Elena Andreeva has been appointed head of the Moscow Rospotrebnadzor, according to a message published on the department’s website. Before this, the service actually worked without a director for more than six months. The previous head of the Rospotrebnadzor Moscow department, Nikolai Filatov, was relieved of his post in May 2012.

The next mass opposition rally in Moscow will take place in the spring. Members of the opposition coordination council came to this decision at a meeting held on Sunday. According to RIA Novosti , this decision was supported by 26 members of the Constitutional Court. It is assumed that the action will be called “March against the executioners” and will become all-Russian; a corresponding proposal was made by the leader of the nationalists Vladimir Tor.

The farewell ceremony for crime boss Aslan Usoyan ended at the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow. As Interfax reports , citing a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies, the funeral took place without significant incidents.

photo ITAR-TASS A tax on foreign exchange transactions and the creeping nationalization of the raw materials and financial sectors - these and other recommendations were given to Vladimir Putin by his advisers A working group of the Russian Academy of Sciences, led by academician and member of the board of directors of Rosneft Alexander Nekipelov, has prepared a draft measure to protect the Russian economy from the financial threat from Western countries.

On January 20, 1899, inventor Kenjiro Takayanagi was born in Tokyo, who created the world's first all-electric television receiver. Until the age of 26, he worked as a doctor, but one day he read an article in a French scientific journal about new technologies in television. Takayanagi became interested in the material, and he decided to start studying this topic.

One of the world's largest file hosting services, Megaplaud, has resumed operations a year after it was closed, reports the BBC. Now the portal will be called Mega. In the first hours of operation, more than 250,000 users have already registered on it, the news service notes. Each registered visitor can use up to 50 gigabytes of information posted on torrents for free.

Gazprom is offering 1.9 billion euros for the Greek gas company DEPA, reports the Greek publication Imerisia . Thus, the Russian state corporation, which already meets 80% of Greece’s gas needs, claims to become an absolute monopolist in this market, the newspaper notes. Gazprom announced its desire to acquire DEPA back in March last year.

4 people became victims of an accident at one of the mines in the Kemerovo region. According to Interfax , at about 5 a.m. local time, operational services received a signal about smoke in mine No. 7, located in the Prokopyevsky district of the Kemerovo region. There were 77 people in the mine at the time of the accident. 69 people were brought to the surface. The bodies of 4 miners were later discovered.

In Moscow, at the Khovanskoye cemetery, the funeral of crime boss Aslan Usoyan, known in criminal circles as Ded Hassan, is taking place. According to Interfax, security at the cemetery has been strengthened. Journalists and photo and video equipment are not allowed to enter the ceremony site; ordinary visitors who come to visit deceased relatives also have difficulty entering the cemetery.

8 people became victims of a major fire in the village of Sadovy near Yekaterinburg, reports the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Sverdlovsk Region. The fire department received a signal about a fire in one of the administrative buildings of the village at about 6:30 a.m. local time. Despite the fact that firefighters arrived at the scene within a few minutes, they managed to extinguish the flame only two hours later, at 8:40: the fire area was 200 square meters.

Photo by RIA Novosti The careless attitude of citizens towards their own lives is largely explained by the traditions of the Russian state, in which for centuries people were considered expendable The New Year holidays swept by like a snowy whirlwind, fireworks died down, glasses clanked, firecracker shells and broken bottles were scattered in the parks, and lonely, bald Christmas trees were placed near houses.

An unknown person opened fire during a parade in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. in Jackson, Mississippi, reports the Associated Press . One person was injured as a result of the incident, the attacker has not yet been detained, the police are searching for him, the agency notes. The victim is a 23-year-old young man who was in the spectator sector. He was shot in the chest and is in stable condition.

The first Batmobile, the vehicle used by the popular film character Batman, was sold in the United States for $4.2 million, reports Reuters . It was purchased at auction by 56-year-old entrepreneur Rick Champagne, owner of an Arizona company specializing in logistics. The car was based on the 1955 Lincoln Futura, a concept car designed in Italy by Ford Motor Co. Ten years later, it was purchased for just $1 by designer George Barris, who later redesigned the car for the Batman saga.

7 Russians injured in Saturday’s road accident remain in French hospitals, Interfax reports citing Rostourism press secretary Irina Shchegolkova. Another 12 Russian tourists who were involved in the accident have already returned to Russia last night. Another 23 people who were traveling on the overturned bus will be brought home on Monday. Let us remind you that on Saturday a bus with a group of tourists from Russia got into an accident near the city of Chambery in eastern France.

A group of American investors led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates invested $1 billion in the Egyptian construction company OCI NV, Bloomberg reports . During the issuance of shares and global depositary receipts, the Egyptian company managed to raise a total of $2 billion, the agency notes. In addition to American investors, Asset Management and Davis Selected Advisers have invested in OCI.