Photo: RIA Novosti It is known: trade unions are the usual part of a normal society. And in a number of countries - the basis of Christian, left and other parties. Without them, the social state cannot be imagined. In the USSR and in social strokes it was believed: trade unions give vouchers to resorts and children's camps, they are disciplined and moral. From this habit, the East of Europe was weaned by the Polish "solidarity". In 1980-1981, this trade union held 150 powerful strikes.

What if Bastrykin is retrained in an art critic? Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS The year began with a large event for domestic culture. The Investigative Committee concluded an official agreement on cooperation with the Moscow Conservatory. Tchaikovsky. The UK substantiated the benefits of the collaboration in a special statement.

In Moscow, a committee of actions dedicated to the memory of Boris Nemtsov is being created Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" Three years have passed since the political murder of Boris Nemtsov - a bright and talented statesman of Russia. Unfortunately, the true organizers and inspirers of this forced crime are still not established or held accountable. Consequently, the fault for the death of Boris Nemtsov completely falls on the current Russian government.

The state of Hawaii has sent a false warning to citizens about the threat of a ballistic missile attack. Residents of the state have received reports of the need to "urgently seek asylum." It is reported by the BBC. “The threat of a missile attack on Hawaii. Seek shelter immediately. This is not a drill, ”the messages circulated said. Authorities later said the alarm was false. Under what circumstances the mistake was made is not specified.

The Human Rights Center "Memorial" and the Committee "Civic Assistance" are asking for help in protecting the head of the "Memorial" office in Chechnya, Oyub Titiev, in whose car on the highway between the villages of Kurchala and Mairtup on January 9 this year. planted a bag of drugs. Oyub's detention was grossly falsified. In fact, the police stopped his car on the section of the Kurchaloy-Mairtup highway at about 9 o'clock.

The 19-year-old student of the Academy was accused of preparing a sabotage for a drawing in a notebook, and after meeting with the investigator-and in preparing a terrorist attack with a detonation of a cartel cart. He is threatened with lifelong Photo: David Frenkel Last year's sabotage in the barracks of the Mozhaisk Military Space Academy and a blow of a ice cream tray in St.

A grenade exploded in a residential high-rise building in Podolsk near Moscow, killing two people. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of the regional head office of the Investigative Committee Evgenia Kiryushina. “As a result of a grenade explosion in one of the apartments in the city of Podolsk, two people were killed: the woman owner of the apartment with her partner.

The US Treasury is completing the preparation of the list of "especially close associates" for President Putin Photo: RIA Novosti The imminent end of this work was announced by US Minister of Finance Stephen Mnuchin at a press conference in the White House last Thursday. At the same time, the official representative of the US State Department Stephen Goldstein confirmed: the expansion of sanctions is a matter of time. The position of the administration has not changed.

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva accused the authors of the textbook "History of Russia: the beginning of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century", published by the Drofa publishing house, of ignorance of the historical and cultural standard. She stated this on the air of NTV, reports TASS.

Russian Viktor Ahn won the silver medal at the European Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships in Dresden in the 500 meters with a score of 41.441 seconds. This is reported by Interfax. The best was the Dutchman Shinki Knegt (41.377 seconds), and the third - the Frenchman Sebastian Lepap (41.608 seconds). Among women at the same distance, the “bronze” was won by Russian Sofya Prosvirnova (43.141 seconds).

Dmitry Chulkov, a junior researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who disappeared a few days ago in Azerbaijan, was detained. It is reported by Dozhd with reference to his friend Konstantin Malanchev. According to Malanchev, Chulkov stopped communicating on January 6, having left the city of Ganja for Lake Goygol. The press service of the RIA Novosti embassy said that they were aware of Chulkov's detention.

Restaurant chain owner Sergei Mironov wrote on Facebook that on January 12, officers from the police department of the Kuntsevo district detained employees of one of his restaurants and promised to release them in exchange for discount cards. According to Mironov, the inspection began at 13:30, "in the midst of business lunches." Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kuntsevo district began to check the documents of the restaurant and employees.

“Upward movement” will definitely collect the cashier record for Russian cinema, overtaking the “Last hero” and “Legend No. 17” - why do everyone watch it? Photo: Elena Nikitchenko / TASS In a sense, the “upward movement” can be called the sequel “Legends No. 17”. The same producer group, Trith, the same script author Nikolai Kulikov. A similar structure and nature of the conflict.

UPDATED In the cadet school, 29 children and three adults were poisoned, they were taken to the Lyubertsy City Hospital No. 2 and the Lyubertsy Center for Motherhood and Childhood. This was announced by the head of the district Vladimir Ruzhitsky Earlier it was reported that Rospotrebnadzor began an investigation into the poisoning of children at a cadet school in Lyubertsy.

Residents of a five-story building on Marshal Zhukov Avenue in Moscow appealed to the district police department, the prosecutor and the FSB with a complaint that they were being relocated to a new building with unsuitable living conditions. It is reported by RBC with reference to a copy of the appeal. Muscovites want to move to a house on Karamyshevskaya embankment, although after inspecting the house they told the mayor's office that it was not suitable for habitation.