The NTV channel continued the tradition of revealing campaigns against people objectionable to the Kremlin and collapsed with caustic criticism of the leaders of the systemic and non -systemic opposition.

Since the mid -last week, Naftogaz Ukraine more than doubled the selection of imported gas compared to the level of the first half of the month, reports Finmarket with reference to the TEK CD. If from January 5 to January 17, Ukraine selected a little more than 50 million cubic meters per day, then from January 18, imports began, which by January 21 reached 115 million cubic meters. In Gazprom, this information has not yet been commented.

Since February 2012, any transactions in Spain worth more than 3,000 euros will have to be carried out through the bank. Thus, it will be forbidden to pay them in cash. According to Prian.ru , first of all, the Spanish authorities, which, with the help of this measure, strengthen the struggle with tax defaults, intend to put under special control the construction and real estate sectors.

The memorial complex to the victims of the Holocaust in Rostov-on-Don in the Zmievskaya beam, where in 1942, the Nazis were killed by more than 27 thousand Jews, is officially no longer considered the Holocaust memorial and is not related to the Jewish people.

The administration of the largest social network of the world Facebook blocked the Putin2012 group, as well as the page of the student of Moscow State University, Viktor Levanov, who registered this group in March 2011. About this, according to the Ridus agency, says Levanov himself on his blog on Livejournal.

"Party for Muslim Netherlands" ("Die Partij Voor Moslim Nederland") announced her plans to fight for places in parliament during the following elections in 2015. Party members are already represented in the city councils of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and other cities. The “Muslim Party of the Netherlands,” or, as they call themselves, is “a party for Muslim Netherlands,” promises to fight against abortion, homosexuality and discrimination.

The Russian government reached an agreement with oil companies on the "freezing" of retail prices for fuel at the level of December. Such an instruction was given to companies by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin at a meeting on January 10, Kommersant says. So far, supplies to the domestic market are more profitable for export, but in the case of world prices the oil industry, oil industry workers will begin to incur losses.

In order to encourage and expand the dialogue between theology and the natural sciences, the Vatican founded a new organization - "Foundation Science and Faith". The new fund will have the status of a legal entity both in church and civil law. The Science and Vera Foundation will organize long -term specialized training courses and scientific work, as well as to conduct conferences and issue research, mainly oriented to an interdisciplinary approach.

The situation with the search for the bodies of missing people with the crash of the Costa Concordia cruise liner near the Italian Island of Gilio is complicated in connection with the assumption that unregistered passengers and illegal immigrants from the team could swim on the ship. As the leadership of the search operation stated, at least one deceased passenger did not exactly appear in official lists. This is a citizen of Hungary, whose body (13th in a row) was discovered the day before.

The TV presenter and recently, an active participant in the opposition rallies Ksenia Sobchak, who included in the first ten list of the most influential women in Russia, became the most recognizable face of all opposition stands of the December rallies. According to the Public Opinion Foundation ( FOM ), Sobchak overtook all the opposition leaders and became the most famous of all opposition activists - 82% of respondents know it.

Former Russian Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin believes that the agreed program for financing Chechnya should be executed. The former head of the Ministry of Finance made a corresponding statement in an interview with Leonid Parfyonov for Kommersant-TV . “All these years I have been engaged in programs in Chechnya. They sometimes turned back in strict discussion, because there was an analysis of the damage caused by Chechnya, the measures themselves need to be taken.

The General Secretary of the "Party of Freedom and Justice", representing the movement "Muslim Brothers", Muhammad al -Katatany was elected on Monday by the speaker of the People’s Assembly - the lower house of the Egyptian parliament, Interfax reports with reference to local media. 399 members of the parliament voted for al-Katatany, while his closest competitor to Essam Sultan, representing the al-Vasat party, received only 87 votes.

Seismologists believe that with a probability of 70% in the next four years, an earthquake of magnitude 7 with an epicenter in the capital of Japan may occur, Interfax reports with reference to the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun .

In St. Petersburg, police detained their colleague in an officer rank, who confessed to the murder of a teenager during interrogation. The law enforcement officer brutally beat a school age boy, who was detained on suspicion of robbery. The instrument of the murder was a mop.

In the next day or two, the Moscow Football Club Spartak can sign a contract with the midfielder of the English Everton, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, says the newspaper Sovetsky Sport . According to the publication, an agreement with Everton and the red-white football player himself has already been achieved. It is expected that the transfer will be officially announced after the signing of the contract.