The Rocketbank service announced on the evening of January 18 on Instagram that it had finally closed. It all started in 2013 with the idea of ​​making a bank with a human face. <…> There were ups and downs. And then ups again. And falls ... And again ups! Well, you get the idea. <…> And now, we are closing. Now finally. Thank you for supporting, believing, inspiring and staying with us until the very end.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov reported on his channel on January 18 that last week the messenger's administrators blocked hundreds of calls for violence in the United States. Durov noted that Telegram "welcomes peaceful debates and protests," but has always opposed calls for violence, which are prohibited by the platform's rules.

The son of former Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, businessman Artem Chaika, has filed a lawsuit with the Presnensky Court of Moscow to the effect that he is withdrawing his claim to determine the place of residence of his youngest daughter Sofia. This was reported by Gazeta.ru, citing the words of the businessman's lawyer Marina Ivanova. In his statement, Artem Chaika asked to recognize the demands of his ex-wife Marina Chaika , who insists that their youngest daughter live with her.

From January 18, in Bavaria, Germany's largest federal state, the requirement to wear FFP2 high-protection respirators when traveling on public transport and when visiting shops came into force, reports The Guardian. The new rule does not apply to bus drivers, ticket inspectors and children under the age of 15. Until January 24, Bavaria will not monitor compliance with this requirement.

The policeman Lyakhovets tried to continue the interrogation of the Medusa specialist in court, to which he and his colleagues threw drugs.

On Monday, January 18, law enforcement officers arrested at least 12 people outside of Khimki’s Second Police Station, where Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny was being held after he was taken into custody at Sheremetyevo International Airport on Sunday night. The human rights organizations “Apologia Protesta” and “OVD-Info” have sent lawyers to two different police stations in the area to assist the detainees.

Shutterstock.com The Russian University of Friendship of Peoples (RUDN) closed the "course of Natal Astrology" at the Institute for Continuing Qualification and Transfer of Personnel ( IPPK ) immediately after its opening. “The order on the opening of the program was canceled with the same day as it came out,” said Oleg Yastrebov, Rector Rudn, whose words quoted TASS.

A Khimki City Court judge remanded Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny in custody for 30 days (until February 15, 2021). Notably, the hearing took place in an unusual format — rather than bringing Navalny before a judge in a courtroom, the judge came to him and conducted the hearing at the local police station where he was taken into custody upon his return to Moscow from Germany.

The trial of Alexei Navalny was arranged right in the police department. Why in Russia the security forces do not serve as society, but the authorities and personally to the president. Tell us how vaccination goes in your region Good evening, This is the daily newsletter "Medusa", in which we talk about the main news of the day. And since this is Monday today, then about the weekend news. Get ready: there will be a lot of news from the courts.

The mathematician Azat Miftakhov received six years in the case of an attack on the United Russia office - although only a broken window was injured. Reporting Christina Safonova Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the mathematician and anarchist Azat Miftakhov to the six years of the general regime in the case of the attack on the United Russia office . Two more accused - Elena Gorban and Andrei Yokin - pleaded guilty and received conditional terms.

Police detained at least 13 people who were at the second police station in Khimki, near Moscow, where a court extended Alexei Navalny's detention by 30 days. The detainees were taken to another police department, the first police department of Khimki, Apologia Protesta reports on its Telegram channel. Apologia Protesta lawyer Vasily Saykin went to the detainees. OVD-Info reports that a lawyer from this organization, Sergei Telnov, went to the second police department.

Pro-Kremlin TV channel airs segment claiming Navalny is a German spy Russia’s state television has all but ignored Alexey Navalny’s return from Germany. But that hasn’t stopped the pro-Kremlin channel “NTV” from offering its own take. On Monday, January 18, the network ran a seven-minute segment on its program “Emergency” (“Chrezvychaynoe Proisshestvie” in Russia, or “ChP” for short), which included claims that Navalny is a German intelligence agent and that Berlin wanted to get rid of him.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Navalny returned to Russia - and he was immediately sent to a pre -trial detention center. Why did he come if he knew that he would most likely be imprisoned? On January 17, opposition politician Alexei Navalny returned from Berlin to Moscow. For five months he was in Germany, where he was treated and underwent rehabilitation after the poisoning of a martial chemical substance from the Novice group.

Evgeny Feldman for “Meduza” Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny was remanded in custody for 30 days pending trial on Monday, January 18. This came after Russia’s prison authorities filed a complaint in court seeking to incarcerate him for violating the terms of his probation in the Yves Rocher case.

Spoiler: to judge - yes, but to imprison - no A judge of the Khimki City Court placed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in custody for 30 days. The trial took place in an unusual on-site format - not in the courthouse, but at the police station in Khimki. The Khimki City Court explained this with concern for journalists: they would not have been allowed into court due to anti-Covid restrictions.