According to the results of 2020, 12 cities of Russia were recognized as the most polluted and environmentally unfavorable. The high level of air pollution was recorded in 48 cities of the country, but in 12 of them the situation is worst.

The authorities of Moscow on the day of the new protest planned on January 31 in support of Alexei Navalny will close seven central metro stations to the entrance and exit. From 8 o’clock in the morning, the Alexander Garden, Okhotnoy Range, Theater, Revolution Square, Kuznetsk Bridge, Lubyanka and Kitay-Gorod will be closed. The movement of pedestrians will also be limited.

Konstantin Sonin “Why are economists, who, it would seem, should talk about employment and growth, constantly return to political repression and Alexei Navalny? Because now in Russia, the main restraint of growth is precisely political repressions.

The basketball players of the Khimki Moscow Region lost to the Turkish Fenerbahche in the match of the 23rd round of the Euroleague regular championship and extended a series of defeats in the tournament up to 15 games. The meeting in Mytishchi ended with a score of 107: 76 (23:22, 30:22, 30:13, 24:19) in favor of the Istanbul club.

Russia resumes international air traffic with Greece and Singapore since February 8, 2021. Flights will be executed from Moscow to Athens twice a week, to Singapore - three times a week, on Thursday the operational headquarters to combat coronaviral infection.

The coaching headquarters of the Russian hockey team decided on the team of the team, which will perform at the next stage of the Eurotour - Swedish games. According to the press service of the Russian hockey federation, Igor Larionov, a mentor of the youth team, will act as a head coach instead of Valery Bragin. This is not the first castling at the coaching staff of the national team. Last fall, Larionov replaced Bragin at the first stage of the European Chockery - the Finnish Karjala Cup.

The level of confidence in Russian President Vladimir Putin sank to a minimum over the past year and is 53%. As follows from the results of the survey of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), 35% of respondents stated Putin’s distrust - this is a repetition of the maximum annual value recorded in March 2020.

Yakov Mirkin “They asked to explain, but simply“ on the fingers ”, why the ruble falls to the dollar and the euro all the time. We already know that even if it seems to us that it has froze, and we are already accustomed to the fact that he is 6 rubles per dollar, or 20, or even 60, still, sooner or later, some crisis or shock will happen and the next explosive devaluation will come. It was precisely in 1994. 1998, 2008-2009, 2018 and 2020.

The picture of the Italian painter Sandro Botticelli "Portrait of a young man with a medallion" was sold at Sotheby's auction in New York for more than $ 92 million. As reported on the website of the auction house, the auction took place in New York on January 28. The picture was sold for 92 million 184 thousand dollars. The personality of the buyer is not disclosed. According to the publication, Wall Street Journal , a Russian-speaking collector acquired a canvas during an online auction.

Military expert and senior researcher at the Gudzon Institute Brine Clark urged the United States to prepare for the worst scenario in the event of a war with Russia. In his article, published in Forbes magazine, the specialist notes that in the event of a war, countries such as Russia and China will focus on the service and strengthening of the defense capability of military equipment.

The Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov called the charges against Russia from the White House in the use of chemical weapons for murder with baseless insinuations. “This is not the first time we hear such cereal accusations against us, not backed up by any actual evidence. We repeatedly asked foreign partners to share information and proposed to establish a professional dialogue in order to clarify the truth.

The General Director of the National Media Group (NMG) Olga Paskin leaves his post, a source on the media market told Interfax . The information is confirmed by TASS with reference to a source close to the NMG leadership and the source of RIA Novosti . The interlocutor of Kommersant , familiar with the situation, said that officially the departure of Paskina would be announced in the coming days.

The 54-year-old Margarita Yudin, who, at the protest on January 23 in St. Petersburg , hit the policeman with his foot in the stomach , as a result of which the woman received a traumatic brain injury, was discharged from the Elizabethan hospital in St. Petersburg after repeated hospitalization . “Today, January 29, Margarita Yudin was discharged from the Elizabethan hospital, where she was hospitalized on the night of January 26-27.

Law enforcement officers detained a suspect in shooting at a mourning event after a funeral. The crime was committed near Anapa in the Krasnodar Territory. Four people received firearms, one of them died.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine suspects ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in treason. According to investigators, Yanukovych assisted Russia in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine. According to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine (OGP), we are talking about the so -called Kharkov agreements between the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the head of the Ukrainian state Viktor Yanukovych.