Isabel dos Santos’s Russian roots could help her avoid extradition on corruption charges, but they won’t help her political ambitions in Angola Toby Melville / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Isabel dos Santos, January 2020 Africa’s wealthiest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been found to be a Russian citizen. In Angola, she stands accused of using more than a billion dollars from state corporations to enrich herself and of attempting to transfer more than 10 million euros to Russia.

A court in Anapa has arrested Russian MMA fighter Alexander Emelianenko for seven days under the hooliganism article. This was reported by sources of TASS, Interfax and the publication Kubanskiye Novosti . According to one of TASS's sources, Emelianenko violated public order at the Sport recreation center in the village of Supsekh near Anapa.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the country's first case of an unknown virus from China. The patient is located in Washington state. On January 15, he returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan, felt unwell and went to the doctors. Tests showed he had pneumonia caused by a new type of coronavirus. According to AP , doctors assess the patient's condition as good. The CDC will fly to Washington state to see if anyone else has been infected.

On January 21, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin presented his newly selected cabinet to Vladimir Putin. It includes nine vice premiers rather than 10, and six of those individuals are new to their posts. Nine ministry portfolios were transferred into new hands. Vice Premiers Yury Trutnev, Yury Borisov, and Tatiana Golikova are still with us. So is Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, though his other job as first vice premier has gone to Putin advisor Andrey Belousov instead.

Vladimir Medinsky, after his resignation from the post of Minister of Culture, will become an assistant to the President of Russia. This is reported by Vedomosti and RBC , citing sources. According to Vedomosti, Medinsky will become a cultural assistant. He will have broad powers, and he will retain influence on the cultural sphere, one of the interlocutors of the publication said.

The owner of the LVMH concern Bernard Arnault has lost the first place in the list of the richest people in the world according to Forbes. This was reported by the magazine itself. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once again tops the list, having ceded the lead to Bernard Arnault on January 17. By January 21, Bezos's fortune had increased by $489 million to $116.1 billion. Arnault's fortune, meanwhile, had decreased by $3.7 billion to $112.9 billion.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle threatened to sue the paparazzi who began to pursue them in Canada. Sky News and the BBC write about this , citing the couple's lawyers. The warning came after photos of Meghan Markle appeared in the press during her walk with her son Archie in a park on Vancouver Island. Lawyers said that the photos were taken without the consent of the Duchess of Sussex, and the photographers were hiding in the bushes.

Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant 2012 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the Ministry of Culture should lead the "person who will be a romantic." Vladimir Medinsky was appointed Minister of Culture. The Ministry of Culture freed museums from income tax. The Ministry of Culture prepared a list of topics for Russian cinema, which is relevant to the strategic interests of the state.

On January 21, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin introduced the new government of Russia to President Vladimir Putin. It will have nine deputy prime ministers instead of ten. Six of them are new, including the First Deputy Prime Minister. He was the assistant to the president Andrei Belousov. Of the 21 ministries, leaders changed in nine.

US senators have begun considering the removal of US President Donald Trump from office, Reuters reports. The hearings must decide whether the head of state is guilty of abusing power and obstructing the work of Congress. The House of Representatives found Trump guilty of this and voted to impeach Trump in December 2019. As Reuters notes, the Republican-controlled Senate (Trump ran for the elections from the Republican Party) is likely to acquit the president.

Vitaly Mutko, Vladimir Medinsky, Olga Vasilyeva, Veronika Skvortsova, Olga Golodets, Dmitry Kozak did not get into the new government. Yuri Trutnev, Yuri Borisov and Tatyana Golikova are still with us. Anton Siluanov remained the Minister of Finance, but is no longer the First Deputy Prime Minister. The post of First Deputy Prime Minister was taken by Andrey Belousov, who had previously been a modest assistant to the president. There are nine vice-premiers instead of ten.

Mikhail Metsel / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Vladimir Putin and Sergei Kirienko shake hands during a meeting for the workgroup charged with drafting Putin’s proposed constitutional reforms. January 16, 2020 On January 15, Vladimir Putin shocked the world by proposing a series of radical constitutional reforms. By January 20, those reforms were fully drafted into a legislative bill and had already been formally introduced into the State Duma for consideration.

"Medusa" explains who all these new people Vladimir Putin approved the composition of the government proposed by Mikhail Mishustin. As the new prime minister promised, the office has seriously changed-first of all, the socio-economic bloc. The security forces, as well as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov remained in their places. "Medusa" talks about what the new members of the government who are responsible for the key directions of his work are known.

Mikhail Mishustin, the new prime minister of Russia, has formed his first cabinet, RIA Novosti reported based on a Kremlin order. The new cabinet will include not 10, but nine deputy prime ministers. Andrey Belousov, a former advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been appointed first deputy prime minister in the new government. Yury Borisov, Tatiana Golikova, and Yury Trutnev, all of whom served as deputy prime ministers under Dmitry Medvedev, will keep their posts.

Without Medinsky and Vasilyeva, but with the head of Gazprom-Media and the vice-mayor of Moscow. How their appointment took place On January 21, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin introduced a new government. The previous cabinet of ministers, headed by Dmitry Medvedev, resigned on January 15. In the new office there will be nine deputy prime ministers instead of ten. Three of them retained their posts, six more - new ones.