All employees of the Anti-Corruption Fund, where a search was conducted on January 16 with the seizure of documents, were summoned for interrogation. This was announced by the fund's lawyer Dmitry Krainev. According to him, during the search, the entire FBK bookkeeping and personal files of employees were confiscated. Krainev also said that 19 people took part in the search, including several machine gunners in masks. Only three investigators introduced themselves.

Former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vitaliy Zakharchenko announced that he received Russian citizenship and got a job as a senior consultant at the Rostec state corporation. Speaking at a briefing in Sevastopol, he noted that he did not refuse Ukrainian citizenship. The former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine recalled that he has the title of Honored Lawyer and Doctor of Law, previously led the tax service and hopes that his knowledge and skills will be in demand.

Shot: YouTube A group of tourists on a high -speed boat managed to get away from the persecution of a hippo. The incident occurred in the Kafue National Park in Zambia. Apparently, the hippo did not like that the tourists invaded its territory. The video was published by Michael Varndell, director of Malawian Style, who arranges Safari in Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. Varndell told The Daily Mail that usually hippos do not show aggression, unless they feel danger or are with the cubs.

Figure: Yves. Malyutin. Crocodile, No. 06, 1923 Throughout the week, Russia argued about cinema: the pirate copy of Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintsev was leaked on the Internet, it became known at the same time that the film received the Golden Globe and would apply for an Oscar. The project “History through the eyes of a crocodile. XX century ”(goes to Medusa every Friday) recalls: filmmakers have long fought off. Caricatures are provided by the project “ History through the eyes of a crocodile.

Director Andrey Zvyagintsev said that the Russian authorities should regard the international success of the Leviathan film as "the success of a Russian film, a Russian director, and the Russian film industry." He stated this in an interview with the Latvian radio station Baltcom.

In Izhevsk, a criminal case has been brought to court against 23-year-old Timur Shoev, who posted on one of the social networks “an image of Jesus Christ, against whom a group of people commit violent acts.” Shoev was charged under article 282 on extremism. The image posted by the defendant was declared extremist in January 2014.

LUKOIL denied accusations of financing the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics by its Ukrainian subsidiaries. Vitaliy Matushkin, a company representative, said that all supplies to the territory of Ukraine were and are being carried out in strict accordance with international law and Ukrainian legislation.

The main quotes of the Gaidar forum Photo: Ekaterina Stucina / Press Service of the Government of the Russian Federation / TASS / Scanpix In mid -January, the most authoritative Russian economists gather every year at the Gaidar Forum. Whatever the forum is dedicated, they still talk about problems in the Russian economy. 2015 is not an exception, but given that the country is going through not the best times, the speech of economists were especially bright.

The site for the construction of a monument to Joseph Brodsky in St. Petersburg was given over to the roadway. The draft resolution on the abolition of the installation of the monument was adopted by the city government. According to TGC-1, which was supposed to install the monument as part of the construction of the tunnel under the Liteiny Bridge, the project did not take place due to reasons beyond the company's control.

In Moscow, in the 90th year of her life, actress Rimma Markova died. Photo: Artem Sokolov / Trend / East News “She died in the intensive care of the Botkin Hospital,” said her daughter Markova. “Farewell will take place on January 17 at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery.” TASS Rimma Markov was born in 1925 in the village of Churino of the Samara province. She studied at the Studio School at the Vologda Drama Theater and in the Drama Studio at the Moscow Theater named after the Lenin Komsomol.

Why Switzerland refused the binding of Frank to the euro. Column in The New York Times Photo: Martin RuetSchi / Keystone / Corbis / All Over Press On January 15, the Swiss National Bank refused the “ceiling” introduced in 2011 in 1.2 Swiss francs for the euro. On the same day, the national currency jumped by 39%, and the euro, on the contrary, sank to an 11-year minimum. Such sharp jumps with the most reliable currencies happen once every decade or even less often.

An application has been submitted to the Moscow City Hall to hold a rally against insulting religious feelings. This was announced by one of the organizers of the action, a Chechen journalist and advocate for the rights of Muslims, Ali Charinsky. The number of the rally indicated in the application is 100,000 people. The action is planned to be held on Sakharov Avenue on January 25. “We want to make a non-Islamic rally or a rally of Muslims against cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that it was conducting a search in the Anti-Corruption Fund in connection with suspicion of fraud.

French police have released the hostages taken at a post office in the Parisian suburb of Colombes. The perpetrator was arrested, none of the hostages were injured. According to updated information, two people were held hostage. “There was no assault, the man surrendered himself,” a police source said. Point The hostages at the post office were taken at about 12:30 local time. The offender himself contacted the police, saying that he was armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and grenades.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced activist Mark Galperin to 30 days of administrative arrest for repeated violations at a rally that took place on January 15 on Manezhnaya Square, where he was detained. As Mediazona notes, the decision in the Galperin case is the first in Russia under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Violations.