The head of the education department of the Tukaevsky district of Tatarstan resigned after the scandal with the involvement of schoolchildren to the exercises of the security forces to accelerate rallies . In this, Interfax was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic. The department formed a commission for an official investigation, guilty officials are planned to be brought to strict disciplinary liability.

Former world heavyweight boxing champion, now State Duma deputy from the United Russia party, Nikolai Valuev, expressed his opinion about the former Secretary General of the USSR, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin. Valuev considers Stalin the greatest leader of the state. “I consider Stalin to be the greatest leader of our state, who left his mark in the history of a great country,” the deputy said in response to a question from Moscow resident Mark Naumenko.

The daughter of three-time Olympic biathlon champion Anfisa Reztsova, Kristina, said in an interview with Match TV about her readiness to run one of the World Cup races as part of the Russian team in a negligee. Journalists recalled the athlete’s race at the All-Russian Youth Biathlon Competition in Murmansk, which 16-year-old Reztsova ran in underwear over her usual equipment on a dare in 2013. Christina noted that she was not ashamed of that youthful act. Moreover, she is ready to repeat it.

The US administration instructed to suspend the provision of military assistance to Ukraine about an hour and a half after a telephone conversation between American President Donald Trump with Ukrainian colleague Vladimir Zelensky. This was reported by CNN with reference to documents and emails that the non -profit organization Center for Public Integrity unveiled.

The film of Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev "Elena" was in the rating of the 50 best international films of the past decade, compiled by Rolling Stone . This is the only domestic picture presented in the top 50. The publication included films of various genres in the list - from blockbusters to arthouse and documentary cinema.

The military sailors of the Baltic Fleet, on the eve of the visit of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin to the island of Googand in the summer of this year, found and neutralized the German minefield of the Great Patriotic War. This was announced in an interview with the Red Star newspaper by Admiral Alexander Nosatov, commander of the Baltic Fleet.

Igor Klyamkin "After Putin’s press conference, it became clearer why Moscow insisted on the Steinmeier formula. This formula does not determine the conduct of the Donbass local elections with the conclusion from the Donbass territories, Kiev not controlled, Russian and any foreign military, mercenaries and Russian military equipment, as well as the disarmament of illegal armed groups.

The first tests of the KamAZ unmanned truck began in Kuzbass in Kuzbass. If the experiment is recognized as successful, then unmanned vehicles will begin to be used at coal enterprises to increase labor safety in areas of mining, the press service of the company "SDS-Call", which owns the mine. The Listvyazhnaya mine became the first industrial platform in Russia, where the capabilities of the truck was demonstrated.

Mikhail Maccoon "To each such type of the info, such as a shootout near the FSB building, you need to not be tired of repeating a rather simple, no less true truth: there are no terrorist attacks. You can think about it everything that your heart is like, but there is a fact: in 2017 in the world (taking into account Somalia, Syria, Iraq, other poor zones), the terrorist attacks became the cause of the death of 26,445, which occupies the second line from the end.

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) on its official website published a rating of the best clubs in the history of the main European Cup - the UEFA Champions League. The rating evaluated the performance of teams from 1955 to 2019, including qualifications and playoff matches. For the victory, the club was awarded two points, for a draw - one. The best among Russian clubs was the Moscow Spartak, which scored 111 points and took 34th place.

Medusa managed to get acquainted with the materials of the criminal case in which the FSB officers are accused of creating a criminal community consisting of combatants in the Donbass. According to investigators, this gang was created to attack another group that was engaged in smuggling of "gray" iPhones and other gadgets in premises from the USA and Germany.

The head of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion (Grigory Alfeev) owns a penthouse in the Spanish city of Altea (Alicante Province) worth about 1 million euros. This is stated in the investigation of "Novaya Gazeta" . According to the publication, the Metropolitan has been belonging to a two -level penthouse for eight years in the Mare Nostrum II cooperative.

"The buried and festively decorated Moscow opens its New Year's embrace. The main festivities and festivities, as usual, in the city center. 10 thousand steel fences, 7 gearboxes, 200 arched metal detectors, as well as 40 thousand police officers, guards and guards will be happy to welcome, hug you when you try to go to the center of Moscow. Only the chosen ones will come inside," - A former politician writes on his Facebook page.

The International Chess Federation ( FIDE ) has published a list of participants in the tournament of applicants for the chess crown, whose winner will receive the right to play with the current world champion Norwegian Magnus Karlsen. At the tournament, which will be held in Yekaterinburg from March 15 to April 5, 2020, eight grandmasters will perform. The tickets for the tournament of applicants previously guaranteed six.

The candidate from the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Croatia, Zoran Milanovic, received the largest number of votes in the country's presidential elections held on Sunday. This was announced on Monday by the chairman of the State Election Commission (SEC) of the republic, Djuro Sessa. At the same time, none of the 11 presidential candidates received an absolute majority - 50% plus one vote, notes Croatia Week .