Toomas Hendrick Ilves. Photo: President.ee Russia pursues a policy of assimilation of the Finno-Ugric peoples living on its territory. According to Interfax, this was stated by Estonian President Toomas Hendrick Ilves, speaking at the ceremony in the village of Obonitsa in the southeast of the country, which was declared the cultural capital of Finno-Ugers for 2015. In this village, the people of Setu, related to Estonians.

The evacuation of the wounded from the building of the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo. Photo: Twitter.com/yvecresson 12 people were killed in Paris as a result of a terrorist attack in the office of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, the Le Monde website reports. Another 11 people are injured, four of them are in critical condition.

Colorado beetles on the Fairy production bottles of Poland. Photo: delfi.lt In Lithuania, the participants of the Facebook group “We do not buy the Kremlin propaganda” began to mark goods that are advertised on Russian television channels, stylized images of the Colorado beetle. It is reported by DELFI.LT. According to the initiators, the action started on Saturday.

Fragment of the site of the site Cyber-berkut.org Hackers from the anti -Maidan group "Cyberbercute" on Wednesday blocked access to the sites of the Federal Chancellor of Germany Angels Merkel and Bundestag . This was reported on the website of the group. The Anti -Maidanites explained by their action, they demand from the "people and the government of Germany ...

Patriarch Cyril. Photo: Patriarchia.ru The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril called for "not dramatizing the dramatic change in the exchange rate." According to Interfax, he said this in an interview with Russia-1 television channel. According to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a change in the ruble course cannot radically affect the well -being of most Russian citizens.

A rally on the Square of the Republic. Photo: Grani.ru Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Square of the Republic in Paris, where a rally of solidarity with the editors of Charlie Hebdo was held in defense of freedom of speech. According to the correspondent of the "faces", candles were lit in the statue of the republic in memory of the reporters of the satirical weekly shot in the morning, the inscription "Not Afraid" ("We are not afraid") was laid out from the burning light bulbs.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Switzerland. SRF frame The ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky reacted to the execution of the editorial office of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo by calling for the media to publish cartoons for the Prophet Muhammad. “If journalists are a worthy community, tomorrow there should be no publication without a caricature of the prophet,” the former political station on Twitter wrote .

Interrogation of Nadezhda Savchenko. Hard video from the YouTube channel Aigu Guillotine The US State Department called on Moscow to immediately release the pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, "as well as other Ukrainian hostages held by Russia." The corresponding statement made by the official representative of the State Department of Jen Psaki at a briefing on Tuesday is published on the website of the department. “We welcomed the exchange of detainees in December,” Psaki remarked.

Illegal migrants. Photo: FMSMOSCOW.RU In 2015, compared with 2014, Russia recorded a decrease in the number of entrances and trips of foreign citizens by almost 70 percent. This was in an interview with Interfax said the head of the FMS Konstantin Romodanovsky. At the same time, according to him, more citizens of Ukraine and Moldova began to come to Russia. Romodanovsky explained that the FMS conducted a preliminary comparison of the migration picture of the beginning of 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Dmitry Harder. Photo from personal account to Flickr The Russian, which lives in the United States, Dmitry Harder is accused of giving a bribe in the amount of $ 3.5 million to a certain senior official of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. According to Bloomberg, the board of the jury of Pennsylvania was charged to the businessman on January 6. The Russian is charged with a violation of the law on corruption abroad, entering into conspiracy and laundering.

Oil Production. Photos from the archive of the faces Oil prices for reference brands continue to fall. According to Vedomosti, on Wednesday, February futures on the Brent variety fell below the psychologically important mark of $ 50 per barrel. WTI oil at the same time fell to $ 47 per barrel. At the auction on the eve of the quotes of oil prices, 4 percent dropped, reaching the minimum values ​​since the spring of 2009.

RGD-5 grenade. Photo: Arms-expo.ru The Primorsky District Court of Odessa sentenced the ATO fighter, who was treated in the city after a wound, by a year conditionally on charges of illegal storage of ammunition (part 1 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). This was reported by "Dumskaya" without indicating the name of the convict. The military serves in the 74th separate intelligence battalion.