The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation is preparing a package of measures to tighten control over the collection of taxes and customs duties. According to RBC, the plan prepared by the department has been sent to the government for study. According to the publication, the measures include a ban on the use of government services for debtors and the forced collection of fines through deductions from salaries.

Businessman Ruslan Baysarov will create an “internal e-commerce infrastructure” in Russia. According to RBC, Baysarov’s request to provide state support to the project was approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin in December 2015.

Tinkoff Bank, Alfa Bank and VTB 24 refused to provide the OVD-Info project with interfaces for online payments to collect donations. Vedomosti reported this with reference to project coordinator Grigory Okhotin. Lawyers for Tinkoff Bank and Alfa Bank explained that they had found extremist materials and information prohibited by bank policy on the site, and VTB 24 said that they “have doubts” about the type of activity of OVD-Info, Okhotin said.

The Moscow department of Rospotrebnadzor filed a lawsuit against the website of the travel agency "Without Borders" due to the publication of information about trips to Turkey. According to the agency, the site offers "familiarization with tours to Turkey for 2016." The information posted on the site did not meet the requirements of the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, which prohibits tour operators from selling tours to Turkey.

Photo: Sysvival / Reddit The engineer of the unnamed Danish company Stefan Milo assembled the installation, distributing temporary passwords from the guest Wi-Fi after touching the banana. This works exactly as described: the guest should touch the banana, after which the password is displayed on the screen.

On the ground in Grozny for Chechnya's mass rally against the liberal opposition Photo: Ilya Zhegulev / Meduza On Friday, January 22, Chechnya's capital hosted a mass rally in support of the republic's ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov.

And about. U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary for Counter-Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Shubin said the U.S. government has "for many years" been aware of Russian President Vladimir Putin's corruption. “We have seen how he enriches his friends and close allies and pushes away from the use of state assets those whom he does not consider friends. Whether it's Russian energy wealth or other government contracts, he gives it to those who will be useful to him and excludes the rest.

Shot: Red Bull / YouTube Red Bull has shot an advertising video in which there is nothing about its energy drinks, only crazy extremes in the air and on Earth. The video is called the “chain reaction” - its heroes alternately convey to each other the “relay”. Audi RS 7, a plane, a helicopter, paratroopers, athletes with Wingsight and Beisjampers jumping from a cliff, were shot in advertising. Red Bull 8 Disciplines of Flight Converge Over Moab | Chain Reaction (4k)

The Parliament of Chechnya asked for an article by Andrey Piontkovsky entitled " A bomb ready to explode " to be checked for extremism. According to the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly Magomed Daudov, in the publication Piontkovsky "openly calls for the separation of the Chechen Republic from the Russian Federation." In addition, the parliament demanded that Ekho Moskvy, on whose website this article was published, be brought to justice.

Shot: Jay Flatland / YouTube Two inventors, Jay Flateland and Paul Rose, built a car that collects the Rubik's cube in a record time - usually it spends a little more than a second. Her best result, recorded on camera - 1.047 seconds. Jay Flatland Worldʼs Fastest Rubikʼ Cube Solving Robot The machine deals with a slightly modified chubby cube - on each edge in the center holes are drilled, beyond which the robot handles are held.

Vladimir Putin said today that the head of the Chechen government, Ramzan Kadyrov, “is working effectively.” At a conference of the All-Russia People's Front (a political movement Putin started in 2011), the president declared, “For the [Chechen] republic, [my] thanks to those who live there, thanks to its first president [Akhmad Kadyrov], and to its current leader [Ramzan Kadyrov].” Putin's remarks came in response to a question from Chechen delegates, who thanked Putin for launching airstrikes

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that he really likes the ideas of communism and socialism. He stated this while speaking at a conference of the All-Russian Popular Front. According to Putin, the code of the builder of communism, created in the Soviet Union, "is very reminiscent of the Bible." “This is not a joke, this is such an excerpt from the Bible, in fact,” the president said.

Photo: Craig Ruttle / Ap / Scanpix A snow storm fell on the east coast of the United States, due to which a lot of (surprise!) Snow fell in 20 states. The storm brought many problems, because of it even people died . True, some Americans came up with how to have fun in such weather - they rode the streets, played snowballs and floundered in the snow. On the weekend, we rejoiced for Casey Neustat, who swept through the snowy New York on snowboarding.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, "is working effectively." “Thanks for the republic to those who live there, thanks to the first president of the republic, thanks to the current leader,” Putin said at a conference of the All-Russian Popular Front.

The death toll from a snowstorm on the east coast of the United States has increased to 30 people. Some of the dead were victims of car accidents, which became more frequent due to bad weather. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, three people died of carbon monoxide poisoning while sitting in their cars with their engines running. In South Carolina, two elderly people suffocated with carbon monoxide when they turned on a generator in their garage due to a power outage in the house.