The Bitcoin course for the first time in the history of the existence of cryptocurrency exceeded $ 40 thousand. According to Coindesk, the price of cryptocurrency at 21:29 Moscow time was $ 40169. Over the past day, the Bitcoin course has grown by 13.45%. The price of cryptocurrency has doubled since the beginning of December. The growth of the cryptocurrency course was followed by the elimination of 100 thousand positions of traders. During the day, users lost about $ 800 million.

Russian Andrei Tyurin was sentenced in the United States to 12 years in prison on charges of stealing the personal data of more than 80 million customers of the American company JPMorgan Chase & Co and other US financial institutions, RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom . After serving his sentence, Tyurin will be deported to Russia. He also has to pay the US more than $19 million.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has become the richest person in the world with a fortune of $188.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg online index. Shares of one of Musk’s companies, Tesla, have grown by 743% over the past year and continue to rise in price. On January 7, Tesla securities rose on the stock exchange by another 4.8%. The billionaire himself reacted to these messages only on Twitter.

The local parliament of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany approved the idea of ​​creating a fund to protect the contractors of the Nord Stream 2 project from US sanctions, Taeglicher Anzeiger reports . Created at the initiative of the local government, the fund was named "Climate and Environmental Protection MV". The declared goals of the fund are the development of green energy, only one of the tasks of the organization is the construction of Nord Stream 2.

US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts will remain blocked for another two weeks, that is, until the transfer of power to the elected head of state, Joseph Biden. This was announced by the head of Facebook Inc. Mark Zuckerberg, who owns all of the listed social networks. “Over the past few years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platforms in accordance with the rules, at times removing content or flagging his posts as violating social media policies.

After the assault on the Capitol of Trump, they want to deprive the post after the 25th amendment. How does it work? Photo: Getty images On January 6, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump, among whom were right -wing radicals, broke into the Capitol during a Congress meeting, occupied offices, defeated glasses and began to take out property.

In the Murmansk region, a physician died at work. This is the second death of an ambulance employee in the workplace lately Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New" Alexei Fomitsky was gone on January 1. The ambulance paramedic of the small city of Kovdor Murmansk region replaced, felt unimportant. He was a little behind, as his colleagues say, and again went to the call. In the road, the heart of a 43-year-old medic stopped.

The authorities of the Murmansk region, on behalf of the governor, presented the children with New Year's gift sets, which included explosive flashlights. Residents report on social networks that toys explode during charging. Fragments of the New Year's gift. Photo from social networks The governor invited 3900 schoolchildren from among gifted children, excellent students, children with disabilities and children who work in the “red zones” of infectious hospitals to the online Yelki.

Businessman Oleg Tinkov has reduced his stake in TCS Group (which controls Tinkoff Bank) by converting class B shares into class A shares, according to the website of the London Stock Exchange. The disclosure states that now the share of voting shares of Tinkov is only 35%, and not 84%, as it was before. Thus, the entrepreneur no longer controls the group. Shares of TCS Group rose 3.9% after the publication of the message.

Six White House staff members are being terminated early after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol during Congressional approval of Democrat Joe Biden's presidential election. The first to announce the dismissal was Stephanie Grisham , chief of staff to US First Lady Melania Trump and former head of the White House press service. She said goodbye to employers and their children on Twitter a day after the Washington uprising.

Both houses of the US Congress officially approved the electoral votes and the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the race for the presidency, reports . CNN Congressmen counted Vermont's three electoral votes, providing the necessary threshold of 270 votes for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The Senate and House of Representatives have overturned objections to votes in Pennsylvania and Georgia, where Trump has called into question.

The head of Buryatia, Aleksey Tsydenov, amended the decree on the fight against coronavirus and ordered all persons arriving in the republic from Moscow, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk to be tested for COVID-19. This was reported on the website of the authorities of Buryatia. The measure will be in effect until January 20. Testing of arrivals will be free of charge at the airport.

Instead of a peaceful transfer of power - the "hellish battle", arranged by supporters of Trump Photo: Getty images The drama with the summarizing of the US presidential elections, held on November 3, was supposed to end at a joint meeting of both chambers of Congress, gathered in accordance with the Constitution on the sixth day of January at 13 o’clock in the east coast (21 hours Moscow time).

Traveler Anton Krotov - about the rules of the hitchhiking, life for a dollar per day, African problems and about where to go to Russia Anton Krotov is 44. He is the author of 58 travel books, the founder of the Academy of Free Travelers. He visited a hitchhiking 130 countries. Anton recalls his first distant trip, made electric trains in 1991: at the age of 14, he reached the Bologous from Moscow by a hare on the Perenniye. In total, that year, still a schoolboy, he traveled 48 cities.

In Russia, 23,541 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected over the past day. This is reported by the capital's operational headquarters for the fight against infection. The day before, January 6, 24,217 new cases of COVID were detected throughout the country. The total number of all cases of coronavirus infection in Russia over the entire period of the pandemic has grown to 3,332,142.