebook . “He also sentenced other sentences to dissidents.

In the State Duma, a bill was sharply criticized, which involves equalizing the cohabitation of an official marriage. The innovation can lead to paralysis in the secondary housing market and threaten all its turnover in the country, according to Alexander Sidyakin, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Housing and Housing and Communal Services. The deputy is confident that the collapse in the housing market can brake part of the country's economy.

The first proposals appeared in Russia within the framework of the Road Safety Strategy adopted by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, which, in particular, refers to the imperfection of the drivers to drive vehicles. To improve this system, it is proposed to introduce a repeated exam on the knowledge of traffic rules when replacing rights. Such a proposal is contained in the resolution of the Congress of Driving Schools, transferred to the traffic police.

Screenwriter Edward Neumayer, who in 1987, together with Paul Verkhoven, worked on the fantastic action movie Robokop, claims that another continuation is currently being prepared. “We can’t reveal the details. There are already several“ robocrots. ”We recently made a remake. But, in our case, we will return to the original Robocop, which everyone loves, and from there we will move forward. In fact, this is a continuation of the first film. At least it seems to me.

The Khabarovsk Railway District Court sentenced the healer who deceived several elderly women. The fraudster received money from them for removing "damage". The damage from criminal acts exceeded a million rubles. The court sentenced the accused in the form of three years in prison in a penal colony of general regime. Also, compensation for damage caused will be recovered with the convicted person, RIA Novosti reports with the sslyka to the regional prosecutor's office.

The Syrian government, led by Bashar Assad, obviously continues to use chemical weapons against the rebels in Eastern Guta, said Rex Tillerson Secretary of State, on Tuesday, January 23, after a chemical weapon conference in Paris. “Only yesterday, more than 20 civilians, mainly children, became a victim of an alleged attack using chloride gas,” Tillerson said, whose statement quotes Reuters.