Alexander Shchipkov. Photo from the site Pravoslavie.ru The State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin appointed an adviser on a voluntary basis of the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church. According to Kommersant, it was the first deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church with society and the media, Alexander Shchipkov, who is in the Russian Orthodox Church for interaction with parties.

IK-7 in Segezh. Photo: vnevole.ucoz.ru The Federal Penitentiary Service did not agree on a visit by members of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights of Correctional Colony 7 in the Karelian Segezh. This was reported on the website of the HRC.

Border zone. Photo: wikimapia.org The rules for crossing the Russian-Belarusian border will remain unchanged, TASS reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. However, in the border areas with the formation of border zones there is a new order of stay. Citizens of Russia and Belarus can freely go along the M1 Moskv-Minsk highway, and along the A-240 Bryansk-Gamel without any permits. “The order does not provide any inspection points on the border with Belarus.

Firing Avdeevka. Photo: @Fedchukroman In the Donetsk region, pro -Russian militants continue to shell Avdeevka. As the Gromadsky TB reports , the shelling began at about 19:30 Tuesday. The shells hit the heating points, as a result of which one emergency officer was seriously wounded. Another shell hit school number 2. Later they found a wounded woman there, she died of fragmentation wounds in the operating room.

Forty years ago, on February 3, 1977, there was a military coup in Ethiopia. At a meeting of the Provisional Military Administrative Council, its chairman, Teferi Benti, was killed along with six of his supporters. The first deputy chairman of the council, Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, came to power, who personally shot General Benti and his supporters with a machine gun. He announced that Ethiopia had chosen a course of socialist orientation.

US State Department. Photo: Wikipedia The United States annulled about 60 thousand visas as part of the execution of the Decree of President Donald Trump on the restriction of the entry of refugees and citizens of several Muslim countries. This was stated in the State Department, reports Associated Press. On Friday, The Washington Post reported that the number of canceled visas due to the Trump decree is more than 100 thousand.

Dmitry Gudkov on the march of millions - 2. Photo: Evgenia Mikheeva/Grani.ru The ex-deputy of the State Duma Dmitry Gudkov will nominate his candidacy for the post of mayor of Moscow in the 2018 election, intending to become the only candidate from the Democrats. This is written by "Vedomosti", referring to the head of the headquarters of Gudkov in the elections to the State Duma of 2016 Maxim Katz.

OMVD in the Sunzhensky district of Chechnya. Photo: chechnya.gov.ru The Chechen security forces are held the second week for the second week in hostages of the resident of Ingushetia Anzor Aliyev, whose younger brother Shamil was previously convicted of aiding for militants. This is stated in the message posted on the site "Memorial".

Crimea map The annexed Crimea will not be included in the list of Russian regions in the federal license to provide communication services in the UMTS standard. This was reported by RBC with reference to the representative of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky. A meeting in the department came to such a decision, in which representatives of MTS, MegaFon and Vympelkom took part. "Everything worked as it worked and will work. Nobody is forcibly to drive the" Big Three "operators," Ampelonsky said.

Nikki Haley. Photo: ChristianityTode.com The condition for lifting sanctions from Russia is the return of Crimea to Ukraine. According to CNN, the new US Permanent Representative to the UN Nikki Haley said. "Crimea is part of Ukraine. We have introduced by the sanctions associated with the Crimea will act until Russia returns Ukraine control over the peninsula," she said. Haley also condemned Moscow for the situation in the Donbass.

The shelling of Avdeevka continues - Russian "grades" from Donetsk streets are hit in residential buildings and the humanitarian zone, where heating points are deployed. Artillery of the DPR began the shelling of roads, trying to cut off Avdeevka from the supply routes. Repair brigades under fire cannot begin to work, the city is left without electricity. Volunteers carry products and things for local residents and defenders of the city. Photo report by Ivan Lyubish-Kirdeya from Avdeevka:

Police on the streets of Paris. Photo: English.ahram.org.eg In the center of Paris, an unknown man with Machete attacked a soldier. As the German wave reports , during the attack, the attacker shouted "Allah Akbar." The incident occurred near the Louvre Museum when a man tried to go to the shopping center. He was refused the entrance, since he had two large suitcases in his hands. After that, the attacker took out a weapon. In response, the military opened fire.

Ildar Dadin in the Karelian IK-7, 11/01/2016. Photo: FSIN, Source: Mk.ru The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow rejected the administrative lawsuit of the Politzek Ildar Dadin to transfer him from the Karelian colony to IK-5 in the Altai Territory, TASS reports . "The court decided to refuse to satisfy the stated requirements of Dadin," the judge Nelly Rubtsova announced the decision.

Alexander Lukashenko. Photo: News.uvaga.by Russian-Belorussian relations are experiencing a crisis because of certain forces in the leadership of Russia, whose actions diverge from the position of President Vladimir Putin. As Interfax reports , President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated this "Indeed, there (in Russia. - Ed.) Different forces. Unfortunately, they are different today in the country's leadership.

Alexey Navalny. Photo from the site 2018.navalny.com The state prosecution in the trial in the case of Kirovles demanded for the defendants Alexei Navalny and Peter Officer Punishment in the form of conditional imprisonment. This was written on Twitter by Navalny. Prosecutor Sergei Bogdanov demanded that Navalny sentence in the form of five years in prison, officer - four years also of conditional punishment. "As I said: it is important for them to just ban me to participate in the elections.