As a result of the attack of the suicide bomber in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, 13 people were killed, Reuters reports citing local authorities. The terrorist attacked the house of the elder of one of the local tribes, when it celebrated the liberation of the elder’s son, who previously captured the militants of the radical Islamic movement Taliban (prohibited in Russia). The son of the elder is among the dead. In addition, at least 14 wounded reports, they include an elder.

Pavel Astakhov, the Commissioner for the Rights of the President of the Russian Federation, told the Russian News Service that for the dissemination of videos of cases of cruel treatment of people, including beating, criminal punishment should be introduced. The comment was followed by the appearance on the Internet video of the beating of a 16-year-old college student in the Ulyanovsk region.

At the International Space Station, a flower blossomed - zinnia of the Astrov family. Plants were planted last year in the Veggie container . Two flowers could not be saved had to be returned to Earth, but the other two continued to bloom, one of which eventually blossomed. In August, it was possible to grow a leaf salad from the cabbage family on the ISS, and after success with Zinnia, the astronauts will try to grow tomatoes.

The metropolitan police began an audit on the fact of the publication of the video , which shows how the traffic police inspector prevents the passage of the ambulance car in order to free the way with flashing lights. The video appeared on YouTube on January 16. The signature of the video indicates: “On January 13, 2016 in the suburbs, the traffic police inspector, to skip the motorcade, did not allow an ambulance, inside of which there was a baby.

The Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Alexander Novak, said Vesti Week TV shows that the oil market would begin to balanced in a year and a half. Novak noted: “Now we see that there is a decrease in the production of heavy oil, difficult to recover oil, shale oil, and we believe that it will require at least one year and a half years. The balance of supply and demand will begin to level out.

Natalia Zubarevich Natalya Zubarevich photo: Natasha Chetverikova/Polit.ru We continue to publish the materials of the book “Putin's Russia: how it arose, how it exists and how it can end”, published in 2015 by the American Institute of Entrepreneurship (American Enterprise Institute). The authors of the publication are famous scientists and experts in various fields of social knowledge. Publication is carried out with the kind resolution of AEI (Washington, DC).

In the center of Kabula, an explosion thundered. According to the Tolo News television channel, a missile projectile fell into the territory of the Italian embassy. Officials confirmed the television channel that the embassy guard was injured in the explosion. The victims are not reported. #Kabulroketttack on Italian Embassy. Officials Confirm One Embassy Security Guard Injured. - Tolonews (@tolonews) January 17, 2016 Employees of special services and firefighters arrived at the scene.

Enthusiastic opposition photo: Instagram.com/lord_095/ The story of the “exchange of courtesy” between the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the civil society was continued: the speaker of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic Magomed Daudov joined it.

The US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the introduction of new sanctions against Iran, Reuters reports.

On January 17, 1863, Konstantin Stanislavsky, director, actor and theater teacher was born. Personal business Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (real name - Alekseev; 1863–1938) was born in Moscow in a large family of the famous industrialist Sergey Alekseev. In 1878-1881 he studied at the gymnasium at the Lazarevsky Institute, then served in a family company.

This week in the journal Nature, an article was published that will open a new page in the scientific polemic around the famous “hobbits” ( Homo Floresiensis ), representatives of a related person, opened in the 2000s in one of the caves of the Indonesian island of Flores. Although the article itself is devoted to the discovery made on another island - Sulawesi.

The militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization (prohibited in Russia) stole at least 400 residents of the Syrian city of Dair-Ez-Zor, reports Reuters with reference to the data of the Syrian Monitoring Group for Human Rights. According to observers, abductions were committed in areas under the control of government forces. The hostages were, among other things, the relatives of the militias who perform on the side of the army of Syria President Bashar al -Assad.

We continue to publish the materials of the book “Putin's Russia: how it arose, how it exists and how it can end”, published in 2015 by the American Institute of Entrepreneurship (American Enterprise Institute). The authors of the publication are famous scientists and experts in various fields of social knowledge. Publication is carried out with the kind resolution of AEI (Washington, DC).

The leader of the Labor Party of Great Britain James Korbin invited the British government to consider the possibility of entering into negotiations with the Islamic State terrorist organization (prohibited in Russia) in order to search for a political decision of the crisis in Syria. According to The Mirror , Corbin said this in an interview with BBC television channel Andrew.

The United States put the Ukrainian army equipment for secure radio communications for $ 21 million, TASS reports citing the US Embassy in Ukraine. This will allow the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "to effectively exchange information without enduring itself," the embassy said.