Nurdi Nukhazhiev, the human rights ombudsman in Chechnya, said that the staff of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo "provoked the radicals." A press release with the Ombudsman's comments on the terrorist attack in Paris was distributed by his press service. According to Nukhazhiev, the editorial policy of the newspaper, which published caricatures on religious topics, contributed to the desecration of mosques and temples.

Ukrainian security forces and separatists accused each other for the murder of 11 civilians Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine / AP / Scanpix Near the city of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region on January 13, a flight bus was shot under the shelling, which followed from the village of Zlatoustovka to Donetsk. 11 people died, another 18 were injured.

Photographer Oleg Klimov tells the amazing story of the former head of the village, where Leviathan was shot Frame from the movie "Leviathan" In Russia, the discussion continues around Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “Leviathan” - on weekends his pirate copy appeared on the network, and at the beginning of the week the tape took the Golden Globe as the best foreign film.

Economist Sergei Zhuravlev about one important reason for the collapse of the ruble Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / All Over Press At the end of 2014, all the “raw materials” currencies in the world were shaken, but the ruble exchange rate sank the most strongly. Sergey Zhuravlev, the author of one of the most authoritative Russian blogs about the economy, believes that the reason for this is the cast of Russian banks and corporations; First of all, those that are under state control.

President of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Mikhail Pogosyan was dismissed. This was announced by the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov. The corporation will be headed by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Yuri Slyusar. Pogosyan will take the position of general designer.

Continued: Roskomnadzor unblocked Navalny's website Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, restricted access to the website of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Earlier, Navalny himself tweeted about entering the domain into the register of sites with prohibited information and subsequent blocking. “Yes, it is,” said the correspondent. TASS in the press service of the department.

On January 13, 2015, Roskomnadzor, by court decision, blacklisted 5 sites about bitcoins, including the largest resource about cryptocurrency - bitcoin.org. The court referred to an article of the federal law on the Central Bank, which prohibits the introduction and issuance of “money surrogates” in Russia. Bitcoins are the world's most popular convertible virtual currency that can be used to pay online.

Continuation: Kommersant found out the biographies of “FSB employees” allegedly executed in Syria The terrorist organization "Islamic State" published a video of the interrogation and subsequent murder of two men, who were named as agents of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. The video was published by Al-Hayat studio, the official media resource of the group.

Woody Allen will write and direct the first television series of his career. This was announced on January 13 by Amazon Studios, which signed a contract with the director to create the series. Allen's project does not yet have a name. It is known that the director received an order for the whole season, and the episodes will last 30 minutes. What the series will be about and who can play in it is not reported. The series is due to premiere in 2016.

The organizers of the KVN festival and the comedy show "Jurmalina" refused to book the Dzintari concert hall in Jurmala. The mayor of the city, Gatis Truksnis, expressed regret over the cancellation of the events, noting that for the organizers, in his opinion, "it was the only solution at a time when Russia is in a very difficult socio-economic and political situation." “I think it is clear to everyone that this is a matter of big politics,” Gatis Truksnis.

The Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) issued a statement stating the need to support the presidential course and launch an ideological counteroffensive in the ongoing “war for the minds.” For this, according to the members of the RVIO, Russia should have a patriotic Internet, radio and television.

Yuri Saprykin - about why Leviathan Like in the West and annoying in Russia Frame from the movie "Leviathan" On Monday, January 12, Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintsev took the next film award - the Golden Globe in the nomination "Best Film Foreign Language". In addition, the tape, the premiere of which took place at the Cannes festival in 2014, was nominated from Russia to Oscar.

The Yandex company denied reports that appeared in the media about a possible revision of the existing 10-point scale for road congestion in Moscow. The existing scale, Elina Staviskaya, a representative of Yandex, said that it meets the requirements for it well. A score of 10 on this scale, she added, corresponds to an unusually difficult situation for the city, which occurs only a few times a year.

After seven years of proceedings, the American journalist was allowed not to disclose informants Photo: Scott Eells / Bloomberg / Getty images The New York Times James Raizen does not have to disclose the names of his sources in court.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on genocide on the fact of shelling in the south-east of Ukraine for the period from December 1, 2014 to January 12, 2015. According to Russian investigators, during this period in the Donbass, 40 people were killed and 120 were injured as a result of shelling. The criminal case is planned to be combined in proceedings with the previously initiated case on the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare.