The eldest son of the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro committed suicide, reports The Associated Press. According to the media, the man suffered from depression. Cubadebate notes that in recent months, “due to deep depression”, a whole group of doctors worked with him. Fidel Castro Diaz Barat is the eldest son of a revolutionary. He was 68 years old, and because of the resemblance to his father, he received the nickname "Fidelito". Fidel Castro died in November 2016.

The cryptocurrency market over the past day lost $ 60 billion, the total capitalization of the cryptocurrency market amounted to about $ 410 billion, RBC reports with reference to CoinmarketCap. Bitcoin was $ 8.66 thousand, losing 7.6%per day. During the day, for the first time in ten weeks, he fell below $ 8 thousand .. Most other cryptocurrencies suffered more large -scale losses, falling by 10–20%. On January 17, the Bitcoin exchange rate dropped below $ 10,000.

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The head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova made a comment to the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov for illegal campaigning. This is written by "Vedomosti". “The media published information about the statement of the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov with an assessment of the activities of his boss, in which there were obvious signs of agitation,” said Pamfilova.

The administration of the Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation Institute reprimanded the freshmen who took off the parody of the clip of Benny Benassion Satiffaction. This was announced by the rector of the institute Sergey Krasnov. They violated the charter of the educational institution, he explained. According to him, educational conversations were also held with cadets and their parents.

The Davos economic forum ended. No one noticed, but he nevertheless passed. Once we believed that this is an important geopolitical event and a collection of the “world government”, and then they forgot about it. Nevertheless, there, as the Guardian newspaper wrote, "people with an inadequate amount of money and authorities discuss how they see the near future of mankind." This, of course, is a somewhat left -handed formulation - about the “inadequate volume” - but nevertheless.

News The Ministry of Finance proposed creating offshores for the trade of cryptocurrency in Vladivostok and Kaliningrad 2 February 2018 The Ministry of Finance proposes to create special offshores in Russia for organized trading of cryptocurrency. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev. According to Moiseev, offshore zones can be created in Vladivostok on the island of Russian and in Kaliningrad on the island of Oktyabrsky.

In Lyceum No. 16 of the city of Vologdonsk, the Rostov region, a mathematics teacher Tatyana Alekseenko cut off a strand of hair during the lesson that she did not braid them. This was reported by the publication 161.ru. According to the mother of the student, who is quoted by the publication, her daughter did not braid her hair before the lesson and hid it under the turtleneck. The teacher did not like this, and she cut off the girl a strand of hair during the lesson.

Ernest Mesak, a member of the board of the Human Rights Protection Commission “Memorial”, appealed in court the review by the Ministry of Culture of the rental certificate of the film “Death of Stalin” in the Syktyvkar City Court. As Interfax reports, Mesak himself announced this.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow found the ex-governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh guilty of receiving bribes on an especially large scale and sentenced him to 8 years in a strict regime colony. Belykh was also fined 48.5 million rubles, for three years after the release he will not be able to work in government agencies.

Samara schools have introduced a project designed to increase interest in the presidential election. This was reported by ZNAK with reference to Twitter's user Ekaterina Gerasimova, who posted the plans for teachers for teachers as part of the project called "I am a citizen, I am a voter." The event plan is designed for school students from 1 to 11th grades.

The American model Kate Apton accused one of the founders and creative director of Guess Paul Marciano of sexual harassment. “It is very disappointed that the Guess brand still allows the marchiano Paul to be a creative director for women. You cannot allow him to use his power in this industry in order to sexy women sexually and emotionally, ”said Applied.

In the city of Spas-Demensk, the 7th grade student attacked a classmate with a kitchen knife, after which he jumped out the window, according to the website of the regional department of the UK. The Investigative Committee opened the case under Part 3 of Article 30, Article 105 of the Criminal Code (attempted murder). On February 2, at school No. 1, before the start of the first lesson, the student attacked a classmate and inflicted cut wounds on him.

The Minsk City Court sentenced to five years in prison with a delay in the sentence of three employees of the Russian REGNUM agency accused of inciting National REMENT, BelTA reports . Dmitry Alimkin, Yuri Pavlovets, Sergey Shiptenko are found guilty of performing intentional actions aimed at initiating national enmity or raising by a group of persons.

Members of the Presidential Council under the President Maxim Shevchenko and Nikolai Svanidze held a meeting, but refused to shake hands. According to Interfax, this was announced by the head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov. At the same time, according to him, "The topic is exhausted." “Today there was a meeting, which was attended by several members of the council, there were sides of the conflict themselves, Nikolai Svanidze and Maxim Shevchenko.