In the course of a meeting with representatives of leading Russian human rights organizations on Thursday, the President of Russia approved Ella Pamfilova’s candidacy for the post of new Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation instead of Vladimir Lukin, whose powers expire in February. “We will assume that we agreed, the issue is resolved.

In the investigative insulator No. 7, a scandal broke out in the metropolitan area of ​​Kapotnya: a video appeared on the Internet on which employees of the pre -trial detention center beat prisoners. It would seem a banal fight is notable for the fact that, according to some reports, the leadership of the pre -trial detention center took part in it. One of the people in the form is similar to the chief of the insulator, the second - to his deputy.

“Guys, the clash on Grushevsky is completely senseless. It does not bring any harm to Yanukovych; rather, on the contrary, it allows the whole world to show how aggressive these protesters are and deserve reprisals.” And what’s worse, several people died - in fact, for the senseless war with Berkut ", who guards an empty building, the capture of which solves nothing. Yes, I understand that the tactic of peacefully standing on the Maidan with songs and slogans has exhausted itself.

The Russian trawler "Oleg Naydenov" moved away from the pier of the military port of Dakar, where he retained more than two weeks by the military of Senegal. According to ITAR-TASS, the agency informed the Executive Director of the Sudger company Yuri Parshev at 23:20 Moscow time.

In Udmurtia, at the age of 87, the most elderly soloist of the Buranovsky grandmothers, Baba Lisa - Elizaveta Zarbatova, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the team Svetlana Syrygin. She died on January 13, 2014 in her native village and was buried there, but her death was not advertised, since due to advanced age she had not performed with the team for a long time. It was Zarbatova who wrote many songs for "grandmothers".

The Industrial District Court of Stavropol on Thursday granted the claim of the producer of the "affectionate May" Andrei Razin to LLC "Siliet" and the NTV television channel, Interfax reports. "The court decided to satisfy the claims of Andrei Razin in full and recognize the actions of Siliite LLC illegal, as well as recover the material damage in the form of a missed benefit in the amount of 16 million rubles from the NTV channel," the agency said in court.

An independent oil and gas company (NNK), which is the former President of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov, acquired two gas deposits in the Saratov region and won another at the competition, Kommersant reports. Four years later, the NNC is going to extract about 1 billion cubic meters of gas per year, and in the future to become a vertically integrated oil and gas company.

A unified technique for assessing damage for drivers and insurers has been developed. The document still has a long approval procedure, but after that, the disputes about the cost of repairs and the amount of compensation for the insurance policy will end. With one slight exception. The Russian Newspaper recalls that the methodology was waiting for 10 years - the order to develop it was given at the time of the adoption of the law on compulsory civil liability insurance.

The Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car will cost from 1 February 2014 in Russia from 999 thousand rubles, Carscope.ru reports, citing a representative of the importer. Now the price of a compact city hatchback with an electric motor is from 1.8 million rubles, almost no one buys a car for this money. Mitsubishi i-MiEV began selling in Russia in 2011, and during that time only 211 electric cars were sold.

The American insurance institution of road security IIHS conducted crash tests of eleven Cicarov according to its method - a collision with a frontal overlap of 25% at a speed of 65 km/h. A blow with a small overlap often creates problems for large cars, and among 11 small cars, only one Chevrolet model showed itself well.

“In 1857, Tweed joined the city board of supervisors and began to control all permitting documents in New York. At the same time, an organized criminal group arose, which later became known as the “Tweed Gang.” Anyone wishing to work or do business in New York had to register they received a certain amount so that his business could proceed. Not a single piece of paper was processed without a bribe.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, called for improving the work of the largest infrastructure monopolies in the country - "Russian Post" and "Russian Railways", the Prime Agency reports.

Providing military personnel with housing in the form of housing subsidies should begin in March 2014, Sergei Pirogov, head of the Housing Services Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, announced on Thursday. “We plan to start using housing subsidies in March of this year,” Pirogov said at a seminar to sum up the work of the Ministry of Defense’s housing support authorities for 2013 and set goals for 2014.

In the Rostov region, a sentence was sentenced to one of the accomplices of a cynical attempt, from which the family suffered in the past of a senior employee of the Ministry of Education. By the day of the teacher, the woman was sent a gift, and when she opened the box, the explosion thundered. The worked -up grenade killed the mother of the official, and she herself was injured with her son, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

The Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia, on Thursday, revising the sentences for the criminal cases of the ex -head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the ex -head of Menatep Platon Lebedev - and having freed the latter - he upheld the requirement of the joint collection of unpaid taxes for 17 billion rubles. Lawyers are ready to fight for the abolition of such a decision, however, it is not yet clear how.