According to the Turkish police, the attack in the nightclub of Istanbul on New Year's Eve was committed by a citizen of Uzbekistan Abdulgadir Masharipov, nicknamed Abu Muhammad Khorasan. About this writes Daily Sabah. The investigation also established that the attacker, shooting in the crowd, released 180 bullets. After the attack, he went to the kitchen of the institution, from where he managed to leave the building.

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 hydrometeorological center on January 8 declared the penultimate, “orange” level of danger due to severe frosts in Moscow, the department reports TASS. “The“ orange ”level means that the weather is dangerous. There is a chance of natural disasters, damage, ”the agency quoted the Hydrometeorological Center. The same level of danger is valid for the Kostroma region, in other regions of the Central Federal District, a “yellow” level has been declared due to cold weather.

In the case of the murder of the Russian ambassador in Turkey, five people were detained, Anadola reports with reference to the prosecutor's office of the city of Izmir. Four of the detainees are the police who served with the Ambassador killer, another detainee - “activist of the terrorist course of Fethullah Gulen”, the prosecutor's office claims.

In the Turkish city, Tartus was detained and then arrested by a court decision of four immigrants from Chechnya, who were suspected of trying to leave for Syria and join the Islamic State. This was reported by the Anadolu agency. According to the police, the detainees planned to leave Tartus to the Khatay Turkish Province Border with Syria, and then get to Syrian territory.

Sources of solar energy at the exhibition in Seoul, 1962. Photo: Keystone Pictures USA / Zuma / Tass The billionaire Bill Gates once wrote that he had taken up the book of Joe Stadwell’s journalist “Asian management model: good luck and failures of the most dynamic region in the world” (published in the Publisher Alpine Publishing House), since he promised him to clearly answer two questions. First: How did Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China achieved a high rate of sustainable economic growth?

The Russian film "Viking" raised 1 billion 52 million rubles in the box office for nine days of show. Such data are given by the Film Business Today. According to the portal, this is a new record for Russian cinema. “The previous achievement belonged to the Stalingrad military drama who had handed this task in eleven days, and the crew’s tape“ Crew ”, as well as another hit of the film distribution,“ Viu ”, took twelve days this year.

The lawyers of the Caucasian Knot check the publication on Instagram of the chairman of the Parliament of Chechnya Magomed Daudov for a crime under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the prevention of journalists. About this Novaya Gazeta was told by the editor -in -chief of the Caucasian Knot Grigory Swedov. We are talking about a post made in early January.

Apple and Google blocked access to LinkedIn in Appendix stores at the request of the Russian authorities. This is written by New York Times. Apple confirmed to the publication that about a month ago the company received a request to block the application in Russia. Removing the application from Google Play and App Store will not be able to completely limit access to the business network, the publication notes.

China financial regulators study the possible use of bitcoins in the outflow of capital outflow from the country. It is reported by Coindesk with reference to the Chinese edition of Tencent Finance. State currency management (STETENSISTRATION OF FOREIN Exchange, SAFE) of the PRC is trying to understand whether investments in cryptocurrency can be used to withdraw currency abroad bypassing the state.

The elected US President Donald Trump will take “aggressive steps” against hacker attacks. This was stated by the future vice president Mike Pence, reports Reuters . “The elected president made it clear that from the first days of our administration, we are going to take aggressive steps to combat cyberats and defend the American people from such attacks in the future,” he said. On January 6, intelligence presented Trump for a report on the “interference” of Russia in the American elections.

The eighth stage of the Biathlon World Cup, which was planned to be held in Tyumen, will be held in the Finnish city of Contiolahti. This was reported on the website of the International Union of Biathlonists (IBU). Competitions will be held from March 6 to 12, 2017. On December 22, the Union of Biathlonists of Russia (SBR) notified IBU of the refusal to hold the stage of the World Cup and the Junior World Cup in the Russian Federation.