Edward Snowden. Frame of the video interview The Guardian Russia considers the possibility of issuing the exposure of the American special services of Edward Snowden as a “gift” to US President Donald Trump. This was reported by NBC with reference to sources in intelligence. The issuance of Snowuden is considered by the Russian authorities as one of the ways to "curry up" in front of Trump, a senior American official said.

Donald Trump at a press conference in New York, 01/11/2017. FOX FOX News Sources in American intelligence confirmed that the individual data of an unknown report on the “Russian compromise” to US President Donald Trump are true. It is reported by CNN. At the same time, the sources of the channel emphasized that we are not talking about "the most scandalous and obscene" statements from the document. As noted in CNN, records of negotiations of foreign citizens turned out to be reliable.

15 years ago, on February 11, 2002, Pope John Paul II, despite the protest of the Moscow Patriarchate and a number of anti-Catholic rallies organized by the Patriarchate, transformed four apostolic administrations in Russia into full-fledged dioceses. The Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow, the Diocese of Preobrazhenskaya in Novosibirsk, the Diocese of Saint Joseph in Irkutsk, and the Diocese of Saint Clement in Saratov were established.

Sergey Zhadan. Photo from a personal page The Ukrainian writer Sergei Zhadan was expelled from Belarus and notified the ban on entry into the country for an indefinite period. The writer reported this on his page. On Saturday night in Minsk, a police patrol arrived in the hotel room of Zhadan. “Without explaining anything, they took to the department, they began to punch at the base, did not find anything. They called to the KGB. They advised them to go to another department, Leninsky.

FSO flag. Photo: fso.gov.ru President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill to the State Duma on the expansion of the powers of the Federal Security Service. The document is published in the basis of the legislative initiatives of the lower house. The bill gives FSO employees the right to restrict and prohibit the movement of vehicles and pedestrians on the tracks along which the route of protected persons pass.

Medal of the 2012 Olympiad. Photo: Olympteka.ru Russian athletes, deprived of doping of Olympic medals, do not want to return them voluntarily. This was stated by the president of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov, Interfax reports . "A few athletes agree to return the Olympic medals," Zhukov said. He noted that the OKR at the request of the International Olympic Committee is working on the return of medals by the Russians.