Threats related to the use of drones for terrorist purposes can in the near future increase not only in Syria, but also on the territory of any other state, in an interview with the Red Star newspaper, the head of the military air defense of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov. He noted that the armed forces and illegal armed groups of foreign states are actively using unmanned aviation in their actions.

The DPRK women's team dropped out of the qualifying tournament for the 2020 Olympics, refusing to participate in the third qualifying round of the Asian Confederation in the South Korean city of Jeju, Yonhap news agency reported. Representatives of the DPRK were supposed to play in Group A with the teams of South Korea, Vietnam and Myanmar from February 3 to 9.

The Human Rights Watch international human rights organization appealed to the Russian authorities to stop the pursuit of migrants. According to human rights activists, security forces are groundless in the regions of foreigners, and also beat them. Several raids accompanied by these abuses were carried out in December, at least in six regions.

"The current power is so insignificant that it is afraid of any competition with any most insignificant opponents even with fully controlled media space and in the elections falsified by them. The current power is afraid of its own people and its choice, because it already understands that it is not a place in choosing the people and it is pushed away from the budget feeder," writes an analyst and publicist on his page in his page in Facebook . There is no “no“ image of the future ”in power.

Iran's Ministry of Information and Communications Technology has denied reports from a number of media outlets about a partial shutdown of the Internet in the country on Wednesday. The head of the department's press service, Seyed Jamal Hadian, posted a corresponding statement on his Twitter page. It is also cited by TASS. “The message is not correct,” Hadian wrote.

The former district police officer from St. Petersburg, retired major Sergei Krokhin, who was previously sentenced to a life sentence in the case of the murder of six people as part of the Black Realtors gang, admitted that he participated in the murders of four more people. Thus, ten inhabitants of St. Petersburg became all victims of the killers. In the framework of the new investigation, Krokhin has already concluded a pre -trial agreement, the official website of the RF IC reports.

The current winner of the title of Absolute Fighting Championship (UFC) in lightweight Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov is included in the three best fighters of the decade according to the Vaskeansky ESPN television channel. In addition to the Russian, John Jones and the former champion of the youngest weight organization Demetrius Johnson were focked in focus. In this case, it does not specify in what order the fighters are located in the three.

The artists of the Paris National Opera on the eve of Catholic Christmas spoke for free before the public in the center of the French capital in protest against pension reform declared by the Government. About 40 ballerinas performed an excerpt from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake” in front of the Paris Opera building, on the facade of which banners with the inscriptions “Paris Opera Bastost” and “Culture are in danger” were posted.

The Yekaterinburg lawyer and human rights activist Nikita Tomilov sent a complaint to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, asking him to bring him to criminal liability under the new article on “Completing the Higher Position in the Criminal Hierarchy” (210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Moscow Credit Bank (ICD) entered into an agreement on factoring with a foreign producer of alcoholic beverages exporting it to Russia. As part of the transaction, the Russian buyer "Beluga Group" received a deferred payment, and the imported supplier is financing for the period of deferred without a collateral.

The chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, demanded that the management of the Department of the Krasnoyarsk Territory conduct an audit of information about the village on sale with residents. This was reported on the website of the department.

Russian captain of the National Hockey League (NHL) Washington Capitals, Alexander Ovechkin, attended a Christmas dinner at the residence of US President Donald Trump. The striker and his wife Anastasia Shubskaya visited the Mar-a-Lago private residence in Florida, owned by the President of the United States. Trump has been living there permanently since November of this year. At a festive evening, the 34-year-old Russian hockey player presented the American president with his game jersey.

The Spanish publication As published its version of the symbolic team of the best football players of all time. Journalists included former USSR national team goalkeeper Lev Yashin in the team. Among the 11 best players in the history of football, only one is still playing at the professional level - Barcelona's Argentine forward Lionel Messi. As his partner, As sent the three-time world champion in the Brazilian national team Pele.

The prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which is part of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, opened a criminal case due to the arrival of the first passenger train on the peninsula along the Crimean bridge across the Kerch Strait. This was reported on Facebook structure. "The prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea registered criminal proceedings on the fact of illegal crossing by the Passenger train St.

The Tver District Court of Moscow once again fined the human rights center "Memorial" under an article on violation of the law on foreign agents (part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by "MBH Media" . The total amount of fines for the international and human rights "Memorial" and its leaders exceeded 3.5 million rubles. At the same time, only 19 out of 28 protocols were considered.