Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko at the announcement of the sentence. Photo by Igor Khoroshilova/Grani.ru Moscow agreed to the exchange of citizens of Ukraine Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko to the special forces of the Russian GRU - Captain Evgeny Erofeev and Sergeant Alexander Alexandrov. This, according to the Ukrainian Service "Radio Liberty", said the head of the Center for the Liberation of Ukrainian prisoners Vladimir Ruban.

Alexander Litvinenko. Photo: www.svoboda.org On January 21, the Royal Court of London will submit to the British parliament a decision in the case of the death of the ex-officer of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko. As RBC reports , Judge Robert Owen issued this decision for six months - from the moment when the hearing in the case ended. He had to establish whether the Russian special services were involved in the crime.

Alexander Tkachev. Photo: mcx.ru The deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Countering Corruption, Alexander Khinshtein, sent an official request to the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev asking him to report whether the head of the department wrote a statement about the presence or absence of a conflict of interests in connection with the business that his relatives conduct.

Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Ministry of Economic Development has developed an updated version of the forecast of the socio-economic development of Russia in 2016. According to Vedomosti, it suggests a deterioration in the main indicators.

Elizaveta Tsvetkova. Photo with personal VK page Lawyer Yuri Chupilkin, who defends a resident of Taganrog, Elizaveta Tsvetkov, who is charged with sticking leaflets with police criticism, told the trial of an activist that one of the material evidence in the case was possibly falsified. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". The hearing is conducted by the judge of the Taganrog City Court Georgy Serebryanikov .

Akhtem Chiygoz restrains the rally participants at the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, 02/26/2014. Photo: krymr.com The prosecutor of the annexed Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya and her two subordinates read out the indictment in the “February 26 case”, whose defendants are accused of “riots” during the demonstration of democratic forces in the last days before the seizure of the peninsula. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces" from the courtroom.

Herman Gref. Photo: sberbank.ru Russia lost competition, being in the camp of the country-shifters. According to RBC, this was stated by the head of Sberbank German Gref, speaking at the RANEPA at the Gaidar Forum. “We lost competition and ended up in the camp of countries that lose, the countries -downshifer. The countries and people who managed to adapt and invest in this in time are winners. Those who did not have time will lose very much,” he said.

Published as advertising The modern entertainment industry on the Web is constantly turning to sensational films and legendary comics for plots. At the same time, game software developers enter into agreements with the owners of the rights to the relevant intellectual property, paying multimillion-dollar royalties for the possibility of using ready-made images.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo The deputy of the Krasnoyarsk City Council is too categorical . How is it, Ramzan Kadyrov - Russia's shame? Ramzan Kadyrov is a hero of Russia, whose exploits are tortured to list. Actually, Konstantin Senchenko just indicates some of them in his thundering post, but the conclusions draws hasty. For the heroic acts of the head of the Chechen administration, although they often become events of a federal scale, still retain a unique regional flavor.

125 years ago, on January 15, 1891, Osip Emilievich Mandelstam, the great Russian poet, was born. Vladimir Nabokov described him as "the best poet who tried to survive in Russia under the Soviets." Failed to survive. Mandelstam was subjected to repressions for an anti-Stalinist poem about the "Kremlin mountaineer" and died in the camp.

Construction. Photo from the OG.ru website The Russian authorities are ready to mitigate sanctions against construction companies working in the country established by Turkish citizens. According to Kommersant, one of the federal officials said this. According to him, large contracting companies may remain in Russia, provided that joint enterprises with Russian partners will create at least 75 percent plus one promotion.

Monument to Prince Vladimir on Borovitskaya Square. Archnadzor collage The International Council for the preservation of monuments and landmark places - the UNESCO advisory body - does not recommend that the Russian authorities erect a monument to Prince Vladimir on Borovitskaya Square Moscow.

The deputy of the Krasnoyarsk City Council, Konstantin Senchenko, contrary to his recent assurances, really apologized to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for his harsh remarks about him. A fragment of a video with Senchenko's apologies was posted on Kadyrov's Instagram. “Ramzan Akhmatovich,” the deputy addresses the head of Chechnya, “I apologize. I was wrong. I acted in a temper, emotionally, and I offer my deep apologies.

Alexander Tkachev. Photo: kremlin.ru The German Foreign Ministry refused the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, the former governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev on a visa to participate in the annual Berlin Agrarian exhibition "Green Week". This was reported on the website of the Russian Ministry. The reason for this decision was Tkachev’s presence in the sanctions list of the European Union.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru It is amazing how the organized campaign to “restore the ghost” fraternity between the two neighboring peoples, divided, as usual, by bad politicians, coincided with the emotional sighs of Russian journalists and public figures who support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia - and unexpectedly not understood by the Ukrainian audience.