The Frunzensky District Prosecutor's Office of Saratov appealed to the court with a demand to register a regional organization of disabled people with diabetes as a “foreign agent,” writes Novaya Gazeta . Medical University student Nikita Smirnov, who heads the headquarters to support Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections, filed a complaint with the department. The Diabetes Association in Saratov was created in the late 1980s by doctors from the medical university.

The National Guard is holding a tender for the supply of personal “video monitoring” systems equipped with attack sensors, which, when triggered, will record automatically. The corresponding order has been placed on the government procurement website. The application specifies that the department needs five sets of personal recorders that can be attached to various types of National Guard uniforms.

Yuri Dmitriev in court, June 5, 2017. Photo: Igor Podgorny / "New Gazeta" The Petrozavodsky District Court unexpectedly refused to extend the arrest to the chairman of the local branch of Memorial to Yuri Dmitriev, who has been detention for a year on charges of making children's pornography - such an accusation considers photographs of the naked adopted daughter of a historian, which, according to him, made to document the physical development of the child for guardianship authorities.

The police came to the students who participated in single pickets in support of the academy teacher, they asked who was the organizer of the pickets and who painted the poster. According to OVD -Info, several students were locked in the dormitory building, no one was being let out or allowed in, and it was impossible to contact them by phone. According to the dormitory security, students are being questioned by criminal investigation officers.

In St. Petersburg, an explosion occurred in Kalinin Square in the Kalinin Square store, Fontanka reports without indicating the information source. According to the publication, three people were injured, they were taken by an ambulance. One of their victims is in serious condition. 50 employees of the Ministry of Emergencies, explosives and police officers work on the spot. This information Fontanka was confirmed in the X5 Retail Group , which owns the Perekrestok.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow arrested the former head of the Investigative Committee for the Central District of Moscow, Alexei Kramarenko, in the case of a bribe from thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (known as Shakro Molodoy), reports from the courtroom. RIA Novosti Judge Elena Galikhanova sent Kramarenko into custody until February 15, 2018. He was charged under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (taking a bribe on an especially large scale).

The Memorial human rights center recognized three followers of the Turkish theologian Said Nursi from Dagestan as political prisoners. This is stated in the organization's message. Ziyavdin Dapayev and brothers Sukhrab and Artur Kaltuev were convicted under Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organizing the activities of a prohibited organization). The Kaltuevs received three years in a general regime colony, the Dapaevs received four years. The verdict was announced in November.

The men who broke through in a car from Finland to Russia came to the Vyborg police and testified, reports 47news , citing the press service of the North-West Department of Transport of the Investigative Committee. The men came to the police and admitted that they had pushed the customs officer out of the car during a check at the border and then fled.

Convicted oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin was transferred to a cell-type room, activist Tatyana Pashkevich reported on Facebook. “He is sitting in the PKT (cell-type room - MZ) until February, most likely this is due to the hunger strike. He behaves nervously towards security as usual. Her health doesn’t seem to be bad, she still complains of pain in her spine,” Pashkevich said, according to lawyer Sergei Andropov.

The Supreme Court registered a lawsuit by the developers of the Telegram messenger to invalidate the FSB order to transfer keys for encrypting user correspondence, writes Rambler News Service with reference to the court file . Documents related to the lawsuit were submitted to the judge on December 26. It will be considered within the framework of administrative proceedings; The defendant is the Federal Security Service.

The Petrozavodsk City Court decided to change the preventive measure for the Karelian historian, chairman of the Karelian “Memorial” Yuri Dmitriev, reports . Petrozavodsk Speaks Novaya Gazeta notes that the court rejected the prosecutor's request to extend the arrest. Now Dmitriev must be released on his own recognizance from January 28. The court also granted the prosecutor’s request to send photographs of Dmitriev’s naked adopted daughter for a third examination.

The Soyuz-2.1b rocket, during the launch of which 19 satellites were lost from the Vostochny cosmodrome, was “tuned to Baikonur,” TASS quotes Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin as saying on the Rossiya-24 channel. “The settings were really for Baikonur: they didn’t calculate the azimuth,” Rogozin said.

Ramzan Kadyrov's accounts on the social networks Facebook and Instagram were blocked due to being included in the sanctions list in the United States, according to a response from the Facebook press service , received in response to a request from Mediazona. “We have learned and confirm that the accounts belonged to or were maintained by an individual who is on the U.S. list of Specially Designated Nationals and is subject to U.S. trade and economic sanctions.

Politician Alexei Navalny, whom the Central Election Commission refused to register as a candidate in the presidential elections, announced a nationwide action on January 28 in support of the “voter strike” he announced. “It is completely clear that Putin and the Kremlin only need to appear,” Navalny comments on the decision to refuse to register his candidacy.

The former deputy head of pre-trial detention center No. 3 of Chelyabinsk, Roman Veltishchev, was sentenced to six years in a maximum security colony in the case of receiving a bribe from the wife of an entrepreneur for transferring her husband to solitary confinement and handing over a telephone, the regional department of the Investigative Committee said in a statement .