Meet the most influential people in Russia's Chechen Republic Photo: Said Tsarnaev / RIA Novosti / Scanpix Chechnya is the most talked about region in the Russian Federation. It’s believed that nothing happens there without the consent of its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. At the same time, the Chechen leader has influential supporters in Grozny and Moscow—some of whom fought against federal forces during the First Chechen War. Others are implicated in serious crimes, including Boris Nemtsov’s murder.

The lawyers of the Ukrainian pilot found the one who took her to Russia. Reporting Ilya Azar Photo: Valery Matytsin / TASS / Scanpix On Monday, February 1, in the Donetsk City Court (Rostov Region), the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko interrogated. She is accused of aiding the murder of employees of the VGTRK in the Donbass and the illegal crossing of the border.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that the Instagram service deleted his post because it was about “US watchdogs.” This, obviously, is about a video deleted from Kadyrov's Instagram, where opposition politicians Mikhail Kasyanov and Vladimir Kara-Murza are depicted in the crosshairs of the sight. Here it is the vaunted freedom of speech in American style! You can write whatever you want, but do not touch the dogs of America, friends of the State Department and Congress.

On February 1, the US Treasury Department included five people in the “Magnitsky list” - Alexei Anichin, Boris Kibis, Oleg Urzhumtsev, Pavel Lapshov and Evgeny Antonov. Aleksey Anichin until 2011 was the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Pavel Lapshov was the head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, investigators Boris Kibis and Oleg Urzhumtsev worked on the case of Sergei Magnitsky.

On the Instagram of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, a post with a video is no longer available, where opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov is depicted in the crosshairs. When you try to access the page, the message “Sorry, this page is not available” appears. The post was deleted by the Instagram administration for violating the rules of the service, Vedomosti reported .

Photo: Belga / AFP / Scanpix The Czech cyclist Adam Tupalik lost the bucket championship, because he was too early. He was the leader for the circle to the end and about 15 seconds before the finish line threw his arms up and began to celebrate the victory. However, after he crossed the line, it turned out that he needed to drive a whole circle. As a result, he came the second.

Josep Guardiola will take over as manager of Manchester City at the end of the 2015/2016 season. The English club has officially confirmed this information. The agreement between the club and the coach was signed for three years. Josep Guardiola has been in charge of Bayern since the 2013/2014 season. Under his leadership, the Munich club won the German championship twice. In the 2015/2016 season, Bayern are in first place in the standings, ahead of Borussia Dortmund by eight points.

Short: "Surka Day" The Independent newspaper reported that Sky on the day of the groundhog will show the film "Surrok Day" on the day of the groundhog. The publication repeated about this 13 times . The broadcast of the film will begin at 6:40 February 2. The last session is scheduled for 4:40 am the next day. Surka's day is celebrated annually on February 2 in the USA and Canada. On this day, according to the behavior of the awakened groundhog, it is determined how long the winter will last.

The magazine The New Times has received an official warning from Russia's state censor, Roskomnadzor, according to the news agency RBC . The formal reason for the warning is an article published on January 16, titled, “ If Only There Weren't a War .” The text mentions the Ukrainian ultranationalist group Right Sector without including the legally obligatory note that the organization has been banned as extremist in Russia.

The majority of Russians say they have a negative view of the end of the Soviet Union, regretting its collapse, according to a sociological survey conducted late last year by the Levada Center polling agency. The leader who dissolved the USSR and birthed the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, also has few fans today. Just 14 percent of the country evaluated his presidency positively, while 56 percent said his term in office did more harm than good to the country.

Photo: Mssss / JPL-CALTECH / NASA The Kuriositi Mars -Road can do not only a selfie . He constantly photographs what he sees around. The NASA team has prepared a 360-degree panorama from Mars. Moreover, it allows the viewer to feel that he himself is on a neighboring planet. This is not so obvious from the computer, although it is also impressive.

The New Times magazine received a warning from Roskomnadzor. The publication's editor-in-chief Evgenia Albats told RBC about this. The reason was the publication of the article “ If only there was no war” dated January 16. It mentions the Right Sector without indicating that this organization is recognized as extremist in Russia and is banned. The fact of the warning was confirmed by Roskomnadzor press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky.

More than 1,300 hotels on the coasts of the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas are for sale in Turkey. 410 of them are located in Antalya - the cost of these hotels is estimated at 10 billion dollars. The rest of the hotels cost another three billion. According to the Turkish edition of Todayʼs Zaman, some hotels were on the verge of bankruptcy due to Russian sanctions. The tourism business was also affected by the terrorist attack in Istanbul in mid-January.

Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to develop legislative amendments that will provide “more equal working conditions” among Internet companies in Russia. The executive order is addressed to several branches of the state: the Anti-Monopoly Service, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Finance, the Federal Tax Service, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and German Klimenko, Putin's new Internet advisor.

The historian of the Middle Ages managed to discover the source of the most important anti -Semitic myth Photo: St. William Noridge, the Church of St. Petra and Paul, Ay, Suffolk, approx. 1500 Bloody vet - the accusation of Jews of murdering Christians for ritual purposes - appeared in Europe in the Middle Ages.