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List of events in January 2016 .

Events

  • 1st of January
    • The Free Trade Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union came into force [1] .
    • Ukraine began issuing ID cards instead of internal paper passports [2] .
    • Five new non-permanent members have begun work in the UN Security Council - Egypt , Senegal , Ukraine , Uruguay and Japan , succeeding Chad, Nigeria, Lithuania, Chile and Jordan [3] .
  • January 2
    • In Saudi Arabia , the preacher Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others were executed; Iran condemned the execution, mass protests began in Bahrain [4] .
  • January 3rd
    • The Islamic state published a video showing the killing of five people accused of spying for Britain [5] .
    • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Saudi Arabia will suffer "divine punishment" for the execution of the famous Shiite preacher Nimr Bakr al-Nimra [6] . The Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Adil al-Jubair, announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Iran [7] .
    • Donald Trump accused Obama and Clinton of creating IG [8] .
  • 4 January
    • Trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange was stopped after the fall of the key stock index of the Shanghai Composite country by almost 7% [9]
    • Gazprom stopped purchasing natural gas from Turkmenistan under a contract concluded in 2003 for 25 years [10] .
    • Bahrain and Sudan, following Saudi Arabia, broke off diplomatic relations with Iran [7] .
  • 5 January
    • The German leadership admitted that on New Year's Eve in Cologne, about 90 women were subjected to robbery and sexual harassment by a crowd of men, possibly of Arab or African descent [11] . Similar incidents also occurred in Hamburg and Stuttgart [12] .
    • In Belarus , protests began against presidential decree No. 222, which, according to the protesters, does not allow trading in non-food products of the countries of the Customs Union [13] .
  • 6th January
    • DPRK announces successful test of hydrogen bomb . The seismic control services of China, Japan, the USA and South Korea recorded an earthquake of magnitude 4 to 5 [14] .
  • January 7
    • The armed forces of Saudi Arabia use prohibited weapons in the war in Yemen , ignoring the opinion of the UN [15] .
  • January 8
    • Oregon activists, who captured a remote outpost in a national reserve near Lake Malur in the southeast state, refused to negotiate with the authorities and insist on their right to use federal lands for free [16] .
  • January 9
    • A fire broke out in the government building of Kosovo after oppositional demonstrators, dissatisfied with the agreement between the Kosovo authorities and Serbia , bombarded the building with Molotov cocktails [17] .
  • January 10th
    • In many cities of the world, including Moscow , the annual action " In the subway without pants " was held [18] .
    • The 73rd Golden Globe Awards Ceremony was held in Los Angeles . The best films were named " Survivor " and " Martian " [19] .
  • January 11th
    • Kyriakos Mitsotakis became the leader of the opposition in Greece [20] .
    • In China, a large-scale reform of the governing bodies of the People's Liberation Army of China began [21] .
    • In Pakistan, a stock exchange was created by merging three trading floors operating in Islamabad , Karachi and Lahore [22] .
  • January 12th
    • As a result of the attack in Istanbul in the area of ​​Sultanahmet Square , at least ten people were killed [23] .
  • 13th of January
    • The main international award in the field of architecture - the Pritzker Prize - went to the Chilean architect Alejandro Araven for "work that revives socially oriented architecture" [24] .
    • The European Commission considered the threat to the foundations of legality and the rule of law in the EU countries in connection with the laws adopted in Poland by the Law and Justice party restricting media freedoms and the possibility of the Constitutional Court [25] .
  • January 14th
    • Shares in the automotive concern Renault SA fell by more than 20 percent amid reports that the company was spotted in fake emissions tests and was searched with the seizure of computer equipment [26] .
    • In the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, militants detonated at least seven bombs. [27]
    • The second part of the report of an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency has been published [28] .
    • WHO has officially announced the end of the Ebola epidemic [29] .
  • January 15
    • Jimmy Morales took office as President of Guatemala. [30]
    • Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro decided to introduce a state of emergency for 60 days, which makes it possible to expand the powers of the president and limit constitutional guarantees [31] .
    • After the lifting of the embargo on crude oil exports by the US authorities, the Chinese state oil company Sinopec became the first purchasers of hydrocarbons [32] .
    • The first Belarusian telecommunications satellite Belintersat-1 was launched from the Sichan cosmodrome [33] .
    • In Ouagadougou ( Burkina Faso ), terrorists attacked a restaurant and hotels, killing 28 people [34] .
    • A report was published from which the general public became aware that the supernova ASASSN-15lh Found in June 2015 had a brightness more than twice that of the brightest supernovae recorded so far [35] [36] .
  • January 16th
    • In the general election in Taiwan, with a result of 56.28% of the vote, the first woman president of the Republic of China was the chairman of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Cai Inwen [37] .
    • US Department of State Sanctions Coordinator Daniel Fried says sanctions against Russia could be lifted later this year [38]
  • January 17
    • For the first time, an ornamental zinnia plant flourished on the ISS [39] [40] .
  • January 18th
    • The Pakistani authorities allowed residents of the country to use the popular YouTube video hosting after the ban, which lasted for three years [41] .
  • January 20th
    • During trading on the Moscow Exchange, the dollar exceeded 80 rubles. The barrel of the Brent brand fell to $ 27.82 [42] .
    • In Chisinau, the opposition attempted to storm the parliament [43] .
    • President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on the early termination of powers of the Mazhilis of Kazakhstan [44] . The elections are scheduled for March 20, 2016 [45] .
    • A terrorist attack on a university in the city of Charsadda in northwestern Pakistan . As a result of the attack, which was claimed by members of the Pakistani Taliban wing, 25 people were killed [46] .
    • Employees at the California Institute of Technology Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin announced the discovery of a new planet in the solar system [47] [48] [49] .
    • In Iraq, IS militants destroyed the monastery of St. Elijah [50] .
  • January 22
    • About a million people attended a rally in Grozny in support of the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov [51] .
    • The Parliament of Tajikistan adopted amendments to the Constitution, which allow the incumbent president to be elected an unlimited number of times [52] .
    • Brazilian Minister of Health Marcelu Castro acknowledged that the country is not coping with the fight against the mosquito Aedes aegypti , the main carrier of the Zika virus , the number of infected with which becomes an epidemic [53] .
  • January 23
    • 15 countries, including Venezuela , did not pay the annual contribution to the UN budget and lost their voting rights [54] .
    • The leaders of China and Iran, Xi Jinping and Hassan Rouhani, announced that they had reached an agreement on “ strategic partnership in all international, regional and bilateral affairs”, 17 agreements and documents on bilateral cooperation were signed [55] .
  • January 24th
    • Election of the President of Portugal [56] . The victory was won by Marcel Rebelo di Sosa [57] .
  • The 25th of January
    • A long blizzard in the northeastern United States claimed the lives of 28 people, were de-energized at home, and state institutions did not work in Washington [58] .
    • The outbreak of Zika fever forced the governments of several Latin American countries (El Salvador, Colombia, Jamaica, etc.) to advise women not to become pregnant until all circumstances are clarified [59] .
    • After fierce fighting, the Syrian government army recaptured the strategically important city of Sheikh Maskin in the province of Dar'a from the rebels [60] .
  • January 26th
    • Paris taxi drivers went on strike against the Uber service and blocked traffic on the city ring road [61] .
    • In Oregon , protest rally participants seized a building in a federal reserve. In this case, one person died [62] .
  • January 27th
    • The first cases of Zika fever virus infection in the USA and Denmark have been confirmed [63] .
    • In Ukraine, 122 people died from influenza and SARS [64] .
    • Hilda Hein is elected President of the Marshall Islands. [65]
    • AlphaGo won the go match against three-time European champion Fan Hui. This is the first time that a computer has won a match against a professional go player without a handicap [66] .
    • The International Criminal Court , headquartered in The Hague, began an investigation into war crimes during the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia [67] .
  • 28 January
    • Former President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo appeared before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity [68] .
    • The UN spokesman said that some previously deprived of the right to vote at the General Assembly for non-payment of contributions of 7 member countries ( Venezuela , Iran , Bahrain , Burundi , the Dominican Republic , Mali , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ), returned the opportunity to vote in connection with debt repayment. Three debtor countries ( Vanuatu , Libya and the Marshall Islands ) continue to be denied voting rights. [69]
  • January 29
    • The Bank of Japan introduced a negative interest rate on funds placed in it by Japanese banks in order to stimulate the economy [70] .
  • January 31
    • It was signed by the President of Russia and published a federal law that ratified the 2010 Russian-Mongolian agreement on writing off 97% of Mongolia’s debt to Russia worth more than $ 170 million [71] .
    • During the attack of Boko Haram militants on the village of Dalori in the vicinity of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria , 86 people were killed [72] .
    • In Melbourne ended the tennis tournament of the Grand Slam series - Australian Open . The winner in the men's singles was Serb Novak Djokovic , in the women's - German Angelica Kerber [73] .

See also

► January 2016

Notes

  1. ↑ Free trade between Ukraine and the EU: what to expect.
  2. ↑ What has changed in Ukraine on January 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ukraine, Egypt, Senegal, Uruguay and Japan became new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council.
  4. ↑ Ayatollah Khamenei promised Saudi Arabia "holy retribution."
  5. ↑ IG showed a video of the killing of five people.
  6. ↑ Ayatollah promised Saudi Arabia God's punishment for the execution of a theologian.
  7. ↑ 1 2 Bahrain and Sudan followed the example of their “boss” in relation to Iran.
  8. ↑ Donald Trump accused Obama and Clinton of creating IG.
  9. ↑ Trading in stocks in China stopped after a collapse on the stock exchange.
  10. ↑ Ashgabat announced Gazprom’s refusal to buy Turkmen gas.
  11. ↑ Merkel made a statement in connection with the riots in Cologne.
  12. ↑ The atrocities in Cologne: an accident or a planned provocation.
  13. ↑ Elemental protest is the main threat to the government (unopened) . Belarusian partisan (January 5, 2016). Date of treatment July 9, 2016.
  14. ↑ North Korea detonated a hydrogen bomb: neighbors hurriedly gather Security Councils.
  15. ↑ Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen with cluster bombs.
  16. ↑ Activists who seized the Oregon National Reserve refused to negotiate with the US authorities.
  17. ↑ Demonstrators set fire to the Kosovo government building.
  18. ↑ Moscow police check the participants of the action “In the subway without pants” // Radio Liberty, 01/11/2016
  19. ↑ Western Survivor triumphant the Golden Globe film award.
  20. ↑ Greece: the right-wing opposition has chosen a new leader.
  21. ↑ The new face of the dragon.
  22. ↑ Pakistan has established a stock exchange.
  23. ↑ Deputy Prime Minister: the majority of those killed in the terrorist attack in Istanbul are foreigners.
  24. ↑ Pritzert Prize in Architecture went to Chilean Alejandro Araven.
  25. ↑ The European Commission will test Poland’s commitment to EU values.
  26. ↑ Renault shares crashed after reports of searches.
  27. ↑ Following Paris: the largest Islamic state was shocked by a series of terrorist attacks.
  28. ↑ Second part of the WADA report: and again about the IAAF, Russia and Balakhnichev.
  29. ↑ WHO has declared victory over the Ebola epidemic.
  30. ↑ Comedian took office as President of Guatemala.
  31. ↑ Venezuela introduced a state of emergency for 60 days.
  32. ↑ China purchased American oil for the first time since the lifting of the embargo.
  33. ↑ Belarusian satellite Belintersat-1 launched into orbit from the cosmodrome in China.
  34. ↑ Two explosions occurred at a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso , Meduza (January 15, 2016).
  35. ↑ An unusually bright supernova has been spotted. 50 times brighter than our galaxy.
  36. ↑ Brightest-ever supernova still baffles astronomers. (eng.)
  37. ↑ Taiwan chose the first female president.
  38. ↑ The State Department started talking about lifting sanctions (unopened) (inaccessible link) . www.msn.com. Date of treatment January 17, 2016. Archived July 20, 2017.
  39. ↑ For the first time in history, a flower blossomed on the ISS (neopr.) . TASS (January 17, 2016). Date of treatment January 18, 2016.
  40. ↑ The first earthly flower in space blossomed 34 years ago.
  41. ↑ Media: Pakistan lifted a three-year ban on YouTube.
  42. ↑ The dollar exchange rate exceeded 80 rubles.
  43. ↑ Protesters burst into the Moldovan Parliament building.
  44. ↑ The President signed a decree on early termination of the powers of the Majilis.
  45. ↑ The elections to the Majilis of the parliament will be held on March 20, 2016.
  46. ↑ The death toll during an attack on a university in Pakistan has risen to 25.
  47. ↑ A new planet has been discovered in the solar system.
  48. ↑ "She is huge." Discoverer of the ninth planet of the solar system about a new cosmic body (Lenta.ru).
  49. ↑ Evidence for a distant giant planet in the solar system. (eng.)
  50. ↑ Militants of the Islamic State destroyed the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq.
  51. ↑ Police counted a million people at a rally in support of Kadyrov.
  52. ↑ Emomali Rakhmonov is a candidate for life president of Tajikistan.
  53. ↑ Zika Virus: how late Brazil was in declaring an “emergency.”
  54. ↑ Venezuela lost its voting rights at the UN due to debts. ("B")
  55. ↑ Iran and China agreed to become strategic partners.
  56. ↑ On January 24, the presidential election in Portugal began.
  57. ↑ Elections in Portugal: di Soza wins the fight for the presidency.
  58. ↑ A blizzard in the United States has killed 28 people.
  59. ↑ Zika Virus: Brazilian women are asked to postpone pregnancy.
  60. ↑ The Syrian army occupied a strategic city in the province of Dara.
  61. ↑ The strike in France ended in clashes with the police.
  62. ↑ During the arrest of participants in the "occupation" rally in Oregon, a person died.
  63. ↑ The first cases of Zika virus infection were detected in the USA and Denmark.
  64. ↑ Ukraine: 122 dead from influenza and SARS.
  65. ↑ Hilda Heine elected Marshalls president. (eng.)
  66. ↑ Artificial intelligence first defeated a professional go player.
  67. ↑ ICC launched an investigation into war crimes in South Ossetia.
  68. ↑ Former President of Côte d'Ivoire Appears to the Hague Court
  69. ↑ Venezuela, Iran and 5 more countries paid off their debt to the UN, regaining their right to vote.
  70. ↑ Bank of Japan introduced a negative interest rate.
  71. ↑ Vladimir Putin wrote off the debt of Mongolia.
  72. ↑ The number of victims of the Boko Haram attack in Nigeria has risen to 86.
  73. ↑ Green contingent
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=January_2016_year&oldid=100874016


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