The UK Parliament has voted on seven amendments to the Brexit agreement, the BBC reports. MPs have rejected an amendment that would have allowed the UK's exit from the EU to be delayed for nine months if parliament fails to approve the Brexit deal by February 26. Parliament also voted to exclude from the Brexit agreement the clause on the special customs and border regime in Northern Ireland. MPs spoke in favor of developing alternative agreements on this matter.

The Ministry of Justice gave examples of “force majeure circumstances” in which it was proposed that officials not be punished for violating anti-corruption legislation. The department believes that such circumstances include living in single-industry towns, certain areas of the Far North and other remote and sparsely populated regions. There, for objective reasons, it is not always possible to avoid a conflict of interest between officials and their relatives, the Ministry of Justice stated.

The Bell has released an extensive report that aims to document the rise of the private military company (PMC) “Wagner,” in which the caterer and restaurateur Evgeny Prigozhin reportedly plays a leading role. Prigozhin’s ties with the Russian president have earned him the nickname “Putin’s Chef,” and multiple journalists have confirmed that the Wagner PMC has been involved in conflicts from southeast Ukraine to Syria.

Update: On January 30, the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region announced that it was investigating reports of an incident at a school in Khimki. A physical education teacher at a school in the city of Khimki provoked first-grade students to beat up a classmate during a lesson. This was stated to TASS by the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Moscow Region, Ksenia Mishonova.

MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov has been suspended for nine months after fighting Irishman Conor McGregor for the UFC title. This decision was made by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC), RIA Novosti reports with reference to the broadcast of the commission meeting. In addition to disqualification, Nurmagomedov was fined $500,000. $50,000 Conor McGregor has been suspended from fighting for six months and fined .

The revision of data on the growth of the construction industry, which led to an unexpected growth of the entire Russian economy in 2018, is associated with the dynamics in one region of the country - the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. As the Ministry of Economic Development explains in the “Economic Picture” review received by RBC, the dynamics of construction usually correlates with the growth of investment, and these indicators did not differ significantly on average across Russia.

The Russian LGBT Network has requested that Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee look into reports of renewed arrests, torture, and killings of those suspected of being LGBTQ in Chechnya, Mediazona reports. The Network has led efforts to help victims of anti-LGBTQ persecution in Chechnya escape the region for multiple years. LGBT Network activists also named one of those arrested in the current crisis.

Russian secret services have banned model Anastasia Vashukevich ( Nastya Rybka ) from speaking publicly about businessman Oleg Deripaska. Vashukevich said this in an interview with CNN. The channel's correspondent reminded the model that last year she offered to talk about the connections between Russian deputies and Donald Trump and stated that there were recordings of Deripaska's conversations about interference in the US presidential elections.

Attention, puzzle! Look at the picture below and try to guess what the author meant. What was it?! 🔪🍲 A Pakistani student (who has not been named) ended up in a Chinese clinic where the staff barely speaks English. One of the nurses tried to explain to the patient that he had an operation scheduled for tomorrow at 8 am, which means that after 10 pm he could neither eat nor drink. In order for him to understand this, the nurse depicted plates, spoons, a water tap and a bloody knife.

CARO / Sorge / Scanpix / Leta Quotes Italian President signed a law on a decrease in retirement age Dolce Vita. Italy reduced the retirement age below the Russian "In Europe, they reduce the retirement age, and this is the final commentary on our reform" Europe reduces the retirement age, but it is not a decree to Russia Russian media reported that the authorities of Italy reduced the age of retirement by five years - from 67 to 62 years.

This spring, a new channel is scheduled to be added to Russian cable and satellite television packages. The “Pobeda” (“Victory”) channel will be distributed by the international branch of the state-owned Pervy Kanal (Channel One). Its purpose will be to display films and television shows related to the Second World War.

The Bell has published a large article about the Wagner PMC, from the history of its creation to its latest alleged operations. According to The Bell, the idea of ​​creating a private military company originated in the General Staff in the late 2000s, and its organization was entrusted to restaurateur Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is personally acquainted with the president. For this text, Prigozhin for the first time commented in detail on the topic of the PMC and its connections.

The investigation reclassified to a more serious article the case against four teenagers who beat a man with a speech impediment to death in the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk Region. In the new wording, teenagers were charged under paragraphs “e”, “g”, “e” of part 2 of Article 105 (murder committed by a group of persons by prior agreement, with special cruelty and out of hooligan motives).

Brian Douglas / Sundance Institute At the American Festival of Independent Cinema Sandance, they showed “Beautiful, Bad, Evil” - a film about the first US -Court of Journal, which was widely covered on television. The director of the film is Joe Berlinger, who made a documentary about the Metallica group. The main character is Ted Bandy, a serial killer executed on an electric chair in 1989. He was played by Zach Efron, his lover Elizabeth - Lily Collins.

The Investigative Committee has closed a criminal case on extremism against linguist Alexey Kasyan . This was reported by the Telegram channel "Pravozashchita Otkrytki" with reference to Kasyan's lawyer Sergey Badamshin. The case was closed due to lack of evidence of a crime. The criminal case of extremism against Kasyan became known in June 2018. The reason was three of Kasyan's posts in LiveJournal.