State Duma. Hard of news The State Duma adopted in the first reading the presidential bill, introducing a new type of non -profit organizations - socially oriented, Kommersant reports. "Socially oriented" NPOs will receive state support.

Anatoly Maurin. Photo from the site classmates.ru. The court arrested Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Maurin, accused of killing the driver of a snowplifier car. This was reported by Gazeta.ru. The court agreed with the arguments of the investigation, insisting on the arrest of Maurin and rejected the petition of a lawyer, asking for a preventive arrest to choose a preventive arrest for her client. Maurin himself believes that investigators distorted the picture of events.

Alexander Lukashenko. Frame 1 television channel President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko wrote a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in which he outlined the positions of the Belarusian side on the conditions of supply of Russian oil to the country. This is stated on the website of the President of Belarus, but the text of the letter itself is not published.

Potapovsky per., 6. Photo GDEETOTDOM.RU The head of the Basmanny district of Moscow Olga Sevryukova is dismissed, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the city administration. "Sevryukov was dismissed the head of the Basmanny District Council and dismissed from public service," the source said. According to him, the corresponding decision was signed by the acting mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin.

Permian. Photo from the site www.russia-todeay.ru In Perm in one of the shopping centers, the unknown person opened shooting. According to RIA Novosti, a representative of the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the Perm Territory, according to preliminary data, there are no injuries. "About 15 hours local time (13.00 Moscow time), an unknown in a shopping center on Komsomolsky Prospekt, 85, fired several shots from traumatic weapons.

Lesson of the foundations of Orthodox culture. Photo www.religio.ru The “Fundamentals of Secular Ethics” for the school course ”of the Basic Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics has not yet been written, Infox.ru reports . Etiki scientists refuse to work on it. The remaining five equivalent modules of the course have already been prepared by representatives of the main Russian faiths. The start of the experiment on the introduction of this course in the school curriculum is scheduled for April.

Haiti. Photo by ar The account of the dead in Haiti as a result of an earthquake may go by thousands, the country's president Rene Preval said CNN. “It is impossible to believe this. Many houses, hospitals, schools, many dead on the streets are destroyed,” he said. “I still cannot realize the scale of the event and how to deal with it.” According to Senator Yuri Late, the number of dead could reach 500 thousand. In total, about 3.3 million people were in the zone affected by the earthquake.

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia. Photo by RIA "News" The United States is not ready to comply with the requirements of Russian veterinary services to the quality of poultry meat. As reports RIA Novosti, this said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. “Unfortunately, some of our trading partners, primarily from the United States, still do not see their readiness to comply with Russian standards,” Putin said at a meeting on the production and development of the poultry market in Russia.

Light tuberculosis patient. From the site malych.ru In Komi, about 50 residents of the city of Inta, suffering from open form of tuberculosis, were on the street. According to ITAR-TASS, the only anti-TB hospital at the central hospital was closed on the integer. First, doctors were going to transfer patients to the anti -Tuberculosis departments of Vorkuta and Pechora. For their transportation, it was necessary to distinguish a separate car, which would then be disinfect.

Neil Ushakov. Photo novonews.lv Johar Dudaev Street in Riga is renamed in 2010. According to RIA Novosti, the mayor of the Latvian capital, Neil Ushakov, stated this. In 1996, the Cosmonautics Avenue in the Riga microdistrict Purvsims was renamed Johar Dudaev Street, the leader of Chechen separatists, who advocated the separation of Chechnya from Russia and headed military operations against the Russian forces. Dudaev was killed on April 21, 1996 near the Chechen village of Gahi-Chu.

Calculation of ballots in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' The head of the Moscow City Walentin Gorbunov proposed to rewrite Russian electoral legislation. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." According to Gorbunov, it is worth thinking about the creation of the Electoral Code of the Russian Federation. "Now many amendments are made to various electoral laws. This is patching holes. Well, it cannot be made from the Moskvich Mercedes.

Victor Yushchenko. Photo from the site ITAR-TASS President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko initiates the creation of an international tribunal over the crimes of communism. According to RIA Novosti-Ukraine, this initiative is connected with the decision of the Kyiv Court of Appeal on the Holodomor.

Robber. Photo from Titusville.com The court of Tatarstan began to consider the case of a criminal group led by a former special forces fighter, who robbed Tatarstan and Bashkiria jewelry for three years, Life News reports . 12 people are suspected of involvement in robberies. According to the investigation, from September 2005 to May 2008 they robbed 9 stores and stole jewelry for 13 million rubles. In each store, criminals were for 60 seconds.

Supreme Court. Photo from the site duma.lenta.ru Representatives of the prosecutor's office announced the disappearance of the deputy head of the Federal Fund for Compulsory Medical Insurance Dmitry Shilyaev, RIA Novosti reports. He was sentenced to seven years in a maximum security colony and was in the hospital. On January 14, he and his lawyers did not appear in the Supreme Court for consideration by the complaint. It was not possible to contact Shilyaev.

Patriarch Kirill. Frame of the TV channel ''Vesti'' As part of the transfer to the Russian Orthodox Church of the property taken from it under Soviet rule, the ROC will receive not only federal, but also regional property.