HBO has officially announced the release date for the eighth season of Game of Thrones on April 14. In Russia, the premiere of the first episode of the final season will take place on April 15. According to the Kinopoisk portal , in the published teaser, the surviving Starks (Sansa, Arya, Jon Snow) gather in a family crypt located under Winterfell. All members of the Stark family are buried there.

The Prosecutor General's Office did not support bills on counteracting unreliable news and dissemination of content expressing indecent form a clear disrespect for society, the state, official state symbols and state authorities.

Since the end of December 2018, law enforcement officers in Chechnya have detained about 40 people suspected of being homosexual. During torture, two gays were killed, told Mediazona . the Russian LGBT Network “The local police are doing everything possible to ensure that they cannot leave the Republic or subsequently seek protection in court.

Specialists are strengthening a house in the city of Shakhty, where a gas explosion occurred, as there is a threat of further collapse, said Vyacheslav Butko, head of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Rostov Region. “Currently, there is a threat of further collapse, props are being installed to strengthen the building. Three heavy truck cranes will arrive at the scene to remove the ceiling of the house, ”Interfax quotes Butko .

The investigation appealed to the Lefortovo Court of Moscow with a request to close the hearing on the extension of the arrest period for Ukrainian sailors detained in the Kerch Strait from listeners and the media, and also not to disclose the results of the meeting without the consent of the investigator. This was reported to TASS by the lawyer of one of the arrested sailors, Sergei Badamshin. The meeting will take place on January 15, Kommersant clarifies .

Will the people say to the regime: "I'm tired, I'm leaving" - with the text of the permanent NT columnist Andrey Kolesnikov, we begin a discussion about alternatives to a change of power in 2024 FROM THE EDITOR : How will the change of power take place in 2024, when the powers of the current president expire, and the Constitution - at least in the form in which it exists now - will not allow Putin to be re-elected for the next term?

Endless ostentatious agreements to “begin consultations on cooperation” in the absence of basic mutual understanding between Russia and Japan still do not promise real changes for the better to the residents of the Kurils Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrived in Moscow to prepare for the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At the talks at the end of January, Abe and Vladimir Putin will discuss the problem of concluding a peace treaty.

Since January, dozens of new laws and regulations have come into force, most of which are designed to replenish the state treasury at the expense of citizens and businesses.

In 2019, work should begin on creating a job search and recruitment platform based on the Jobs in Russia resource, a kind of analogue of the LinkedIn network. It is reported by RBC with reference to the action plan of the federal project "Digital Public Administration" of the national program "Digital Economy". In total, it is planned to spend about 360 million rubles on “ensuring the operation of the job search and recruitment platform” based on “Work in Russia”. from budget funds.

Several people were injured, according to preliminary data, one died as a result of a gas explosion in a high-rise building in the city of Shakhty, Rostov Region. The explosion occurred on the ninth floor, two apartments on the 9th and two on the 8th floors were damaged, Interfax reports . According to TASS , eight people were injured, five of them were hospitalized, and one woman died. Most likely, a gas cylinder exploded, the city's gas emergency dispatch service told the agency.

A Levada Center survey showed that more than half of Russians are in favor of the government’s resignation: in December 2018, 53% of respondents said this, compared to 33% in November 2016. Among the main complaints, people cite the cabinet’s inability to cope with rising prices and falling incomes, unwillingness to provide people with work, and lack of concern for the social protection of citizens.

The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, Pavel Adamovich, died from stab wounds received the day before during a concert. This is reported by the TV channel TVN24 . The mayor of Gdansk Pavel Adamovich died in the hospital. He was 53 years old. On Sunday, during a charity concert, he was attacked by a 27-year-old resident of Gdansk, stabbed several times. The attacker was arrested. Adamovich was taken to the hospital. He underwent a lengthy operation but died on Monday.

Russia enters a new era of long-term poverty For the first time in almost five years, when a new era began in Russia as a result of the Crimean adventure and the economy was finally sacrificed to “geopolitics”, Russia is entering a year about which even the government does not say anything good. 2019 will go down in history as the year of two of the most unpopular reforms in Putin's 20 years in office: VAT increased from 18% to 20% and a creeping increase in the retirement age begins.

Since January, dozens of new laws and regulations have come into force, most of them designed to replenish the state treasury at our expense - where they will take it and how they will take it, the NT correspondent figured out Social innovations in January The pension reform started , the announcement of which last year provoked mass protests, a drop in the ratings of the country's leadership, and the first defeat of proteges of power in regional elections in many years .

The British task force on combating fraud and corruption will pay special attention to money from Russia and the countries of the former USSR. The group will be led by Treasury Secretary Philip Hammond and Interior Minister Sajid Javid and will include representatives from Santander, Lloyds and Barclays banks, DW reports citing the British Treasury.