The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Japan exchanged statements after the statements of the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Fumio Kisida, who, during a visit to Belgium, compared the situation in Ukraine with the “problem of the northern territories” - as Russian southern chicken, which are the subject of a long -term territorial dispute , call the rising sun.

At an economic meeting, President Vladimir Putin in Novo-Ogarev on January 21, generally approved the Anti-Crisis plan of the White House, developed under the leadership of the Ministry of Economy. According to Kommersant , the final version of the plan will be again shown to Vladimir Putin when the government “clarifies funding sources” for a number of points of this program.

The Russian government is preparing a draft law on the abolition of age qualifications of all information products, proposing to save only the 18+ labeling.

“I am no longer surprised that the Russian Investigative Committee opens criminal cases after events that happen to citizens of another country on the territory of another country. I have not been surprised for a long time by the tone in which the Russian Investigative Committee (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense) make their statements.

The deputy head of Rosobrnadzor, Alexander Biserov, proposed to ban the Wikipedia online encyclopedia in Russia. “My personally my opinion,” and I repeatedly expressed it, “I would forbade the Wikipedia. I would simply have imposed a censorship on it. Because the number of errors that it contains is overwhelming,” RIA Novosti quoted the words. So Biserov commented on the practice of using “Wikipedia” that was widespread among schoolchildren and students to write various educational works.

The next month, Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to visit the Palestinian Autonomy and Israel, as well as a number of Arab states. The Al-Kuds newspaper, which is published in the Eastern Jerusalem, claims that within the framework of the tour, the Russian leader will meet with the head of the Palestinian National Administration Mahmoud Abbas. As expected, negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be held in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem.

Anton Oreh “The Russian AIDS vaccine, which has been in development for 15 years and whose testing has, in principle, already reached the finish line, will now be ready unknown when, or maybe not at all. The money, they say, has run out. But where did it end, I wonder? It doesn’t happen that you had money yesterday, but today you look and it’s gone, unless, of course, you were robbed.

Ford Focus models, intended for the Russian market, increased road clearance: now it is 160 mm instead of the previous 140 mm. The adaptation was carried out by the R&D Center Ford Sollers. In addition, the focus basic configuration included an electronic course stability system (ESP), writes Carscope . Sedan, hatchback and Ford Focus station wagon are offered in Russia with 1.6-liter gasoline engines with a capacity of 85, 105 and 125 liters.

In Poland, they are aware that the Aushvitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Auschwitz was released by representatives of different peoples, the Polish Ambassador to Moscow Pelchinsk-Nalench, in Moscow, thus commenting the careless statement of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Grgezhezh about Ukrainians-liberators.

Apple has acquired the British company Semetric, which owns the analytical music service MusicMetric, reports the Look At Me portal. According to the British newspaper The Guardian , the deal took place last year, but it became known only now, from Semetric documents, in which the company's legal address was changed to Apple's address in California. The cost of the deal was not disclosed, however, according to the Financial Times , it could be up to $50 million.

The volume of international reserves of the Russian Federation from January 9 to 16, 2015 decreased by $ 6.8 billion from 386.2 billion to $ 379.4 billion. From December 26, 2014 to January 9, 2015, reserves decreased by $ 2.3 billion, Interfax reports with reference to the data of the Bank of Russia press service. In December, they decreased by 8% - from $ 418.880 to December 1, 2014 to 385.460 billion dollars on January 1, 2015.

The Russian language will never receive state status in Latvia. This was stated on January 22 by the Ambassador of Latvia to the Russian Federation Astra Kurma. "There is a wonderful big country where Russian is already a state language. This is Russia," she said. "And in the neighborhood there is Latvia, not so big. And this is the only place where Latvia can have its own state language," she said on January 22 at a press conference in the central office of Interfax .

The leader of the German anti -Islamist and anti -immigrant movement of PEGIDA Lutz Bakhmann resigned after the local media distributed a photograph in which he was depicted in the image of Adolf Hitler. The picture, as previously reported , Bakhmann himself posted on his Facebook page, and unknown people allegedly handed it over to reporters. In the photo, the leader of Pegida is captured with a hairstyle for Hitler and with characteristic antennae.

“All of this, taken together - from Anti-Maidan, compromising Putin with a possible comparison with Yanukovych, and to Chechen expansion in all directions - suggests some, let’s be careful, loss of control, about the situation getting out of control; in some way The moment - I fear it has already arrived - Putin will not be able to contain the forces that he himself has awakened to strengthen his own power.

So far, electronics manufacturers actively compete with each other, creating new models of fitness and smart hours endowed with a variety of functions, the American company Leatherman Tool Group, which was released by multifunctional folding tools, introduced its version of the useful bracelet. The Leatherman Tread bracelet does not count steps and does not display messages from the smartphone, but is able to help in much more difficult situations, writes the magazine Popular Mechanics .