Moscow took 21st place in the ranking of cities in the world with the largest volumes of investment in commercial real estate. In 2011, the Russian capital was located on the 15th line, in 2012 - on the 13th. This is stated in a study by Jones Lang LaSalle, prepared for the World Economic Forum in Davos. According to experts, according to the results of three quarters of 2013, $3.2 billion was invested in commercial real estate in Moscow. Its neighbors were Stockholm and Munich.

Russian tennis players Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova reached the final of the Australian Open in doubles. On January 22, in the semifinals of the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, they defeated Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears - 7:5, 3:6, 6:3, the official website of the competition reports. At the Australian Open, the Russian duo was seeded third.

Biologists and statisticians from Canada's McMaster University have concluded that the use of antipyretics increases the incidence of viral colds by at least one percent. The scientists' research was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B briefly about it , and ScienceNow writes . The researchers' conclusions are based on an analysis of existing data.

A Zimbabwean court sentenced local resident Thomas Chirembwe to 290 years in prison for raping 13 women, reports the Associated Press . In pronouncing the sentence, Judge Simon Rogers Kachembwe called the defendant "a creature worse than a wild beast" who should be kept safely away from society. During the trial, the serial rapist admitted guilt and expressed repentance, asking not to be sent to prison for a long time.

Dow Jones & Company financial news agency CEO Lex Fenwick, who joined the company from Bloomberg, has resigned. This was reported in a press release from News Corp, the parent company of Dow Jones. News Corp Chief Creative Officer William Lewis has been appointed acting CEO. The search for a permanent CEO continues. The reasons for Fenwick's resignation were not specified.

The Russian Embassy in Ukraine recommended that Russian citizens refrain from visiting “zones of active protest actions” in Kyiv. The corresponding statement was published on the evening of January 22 on the department’s website. Protests in the Ukrainian capital have been taking place on Independence Square since November last year, when the authorities abandoned the course towards European integration.

Deputies of the State Duma adopted in the second and third readings a law that tightens liability for crimes of an extremist nature. Voting on the bill in two readings took place on January 22, Interfax reports . The toughest sanctions are established for organizing an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) - up to six years in prison, whereas now the maximum term is four years.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine denies the use of firearms in Kyiv. As Ukrayinska Pravda writes, this was announced by the head of the public relations department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sergei Burlakov. According to him, there are “no firearms at all” on Grushevsky Street, where clashes between oppositionists and security forces resumed on January 22.

Rostelecom sent a complaint to the 13th Arbitration Court of Appeal of St. Petersburg, in which it demanded to review the court verdict, which declared the payment of 201 million rubles to former President Alexander Provotorov illegal. newspaper writes about this in its issue dated January 22, The Vedomosti with reference to the text of the document. In the appeal, Rostelecom explains that in the Labor Code, wages mean not only salary, but also compensation.

Russia took 43rd place in the ranking of the best countries for doing business according to Bloomberg . The rating was published on the agency's website on January 22. Over the year, Russia has risen in the ranking by 13 positions. Russia shared 43rd place with Oman. Both states scored 61.6 points out of 100 possible. They lost to Bulgaria, but were ahead of Panama. Hong Kong was again in first place in 2014, scoring 83.4 points.

In the Russian segment of the anonymous Tor network, nodes were found capable of intercepting Internet traffic and monitoring user activity on Facebook. The nodes were discovered during an experiment conducted by scientists from the Swedish University in Karlstadt (Karlstad Studentkar Karlstads Universitet). To conduct the experiment, a special scanner was developed that was capable of identifying suspicious nodes in Tor.

The investment fund Pamplona Capital Management (part of Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group) offered $11.53 per share of TI Automotive, a manufacturer of fuel and braking systems for cars. Bloomberg reports this citing unnamed sources. Pamplona's offer exceeds $2.1 billion. Before Friedman's fund became interested in the asset, TI Automotive was considering an offer to sell shares to Bain Capital Partners. The latter is ready to pay two billion dollars for the asset.

Christopher Poole, the creator of the imageboard 4chan, said that two other projects he launched - the drawing app DrawQuest for iOS and the online community Canvas - will be closed. TechCrunch reports this. Commenting on the closure of the projects on his blog , Poole said: “No soft landing, no happy ending - we simply failed.” He did not name the reasons for the “failure,” noting only that “we have never been strong in business matters.” The DrawQuest app was released in February 2013.

In the area of ​​the Dynamo stadium in the center of Kyiv, large forces of soldiers of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the special forces "Berkut" and the police are concentrated, and an armored personnel carrier has also arrived there. reports this Interfax-Ukraine . As Twitter users write, an armored personnel carrier is being used to destroy the barricade erected by the opposition on Grushevsky Street.

At the end of last year, when Los Angeles authorities carried out another purchase of firearms from the public, one of the visitors to the police station handed over a German StG-44 assault rifle. For the weapon designed by Hugo Schmeisser, the American received a gift certificate worth $200. Such cases happen regularly in the United States, and gun collectors often come to official gun buying places to get their hands on rare and valuable examples of rifles, machine guns or pistols.