The ministers of the internal affairs of the European Union at the meeting on January 11 came to the conclusion that due to the threat of terrorism, it is necessary to use the possibilities of the existing Schengen rules. This became known only on January 12, when the representative of the European Commission Natasha Berto told reporters about the results of the meeting.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill will perform in the State Duma on Thursday, January 22. This was reported to the Interfax agency by the Duma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations. This will be the first performance of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the lower house of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the committee said on Monday on Monday.

The official exchange rate of the euro set by the Central Bank for Tomorrow, on January 12, rose by 5.987 rubles and amounted to 74.3551 rubles. The dollar rate increased by 6.4987 rubles to 62.7363 rubles. Earlier, analysts warned that due to the small amount of trading, the ruble exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange during the first bidding in 2015 could both sharply grow and fall sharply until large banks and exporters enter the market.

Residents of Saudi Arabia, who, as already reported, suffered from the consequences of the Zina storm that came from Russia and are now trying to distract from the cold with the help of a rare entertainment for residents of the Middle East - modeling snowmen, received a warning from an authoritative local theologian. He considered some manifestations of snow creativity incompatible with the commandments of the Muslim religion.

In the Zamoskvoretsky court, Moscow said that when appointing the deadlines for the Yves Rocher case, the identity of the defendants and the role of everyone in the commission of the crime, as well as the actual circumstances of the case, were taken into account in relation to Alexei and Oleg Navalny.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on the West "in an adult way" to be joint efforts to combat terrorism, without lining the issues of cooperation with the situation in Ukraine. "I would not link one with the other, our Western partners are trying to do such a link when they say: you behave well in Ukraine, then we will restore cooperation in other areas. It sounds not likely. The adversaries must understand the priority for all the threats.

Cuban dissidents say that they convicted the country's authorities in lies. According to them, part of the political prisoners, who were released by the island authorities allegedly under the agreement with the United States, were actually exempted earlier. In addition, according to them, “about ten” allegedly released from prison are actually still behind bars, Reuters reports with reference to local residents.

The plans to create a “counter -propaganda” television channel in Russian in the European Union are unlikely to correspond to the very concept of freedom of speech, ”said the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alexei Meshkov. Thus, he commented on to reporters in Moscow about the corresponding initiative of the heads of foreign policy departments of Great Britain, Denmark, Latvia and Estonia, TASS reports.

“Wanting Putin’s resignation is not at all wanting to overthrow the constitutional order, which is what our opponents are trying to convince us of. This is not a desire for revolution, not a desire for civil war. This is a legitimate and systemic political story: the president has worked very poorly this year and he needs to resign. You can feel whatever way you like about the annexation of Crimea, but it is obvious that it has negative consequences for Russia.

The Chinese company GAC Motor is considering the possibility of building its plant in Russia, reports Avtozale . The Chinese will make a decision in a new enterprise this year, said the director of the GAC Motor with Sun. If the solution is positive, then at first the power of the plant will not exceed 50,000 cars per year. They plan to assemble cars from machine tools that will be delivered from China.

On Monday, the Parliament of the Chechen Republic introduced a bill to the State Duma, which tightens the punishment for terrorists and providing them with relatives. The draft law "On Amending certain legislative acts in the Russian Federation regarding the strengthening of responsibility for committing a crime against public security" Chechen parliamentarians, in particular, propose to increase the term of imprisonment for crime against public security from 15 to 25, Interfax reports.

“I am, of course, not an expert in this matter, but I had to read a lot about both terrorists and fighters against terrorism. And it doesn’t matter what I read about crimes from the distant or not very distant past.

In the struggle for the assets of Crimea, armed detachments subordinate to the government of the republic held numerous raids on the large number of the peninsula, having expelled their owners and forcibly nationalized property, the American newspaper The New York Times reports. The former chairman of the supervisory board of the bay Nikolai Kuzmenko, who was in Kerch, spoke about one of these special operations to journalists.

“Several dozen state leaders, including Islamic ones, are participating in the Paris march. The united West - and this is not geography, but a worldview and way of life - awakened by Crimea and Donbass, has now finally rubbed its eyes and woke up. Because I realized: this time it’s for him a historical and civilizational challenge has been thrown. The world is being defined. Or - “I am Charlie,” that is, for protected freedom.

The client of one of the fast -power network restaurants McDonald's in the Japanese Prefecture Fukushima discovered a metal shavings in a chisburger about 5 millimeters long. According to the NHK channel, the buyer purchased Chizburger on January 1 and carried it home. A little later, he turned to the restaurant with a complaint about the presence of an outsider in the food product.