Against the head of the Moscow District Council, Sokol, detained the day before, while trying to get 200 thousand rubles, opened a criminal case of fraud, the metropolitan head of the police said on Saturday. As NTV recalls, the head of the Sokokov district, Vyacheslav Ivanov, was replaced by Vitaly Aksenov, whom Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin in February lasted from his position.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, having won 6: 1, 7: 6 Aliza Korne from France, entered the fourth round of the Australian Open Championship. “In the second circle, I had a very difficult match both in the physical and emotional plan,” the official website of the tournament quotes the sharapow’s words. “I spent a lot of effort and it was not easy to recover. Therefore, I was glad that I won the two parties today.

In India, law enforcement agencies investigate the death of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of the Indian Minister for the Development of Human Resources, Shashi Tarur, whose body was discovered on Friday in the hotel room in Delhi. Pathologists have already announced that it was "sudden and violent", although the final results of the examination have not yet been presented.

“Fair Russia” on the last day of the collection of signatures for the referendum on the resonant issue of paid parking in Moscow, the party leader Sergei Mironov announced that there would be no signature to the Mosgorizbirkom, which initiated the procedure, which initiated the procedure . "Today, January 18, 2014 - the last day of collecting signatures in support of the referendum in the city of Moscow in paid parking. And today our Just Russia party is making a difficult decision.

In almost 200 districts of the UK, floods were announced due to the strongest rainfall, which have been going on in most of the country for several days in a row, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Environmental Environment agency. This January was unusually wet and warm in the UK. The average daily temperature does not drop below 6-8 degrees Celsius. Perennial records for the number of precipitation are broken.

The Investigative Committee summed up the results of the special operation in Makhachkala in the village of Semender, where the organizers of the explosion at the restaurant that thundered the day before were destroyed. According to Interfax in the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan, seven people were killed during the special operation, including one woman. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the investigation team began to inspect the scene.

Police officers are checking the reports of the mining of two schools in the Voroshilovsky district of Rostov-on-Don, the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Region Natalya Ustimenko told the Interfax agency. "Information was received that there are two educational educational institutions in the Voroshilovsky district of Rostov-on-Don.

The ex-ghostyer of the Moscow Football Club Spartak Aiden McGidi said that Russia is not the best place to live and raise children. The Irish midfielder played for Spartak from August 2010 to December 2013. The 27-year-old football player, who signed a contract with the English Everton on January 11, 2014, spoke about his life in Russia. “The first couple of years were wonderful.

Customs officers of Armenia seized 927 kg of heroin while trying to carry drugs from Iran to Georgia, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the national security service of the republic. According to the report, the largest party of heroin in the region was confiscated on January 17 as a result of inspection at Megrin customs. Drugs were transported in the cache of a truck, which was transit from Iran to Georgia, emphasized the National Security Service.

Russian skater Julia Lipnitskaya became the winner of the European Championship, which is held in Budapest. Another representative of Russia Adelina Sotnikova won a silver medal. Lipnitskaya, after a short program, occupied the second position after Sotnikova , as a result of arbitrary received 139.75 points from the judges, in total, gaining 209.72 points. “I was the best rental in the season, which I did not expect from myself at all,” the winner “All Sports” reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the main result of our team at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi will be a manifestation of will and skill, as well as the joy of Russian fans. “Sport is always an element of surprise,” the Kremlin’s official website quotes Putin’s words. “It is always some element of luck or bad luck. Therefore, it is very difficult to talk in advance, if possible.

The aircraft flying from St. Petersburg to Osh (Kyrgyzstan) made a forced landing at the Airport of Chelyabinsk because of a fight on board between a passenger and a flight attendant. During the conflict, the rowdy broke his nose, and the flight attendant who twisted him received a lips dissected. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the management of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ural Federal District, the emergency occurred at about one in the morning.

US Secretary of State John Kerry criticized the activities of the Ukrainian Parliament, saying that new amendments to the laws are “taking the future” from the country. The day before, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed the harsh amendments rapidly accepted by the Rada, which observers called the unfinished, and the opposition regarded as a coup. New norms, in particular, tighten responsibility for mass riots and introduce pre-trial blocking of Internet resources.

The Russian vessel Oleg Naydenov, the Russian ship, will not be released earlier than Monday, said Sergey Gorbachev, deputy head of the Center for Public Relations of Rosrybolovstvo. "The bail, in the amount of one million dollars, was transferred to the Senegal Bank," Gorbachev said. According to him, there are currently informal negotiations between representatives of the Federal Resort with the Senegal authorities.

In the village in the Omsk region, mass poisoning occurred: the victims drank diluted fluid for roding bonfires. Four hospitalized, four more people died. A criminal case has been instituted, suspects have been established. The press service of the regional department of the IC of Russia reports that on January 15, a local 29-year-old resident and its 21-year-old cohabitant bought a technical fluid for ignition in the store, diluted with water and, issuing alcohol, sold.