70 years ago, on January 30, 1945, the S-13 submarine under the command of Captain 3rd rank Alexander Marinesco sunk in the Danzig Bay area the German passenger super-tiner "Wilhelm Gustloff", used as a military transport. Of the 10,582 people on board the liner, 9343 people were killed mainly by refugees from Pomerania. About 1000 passengers were military, including 373 girls from the auxiliary service of the fleet.

Central Bank. Photo: 1tv.ru The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia reduced the key rate from 17 percent to 15 percent per annum, according to the regulator website.

Transparency International logo The prosecutor’s office began checking the ANO “Center for Anti -Corruption Studies and Initiatives of Transpensers International -R” - the Russian branch of the International Organization of Transparency International, according to the NGO page. The audit is carried out “in connection with the performance of the functions of a foreign agent,” the resolution of the Tagan interdistrict prosecutor's office said.

Anatoly Gorlov, the husband of the accused of Gosizman Svetlana Davydova, told the "faces" why she called the Ukrainian embassy, ​​how the detention took place and what place in their life was occupied by politics.

Petrozavodsk. Photo from the city site In Petrozavodsk, Oleg Fokin, Chairman of the City Council, was detained on charges of fraud. According to Vedomosti, the investigation considers it involved in the theft of more than 3.9 million rubles through fraud with VAT compensation.

Arkady Rotenberg and Vladimir Putin in the gym Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order of the government, according to which the company of Arkady Rotenberg Stroygazmontazh becomes the general contractor for the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Strait in the annexed Crimea. This was reported by "Kommersant" with reference to several sources familiar with the situation. The disposal will be published on Friday.

Lifenews channel screensaver The Security Service of Ukraine detained two employees of the film crew of the Russian Lifenews TV channel for activities that "harm the national interests of Ukraine and is not related to journalism." This was stated by adviser to the head of the SBU Markiyan Lubkivsky, Interfax reports . “I confirm that the SBU detained two LifeNews journalists in Kyiv.

Sergey Naryshkin. Photo: Er.ru Russia will not accept any missions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. This was stated by State Duma chairman Sergey Naryshkin on the air of the Russia 24 television channel. He explained this by the fact that by the end of the year Moscow stopped cooperation with Pase, after the Russian delegation was limited in rights. "This (accept the missions PACE. - Ed.) It is impossible.

Elena Basner. Fall of the fifth channel The Dzerzhinsky district court of St. Petersburg during the preliminary hearings in the case of the famous art critic Elena Basner, who was charged with the participation of a fake picture, released the accused from house arrest, taking a recognizance not to leave her. This was reported by Fontanka.ru with reference to the lawyer, scientist, scientist Larisa Malkov, who petitioned for mitigating the preventive measure.

Photo: Inion.ru On Friday evening, in the south-west of Moscow, the building of the Institute of Scientific Information on Public Sciences (INION RAS) caught fire. According to RIA Novosti, the library of the institute is on, the fire area was about 2 thousand quarter meters, the roof collapsed in the building on Nakhimovsky Prospekt. The message about the fire was received at 22:09. 150 firefighters were busy in extinguishing. At midnight, the fire was localized.

Vitaly Portnikov. Courtesy Photo In Moscow, they decided that Hugo Chavez was resurrected, and even ended up inside the European Union. It remains only to give our boy money - and he will block the Brussels bureaucrats with the power of revolutionary ideals, and at the same time will show the angel Merkel where the crayfish winter. And now the Minister of Finance of Russia promises to consider the issue of granting Greece financial assistance - if she, of course, asks.

Jens Stoltenberg. Photo: NATO.int NATO will create units of command and control in the Baltic countries, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. This was stated by the Alliance Secretary General of Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference for the year. The decision will be made at a meeting of the heads of the Foreign Ministry of NATO members on February 5. "I expect that foreign ministers will be able to decide on the creation of NATO Force Integration Units.

Vladimir Medinsky. Frame of the TV channel "Russia 1" The Russian Block Block Blokbaster Avengers: Era Altron were postponed at the request of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, reports the Face -Roll Bulletin on Facebook.

Svetlana Davydova with children. Photo: svoboda.org In the case of a large mother, Svetlana Davydova, arrested on suspicion of treason, an examination will be appointed. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Andrei Stebenev, whom Davydova provided by the FSB. “There has been no examination yet, it will only be carried out,” said Stebenev.

Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov. Photo: "New Gazeta" The former chief of the 4th department of the operational-search department of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, convicted of involvement in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya by 11 years of maximum regime, was taken in the colony for state protection. This was reported by Rosbalt with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.