The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the death of a 30-year-old man in a fire at a police station in Balashikha near Moscow. This was reported on the website of the regional branch of the UK. The incident happened on January 1st. The fire in the building was caused by a short circuit in the wiring of a lighting fixture. The man at that time was in the detention room.

Yandex entered into a settlement agreement with companies that in 2020 complained about it to the FAS because of the so-called "sorcerers" - widgets that appear on the search results page before organic search results. This was reported by Interfax, citing a source familiar with the details of the agreement. The settlement agreement was concluded with Avito, Wildberries, Profi.ru, 2GIS and other large companies.

Russian lawmakers withdraw controversial vaccine pass bill from consideration Donat Sorokin / TASS The Russian State Duma Council unanimously agreed to withdraw from consideration a controversial bill that would require QR-code vaccine passes for accessing many public spaces, parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced on Monday, January 17. “I’d like to say thank you to everyone for the feedback. It’s important to listen to each other.

The European Union has called on the Russian authorities to stop persecuting Liliya Chanysheva, an associate of politician Alexei Navalny. The corresponding statement was made by the head of the EU foreign policy service, Josep Borrell. Borrell expressed regret over the persecution of Chanysheva and demanded that the Russian authorities release her "immediately and unconditionally." The EU statement was timed to coincide with the anniversary of Navalny's detention in Moscow.

The Russian Ministry of Health has approved a list of contraindications for vaccination against coronavirus infection. The corresponding order was signed by the head of department Mikhail Murashko. Indefinite contraindications include a history of severe allergic reactions, as well as hypersensitivity to substances that make up vaccines, and severe complications after previous vaccinations. Temporary contraindications are severe infectious and respiratory diseases.

A year from the day that they planted Navalny. Poroshenko returned to Ukraine, where he was suspected of Gosomen. Typical panels - it can be beautiful Good evening, This message (material) was created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent, and (or) a Russian legal entity that performs the functions of a foreign agent This is the daily Medusa newsletter about the most important thing that happened during the day.

Ukraine’s former president Poroshenko returns to the country, faces arrest on treason charges Efrem Lukatsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA Petro Poroshenko greets his supporters after arriving at Kyiv’s Zhuliany Airport. January 17, 2022. On the morning of Monday, January 17, Ukraine’s former president, lawmaker Petro Poroshenko, arrived in Kyiv after spending nearly a month abroad.

The US and EU are no longer considering cutting Russia off from the SWIFT system. This is written by the German edition of Handelsblatt, citing government sources. According to the publication, in the short term, this step may lead to destabilization in the financial markets, and in the medium term, to the creation of an alternative financial infrastructure in which the West will no longer play a dominant role.

Members of the Council of the State Duma of the Russian Federation unanimously decided to remove the government bill on the introduction of QR codes for visiting public places from the agenda. Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin announced this on his telegram channel. “I would like to thank everyone for the feedback. It is important to hear each other. This will help avoid mistakes and develop the right decisions based on dialogue,” Volodin wrote.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Have you already watched Shnurov’s video about snow and garbage in St. Petersburg? It seems that this song, like the criticism of Smolny in the media, is part of the campaign against Beglov. Who leads it and why? On January 15, the Leningrad group of the musician Sergei Shnurov released the clip “So far” (if you decide to follow the link, keep in mind that the song has non -normative vocabulary).

The criminal case of fraud against politician Alexei Navalny will be sent to court at the end of January or the beginning of February. Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh told Dozhd about this. Yarmysh noted that the fraud case was combined with the case of insulting Judge Vera Akimova, who presided over the trial of the case of “slander against a veteran.” Lawyer Olga Mikhailova clarified to Mediazona that so far Navalny has only been charged with a few episodes isolated from the fraud case.

He is suspected of desecrating a burial site. In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened on the desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places ( Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ) against the artist Ivan Volkov, who placed a five-meter installation in the form of feces on the Field of Mars . This was reported by Fontanka. Law enforcement agencies have not officially confirmed this information.

Supporters rally in cities around the world one year after Alexey Navalny was arrested upon returning to Russia On January 17, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport immediately upon returning to Russia from Germany, where he had spent months recovering from a near-fatal poisoning.

Audrey sofa shot a film about an abortion and received the main award of Venice for him. We talked to her before the Russian premiere Laurent Benhamou / Pjb / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta The French journalist, writer and director Audrey sofa unexpectedly received the Golden Leo for many - the main award of the Venetian Film Festival - for the drama according to Annie Erno’s novel Event.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg banned the distribution in Russia of a video in which musician Marilyn Manson rips pages out of the Bible. The telegram channel "ChTD" drew attention to the decision of the court. The video, posted on YouTube, includes Manson's speech on the Old Testament given at a concert in 1998, overlaid with a slideshow of his photographs. On some, he tears out pages from the Bible, on others he appears in the form of the Pope and the Antichrist.