Currency exchange. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The national currency on the Moscow Exchange has sharply decreased . At the opening of the auction, the cost of the euro reached 83.97 rubles. This indicator has become a record since December 2014. The dollar cost 76.46 rubles. By 11 o’clock, courses were somewhat adjusted to 82.66 and 75.88.

David Bowie. Photo from the official page In the 70th year of life, British musician David Bowie died. This was reported on the official page of the artist. "Bowie peacefully died today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 -month battle with cancer," the report said. Bowie became known to the general public in the fall of 1969, when his song Space Oddity reached the first five in the British hit parade.

Personal data. Illustration from the website of Roskomnadzor In 2016, Roskomnadzor plans to conduct more than a thousand checks of personal data operators. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the materials of the department. The data storage procedure will be checked in IT and Internet companies.

Conflict in the Belgorod hospital. Frame of the video On the basis of new data on the death of the patient, the investigator decided to detain the former surgeon of the Belgorod city hospital No. 2 of Ilya Zelendinov. This was reported by the press service of the TFR. "In the near future, it is planned to charge him and resolve the issue of choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention," the report said. What kind of new data the investigation discovered is not specified.

Made in Turkey. From the site Cocmat.com Rospotrebnadzor increased control in connection with the entry into force of anti -Turkish sanctions. This was reported by the press service of the department.

Money. Grani.ru collage The Russian economy will be reduced in 2016 by 0.5 percent. These are the results of a survey of economists conducted by Bloomberg. According to this indicator, Russia shares with Ecuador the fourth or fifth place from the end in the ranking of 93 countries. As the main reasons for the recession in Russia, experts call low oil prices and the action of US and EU sanctions. In the last place, according to the results of the survey, Venezuela turned out to be.

Galina Shirshina. Photo: gubdaily.ru The ex-mayor of Petrozavodsk Galina Shirshina appealed to the city court the decision of the City Council on her resignation. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court. "The statement was received from Galina Shirshina on recognition by illegal and canceling the decision of the Petrozavodsk City Council to resign her," the court said. The court will decide on the consideration of the application within five days.

Vladimir Putin. Photo from the site kremlin.ru Russia did not violate international law by connecting Crimea. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin in an interview with the German publication Bild, published on the Kremlin website. "We did not fought, did not occupy anyone, did not shoot anywhere, not a single person died as a result of events in the Crimea. Not a single one!

A forage of a policeman. Photo: ofless.ru The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Irkutsk Region began checking the information of local human rights activists about the torture of a woman in the police department of the city of Usol-Sibirskoye. It is reported by Flashsiberia. On January 2, two operatives came to the house to Marina G., the mothers of three children and asked to go to the police department with them.

Yuri Chaika. Photo: genProc.gov.ru Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika does not intend to retreat before information attacks on his department and personally on him, and, moreover, is ready to take adequate response measures. He stated this in an interview, which will be published in the Rossiy newspaper on Tuesday, TASS reports . "The prosecutor's office is currently carrying out tremendous work on all the tasks facing it, including countering those who are trying to sow legal chaos in our country.

Boris Nemtsov at the rally. Photo by L. Barkova/Grani.ru The protection of the relatives of the murdered co-chair of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov appealed the refusal to re-qualify the case to an article on an encroachment on the life of a state or public figure. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to the lawyer Vadim Prokhorov.

Nikolai Mitrokhin. Photo from the personal archive The pre -scanning personnel bacchanalia in the Moscow Patriarchate seems to be ended on January 5 - the appointment of Alexander Shchipkov I.O. The first deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church with society and the media.

Laurent Fabius. Photo: Diplomatie.gouv.fr Russia should immediately stop impacts on the civilian population of Syria. This was stated by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius after a meeting with one of the coordinators of the Syrian opposition Riad Hijab, RBC reports .

"South Stream". Photo: South-stream.info The Russian authorities consider the possibility of resuming the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline. This was reported by the Bulgarian newspaper "Standard" with reference to two sources surrounded by the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. According to sources, the resumption of negotiations on the South Stream is due to the deterioration of Russian-Turkish relations and, as a result, the rejection of the "Turkish stream" project.