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In Belarus on the night of 28 January, died of Soviet pop singer, former member of the ensemble “Veras” Alexander Tikhanovich. About it reported in Instagram his daughter Anastasia. People’s artist of Belarus was 64 years old.   “Tonight was not my dad… We thank everyone who throughout his amazing life’s journey was near. Thank you to everyone who prayed and supported him in the past and very difficult year,” wrote the daughter of the contractor.   Belarusian portal TuT.By writes that in recent Tikhanovich was seriously ill. Date and place of burial of the singer have not yet been determined.   Alexander Tikhanovich was born in Minsk in 1952. He graduated from the Belarusian state Conservatory and began his musical career in the orchestra of the Suvorov military school. In addition to the “Verasy” ensemble, performed in the ensemble “Pesnyary”, and later formed his own band which was called

US sanctions against Russia, introduced under the previous President Barack Obama perhaps may be withdrawn in the foreseeable future. Such a conclusion can be drawn by analyzing received in recent days, information from the inner circle of the new head of the White house of Donald trump.   In particular, the journalist of the edition of Politico Susan Glasser wrote on his Twitter page that some of its sources reported about the preparation in the close to Trump the circles of the decree on unilateral withdrawal from the Russia sanctions.   The same news was disseminated and a research associate of the analytical center Atlantic Council Fabrice pottier, who wrote on his page in social networks: “the order of the President on lifting sanctions against Russia is already prepared.” Finally, these data confirmed senior adviser to the US President Kellyann Conway, who said in an interview with Fox News channel

The President of the United States of America Donald trump told the Minister of defence James Mattis to analyze the condition of the nuclear forces of the United States, it is reported RIA Novosti with reference to the text of the Memorandum, signed by the President on January 27.   As follows from the text, instructed trump left to ensure a more effective process of nuclear deterrence and the security of the allies.   “The Minister of defence should initiate the analysis of the status of nuclear forces to nuclear deterrence the United States was a modern, powerful, mobile, were in readiness and answered the threats of the XXI century, as well as defending our allies,” – said in the text of the Memorandum.   Earlier it became known that the U.S. Congress can pass a bill according to which the President will lose the right to give the order

Eight people were dismissed from the national police of Ukraine, as well as about a dozen people received disciplinary punishments after the shooting, law enforcement officers in the village of kniazhychi near Kiev, said the head of the MIA of Ukraine Arsen Avakov. This writes liga.net. “Eight people fired. About 12 people were disciplined, including about incomplete office conformity is declared to the chief of the Kiev police Colonel kryschenko and head of the Department of German Attack,” — said Avakov. According to him, the incident was the result of the fact that when planning the operation, were serious shortcomings. The incident occurred on 4 December 2016 in towns knyazhichi Kyiv region. In the shootout, employees of civil service protection and police killed five employees of the interior Ministry of Ukraine. During the investigation was dismissed, the chiefs of the three departments of the Kyiv police. Photo: Serg Glovny /

The man attacked the employee of Regardie in the Moscow region. As reports “Interfax” with reference to the press service of the Ministry, the incident occurred around midnight.   “The squad of group of detention of Lenin Department of private security of Regardie in the Moscow region saw three young men beat a man in the shopping center on the 32-km outer side of MKAD”, – noted in Regardie.   Noticing the outfit, two attacker tried to escape, and one attacked an employee of Regardie with a shard of the broken bottle. Then the guard warned the bully of the intention to use firearms and fired several shots in the air, but the assailant did not stop and hit a shard of glass in his left hand and an employee of Regardie.   Then the guards used their weapons and fired two shots at the legs of the attacker. The

The US President Donald trump has signed a decree suspending for 120 days the program of reception of refugees in the United States, RIA Novosti reported.   In accordance with the official document in 2017 America will take no more than 50 thousand persons. It is reported that the priority in reviewing applications for refugee status in the US will be given to persecuted religious minorities.   In addition, the United States plans to develop a special biometric system, control of all entering the country. Previously, Donald trump announced the introduction of a temporary ban on entering the US and suspend the issuance of visas for citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Photo: Aftonbladet ZUMAPRESS / globallookpress

The police security service Norway (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste, PST – approx.ed.) said that Russia allegedly tried to influence the Nobel Committee with the purpose to avoid receiving the Nobel peace prize by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in 2015. Reported state broadcaster NRK.   PST in the person of chief of counterintelligence Arne Christian Haugsdal believes that published on the Internet in the summer of 2015 a letter signed by Vladimir Groisman, the then representative of the Ukrainian Parliament, which allegedly Groysman discuss with the charge d’affaires of the USA in Norway awarding the Nobel prize to Peter Poroshenko, was created with the involvement of Russian secret services to discredit the Ukrainian President.   There is no evidence in favor of this version of the representatives of PST journalists not reported, but added that Russian hackers may have also tried to hack the computers of employees of the Norwegian Nobel

Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva became a two-time European champion and set two new world records at the European championship in figure skating, held in the Czech Ostrava, reported TASS.   The Russian athlete established a new world record for total points in a short and arbitrary program, their number amounted to 229,71. The previous record belonged to the representative of South Korea Kim Yu-na.   In addition, Medvedev scored 150,79 points in the free program, thus setting another world record.   Earlier it became known that the Russian skaters Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov took gold in the competition of sports pairs in the same tournament. Russian couple in the total amount of scored points 227,58 that allowed her to climb to the top spot of the podium, despite losing the long program, where the Russians lost to a team from Germany. Photo: Jaroslav Ozana / CTK / Globallookpress