The building of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. Frame TV6 The Russian General Staff refused telephone conversations with the leadership of NATO. According to RIA Novosti, this said Deputy Minister of Defense Anatoly Antonov. "The alliance received a request to conduct a telephone conversation of General Peter Pavel with the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Army General Valery Gerasimov.

Mikhail Slipenchuk. Photo: Er.ru On behalf of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigative Committee will check the declaration for 2010-2011 State Duma deputy Mikhail Slipenchuk, Kommersant reports . The audit is connected with the criminal case of attempted murder and theft. In his declaration, Slipenchuk indicated that by the end of 2010 there were 160 thousand rubles on his account in Rosbank, and more than 1.8 billion in Obi -Bank.

Dairy products. Photo from the site kiprino.ru The Ministry of Industry and Trade has developed a plan for launching in Russia programs of targeted food assistance to poor citizens. This was reported by "Vedomosti". According to the document developed in the department, the program starts in 2017. According to preliminary calculations, in the first year 140 billion rubles will be spent on it. Of these, 127.3 billion will actually go to subsidies, the rest is auxiliary expenses.

Branch "Privatbank". Photo: Privatbank.ua The Stockholm Arbitration Court accepted for consideration the claims of the Ukrainian Privatbank in lost assets in the annexed Crimea. This was stated by the head of the Bank of the Bank Dmitry Dubilet, according to Forbes-Ukraine. "We have passed all the procedures, and the Stockholm Arbitration Court has already accepted claims for consideration. We are talking about the amount of about one billion dollars.

TASS building. Photo from Wikipedia.org The office of the TASS news agency is being searched. It is reported by Znak.som, referring to his own sources. According to the interlocutor of the publication, investigative actions are held in the Department of Strategic Initiatives of the Agency. The source said that they can be connected with the work of the general director of TASS Sergey Mikhailov. Mikhailov himself is now at a meeting in the Kremlin, the source added.

Gennady Afanasyev in the Rostov pre-trial detention center, August 2015. Photo from the FB page Alexander Popkov The citizen of Ukraine, Gennady Afanasyev, was announced by ten penalties. According to the portal "Crimea. Realities", the lawyer of the Crimean prisoner Alexander Popkov said this. “He does not end in the colony, he is oppressed.

Board "Lukoil". Photo: Autopro.hu Lukoil Europe Holdings, which was controlled by the Russian oil company Lukoil, has entered into agreements on the sale of about 230 gas stations in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland from the Austrian Amic Energy Management. This was reported by the press service of "Lukoil". "The decision to sell the retail network in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland is made as part of the program to optimize the structure of Lukoil retail assets in Europe," the report said.

In the supermarket. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva/Grani.ru The government intends to expand the list of excisable goods, introducing palm oil and carbonated drinks into it. According to Vedomosti, the corresponding order was given after the meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on January 18. According to officials in the financial and economic bloc, Vladimir Putin supported the idea. According to sources, excise taxes are discussed on a wide list of "harmful" goods.

Signing an agreement between Russia and the DPRK. Photo: FMS.gov.ru The agreement concluded by the authorities of Russia and North Korea on the mutual issuance of people who illegally entered the territory of two countries is criminal. This is stated in the statement of the human rights center "Memorial". By signing this agreement, the Russian authorities made many officials and employees of law enforcement agencies "inevitable accomplices of criminal acts," the memorial notes.

"Northern Stream". Photo: gazprom.ru The North Stream-2 gas pipeline, including its sea unit, falls under the requirements of the legislation of the European Union and must comply with the norms of the third energy packet. This is stated in the conclusion of the General Director for Energy of the European Commission, Bloomberg reports .

Putin and Erdogan. Photo: kremlin.ru There was no and not planned any meetings of Vladimir Putin with Turkish President Erdogan. According to Interfax, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated this. On January 30, Erdogan announced the need to meet with Putin in connection with a new incident with the Russian aircraft. The incident occurred on January 29 at 11:46 local time.

Julian Assange. Photo: bbc.com The UN working commission for illegal detentions officially announced its verdict in the case of the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. As Reuters reports , its persecution has been recognized as illegal, the UK and Sweden must pay Assange compensation. The decision was not made unanimously - three of the five members of the working group voted for it.

The soldiers of the army of Saudi Arabia. Photo: kragor.ru Saudi Arabia can send several thousand special forces to Syria to participate in a ground military operation to combat the Islamic State. According to The Guardian, the kingdom will coordinate its actions with Turkey - a few days ago, Er -Riyad and Ankara created an organ responsible for the coordination of hostilities.

Oil storages. Photos from the archive of the faces Oil exports from Russia in 2015 compared with the previous year decreased in value terms by 41.8 percent, to $ 89.576 billion. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Federal Customs Service. At the same time, the physical volume of oil exports in 2015 increased by 9.4 percent and amounted to 244.485 million tons against 223.415 million tons a year earlier.

Andrey Parubiy. Photo: rnbo.gov.ua The Verkhovna Rada entered a draft resolution on the abolition of a visa -free regime with Russia. This was reported by UNIAN with reference to one of the authors of the document, the first deputy chairman of the Ukrainian parliament Andrei Parubiy. The deputy explained the need to introduce visas for Russian citizens to support most of them aggression of Russia in relation to Ukraine. “I have long been convinced that this is absolutely necessary.