The countdown went: what threatens the murder of Iranian General Suleimani Iranian spiritual leader with a portrait of Suleimani / EPA On Friday January 3, at the Baghdad International Airport, the American rocket killed a senior Iranian general Kashm Suleimani, when he left his special male. He was met by Abu Mahdi al-Mukhandis, deputy commander of the Iraqi folk mobilization forces ( NMS-Iraqi Rewsel Shiite Militia ), which was also killed.

In Moscow, law enforcement officers detained a picket participant in support of the defendants in the Network case (recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia) Sergei Zapolnov. This is reported by MBH-media. The police approached Zopolny when he went to the monument to Griboyedov with a poster "Knocking out teeth, get stars." They, without explaining the reasons, demanded that the young man present documents.

Hezbollah sources make an unexpected prediction about the consequences of the assassination of the head of Al Quds Force Qassem Soleimani. Photo: SalamPix / ABACA / TASS FROM THE EDITOR The powder keg, extremely heated by the wars in Syria and Iraq, may explode after the assassination of General Soleimani The assassination of Iranian General Soleimani by an American missile fired from a drone sets off a series of events that could become irreversible and catastrophic.

Polish President Andrzej Duda refused to travel to Israel for the World Holocaust Forum, which is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the prisoners of the German Auschwitz concentration camp. He made this decision due to the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be present at the event, Polish Gazeta Wyborcza reports , citing a source in the Polish leader's office. In Warsaw, however, no official statements on this matter have been made so far.

What happened in Magnitogorsk? Photo: RIA Novosti At 6.02 minutes in the morning of December 31, 2018, an explosion occurred in Magnitogorsk. The apartment was exploded, located right above the arch in the 7th entrance of a huge apartment building. The arch could not stand it, the entrance collapsed, 39 people died. Already in the evening of December 31, investigators came to the wife of one of the local Magnitogorsk Islamists - Almir Abitova.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the court arrested the head of the Kozulsky district, a member of the United Russia party Fedor Gardt. He is suspected of receiving a bribe, the press service of the Investigative Department of the SPR in the Krasnoyarsk Territory said .

The Investigation Department of the ICR for the Kemerovo Region opened a criminal case on the fact of abuse of official powers by the employees of SIZO-4 in the city of Anzhero-Sudzhensk after a video of beatings of prisoners appeared on the network. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee of the TFR for the region.

(From the book "Princess Grishka"). Reader Alexander Genis The strength of the New Year is in its unshakable constancy. Rooted in the measured change of days, it is the guarantor of that higher order that shines through the chaos of everyday life and illuminates it. Surrendering to the calendar, we exchange the anarchic will of arbitrariness for the disciplined passion of the game.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ratified a bill allowing the deployment of Turkish troops to Libya. It is reported by TASS. The day before, the document was adopted by the Turkish parliament. The bill received 325 MPs from the ruling Justice and Development Party and the nationalist National Movement Party. 184 representatives of opposition political associations opposed.

From January 1, Russia stopped oil supply to Belarus. This was reported by TASS with reference to representatives of the Belneftekhim concern. The oil pipeline "Friendship". Photo: Elena Romanova/ "New Gazeta" “The supply of Russian oil is not carried out. The loading of oil refineries is reduced to a minimum technologically permitted level, ”the agency was told in the press service of the concern.

In Naberezhnye Chelny, “indefinite protest” activist Karim Yamadayev was taken away for interrogation in connection with a criminal case of insulting the authorities because of his YouTube film “Judge Gramm”, in which “sentences” are read out to people with signs “Peskov”, “Sechin” and "Putin". Volunteer of Navalny's headquarters Dmitry Teterin told Novaya Gazeta about this.

The United States announced the assassination in Iraq of one of the influential Iranian generals, Qasem Soleimani. He was killed in an airstrike near Baghdad airport, according to the press service of the US Department of Defense. The missile attack, which killed the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was ordered by US President Donald Trump.