The building of the Sokol district council. Photo: Venividi.ru On Saturday, the Tver Court of Moscow arrested until March 17 the head of the district council of SOKOK Vyacheslav Ivanov, a suspect of fraud, Interfax reports. Thus, the court granted the application of the investigation.

Tymoshenko in prison. Photo: Pravda.com.ua Yulia Tymoshenko refused to alleviate the regime of serving the sentence, since the conditions for its content meet international requirements. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the press service of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, this decision was made by the Commission of the Kachanovsky correctional colony on the consideration of issues regarding the mitigation of the conditions for the detention of convicts.

Protest on the Olympic relay in Voronezh. Photo: Savkhoper.ru In Rostov-on-Don, an activist of "Other Russia" Pavel Nagibin received five days of administrative arrest on Saturday. According to the local coordinator of the Left Front Vladislav Ryazantsev, Nagibin was detained the night before near his house and convicted under article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism).

Ella Pamfilova. Photo: kremlin.ru The list of candidates for the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, who leaves Vladimir Lukin, will be included by the chairman of the Civil Dignity, the ex-head of the Human Rights Council Ella Pamfilova, Kommersant reports with reference to the source of the State Duma. By law, the Council of the Federation, State Duma factions and individual deputies, as well as the president can be nominated. Who exactly puts forward Panfilov is not specified.

Alexander Berdnikov. Frame of the NTV channel President Vladimir Putin appointed the current governor Alexander Berdnikov, the temporarily acting head of the Altai Republic, the Kremlin press service reports. By the same decree, the president appointed Berdnikov to the temporarily acting chairman of the government of the republic. He will occupy both positions before the elections of the new head of the region, which will be held in the fall of 2014.

Maxim Martsinkevich in Cuba. Photo from the personal page "VKontakte": vk.com/restrukt The authorities of Cuba detained the neo -Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich, also known as Tesak’s nickname, Life News TV channel reports. Currently, Cuban law enforcement agencies are preparing for Tesak's extradition to their homeland.

On January 18, at 17:00, the Sakharov Center will host an interactive lecture by philologist Ksenia Turkova "Language of Protest: Bolotnaya and Maidan". The recent mass protests in Moscow and the Euromaidan, which has been going on in Kyiv for almost two months, have shown that our vocabulary is replenished most actively when events help it. Thanks to Bolotnaya and Sakharov, literally in a few months, as many new words and expressions were born as had not appeared before for years.

Special operation in Dagestan. Photo: Warchechnya.ru In Makhachkala, four militants who allegedly organized two explosions at the restaurant in the city center were killed on Friday in the evening, Interfax reports. The security forces blocked the suspects in the house in the village of Semender. One militant was killed while trying to break through the cordon, the rest was eliminated during the assault on the building.

360 years ago, on January 18, 1654, on the Rada in Pereyaslav, the Ukrainian foreman and representatives of the Zaporizhzhya Cossack army, led by the hetman of Ukraine Zinovy ​​Bogdan Khmelnitsky, decided to abandon the Polish citizenship and the transfer to the citizenship of the Moscow king.

325 years ago, on January 18, 1689, an outstanding French philosopher and jurist Charles Louis Montesquieu, the author of the concept of separation of the executive, legislative and judicial authorities, was born. Of the works of Montesquieu, “Persian letters” and “On the Spirit of Laws” are most famous.

A forage of a policeman. Photo: ofless.ru The court in Moscow arrested the deputy chief of the police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Biryulyov, East Konstantin Glazov, who was suspected of patronizing illegal gambling business, Interfax reports. "At the request of the investigator, a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen in relation to Glazov," the investigative committee said in a statement.

More and more people are published as advertising to see in the interior of their home only natural, environmentally friendly and safe finishing materials. They not only have natural beauty, strength and energy of nature, but also extremely unpretentious during operation, durable, stands for wear and various kinds of mechanical influences and damage. Furniture or floor covering from natural wood will create a unique atmosphere of your home and can last several generations.

At the site of the explosion of the Lebanese restaurant in Kabul. Frame of Channel One As a result of the attack committed in Kabul, a Russian citizen died. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich. On Friday evening, a terrorist act was committed in Kabul, whose victims were over 20 people, including foreigners, including several UN employees to assist Afghanistan (Monsia).