The testimony of the main witness against the leadership of the GUEBiPK was not relevant to the case As Kommersant learned, yesterday the Prosecutor General's Office terminated a pre-trial cooperation agreement with the former head of the GUEBiPK department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Salavat Mullayarov, who testified against his former leader Denis Sugrobov, who is accused of creating an organized criminal community.

Employees of ChTZ-Uraltrak LLC have been transferred to full-time employment. As Vladislav Smirnov, head of the main department of the employment service of the Chelyabinsk region, told Kommersant, the relevant information came from the management of the enterprise. “Last week, during a meeting with General Director Viktor Voropaev, they said that mass layoffs at the enterprise are not expected.

It was possible to extinguish the fire in the building of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where one of the richest collections of scientific literature in the country is stored, RIA Novosti reports on January 31, citing a representative of the capital’s head office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “The fire was completely extinguished at 23.23,” said a department official.

Yesterday, the Zelenodolsk court arrested for two months local residents, collector Igor Bogachenko and photographer Ilya Kostrubin, who are suspected of stealing 63 million rubles. at Sberbank.

The United States has allowed its citizens and banks to conduct private transactions with Crimea, the US Treasury Department announced on January 31. RIA Novosti reports this. The permit applies to “non-commercial”, “personal” transfers to or from Crimea, which involve “ordinary residents” of the peninsula. At the same time, charitable donations or sending funds that support businesses in Crimea, including family businesses, remain prohibited.

Bailiffs seized two more buildings and a recreation center of the municipal unitary enterprise Ekaterinburgenergo, the press service of the Federal Bailiff Service of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region reported. “Two non-residential buildings, as well as a recreation center, were arrested. Their cost, according to preliminary data, could be 32 million rubles,” the press service clarified.

Ukrainian authorities are negotiating with international donors to receive $15 billion in the near future to stabilize the national currency and balance the state budget, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vadim Prystaiko said in Washington after completing his visit to the United States.

Two women, citizens of the Czech Republic and Ukraine, were killed and 31 people were injured of varying severity in a bus accident in northern Slovakia, AFP reported on January 31, citing the country's Health Minister William Cieslak. “Rescuers found two bodies at the site where the accident occurred, near the small village of Spišský Štvrtok,” the minister said. Mr Cieslak added that 31 people were taken to nearby hospitals, 6 of whom were seriously injured.

The Federal Drug Control Service and the Federal Migration Service can be liquidated by transferring their functions to the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yesterday it became known that due to the financial crisis, the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) and the Federal Migration Service (FMS) could be liquidated, and their functions, with a certain number of employees, could be returned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The ruble started the year with a record fall The ruble has never experienced such a rapid fall in a month as in January. From the beginning of the year and by the last working day of the month, the dollar and euro rates soared by 14.4 rubles. and 10.85 rub. accordingly, updating almost a month and a half maximum.

Ukrainian hackers from Cyberberkut announced that on January 31 they blocked the website of the country's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. When accessing the page yatsenyuk.org.ua, the message “no connection” appears. A statement published on the Cyberberkut website notes that this action was taken to achieve an immediate end to the “terror of the people of Ukraine.” They demanded that Yatsenyuk leave his post, TASS reports.

Maria Sharapova lost to Serena Williams in the Australian Open final Maria Sharapova failed to add to her collection of Grand Slam titles. In the final of the Australian Open, the Russian woman met with Serena Williams and lost in two sets - 6:3, 7:6 (7:5). However, this outcome of the match was quite expected.

Materials from the inspection of ground infrastructure facilities were transferred to the Investigative Committee The cost of building the ground infrastructure of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region is overestimated by more than 13 billion rubles. Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Tatyana Golikova announced this on air at VGTRK. According to Ms. Golikova, the audit materials were transferred to the Investigative Committee of Russia.

The cost of construction of the ground infrastructure of the Vostochny cosmodrome, according to the Accounts Chamber, is overestimated by more than 13 billion rubles, the audit materials have been transferred to the Investigative Committee, said the head of the control department Tatyana Golikova.

A resident of the US state of Tennessee has been charged with attempting to carry out a coup in the Gambia. This was reported by representatives of the prosecutor's office, TASS reports on January 31. Elegie Barrow, 41, a dual citizen of the United States and Gambia, is charged with conspiracy against a friendly state and conspiracy to seize firearms for the purpose of committing a violent act. Barrow appeared in court in Minneapolis.