Former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin Andrei Illarionov announced his resignation from the Cato Institute , where he worked as a senior research fellow. Illarionov wrote about this in his LiveJournal. "As the Vice President of the Institute informed me, the reason is the content of the postscripts attached to my post on this blog, 'Reichstag Fire' - 2021," the post says.

The artistic director of Yeralash, Boris Grachevsky, died of COVID-19, RBC reports. A friend of Grachevsky, actor Vladimir Dolinsky, in an interview with Interfax, also called the coronavirus the cause of death. Grachevsky was 71 years old. Grachevsky was admitted to the hospital at the end of December 2020. On December 31, his wife reported that he was in a stable, serious condition. According to Mash, on January 7, Grachevsky was put on a ventilator.

Updated . On the morning of January 15, Ilya Varlamov announced that all the detainees had been released. In South Sudan, three Russians were detained for the second time, traveling with Mediazona publisher Pyotr Verzilov and blogger Ilya Varlamov. This is reported by Mediazona with reference to Verzilov. The director of the European Gymnasium Ivan Bogantsev, the blogger's wife Lyubov Varlamova and their friend Vadim Ginzburg were detained.

Marina Chaika shares her official statement to investigators detailing her recent abduction Marina Chaika, the ex-wife of Russian businessman Artyom Chaika (the son of Russia’s former attorney general) has confirmed to Meduza that she was in fact abducted, detained, and interrogated earlier this week. In addition, Chaika has shared a copy of the official statement she submitted to state investigators with Meduza’s correspondent.

In Norway, 23 people who were vaccinated against coronavirus have died, according to the Norwegian Medicines Agency. The agency does not indicate which vaccine they received. Since the end of December 2020, a drug developed by Pfizer and BioNTech has been used in Norway. In addition, on January 12, 2021, arrived in Norway. the first 4,000 doses of Moderna's vaccine VG All of the deaths have been in "elderly people with comorbidities," agency spokesman Steinar Madsen told .

Update. The feed for the Twitter account @sputnikvaccine no longer comes up as “temporarily restricted.” This changed an hour after the account’s restriction was first reported in the media.

Updated. Restrictions on the @sputnikvaccine account were lifted an hour after the first media reports appeared. The reason for the restriction of access was a suspicious attempt to enter the account. The Twitter account of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V has been temporarily restricted, according to a message in the @sputnikvaccine profile . The account was restricted due to the fact that "unusual activities were performed" on its behalf.

What is wrong with Russian statistics on vaccination. Trump became the first president of the United States to be impeachment twice. We talked with Ivan Urgant about his Italian New Year show Good evening, This is the daily newsletter "Medusa", in which we talk about the main news of the day. To begin with, about the good: about the legendary bags of nineties and zero. Those same, with the inscriptions of "Rave Girl" and "Marianna".

Russia’s Military Investigative Committee (a department subordinate to the country’s federal investigative agency) has formally refused to examine allegations that FSB officers were involved in the August 2020 poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny. This was stated in the official response to a petition for an investigation from lawyer Vladlen Los, who works for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. Navalny published a copy of the formal refusal on his blog on Thursday, January 14.

For Muscovites who have been ill with COVID-19, restrictions imposed due to the epidemic will be relaxed. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced this on the air of Rossiya 24.

Lyubov Sobol’s campaign team head released from custody with bugged cell phone Navalny LIVE / YouTube In her latest video for “Navalny Live” opposition figure Lyubov Sobol revealed that her campaign manager, Olga Klyuchnikova, found a listening device planted inside her cell phone following her release from jail at the end of December 2020.

Samsung has unveiled a new line of its flagship smartphones - Galaxy S21 Ultra, Galaxy S21 and Galaxy S21+. The screen sizes of the S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra are 6.2, 6.7 and 6.8 inches respectively. All models support shooting in 4K and 8K formats, 5G networks and work on the company's own Exynos 2100 processor, which was announced only a few days ago.

Charles McQuillan / Getty Images Memorial at the site of mass burial of children in a shelter for single mothers in the Irish city of Tuam, January 12, 2021 The government and the Catholic Church of Ireland apologized for how they treated women and children in shelters for single mothers who operated in the country throughout the 20th century. “We must do everything in our power to show our deep repentance, understanding and support to women and children whom we treated so cruelly.

The euro exchange rate against the ruble on the Moscow Exchange on the evening of January 14 fell below 89 rubles for the first time since December 14, 2020. By 17:50 Moscow time, the European currency was worth 88.96 rubles. The dollar is also getting cheaper against the ruble, at the auction on the afternoon of January 14, the US currency fell to 73.22 rubles. At the opening of trading, the dollar was worth 73.77 rubles.

Rosstat has changed the list of goods and services whose prices are monitored to calculate inflation. This was reported on the website of the department. The new list contains 556 positions, which is 36 more than in the previous version.