PACE session. Photo: Assembly.coe.int On January 25, a hearing on the topic "should PACE take control of the investigation of the murder of Boris Nemtsov will be held at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe." This was reported by "Kommersant" with reference to the deputy of the Sejm Lithuania Emanuelis Zingeris.

The Central Bank needs to cancel the convertibility of the ruble and set its tough exchange rate in relation to the dollar and the main backup currencies. This was stated by the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy Sergei Kalashnikov, reports Prime. "It is necessary to establish a tough ruble exchange rate in relation to the US dollar and other reserve currencies.

British diplomats in trial of Ekaterina Vologzheninova. Frame NDNews The next court hearing over the Yekaterinburg blogger Yekaterina Vologzheninova, accused of extremism, was visited by diplomats of five European countries: Britain, Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Sweden. This was reported by Ura.ru. At the same time, the representative of Sweden - the second secretary of the embassy Konrad Ricardson - specially arrived at the court from Moscow.

Alexey Moroshkin. Frame "Open Russia" Chelyabinsk regionalist blogger Alexei Moroshkin, to whom the FSB was charged with a "separatist" article 280.1 of the Criminal Code, said that he was judged in this case. The corresponding post appeared on January 3 at the VK page of Moroshkin, which he leads under the pseudonym Andrei Brava. In Russia, the blogger page is blocked, and the entrance to it is possible only through anonymizers.

Alexander Belov (Potkin). Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru Investigators conducted a search in the apartment of the wife of one of the leaders of the nationalist movement "Russians" Alexander Potkin (Belova), accused in the case of theft of the assets of the Kazakhstan BTA-Bank. As TASS reports , the lawyer of the nationalist Ivan Mironov announced this. "Somewhere at 07:30 in the morning, investigators came to his wife Olga, now she has been a search.

Alexander Litvinenko in the hospital. Photo by Wikipedia The authorities of Great Britain demanded that Russia answer questions of the report on the murder of ex-employee of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko. This was reported by the press service of the British government. The Russian Ambassador to London Alexander Yakovenko was called to the British Foreign Ministry.

Alexander Balitsky. Frame VGTRK The VGTRK correspondent Alexander Balitsky was banned from entering Moldova for a period of five years, according to the television company. The fact that his surname is included in the "black list", Balitsky learned when passing the control control. The decisions were not given to him and did not explain the reasons for the ban.

Alexey Kudrin. Photo from Newsfiber.com Ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin did not rule out the fall in oil prices to $ 16-18 per barrel. As TASS reports , he stated this on a business breakfast "VTB Capital" in Davos. “Today there are a number of factors that work to reduce the price. It will be lower than we see today. It can reach 18 and even to 16 (dollars per barrel. - Ed.), But for a short time. It really will be the lowest point,” Kudrin said.

Victor Ivanov. Photo from ufo.fskn.gov.ru The head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov called the absurdity of assumptions about his possible involvement in the death of a former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London. According to the BBC, in a conversation with the correspondent of the British newspaper Guardian, Ivanov called the investigation of the death of Litvinenko a political order in the UK, and the conclusions of the investigation are false from beginning to end.

Galina Shirshina. Photo: gubdaily.ru Elena Lazareva, Deputy Chairman of the Petrozavodsk City Court, recognized the decision of the deputies of the city council on the resignation of mayor Galina Shirshina, Interfax reports . The claim of the former mayor is rejected. The ex-mayor and its representative Petr Trifonov drew the attention of the court to a number of violations committed by deputies.

Department of Zastropombank. Photo: plusworld.ru The Central Bank withdrew the license from Zayprombank, which occupies 40th place in the banking system of Russia. About this writes RBC, referring to the message of the regulator. According to the results of the financial analysis of the Central Bank and the deposit insurance agency, it turned out that the bank’s obligations exceeded its assets by 187.4 billion rubles.

Svetlana Gannushkina. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru After thirteen years of cooperation, the Road Together charity fund refused to support the Civil Proposal Committee Svetlana Gannushkina due to the Label "Foreign Agent". This was reported on the NGO website. Since 2002, the "Road Together" has made charitable contributions in favor of the committee 15 times. In November, the fund again proposed to allocate more than 1.5 million rubles.

Coca-Cola card fragment. Screenshot from the VKontakte community The Prosecutor's Office of the Crimea began criminal proceedings against officials of Coca-Cola and Pepsico, due to the placement of cards on their sites, on which the peninsula is designated as the territory of Russia. This was announced on his Facebook by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Georgy Logvinsky.

Vladimir Fortov. Photo: ras.ru Russia was significantly lagging behind in the scientific field, descending to the level of Iran. This was stated by President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science, Technology and Education, Interfax reports . "All over the world, there is a literally explosive growth of the scientific sphere, behind which we, unfortunately, are clearly not in time.

Detained Maxim Baklagin and Vyacheslav Isaev. Frame of Channel One The collegium of the Supreme Court, as part of Viktor Smirnov, Peter Kondratov and Elena Paisikova, left the verdict to the defendants of the case of the combat organization of Russian nationalists Maxim Baklagin, Vyacheslav Isaev and Mikhail Volkov. It is reported by "Mediazona". The sentence entered into force.