The vandals damaged one of the most famous monuments of Kamchatka - the sculptural composition "Russia begins here," said the administration of the city of Elizovo, in the vicinity of which the monument is located. "Tentatively, from the 11th to January 11th, the unidentified person damaged the architectural form" bears "in the Elizovsky city settlement. At the sculpture of the bear, ears broke off.

Former student of Moscow State University (Moscow State University) Varvara Karaulov (Alexander Ivanova), serving a term in the women's colony for an attempt to join the Islamic State, turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request for pardon, her father Pavel Karaulov said on the air of the Echo of Moscow . "Varya asked the president of pardon.

In France, prison warders blocked the work of more than a hundred prisons during a strike that lasts the eighth day and covers all regions of the country. Protest shares followed after January 11, a prisoner-Ismist of German origin attacked with scissors and a razor blade on three Wanden-Le-Voya prison watches in the north of France. Several incidents occurred in other prisons of the republic. In the city of Mon de Marssan, six warders of the prison were attacked in the south-west of France.

"In Yekaterinburg, they argue about the possible (very unlikely) demolition of the monument to Lenin on the 1905 square. And of course, the question immediately arises: if we demolish Lenin, what will we put in return?" - writes a political scientist and journalist on his Facebook page. "Different options sound. Someone wants to restore the temple, someone offers monuments to Peter the Great or Alexander the Second. But this is all wrong.

Two vice-governors of the Primorsky Territory Gennady Syryatnov and Alexei Sukhov were dismissed from his post on February 1 at their own request, the press service of the Primorye administration reports on Monday, January 22. "The corresponding order was signed by the acting governor Andrei Tarasenko," the department said, adding that their dismissal is connected with the transition to a new place of work. Gennady Syryatnov took the post of vice-governor in December 2016.

Scientists have refuted the postulates that sounded in the film “Blocade Blood. Genetics” directed by Eleanor Lukyanova, whose premiere was held on January 18, on the day of the 75th anniversary of the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad, in the small film concert hall of the Museum of Victory on Poklnaya Hill. The film, in particular, states that people who survived the blockade handed over to their children special genes that were subjected to mutations due to numerous deprivations.

Former Russian biathlete Olga Zaitseva said in an interview with CNN that all evidence about the use of doping during the 2014 Olympics were fabricated. At the same time, it is very important for her to prove that she was a pure athlete. “Sochi -2014 medal is the most important for me because I was won in my native country,” the former athlete “Sport -Express” quotes. “I have never used doping, I am against this.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, not allowed to participate in the presidential election on March 18 and calling for all adult citizens to boycott them, recorded a separate appeal to schoolchildren. In it, he calls for students to “not allow themselves to deceive” - do not go to the so -called school referendums, which regional authorities plan to hold at the same time as the presidential election.

At the N5 school in Ulan-Ude, where on January 19, a ninth grader with an ax attacked primary school students, planned classes resumed on Monday, said the director of the educational institution Sergey Razuevaev. “The educational process has been resumed, lessons - on schedule,” the agency’s interlocutor noted. According to Razuvaev, the repair in the cabinet affected by the attacker’s actions has not yet started, it will begin later on January 22, and will end about a week later.

In the UK, drivers named Muhammad have to pay more for insurance policies than car owners with traditional British names. Policies from English insurance companies as Admiral, Diamond, Bell, ElePhant or Marks & Spencer will cost much less “original” British than immigrants from Muslim countries, writes The Sun.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin called the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to transfer military equipment from Crimea to Kiev by an attempt to legalize the "annexation" of the peninsula. The Minister recalled the Hague Convention, according to which weapons should return after concluding peace. Earlier in Kyiv, they already proposed to return along with the equipment the peninsula itself.

The granddaughter of one of the authors of "12 chairs" Evgenia Petrova - Ekaterina Kataeva - gave the theater director Nikolai Kolyad, who staged a performance on the famous work, a family relic - a tiny chair. Now in Moscow there are already the tradition of the tour of the Yekaterinburg "Kolyada Theater".

The Kostroma District Court released the chief federal inspector for the Yaroslavl region and a member of the College of Judges Vasily Nesvetaylov from criminal liability in the case of the murder of the huntsman, which he took for a boar during the hunt. The Russian Themis has sentenced Nesvetaylov a penalty of 100 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Communications refused to calculate the volume of user data storage facilities for the implementation of the so -called Yarovaya Law based on the mounted capacity of networks of telecom operators, the Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to the letter of the deputy head of the department, Dmitry Alkhazov, sent to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

The zone of the anti -terrorist operation (ATO) in the Donbass left in full force one of the largest brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces), known as the Transcarpathian Legion. According to RIA Novosti Ukraine , the 128th separate Mountain-Penital Party Brigade of the Armed Forces on Sunday, January 21, has already arrived at the place of constant deployment-in the Transcarpathian region.