St. Petersburg tax authorities are threatened with account blocking ahead of schedule, 5-10 days before the deadline established by the Tax Code, submit the value tax reports (VAT). A special warning was sent by the Office of the Federal Tax Service in St. Petersburg, writes Fontanka.ru .

In the Vologda region, the sale of non -alcoholic tonic drinks containing caffeine was banned. The basis for this was the law adopted by the regional parliament in September 2014 and entered into force on January 1, 2015, the website of the regional parliament reports. This ban was also popular among Russians American soda-Cola soda.

Bailiffs seized from Muscovite Porsche SUV to pay off its debts for 160 fines for Violations of traffic rules for a total amount of 800 thousand rubles, Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the metropolitan administration of the FSSP Timur Korobitsyn.

A resident of Canada collects money for an operation for her cat named Mittens. The unusual situation is that it was born hermaphrodite: the animal has both male and female genital organs. As Clark-Merfi, who lives in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, explains, the cat picked up her daughter on the street, asking to leave the found at home. And the natural feature of the pet became known only when the cat was brought for inspection to the veterinarian.

Internet users in China have problems using VPN services that allow you to access the web sittes blocked by the state, CNews reports. Problems arose with at least four paid VPN access services: Strongvpn, Tunnelbear, Astrill and Golden Frog. According to TechCrunch , representatives of these services in one way or another confirmed information about interruptions in servicing their users in China.

Director Martin Scorsese postponed the shooting of a partially finished documentary about former US President Bill Clinton because of the director’s disagreement with the ex-president regarding control over the questions and final product, The New York Times reports with reference to informed sources. Also, the issue of participating in the film by the daughter of ex-president Chelsea Clinton, who worked for a long time as a special correspondent for NBC News, was also not settled.

The competitor of Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintsev in the Oscar Race, the Polish Picture of Ida Pavel Pavlikovsky, also outraged part of the public in its homeland, like the Russian film in Russia .

In the case of the Russian military personnel Valery Permyakov, who admitted the murder of a family in Gyumri, a psychological and psychiatric examination will be carried out, Interfax reports with reference to sources familiar with the situation. "As part of the joint investigation, a number of forensic forensic examinations are appointed and conducted.

In Makhachkala today will be held by the Hotigestan Mavlid - an event held by Muslims to express joy to the Prophet Muhammad - in protest against caricatures on the founder of the Islamic religion. "The Medigestan Mavlid will be held on January 23 in the central juma -mosque of Makhachkala after Friday prayer at 12.30 Moscow time.

In the Sergius Church of the village of Semkhoz, the Sergiev Posad district of the Moscow region, built at the site of the tragic death of Archpriest Alexander Me, on the day of the 80th anniversary of the priest, celebrated on January 22, a divine liturgy was committed in memory of this church minister recognized as one of the most famous Orthodox ministers of the late XX century.

Representatives of the clergy of various religious communities of the Russian Federation will commit worship in defense of spiritual values ​​and inadmissibility of inciting inter -religious and interethnic growth.

The highest certification commission officially approved theology as a scientific discipline. This coincided with the fact that yesterday, January 22, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, at the opening of Christmas parliamentary meetings, called on deputies to contribute to the process of approving theology in this quality. He recalled that now the defense of the dissertation in a church educational institution is not accepted in the Higher Attestation Commission for approval.

In St. Petersburg, the performance of the musician Mikhail Novitsky was canceled, whose song “Putin, skis, Magadan” in recent years has become an unofficial anthem of the protest movement of St. Petersburg. At the same time, in the art salon, where the concert was supposed to take place on Thursday, they say that the performance was canceled not for political, but for "objective" reasons, the Russian BBC service reports.

The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin exchanged accusations of misinformation regarding the agreements of the Norman Four on Twitter. Klimkin fell upon Russia for Putin's initiatives, and the Russian Foreign Ministry to Klimkin - for the "promise of Russia to bring to a meeting of separatists' leaders." Klimkin on his Twitter called not to “not buy” for misinformation from Russia.

The Trans -Baikal Regional Court sentenced the backward employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was found guilty of the brutal murder of a man who was a witness in a criminal case. The former guardian of order avenged the victim for the unflattering characteristics given in court to his brother. As a result, a relative of the guard of order went to the bars for the murder. By court decision, Tumen Balzhimaev will spend 17 years behind bars.