The Domodedovo court of the Moscow Region sentenced the commander of the aircraft Zakarzhi Zakarzhiev to three years in prison on the case of the Tu-154 emergency landing at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport in 2010. It is reported by Interfax . Transcarzhaev was released on an amnesty. The court found him guilty in violation of traffic safety rules and the operation of air transport, which entailed the death of two persons through negligence.

A group of scientists from the University of California in Riverside discovered the influence of micro-RNA on the reproductive function of mosquitoes. According to Alexander Reichel, one of the authors of the study, the transgenic female mosquitoes Aedes Aegypti with a reduced amount of micro-RNA notes the serious underdevelopment of the ovaries and a decrease in the ability to lay eggs.

The Russian government plans to reduce the dependence of the budget on oil and gas revenues to 43-45% by 2035. This was in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta by the head of the Ministry of Energy Alexander Novak. The minister added that energy resources for Russia are a competitive advantage. According to him, even dependence in the amount of 43% of the budget is still huge for the Russian economy. In his opinion, diversification of income sources should lead to stabilization of the state budget.

The ribbon "Sunny Bun" by Nikita Mikhalkov received the Golden Eagle Award as the best film of the year, reports Interfax . The award ceremony was held on January 23 in the first pavilion of Mosfilm. The prize for the best directing was received by Andrei Zvyagintsev (Leviathan). Director Stanislav Govorukhin received the Golden Eagle for his contribution to the development of Russian cinema.

The Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok recognized the extremist book of publicist Ilya Falkovsky and journalist Alexander Lithuania ““ Shock Detachments ”against Putin. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to the lawyer Pavel Marakulov, representing the interests of the authors of the book.

As a result of air strikes, more than 6,000 thousand militants of the Islamic State were killed, The Daily Mail reports with reference to the US Ambassador to Iraq Stuart Jones. According to the official, about half of the top leadership got into this number. The US intelligence believes that the total number of IG fighters is from 9,000 to 18,000. Earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Iraqi Armed Forces, with the support of air strikes, conquered 700 square kilometers from IG.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expressed his readiness to meet with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavr in February in Munich. The meeting will be held in connection with the deterioration of the situation in the east of Ukraine, reports Reuters . He also noted a “significant increase in the number of heavy Russian military equipment” in eastern Ukraine. According to Stoltenberg, this applies to tanks, artillery, as well as air defense systems.

President of South Korea Pak Kyn Hye appointed the head of the parliamentary faction of the ruling party of Senouridan 64-year-old Lee Van Ga. This was reported by the state information agency . Lee Van GU will be replaced by the head of the government, Chon Hong Von, who left the post after the crash of the Sewol ferry off the southwestern coast of the Korean Peninsula on April 16, 2014. As a result of the disaster, 300 people died.

Russian musician Timur Yunusov, known as Timati, was arrested in the United States for the hooking of the Russian flag on the inscription Hollywood in Los Angeles. The singer reported this in his Instagram account. “20 minutes before we climbed the letters, stuck the flag there and we were arrested,” the musician wrote. For three hours from the moment of publication, the Timati message has collected more than 55 thousand views.

The co -owner of the largest Russian agricultural machinery manufacturer Rostselmash, Konstantin Babkin, said in an interview with Kommersant FM , which considers the sale of the Russian Lada Kalina car an indicator of the super -competitiveness of the domestic automotive industry.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova reached the 1/8 finals of the Australian Open Championship (Australian Open), according to the tournament website . She beat the Kazakhstani athlete Zarin Diyas with a score of 6: 1, 6: 1. For the match, Sharapova won the point three times with the presentation and implemented six Break Punts. In the next circle, Sharapova will play with the Chinese woman Pan Shuai. She beat another Kazakhstan tennis player Yaroslav Shvedov.

The Ministry of Culture has developed a technical platform for collecting information on the use of copyright objects on the Internet. This was written by the newspaper Kommersant on Friday, January 23.

In the anti -crisis program, which is now being discussed by the Russian government, structural reforms should take the first place. This was stated by ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, speaking at the business breakfast of Sberbank as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Interfax reports. “Why are we not discussing key structural reforms today? We say that they are needed, but we are not moving further, ”he said.

Two groups of scientists: one, led by Yan Khovat from the University of Ohio, others, led by Michael Willis from the University of Cornell, found that two major lakes with thawed water, which existed under the Greenland glaciers, unexpectedly deserted . In place of one of the lakes, about 50 kilometers from the southern coast of Greenland, a crater with a diameter of 2 kilometers and a depth of about 70 meters was formed.

The head of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, is going to blow up the airport of Donetsk. This was announced on his Twitter by journalist Oliver Carroll, referring to the statement of the head of the DPR. “Will the airport be reconstructed? In the future - yes. But first it needs to be blown up, ”said the DPR leader. Earlier, the leadership of the DPR announced the death of 24 separatists and 16 civilians per day during the battles for the Donetsk airport.