Russia has begun to reduce the armed forces group in Syria, first the country's aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the cruiser Peter the Great and the ships accompanying them will be left. This was announced to journalists by the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, Interfax reports.

The American intelligence report on the alleged intervention of Russia in the election of the US President included these wiretapping Russian officials, as well as information about the persons who transferred WikiLeaks data stolen from the Democratic Party. About this an American official told The Washington Post.

At the Fort Lleoderdale Internaryzhnaya Airport in Florida there was a shooting, CNN reports . According to NBC News, at least three people died. The sheriff of the district Broward confirmed the death of five people. Eight more victims are hospitalized, he reports.

The Turkish police detained 18 people in the case of an explosion in the city of Izmir in the west of the country. This was stated by the head of the Turkish Ministry of Justice Bekir Bozdag, reports Reuters . Ankara is sure that the militants of the Kurdistan (RPK) working party forbidden in Turkey are responsible for the explosion for the explosion, the minister added. The explosion next to the court building in Izmir occurred on January 5.

In 2016, the penetration of technology into human life became high as never before: US presidency candidates used the bots in the election struggle, hacker attacks became the theme of the diplomatic agenda, and Facebook algorithms were able to create impassable information bubbles around users. Technologies continue to improve daily - new revolutionary developments often appear unnoticed by the consumer.

Gazprom set a new historical daily record for export to distant abroad. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the management of the company's information. According to the department, on January 5, 614.6 million cubic meters of gas were delivered to consumers. “This year we continued to update the daily maximums of supplies to the far abroad.

The Chinese Internet retailer AliExpress suspended the express delivery of goods to Russia through SPSR due to problems with customs clearance at the border. The corresponding letter was received by sellers trading through this platform, reports TASS .

American intelligence published a report on the “interference” of Russia in the US presidential election. “We declare that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the“ interference ”campaign in the US election,” the document says. According to the authors of the report, the task of Russia was to undermine the “faith of the people in the democratic process in the United States” and harm the reputation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and its “potential presidency”.

The American media holding Meredith Corporation is considering the purchase option of the Time Inc. media company. This was told by Bloomberg by sources familiar with the situation. According to the interlocutor, Time received a corresponding proposal and intends to hold a meeting of the board of directors during January 2017 to make a decision.

Saudi Arabia reduced oil production as part of an agreement with OPEC countries. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to a source familiar with the situation. According to the interlocutor of the publication, since October, the kingdom has reduced production by at least 486 thousand barrels per day.

The Interjet Mexican airline announced the return of Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft. The carrier reported this on Facebook. “After the necessary repair work, Interjet began returning to the operation of 11 Superjet-100 aircraft, which were on the ground after receiving an instruction on their flight-power from the Russian authorities,” the company said. The air carrier explained that the resumption of flights of Russian liners will be carried out gradually.

The elected US President Donald Trump called the excitement around the “intervention” of Russian hackers to the American elections “political witch hunt”. He said this in an interview with The New York Times. Trump noted that his opponents who are “embarrassed by their defeat” in the US president’s election lead. “China relatively recently hacked 20 million government accounts. Why isn't anyone discussing this? " He added.

The elected US President Donald Trump excluded the possibility of building a wall on the border with Mexico at the expense of the American authorities. He wrote about this on his Twitter. “The dishonest media do not report that all the money spent on the construction of the Great Wall will be paid to Mexico later,” he wrote.

Microsoft is developing a new design for the Windows 10 user interface. This is reported by The Verge and publishes project screenshots. https://twitter.com/bagriul/status/8171475333457756164?lang=en The development is called Project Neon. The publication noted that animations and blurry elements will prevail in the new design. The Acrylic tool will also appear in Windows 10, with which developers will be able to work out in detail the appearance of universal applications.

The “Billion dollars spy” is the third book of the American journalist and Pulitzer laureate David Hoffman, published in Russia (published at Corpus in 2016, the transfer of Anton Shirikov) and the second about the Cold War. But if the previous documentary of the author, the “dead hand”, is devoted to the balancing of the superpower at the very edge of the nuclear abyss, then the “spy” is an example of a more private history.