Hundreds of thousands of Orthodox residents of Russia celebrated the feast of the Epiphany on the night of January 19 with a traditional swim in an ice hole. The great consecration of water in memory of the Baptism of Jesus Christ in the waters of the Jordan was performed yesterday in the Epiphany Cathedral of the capital by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. About 30 thousand Muscovites, despite the severe frosts, took part in Epiphany bathing.

Moscow authorities claim to manage all the city's main airports Apparently, under the pretext of mass complaints from passengers about the conditions of service at airports in the capital region, the Moscow authorities decided to resume negotiations with the federal authorities on the transfer of Sheremetyevo to the management of the city.

A new technique for creating prosthetics from natural materials has been developed Italian biologists from the Istek bioceramics laboratory in Faenza, a town near Bologna, have learned to transform rattan into a material that is practically no different from human bone tissue. Pieces of rattan, a plant from a genus of tropical vines, are heated in an oven. At a certain stage, carbon and calcium are added.

Scientists predict new destructive earthquakes in the Haiti region A new earthquake awaits residents of the Caribbean islands. Seismologists are sure of this. Based on historical documents, observational results and calculations, scientists conclude that the devastating earthquake in Haiti that occurred on January 12 is not the first and not the last in this region. The last time three powerful earthquakes of approximately the same magnitude shook Haiti between 1751 and 1770.

Fifty years ago, man reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench On January 23, 1960, Swiss oceanographer and engineer Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh on the bathyscaphe Trieste sank to the bottom of the Challenger Abyss, located in the deepest sea trench on the planet - Mariana. Sensors on board recorded a depth of 11,521 meters, but more accurate measurements taken a third of a century later reduced it by 600 m.

A new “hunting season” has opened in Chechnya for the elusive Doku Umarov In the mountainous regions of Chechnya, as the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov announced, yesterday a large-scale special operation began to search for and eliminate the “head of the Caucasus Emirate” Doku Umarov, whom the security forces have been hunting for many years without success.

New exoplanet discovered Scientists have discovered another exoplanet located outside our solar system. The discovery was made using the highly sensitive Keka-I telescope with a mirror with a diameter of 10 m, which is located in the observatory on the top of the extinct Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea.

The head of the Fayur-Soyuz holding was accused of illegally exceeding the plan The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday announced the arrest of Ruslan Albegov, head of the Fayur-Soyuz group of companies, a large producer of strong alcoholic beverages. He has been charged with “illegal entrepreneurship.” According to investigators, he did not pay additional excise taxes to the budget from the sale of alcoholic beverages in the amount of more than a billion rubles.

The President promised Russia a new school, and teachers a new salary system In the coming days, President Dmitry Medvedev will launch the national initiative “Our New School”. The head of state announced his decision to sign a plan for reforming Russian general education on Tuesday, speaking at a regular meeting of the council for the implementation of priority national projects and demographic policy. Mr.