A Russian citizen, 47-year-old car dealer Sergei Kapustin, has been arrested in the United States. He is accused of conspiring to deceive approximately 145 citizens of Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. The defendant denies his guilt. Kapustin was arrested at his home in Warminster, Pennsylvania, and his case will be heard in the state of New Jersey - his companies Global Auto Group, Effect Auto Sales and G Auto Sales were based in the city of Elizabeth there.

The judge of the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, Yulian Lebedev, dismissed Leviathan's inaction suit against the Russian government, which refused to provide a travel schedule for First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.

President Lukashenko allowed citizens of 80 states a short -term visa -free entry into Belarus. The preparation of this decree has been known since spring The most closed European country - Belarusian - opened for the world around the world: by decree of President Alexander Lukashenko to citizens of 80 states, including the USA, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia and all the countries of the European Union, it is allowed to visit the country without a Belarusian visa - but only for a period of five days.

The bill on new sanctions against Russia, prepared by a group of US senators, concerns the financial and energy sectors of the Russian economy, Interfax reports, citing American media. The authors of the document were influential senators, representatives of both parties, in particular Republicans John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Robert Portman, as well as Democrats Ben Cardin and Bob Menendez, TASS reports.

The secret "report" of the American intelligence services, published by the Internet portal Buzzfeed, that the Russian intelligence services have dirt on Donald Trump turned out to be a stuffing of one of the pranksters from the popular 4chan imageboard, Gateway Pundit reports.

The leader of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko party, Alexei Yablokov, has died at the age of 84, Interfax reports, citing the official website of the political association. Death occurred on the evening of January 10 at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, the cause was a severe and prolonged illness. The place and time of farewell and funeral will be announced later.

US President-elect Donald Trump held his first press conference since winning the election. Trump gathered journalists in his 58-story skyscraper Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York. One of the main issues at the press conference was the question of the authenticity of the “report of the special services” on the presence of compromising evidence on the Kremlin on Trump, published by the BuzzFeed portal.

Alexey Ulyukaev did not appeal against the arrest of his property in the amount of more than 500 million rubles, imposed by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press secretary of the court, Yunona Tsareva, who noted that there were no appeals against the decision. “On December 14, 2016, the Basmanny Court seized the money and coins from precious metals of the accused A. V. Ulyukaev in the total amount of about 500 million rubles,” Tsareva said.

Donald Trump admitted that Russian hackers took part in hacking into the servers of the Democratic Party. However, he added that the hackers were not only from Russia, but, in particular, from China, but no one pays attention to this. He made such a statement at his first press conference in New York after winning the presidential election.

The Federal Security Service hacked the Telegram messenger - follows from the appendix to the report of the US intelligence agencies on Russian interference in the presidential election, published by the BuzzFeed website. It follows from the document that the attention of the FSB to Telegram was attracted by the fact that this messenger is extremely popular among Russian activists and oppositionists.

Several state media were included in the government-approved list of enterprises that are "essential for ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of citizens of the Russian Federation, the defense capability and security of the state." The corresponding document is published on the official website of legal information.

The Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations (iNADO), which includes representatives of 19 countries, demanded that Russia be banned from participation in all competitions and that a moratorium be imposed on holding international tournaments in the Russian Federation due to doping. Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vitaly Mutko, in response, called on iNADO to do its job - collect urine, and not interfere in politics.

Barack Obama gave a farewell speech in Chicago. The full transcript of the speech is published by The New York Times . The audience greeted the president with applause. In response, Obama several times said: "Thank you." The 44th President of the United States thanked the Americans on behalf of himself and his wife Michelle for their support and faith in him and for all the good wishes received in recent days.

The first meeting in the case of the murder of Nemtsov - as always, in the Moscow District Military Court, as always, the beginning at 11 in the morning, as always, the real beginning - with a forty -shirt late. The event of the day, of course, is Alibek Delimkhanov, who had appeared in court, which the side of the victims did not hope to wait - like the Geremeev brothers.

U.S. Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson said at his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing that Russia poses a threat to the United States: “Russia today is a threat, but it is not unpredictable in advancing its interests,” he said. In addition, during the hearing, the candidate said that he did not support the annexation of Crimea to Russia, saying that Russia “took territory that did not belong to it”, and also announced his support for the “Magnitsky law”.