German Klimenko. Photo from the website Heli-nord.ru The presidential adviser on the Internet, German Klimenko, denied the information that he is the owner of Torrnado.ru torrent tracker. He stated this in an interview with the Russian News Service. "The owner of the Torrnado service is Eco PC. I am not the owner in the legal sense. I just want to say that the fact -choir of the newspaper" Strange "newspaper," Klimenko said.

Alexey Navalny in the Lublin District Court, 05/13/2015. Photo by Alexandra Ageeva/Grani.ru The Moscow City Court recognized the refusal of a month to extend the test term for the leader of the progress party to Alexei Navalny as part of the sentence in the "postal case", said RAPSI. Thus, the court rejected the prosecutor’s protest to the decision of the Lublin District Court of Moscow. The supervisory authority asked to satisfy the submission of the penal inspection.

Alexander Belov (Potkin). Photo: Bloknot.ru The case of the former member of the political council of the now prohibited ethnopolitical association "Russian" Alexander Belov (Potkin) was transferred for consideration on the merits from the Nagatinsky district court of Moscow to Meshchansky. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to Ivan Mironov, the lawyer of the Politzek. The decision was made during the preliminary hearings in the case that opened on January 12 and continued on the 19th.

Vladimir Ionov in the Preobrazhensky District Court. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow satisfied the petition of the public prosecutor and returned the case of the 76-year-old civil activist Vladimir Ionov to the prosecutor’s office, and put him on the wanted list. This was reported by the lawyer Olga Dinze, representing the interests of Ionov. The court decided to detain Ionov and deliver to the court, to suspend the proceedings.

The FSB building on Lubyanskaya Square. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The interdepartmental commission for the protection of state secrets refused to declassify the archives of the state security bodies of the USSR for the period from 1917 to 1991, reports Gazeta.ru. The commissions said that information about the work of the Chekists "remain relevant", and their publication can cause damage to Russia's security.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Hasan Huseynov and Marina Vishnevetskaya (the author of the book) at the presentation of the book "Dictionary of Changes-2014" as part of the Russian-Ukrainian book publishing project. Sakharovsky Center, January 18, 2016. Shooting Dmitry Borko.

Emblem of the IMF The International Monetary Fund is expected to fall in the Russian economy in 2016 by 1 percent, the World Economic Outlook Update reported in the updated review of the world economy. In the previous review of the IMF published in October, he evaluated the decrease by 0.6 percent. "Russia, which continues to adapt to low oil prices and Western sanctions, is expected to remain in the recession in 2016," the review says.

Department of Oschadbank. Photo: oschadbank.ua Oshcadbank filed a notice of arbitration proceedings against Russia in connection with the loss of property and investments in the annexed Crimea. This was reported by the press service of the bank. "This is the next step in the decision of the legal claims of Oschadbank to Russia. The bank acts as an investor and as a legal entity of private law in order to protect and restore its investment lost in Crimea," the report said.

A gas pipeline. Photo: naftogaz.com Gazprom sent Naftogaz of Ukraine an invoice for gas, not chosen by the Ukrainian company in the third quarter of 2015, by the condition of "bei or pay", Interfax reports . The amount of claims amounted to $ 2.549 billion. In accordance with the contracting between Gazprom and Naftogaz, the buyer is obliged to pay the minimum annual amount of gas annually.

Baku. Photo: vesti.az Azerbaijan authorities will limit the export of currency from the country. According to RBC, this was stated by the Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan Elman Rustamov. According to him, amendments to the Law "On Currency Regulation" provide for the introduction of a fee of 20 percent of the total amount of the currency exported from the country in order to purchase real estate, land and securities abroad, as well as direct investments.

Ramzan Kadyrov.

Monument to Ivan Chernyakhovsky. Photo: polska-kaliningrad.ru A bas -relief from a dismantled monument to the Soviet general Ivan Chernyakhovsky in the Polish city of Peneno will be transferred to the Russian businessman. This was stated by the mayor of Penete Casimir Keido, reports the Polish Cultural and Velia Center in Kaliningrad.

Portraits of Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelova, 01/19/2016. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru In the center of Moscow, a march of the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, killed by the Nazis on that day seven years ago, took place. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces". About 1000 people took part in the shares agreed on officials.

Fragment of the 2018 World Cup emblem 30 Russian oppositionists turned to FIFA with an appeal to transfer the 2018 World Cup from Russia to "another ready to spend his country." The corresponding letter in English and Russian is published on the X Soviet blog. If it is impossible to transfer the championship, oppositionists urge national teams to boycott the competitions.

Nikitovka station in Gorlovka. Photo: Donpress.com In Gorlovka, controlled by the militants of the DPR, local residents beat the senior officer of the Russian army, who, being drunk, threatened the surrounding weapons. This was reported by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The incident occurred on Sunday in the area of ​​the Nikitovka railway station.