Employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Dagestan, a close associate of the head of the republic Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov, at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, writes the Kommersant newspaper on Tuesday, January 21. According to the publication, the official is suspected of major fraud related to the illegal registration of ownership of local gas networks.

On the night of Tuesday, January 21, security forces broke the catapult built by protesters on Monday on Grushevsky Street in Kiev, RIA Novosti reports . The catapult was destroyed during another clash between law enforcement officers and demonstrators. Shortly before the skirmish began, demonstrators dragged the catapult closer to the defense line.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a government bill on the right of citizens to appeal the results of voting in elections in Russia, ITAR-TASS reports .

The Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights of Russia (OSPP) opposed reducing the threshold for duty-free online trading to hundreds of euros, and also called on consumers to boycott KupiVIP and eBay, which it ranked as “the most active and well-known lobbyists of these initiatives.” This is stated in a message published on Tuesday, January 21, on the organization’s website.

Painting by Apollinary Vasnetsov “The Calling of the Varangians” Schoolchildren will be told about the wisdom of authorities and the dangers of liberalism After the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the group of authors of the unified history textbook, you can “exhale” and appreciate the strong reaction of people to the product and the event. History is vindictive: criticism will go down in the annals rather than the textbook itself.

Deputy General Director for work with authorities and regions of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC Nikolai Isakov became General Director of Russian Hippodromes OJSC, Interfax reported on Tuesday . Gazprom Mezhregiongaz confirmed this information, saying that Isakov continues to work for the company part-time. Previously, the position of general director of Russian Hippodromes was held by Konstantin Gusakov. At the end of December his powers were terminated.

Lawyer Shota Gorgadze was elected on Tuesday, January 21, as the head of the public chamber of the Moscow region, reports . Interfax “After an extended meeting of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region, elections for a chairman were held. They unanimously elected a person extremely popular in the Moscow Region, the famous lawyer Shota Olegovich Gorgadze,” said Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Region Government Andrei Ilyinsky.

The media and Internet users criticized Roman Abramovich's girlfriend (No. 13 in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes, net worth: $10.2 billion) Daria Zhukova and the editors of the Russian online magazine Buro 24/7 because of the photograph on the portal's website that accompanies her interview. In the photo, Zhukova is sitting on a chair, which represents the figure of a tied, half-naked dark-skinned woman.

The bill on the “foreign agent” media, withdrawn from the State Duma on Tuesday, will be reintroduced to the lower house of parliament after the language contained in it has been tightened, told RIA Novosti . one of the authors of the document, deputy Evgeny Fedorov (United Russia), “We are simply tightening the language related to “foreign agents.” There was 50% foreign funding.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon withdrew the invitation to Iran to participate in the Geneva 2 peace conference on Syria, fulfilling the demand of the National Coalition of Opposition and Revolutionary Forces of Syria (NCORF), which promised otherwise to boycott the event, Reuters reported , citing the Secretary General's press secretary Martina Nesirky.

The investment company Grishin Robotics, founded by Dmitry Grishin, co-founder and CEO of Mail.ru Group, is investing in PetNet, a participant in the Bolt incubator. The total size of the seed round was $1.125 million, according to a press release received by Forbes . The funds raised will be used to expand the PetNet team, launch the first SmartFeeder product, and develop new devices.

The Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) appealed to the head of state, Vladimir Putin, with a request to nominate former head of the HRC Ella Pamfilova as a candidate for the post of Commissioner for Human Rights. The text of the appeal, signed by 45 members of the HRC, including the head of the council, Mikhail Fedotov, is posted on the official website of the council.

photo East News/AFP Bitcoin owes much of its global success to users in China. Nevertheless, local authorities decided to turn cryptocurrency into virtual “candy wrappers” The first bitcoins, “minted” in 2009 on the computer of their mysterious creator, the mysterious Japanese Satoshi Nakamoto, were worth absolutely nothing. But just four years later, the price of one bitcoin exceeded $1,100, largely due to speculative demand for them in China.

The Imperial Duty Free company, part of the TPS Avia holding of Arkady Rotenberg (No. 31 in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes, net worth: $3.3 billion), Alexander Ponomarenko (No. 49, net worth: $2.1 billion) and Alexander Skorobogatko (No. 50, net worth: $2.1 billion) intends to open four duty free stores at Sheremetyevo Airport, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the company’s materials. To do this, the company leases about 750 sq. m.

The Thai government, starting Wednesday, January 22, is introducing a state of emergency in Bangkok and areas adjacent to the capital, reports the BBC . The state of emergency is introduced for a period of 60 days. The state of emergency assumes that law enforcement agencies will have the right to set a curfew, and security forces will be able to detain suspects without bringing charges. Political rallies and other events of more than five people were banned.