Svetlana Davydova, who was arrested for high treason, handed over to Ukraine information that could “jeopardize the effectiveness of measures to strengthen the state border with Ukraine.” This, as the lawyer of the arrested Andrei Stebenev said, is stated in the conclusion drawn up by specialists from the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The climber Will Gadd was able to climb the Niagara waterfall through a frozen stream. As tells on the Red Bull website, he became the first person in history to go through this waterfall against the current. To climb, the climber used ice axes, cats and specially designed “ice hooks”. At the same time, he abandoned any devices remaining in the ice, explaining this by concern for the environment. The Hadd route in length was about 44 meters.

Shot: McDonaldʼ / YouTube The McDonald* fast -fast network will launch the Pay with Lovin advertising campaign in February (“Pay Love”), within the framework of which buyers will be able to receive food they ordered for free in exchange for simple actions. Sellers will offer random visitors to hug their relatives, call their mother, dance or make a selfie to pay for the order.

The police operation in Stockholm was carried out on December 9, 2014. The Swedish police said that the raid was staged in order to protect intellectual property. On October 30, 2014, The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfried Svartholm was sentenced in Denmark to 3.5 years in prison for organizing hacker attacks. On November 4, another co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Hans Fredrik Lennart Ney, was detained in Thailand. In Sweden, he was sentenced to prison and a heavy fine for copyright infringement.

The Kurchatovsky District Court of Chelyabinsk presented the results of an examination, which showed that the cause of death of 24-year-old Artem Chechikov, who died on August 18, 2014 at Sheremetyevo Airport, was alcoholic cardiomyopathy - a myocardial disease caused by prolonged alcohol consumption. The Kurchatovsky court is considering a civil claim by the family of the deceased demanding compensation for moral damage.

The fire in the library of the Institute for Scientific Information in the Social Sciences (INION) damaged 15 percent of the library stock, which has 10 million items. This was announced by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov. From his words it follows that one and a half million books were affected. Fortov called the INION Library the world's largest repository of its kind, similar to the Library of Congress.

The wages of Russians in real terms in 2015 will fall by more than 9 percent, while the real incomes of the population will fall by more than 6 percent. This was announced by the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev, speaking about the new macro forecast for the development of the Russian economy. The forecast is based on an oil price of $50 per barrel.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation has advised Russian companies and individuals to register domain names with Russian registrar companies. The ministry said in a statement that recently Russian clients began to receive notifications from foreign registrars about the termination of domain service in connection with US sanctions against Crimea.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia have disagreements over the implementation of the anti-crisis plan approved by the government. In the first quarter of 2015, the Ministry of Finance agreed to allocate only 10 billion rubles to combat the crisis. The Ministry of Economic Development proposes to spend 656 billion. The Ministry of Finance cited the lack of the necessary regulatory framework as one of the reasons for refusing to approve expenses.

Maria Sharapova lost to Serena Williams in the Australian Open final. The American won in two sets 6:3, 7:6 (7:5). The victory at the Australian Open in 2015 was the sixth for Serena Williams in her career. Now the American has 19 Grand Slam titles. Maria Sharapova in 19 matches with Serena Williams won only 2 victories - both in 2004.

Novaya Gazeta announced the collection of signatures under an open letter to Vladimir Putin with a request to change the measure of restraint for Vyazma resident Svetlana Davydova, who was arrested on charges of treason. The letter says that Davydova is raising seven children. The youngest child, a two-month-old girl, is breastfed and needs to be with her mother.

The US Treasury announced the easing of sanctions against Crimea. Residents of the peninsula were allowed to open accounts in American banks, as well as send and receive money transfers. We are talking only about non-commercial operations: residents of Crimea are still prohibited from using the services of US financial institutions for business development. In addition, relief does not apply to people against whom personal sanctions have been imposed.

Guardianship officials visited the family of Vyazma resident Svetlana Davydova, who was arrested on charges of treason. The husband of the arrested Anatoly Gorlov went to Moscow to look for a lawyer, leaving seven children under the care of his sister and grandmother. When he left Vyazma, guardianship officers from the Department of Education of the Smolensk Region came to his home, presumably to record his absence.

Direct broadcast of the Open Library project on Medusa Photo: "Open Library" On Saturday, January 31, a series of public discussions organized by the Open Library project was held in the Mayakovsky library in St. Petersburg. Medusa led a live broadcast of all three dialogs: Svetlana Mironyuk and Julia Mushnik on state and independent media in Russia; Konstantin Sonin and Dmitry Butrina about new economic reality; Andrei Loshak and Maxim Shevchenko on the special path of Russia.

HBO was published by the first trailer for the fifth season of the series Game of Thrones. Earlier on the Internet, the screen version of the trailer "leaked", but it was of poor quality. The original version in high quality has now been published. The fifth season of the series will begin to show on April 12. Post by Game of Thrones .