In Tyumen, a suspect in the case of arson of a multi -storey building was detained, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the regional department of the RF IC Anastasia Lepikhin. “The person suspected of committing this crime is detained. Investigative-operational measures are held with him, ”said Lepukhina. The fire occurred on January 8 in house number 4 on Olympic Street in Tyumen. On the facade of a nine -story residential building, a heater was burning.

Over the past three years, dozens of Russian businessmen and members of their families have received Maltese citizenship, paying about 900 thousand euros for it, RBC reports with reference to the information published on the website of the Malta Government. According to the publication, more than 730 people became citizens of Malta with the combinations of names, surnames and patronymics known in Russia.

Kommersant, citing its own military sources, called the Russian military bases involved in the shelling in Syria. According to the publication, it is a group of Syrian rebels Ahrar Ashham. The version of the Ahrar al-Sham involvement is also confirmed by the decoding of data from intercepted drones. Earlier, the militants of the group have already tried to use unmanned aerial vehicles to destroy the sapper units of the Syrian army in Homs, but the drones were noticed and immediately destroyed.

In Chechnya, the head of the regional human rights center "Memorial" Oyub Titiev was detained.

The convicted former OMON employee Artem Tronin was found dead in the Perm IK-37, Kommersant reports with reference to the head of the press service of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service Stanislav Vollegov. “The body of the convict was found on the night of January 1 to 2, now our internal audit is being carried out, all materials are transferred to the investigating authorities, to the prosecutor's office,” Vololegov said.

The Ministry of Justice has introduced to the register of extremist materials the lyrics of the song “Kill the astronauts” of the Tver rock band “Ensemble of Christ the Savior and the mother of cheese earth”. This was reported on the website of the department. The lyrics, which begins with the phrase “I am a stubborn supporter of the people's reprisal”, ended up in the register on December 29, 2017 on the basis of a decision of the Blagoveshchensk City Court, issued on October 16, 2017.

The DPRK and South Korea began the first negotiations in December 2015 with the participation of higher -level diplomats, BBC reports . The meeting of delegations takes place in the village of Phanmunge, in a demilitarized zone on the border between countries. It is devoted to the discussion of the participation of the DPRK in the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

The collection collector for Ksenia Sobchak Sergey Selyukov, beaten in the Queen near Moscow, turned out to be a former provocateur of the NOD, who participated in the beatings of the opposition. In the summer of 2016, he tried to disrupt the election campaign of the chairman of the Libertarian Party Andrei Shalnev and attacked the picket of "solidarity". Selyukov is not the only employee of the headquarters of the TV presenter, convicted of work on power.

The Minister of Natural Resources, Sergei Donskoy, echoed cigarette packages and ashtrays in the list of waste to be mandatory disposal, RBC reports . “We will expand the list of products that will be involved in the manufacturer’s advanced responsibility system. In 2015, when the document was accepted, there was a crisis year when many restrictions were introduced. Therefore, then the list of fees was short, the bets are also not very high.

The DPRK will send a delegation to the Olympic Games, which will begin in February in South Korean Pyeongchang, reports Reuters with reference to a senior South Korean official. The source of the agency claims that officials, athletes and support group will include the delegation. It is not said about whether athletes will participate in competitions.

A considerate listener sent me a personal message recommending to add tea to milk, not vice versa. This issue was in the center of attention of many British authors for quite a while. It is yet another real-life counterpart of Jonathan Swift's dispute over which end a boiled egg should be broken, just like yearly Russian debates about ingredients of Russian salad – an integral New Year dish. Isn't it similar to the election campaign as well?

Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “Littleness” was included in the list of nominees for the Prize of the British Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. The award website says that the picture is presented in the category of "Best Film Foreign Language." The competitors of the Russian picture in this nomination will be the “she” of Paul Verkhoven, “first they killed my father: the memoirs of the daughter of Cambodia” by Angelina Jolie, “Mademoiselle” Pak Chkhan Decam and “Kommiyuier” by Asgar Farhadi.

US President Donald Trump was unable to fulfill the national anthem of the United States during the university football championship in Atlanta. It is reported by BBC. The television company published a video that shows that during the performance of the anthem the president holds his right hand on the heart and sings, but does not fall into words.

In Chechnya, an employee of the regional human rights center "Memorial" Oyub Titiev was detained. The head of the Kurchaloevsky District Department of Internal Affairs told a member of the HRC under the head of Chechnya Heda Saratova that Titiev was taken to the Kurchaloevsky police department. About this writes "New Gazeta". Titiev was detained on Tuesday, January 9, at 10:30.

Engineer James Deimer, fired from Google after the publication of the manifesto of gender inequality in the IT industry, filed a lawsuit against the corporation. He accused former employers of discriminating himself as "a white man with conservative political views." It is reported by Reuters. The lawsuit was sent to the court of Santa Clara County in California Damor and other former Google employee David Gudman.