At the pro -Russian rally in Simferopol. Photo: radiosvoboda.org The authorities of the annexed Crimea are asking the Russian government to provide them with the right to independently regulate food prices. The corresponding letter of the deputy chairman of the Crimean government, Nikolai Yanaki, was sent to the deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak, Interfax reports.

Arkady Vyatchanin. Photo from Sportrk.ru The Serbian Federation of Swimming began the procedure for registering the country's citizenship for the Russian swimmer Arkady Vyatchanin, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the organization’s statement.

190 years ago, on January 15, 1825, the uprising of the Chernigov regiment, started on January 10 by members of the "Southern Society" of the Decembrists, led by Sergei Muravyov-Apostol and Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, was suppressed. Near the village of Ustimovka, the rebels were shot by government artillery. Three officers died, four were sentenced to eternal hard labor, and two leaders of the uprising were hanged in St. Petersburg.

Khrushchev. Photo from the site www.fashionista.ru The government intends to create an all -Russian queue for housing. This was reported by Izvestia. The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has been instructed by April to prepare a draft amendments to the legislation who would allow to form a single base of persons entitled to receive housing at the expense of the federal budget. In June, the amendments are supposed to be made to the State Duma.

Dmitry Sablin at the "Eurasian Youth Forum" in the occupied Donuzlav. Photo: sablin.ru In Russia, the Anti -Maidan movement is being created, which declares its main task the prevention of color revolutions in the country. This was reported by TASS with reference to a member of the Federation Council, the first deputy chairman of the veteran organization "Battle Brotherhood" of the Unicorn Dmitry Sablin.

A bus fired near Volnovakha. Photo of the press service of the General Staff of Ukraine The special monitoring mission of the OSCE, working in Ukraine, confirmed that the bus with civilians in the Volnovakhi area was fired from the Grad installation. This is stated in a message common by the organization. This refutes the version of the militants that they shot from automatic weapons on the car.

A forage of a policeman. Photo: ofless.ru In 2015, the Ministry of Internal Affairs may conduct large -scale abbreviations of employees, Kommersant reports citing sources in the department. Contractions will be affected by the central apparatus and regional administrations of the ministries, but at all those who work at the district level will not affect. This principle of optimization of the standard structure was previously carried out by the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Boris Stomakhin after the announcement of the sentence in the second case. Frame video Sergey Kryukov The lawyer of the Agora Association Damir Gainutdinov filed a complaint about the sentence in the second case of publicist Boris Stomakhin, sentenced to six and a half years of strict regime for publication on the Internet and Samizdat. The oppositionist Gennady Stroganov reported this to the Franes.

Logo of the Ren-TV channel The Vilnius District Administrative Court ordered relayers to suspend for three months the show of Russian programs of the Ren TV Baltic television channel on the territory of Lithuania. It is reported by DELFI.LT. On January 12, the Lithuanian Television and Radio Broadcasting Commission decided to suspend the relay of the programs of the Ren TV Baltic TV channel created in Russia.

Alexander Tarnavsky. Photo: spravedlivo.ru The State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building recommended to adopt a bill in the first reading prohibiting the activities of "undesirable" foreign organizations in Russia - both non -profit and commercial. This was reported on Wednesday by RBC. The document was prepared by the Anton Ishchenko directory by Alexander Tarnavsky and Zhirinov. The first reading of the bill will be held on January 20.

The brothers Oleg and Alexey Navalny in the hall of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow. Frame Grani-TV The European Parliament prepared a draft resolution in which an assessment will be given to the verdict to the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny, Interfax reports. Deputies intend to name the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court politically motivated. In the draft document, the Russian authorities are accused of using the judicial system as a political tool.

Anti -Maidanists in hats. Frame Grani-TV In Moscow, on Manezhnaya Square, participants in the action were detained in support of Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg, convicted in the "postal case". Their opponents were also detained, the correspondent of the "faces" reports. About 100 Supporters of Navalny reached the personnel. At the same time, more than 500 of their opponents with St.

In the studio Russia Today. Photo: TVC.ru The new edition of the Information Society program developed by the Ministry of Communications provides for an increase in the budget financing of the media by 44.7 billion rubles, RBC reports . Of these, 23 billion in 2015-2017 will receive the Russia Today TV channel and the Russia Today news agency.

Nikolai Mitrokhin. Photo from the personal archive The death of twelve passengers of the bus at the checkpoint of the Ukrainian army near Volnovakha prompted President Poroshenko to compare militants from the DPR with Parisian terrorists. And the Ukrainian community on social networks began the JE Suis Volnovakha campaign , trying to achieve the same solidarity with Ukraine in the world of which was manifested after the tragedy in France. The death of civilians is always a tragedy.

At the bus stop in Angarsk after the explosion. Photo: Newsangarsk.ru In Angarsk, an explosion occurred at the 211st quarter bus stop. This was reported by the local publication "News of the Week". According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Irkutsk Region, the incident was received by the police at 8:35 local time (3:35 Moscow time). Two people were injured. The man torn his leg to the knee, he was taken to the hospital.