Krasnodar officials have questions about the construction of a perinatal center in Sochi. Krasnodar investigators interrogated the deputy head of the region, Yuri Gritsenko, as part of an investigation into a criminal case about the theft of 200 million rubles. from the regional budget intended for the construction of a perinatal center in Sochi.

In the Avdeevka area, pro-Russian separatists continued shelling Ukrainian positions on Wednesday. Including using Grad multiple launch rocket launchers, they also tried to storm the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces. This was reported by the press center of the headquarters of the Ukrainian military operation. The report notes that 152 mm artillery, grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms were used.

A group of deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from the United Russia and LDPR parties demands that the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee bring to justice the participants of the rally and picket against the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. The Interfax agency reports this.

The head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, hopes that the food embargo will be maintained in the next year or two. Speaking on Wednesday at the All-Russian Agronomic Meeting, he said that limiting food imports played an important role in increasing agricultural production. “We’ll stay in this coordinate system for another year or two, but it won’t last forever,” he said.

The Russian FSB has established a border zone regime on the border with Belarus. According to the order of the director of the FSB of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, regional departments in the Smolensk, Pskov and Bryansk regions will have to establish places and times for passage and entry into the border zone, as well as install warning signs.

Law enforcement agencies detained a resident of the Krasnodar Territory, suspected of aiding the terrorist organization Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (Jabhat al-Nusra, banned in the Russian Federation), who was preparing a terrorist attack on the eve of the New Year holidays. This was reported by the press service of the FSB Directorate for the Krasnodar Territory.

In Romania, on February 1, about 250 thousand people took part in protests against the government’s decision to exempt officials from criminal liability, who damaged less than 200 thousand lei (44 thousand euros) According to Reuters, from 130 to 150 thousand people went to a demonstration near the government building in Bucharest. Another 100-150 thousand people took part in demonstrations in other Romanian cities.

Rospotrebnadzor has developed amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, providing for fines for the transportation, storage and sale of goods that are prohibited from being imported into Russia. The corresponding draft federal law was published on the portal of draft regulations. There will be a public discussion of the project until March 2.

The general director of a state-owned enterprise that cleans the territory of the city of Apsheronsk is accused of fraud using his official position - he wrote out a bonus to himself in the amount of 237 thousand rubles.

As a result of a court injunction filed by the Polish gas company PGNiG, Gazprom has reduced the volume of gas pumped through Nord Stream and its eastern pipeline OPAL. Since February 1, Gazprom has reduced the volume of gas supplies via Nord Stream and its eastern branch OPAL. As Interfax reports, citing data from European gas transportation operators, the decrease in supply is caused by a court injunction imposed following a lawsuit by the Polish gas company PGNiG.

Currently, options are being discussed with City Parking LLC to introduce a differentiated fee for 1 hour of parking depending on the distance from the center: that is, in the central part of the city the cost may be higher, in the periphery somewhat less, this was stated by the deputy director of the city department transport, traffic management and environmental protection Vladimir Arkhipov.