US Congress. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' The US administration is preparing financial sanctions against the Ukrainian authorities, as well as opposition leaders. It is reported by Reuters with reference to unnamed sources in the Congress apparatus. The package of measures has not yet been prepared, however, in the event of a further escalation of violence in Ukraine, work on it will be completed as soon as possible, the agency’s interlocutors noted.

Signing the agreement on the liquidation of missiles of medium and lower range. Photo: Reagan.utexas.edu The US leadership informed its NATO partners that Russia violated the 1987 agreement on the elimination of medium and shorter missiles, reports The New York Times. In Russia, tests of medium-range “Earth-Earth” medium-range missiles were tested. The flight tests of this missile began in 2008, American officials say.

Fight on Grushevsky Street 01/23/2014. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru In the evening, on Wednesday, two demonstrators with firearms were delivered to the 17th Hospital of Kyiv from Grushevsky Street. About this writes "LIGABBININFOR" with reference to a deputy of Kievada from the strike of Alexei Davidenko. The wounded is a young man and an older man, the deputy said. According to Davidenko, both officially hospitalized. The deputy accused the Ukrainian leadership of provocations.

Banner of Stas Zhitsky in support of "rain" Roskomnadzor prepares a preventive letter to the Rain television channel in connection with a survey on the feasibility of passing the blockade Leningrad. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press secretary of the department Vadim Ampelonsky. The prevention of the channel will not be issued. “This letter is not a sanction.

Kyiv, January 2014. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva/Grani.ru The Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday has adopted a law on amnesty of Euromaidan activists, according to which the persecution of all activists is stopped, except for the accused of committing especially serious crimes. It is reported by Ukrainian Pravda.

Navalny at the rally on September 6. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva The party of Alexei Navalny "People’s Alliance" appealed in court the suspension of its registration by the Ministry of Justice, ITAR-TASS lawyer Dmitry Krainev told ITAS-TASS. “Today we appealed in court the suspension of registration of the party, the decision of the Ministry of Justice of January 20,” he explained.

Bogdan Kalinyak. Photo from a personal page in "Odnoklassniki" In the regional hospital of Ivano-Frankivsk, an activist of the Kyiv Euromaidan died businessman Bogdan Kalinyak, who received pneumonia, after the Berkutians doused him with water during clashes on Grushevsky Street. It is reported by "Today.ua" with reference to Igor Slyuzar, the mayor of the city of Kolomyia in the Ivano-Frankivsk, where the deceased lived.

Nikolai Baev. Photo from a personal page on Facebook The Moscow LGBT activist Nikolai Baev filed a civil lawsuit about the protection of honor and dignity to the actor and priest Ivan Okhlobystin. He reported this on his Facebook page. Activist’s lawyer Andrei Zaitsev specified that the lawsuit was sent on January 21 to the Tushino district court of Moscow. The paper was accepted; The date of pre -trial training is scheduled for February 17.

Maidanovites on Grushevsky Street. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva/Grani.ru The authorities should free activists from prisons without any conditions. This was announced at a briefing at the headquarters of national resistance by the commandant of the Maidan Andrei Parubiy, reports UNN. According to him, the Maidan will not go to the requirements of the so -called amnesty law. “Our position is unchanged. We cannot change people to the premises.

Banner over color Boulevard. 01/30/2014. Photo by Dmitry Zykova/Grani.ru At the vests of the Garden Ring over color Boulevard, activists hung a banner with agitation to a march in support of the "swamp prisoners", which is scheduled for February 2. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces". The inscription on the banner reads: "Freedom to the prisoners on May 6! Go to March 02/02/14." On Monday, such a stretch was hung on a garden ring over a car tunnel near the Dobryninskaya metro.

The newspaper "Young Far East" The court in Khabarovsk fined the editor -in -chief of the newspaper "Young Far East" by Alexander Suturin for 50 thousand rubles for "propaganda of non -traditional sexual relations among minors." This was reported by the Radio station "Freedom".

Meeting of the Commission HRC. Photo: President-sovet.ru The Human Rights Council propose to include prison medicine in the compulsory medical insurance system and in the state health care program. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" the head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov. The proposal was made at an expanded meeting of the HRC Commission to promote the public supervisory commissions in which Tatyana Yakovleva, Deputy Minister of Health, participated.

The picture of Nikolai Ge "What is the truth?" (1890, fragment) The State Duma deputy Uneneros Alexander Remezkov introduced to the Lower Chamber a draft amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure, suggesting the "introduction of the Institute for the establishment of objective truth in the criminal case." The bill and an explanatory note to it, published on the State Duma website, are repeated to the word word, which were prepared in February 2012 in the TFR.

In Moscow, in the square on the square, the Yauz gates of the ballerina with a chain with a chain with his hands were struck by a “single protest” against the suppression of freedom of speech in Russia. The art action involving professional ballerina Alexandra Portyannikova was organized by Amnesty International, according to the organization page. Nine directors of the European section of the organization immediately after the performance transferred a petition to the presidential reception.

Alexey Bazhanov. Photo: Alexeybazhanov.ru Former Deputy Head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alexei Bazhanov, who is the main person involved in the Rosagrolysing case, threatens new charges, Kommersant reports with reference to his own sources. According to the publication, law enforcement agencies are investigating the fraud about loans in the Masloproduct holding, founded by Bazhanov.