How relatives of Moscow’s deputy mayor earned billions on city contracts, amassing a fortune in real estate Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Moscow Deputy Mayor Pyotr Biryukov Moscow Deputy Mayor Pyotr Biryukov’s relatives bought a massive penthouse in the “Legend of Tsvetnoy” complex. These apartments typically sell for about 1.5 billion rubles ($22.7 million). December 22, 2015, was a good day for the sales managers at the elite “Legend of Tsvetnoy” residential complex in Moscow.

Administration of the city district of the city of Sibai of the Republic of Bashkortostan Sibaisky quarry Residents of Sibay in Bashkiria began to give out protective masks and activated carbon for free due to smog and air pollution. The city administration recommends to people when the smell of sulfur appears to “reduce physical activity and time on the street, do wet cleaning more often”, “wash more often, rinse eyes, nose and mouth with clean water”.

Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta Nastya Fisher was widely known in February 2018 after the investigation of Alexei Navalny. The Corruption Foundation, headed by Navalny, decided to find the Provokorstorsch on social networks, which came to the Moscow headquarters of the opposition. One of these girls was the 27-year-old citizen of Belarus Anastasia Vyukevich, also known as Nastya Rybka.

Mikhail Dzhaparidze / TASS / Scanpix / Leta on January 19 in Moscow was a agreed procession in memory of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed on this day in 2009 by nationalists from the Bourn group.

66 people were killed and several dozen injured in a pipeline explosion in Mexico. The incident occurred on the night of January 19 in the central part of the country, about 100 kilometers north of Mexico City. According to the state company Pemex, which owns the pipeline, the accident occurred due to attempts to illegally drain gasoline from the pipeline.

Merseyside Police On January 17, the court in Liverpool sentenced 38-year-old Fellowe, the British, who was suspected of organized crime, found guilty of two high-profile murders for many years. As it turned out, the Felloween involvement in the crimes helped the clock for sports with the built-in GPS tracker. In 2015, in the town of Solford, near Manchester, 55-year-old criminal authority Paul Masissi, nicknamed Mr. Big, was killed.

Update : All detainees were kept at the police station for 48 hours, pending the court hearing. In Moscow, police detained four people at an authorized memorial event for lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by nationalists in 2009. This was reported by OVD-Info. One of those detained, Igor Yasin, said that he was detained because of the rainbow flag.

An uncoordinated action was held in St. Petersburg in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova killed by nationalists in 2009. "MBH-Media" writes that the action is over. Seven people were detained at the rally, according to the telegram channel "Help for Detainees in St. Petersburg". Later, activists reported the arrest of several more people.

The Ural Airlines plane, which was flying from Moscow to Dubai, made an emergency landing in Volgograd due to poor health of five passengers, the press service of the Volgograd airport reported. “Passengers who felt unwell were examined by doctors. After that, three of them returned on board. Two refused to fly further,” the report said. Whether cases of malaise were somehow connected is not specified. The press service added that a drunken woman was also removed from the plane.

kakoki / shutterstock.com 24-year-old Lindsay Comerford from California-Influuanser. This is the name of popular bloggers to whom brands order advertising, because they believe that they are able to influence the tastes of their audience. Comerford had more than 41 thousand subscribers on Instagram, but in December her account was hacked . The hacker gained access to the girl’s page, her e -mail and bank account.

In Perm Krai, the Investigative Committee has begun a preliminary investigation into reports that local officials participated in illegal hunting . The local Investigative Committee office told Interfax about this. On January 18, the publication "Local Time" reported on an alleged illegal hunt involving the head of the Yukseevsky rural settlement Vasily Utrobin.

A US court has sentenced former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke to six years and nine months in prison for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old black teenager Laquan McDonald. The prosecution asked for up to 20 years in prison for him; His lawyers asked for a suspended sentence. The murder of Laquan McDonald was one of the most resonant crimes of recent years involving the use of weapons by American police.

In Kamchatka, servicemen of one of the units threw unused ammunition after firing into the swamp "in order to create the appearance of a quality training." This was announced on January 18 by the military prosecutor's office. In the statements, by order of the deputy commander of the unit, the number of issued ammunition was overestimated. The damage amounted to more than 1.3 million rubles. A criminal case was opened against the officer for the deliberate destruction of military property.

25 books that we (very) are waiting in 2019 The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich talks about the most interesting books that will be published in Russia in 2019. The list includes both books written in Russian and translated; both artistic prose and non-fiction; Both modern literary works, and classics, still not published in Russia. Make a list of book purchases a year in advance! Ian McDonald. The rebellious moon. M.: AST, Astrel-SPB, 2019. Translation by N.

Deputy of the state council of Chuvashia Konstantin Stepanov appealed to the regional prosecutor's office with a request to take action to write off the debts of local residents for gas.