Russian figure skaters Evgenia Medvedeva, Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya took the first three places at the European Figure Skating Championships, which takes place in Bratislava. Evgenia Medvedeva scored 215.45 points in the short and free programs, Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya - 209.99 and 187.05 points, respectively. Fourth place went to Angelina Kuchvalska from Latvia with 176.99 points.

The Syrian opposition agreed to come to Geneva, where on January 29 negotiations began on a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Syria. According to the official twitter of the negotiating committee of the Syrian opposition, the purpose of the trip is to meet with UN representatives. The delegation will not participate in the main negotiations until the Syrian government fulfills the opposition's humanitarian demands, reports Al Jazeera .

The Golden Eagle Award for the best film of 2015 was awarded to Anna Melikyan's film "About Love". The award ceremony took place on January 29 at the Mosfilm studio. the best director was named Stanislav Govorukhin for the film "The End of a Beautiful Era". Alexander Mindadze received an award for the screenplay for his film Dear Hans, Dear Peter. the best actress, Fyodor Bondarchuk, for his role in the film "Ghost", was recognized as the best actor.

The democratic coalition, created on the basis of the Parnassus party, proposed to the Yabloko party to create a political union to coordinate actions during the upcoming election campaign. The coalition proposes to Yabloko, in particular, to resolve the issue of dividing candidates into single-mandate districts in elections to the State Duma, as well as elections at the regional and local levels.

Roskomnadzor explained the blocking of the RBC-Ukraine website in a tweet. As stated in the department's twitter, the resource is blocked for calls for war with Russia. “We have a short conversation with Bandera,” Roskomnadzor emphasized. On January 29, 2016, Roskomnadzor added the RBC-Ukraine website to the list of prohibited resources. The decision to restrict access was made by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation on September 30, 2015.

Syrian rebels did not arrive on the first day of negotiations in Geneva, where ways to end the conflict in Syria are to be discussed. Earlier, representatives of the rebels said they did not plan to go to the talks. They claimed that they would only come if they stopped being hit by airstrikes. At the same time, Alexei Borodavkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN in Geneva, said that the opposition would arrive on February 1-2.

Roskomnadzor added the RBC-Ukraine website to the list of banned resources. As stated on the Rublacklist website, which monitors blocking, the decision to restrict access was made by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation on September 30, 2015. was added to the register On January 28 , a separate page on the RBC-Ukraine website under the heading "Putin is dead: last year's clip is relevant again." The Prosecutor General's Office made its decision back in October.

Non-profit organizations that have succeeded in having their “foreign agent” status officially removed will still remain on the Justice Ministry's list of foreign agents, according to the newspaper Vedomosti . Initially, the law on foreign agents did not account for any possibility of removal from the state's official registry of foreign agents. Three years after it passed, the Justice Ministry has yet to add these amendments to its bylaws.

What people in Crimea have to say about the peninsula's mood Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS / Scanpix Crimea has become one of the most problematic provinces of the Russian Federation. The main difficulties on the peninsula this winter have been power outages.

Short: "Russia 1" The entertainment community “The Tired Mounter” published a fragment from the series shown on the “Russia” television channel, with the ingenious all: the game of actors, the plot and dialogues. All this fit into a 15-second fragment. Tired editor apple trauma or death from a stupid plot If you do not understand. The criminal took the woman hostage, after which armed police broke into the entrance.

The lower house of parliament adopted in the third, final reading a bill on the transfer of the Astrakhan region to another time zone. At the moment, the Astrakhan region is in the same time zone with Moscow, after the transition, the time in Astrakhan will differ from Moscow one hour ahead.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill that obliges election participants to draw up lists of their observers in advance. According to the document, the list must be submitted within three days. From each candidate or party, two observers can be declared for the polling station. Now you do not need to report your observers.

In the Samara region, during combat training, a conscript from Perm shot himself, the military prosecutor's office of the Samara garrison reported. “According to preliminary data, he committed suicide. The young man shot himself in the head with a machine gun,” prosecutors said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a conversation with US Secretary of State John Kerry, called "far-fetched and shameless" accusations of corruption against Vladimir Putin, which were made by the US administration. It was emphasized that the blame for the purposeful escalation of tension in bilateral affairs lies entirely with Washington. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation On January 25, BBC One aired the film "Putin's Secret Wealth," in which Acting U.S.

A criminal negligence case has been opened against police officers who were present at a shootout near a cafe in Moscow in December, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported. “While at the scene, the police officers committed negligence and did not take proper measures to prevent the crime,” the press officer emphasized.