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January 25. Divorce of Putin's daughter and Vysotsky's birthday

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The Ministry of Finance decided to resolve the procedure for the release and exchange of cryptocurrencies - now there are no laws in this area in Russia. As planned by the department, it will be possible to buy cryptocurrencies only through special “digital financial assets exchange operators”, and it will not be possible to pay bitcoins in the Russian Federation. We answer the main questions about the plans of the Ministry of Finance .

Bloomberg said that Katerina Tikhonova (she is called the daughter of Vladimir Putin) parted with her husband - the son of the co -owner of the Bank "Russia" Kirill Shamalov. It is with this circumstance that the agency explains the sale of a large package of shares of the Sybur petrochemical company, which he owned since 2014 (he received shares allegedly as a sign of confidence in Putin’s family).

The final application of Russia for the Olympics in Pyeongchang is ready - only 169 Russians got there, despite the fact that there were 500 people on the preliminary expanded list. Many leading athletes, as they said in the Russian Olympic Committee, will miss the games, but the remaining ones "will play not only for themselves, but also for those who were unfairly excommunicated." The lack ofness of many athletes is connected with suspicions of violating doping rules - and, as the head of the IOC Thomas Bach explained , this time the ban also affected those Russians against which there was no reliable evidence.

The Moscow Cinema "Pioneer" showed the "death of Stalin." Why did he decide to demonstrate a film from which a rental certificate was selected is still unclear - but the Ministry of Culture has alreadypromised to punish the cinema. And we decided to figure out whether it is legal to ban films on the basis of vague suspicions of extremism and personal ideas of officials about the right and wrong.

Other news

Ramzan Kadyrov said that he could not do anything to free the human rights activist Oyub Titiev, who found drugs in the car. And that's why:

In Paris, hay came out of the shores - the water level rose several meters above the usual. The city is limited by road and railway traffic. According to forecasts, in the coming days it will become even worse.

Vysotsky's birthday

Today - 80 years since the birth of Vladimir Vysotsky. By this date we made the test "How was Vysotsky's?" For knowledge of his songs, film critic Anton Dolin recalled his best roles in the cinema , and philologist Olga Rosenblum spoke about the poems that the poet chose for publication in the Samizdat almanac of Metropol in 1979.

What else

• In China, for the first time, primates were cloned according to the method that was used to cloning the lobby of Dolly. And yesterday, newborn Makaka Zhong Zhong and Hua first showed the public:

• Netflix shot the series based on the film by Yuri Bykov “Major” - this, frankly, happens infrequently. Look at his trailer .
• The Mediazone made an excellent game “Protest Simulator” - you need to successfully hold a promotion without getting a police and not suffering at the hands of opponents with green. We advise you to play!

Victor Davydov