January 26 at 16:00 at the Sakharov Center will host another charity evening in support of political prisoners "For your freedom and ours." Political scientist Ekaterina Shulman, actor Alexander Filippenko, poet Andrey Rodionov, songwriter and singer Natella Boltyanskaya will perform. At the evening, donations will be collected to support the families of political prisoners and pay for lawyers. As usual, it will be possible to send postcards to political prisoners.

Gold ingots. Photo from Ostmetal.info In the Pacific Naval Military Court in Vladivostok, the case of the former senior investigator of the FSB in the Magadan region of Major of Justice Konstantin Kostenko, accused of theft of 12 kilograms of gold nuggets, appeared in the cases in the affairs that he led. It is reported by Kommersant.

White House. Photo: History.com The US Congress adopted on Friday, and President Donald Trump signed a law that restores in full financing of the government for three weeks, reports The Hill. The work of several ministries was stopped for 35 days - it was the longest “Shatdown” in the history of the United States. The adopted law does not provide for the allocation of $ 5 billion for the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico.

Boris Sokolov The 75th anniversary of the full lifting of the blockade of Leningrad is celebrated in Russia unusually magnificent. Which has already caused condemnation in the West: in particular, Germany noticed that the anniversary celebrations resemble “dancing on the bones”, while we are talking about one of the greatest tragedies of the Second World War.

Vasily Nebena. Square video UN The United Nations Council rejected the Russian proposal to stop the meeting regarding the situation in Venezuela, convened at the initiative of the United States, Reuters reports . Only 4 out of 15 countries, members of the Security Council, supported the cessation of the meeting, while 9 countries voted for its continuation and two countries abstained. To stop the meeting, at least nine votes were needed.

Michelle Legrand. Photo: Wikipedia/Georges Biard In France at the age of 86, composer Michelle Legrand died, Le Monde reports with reference to his representative. Legrand wrote more than 200 songs to film and television films. The most famous of them are the Sherbourg Umbrellas (1964) and the Thomas Kruna scam (1968).

Nicholas Maduro. Photo from the site acn.com.ve Venezuela dictator Nicholas Maduro said that he was ready to meet with the acting at any time President of the country Huan Guydo, reports Globovision. "I am committed to a national dialogue today, tomorrow and always ... If I need to meet this boy (Guydo. - Ed.) At the peak of Humbold at 3 a.m., I will go," Maduro said.

Emmanuel Macron. Photo: Gouvernement.fr Spain recognizes the speaker of the National Assembly of Venezuela Juan Guydo as temporary president of the country if the usurpator Nicholas Maduro will not announce early elections for eight days. This was written on Twitter by the Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez. The Spanish Prime Minister assured that Madrid is not striving for the "displacement of governments", but wishes "democracy and free elections" in Venezuela.

American soldiers in Afghanistan, 2001. Photo: Pacom.mil The United States and representatives of Taliban in six -day negotiations in Qatar agreed on a draft peace agreement providing for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan within 18 months from the date of signing the contract. It is reported by Reuters with reference to sources in Taliban. The American side at the negotiations was represented by the US Special Supervisor on World Salmay Halilzad.