Why, when something happens somewhere in Russia, do the official authorities begin to lie directly from the threshold? This is not the first time I ask this rhetorical question, and I will also ask it. Why, when something happens somewhere in Russia, do the official authorities begin to lie directly from the threshold? First they lie with sources, and then some conditional Irina Wolf or another unwritten beauty from the press service. And this is so obvious that only an idiot can believe in it.

Updated: The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the house arrest of director Kirill Serebrennikov until April 19. reports on Tuesday, January 16 The investigation in the Seventh Studio case has abandoned claims to the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, which the studio employees were previously accused of not staging, Kommersant . This was stated at a meeting in the Basmanny Court of Moscow by the lawyer of the former general director of the Gogol Center, Alexei Malobrodsky, Ksenia Karpinskaya.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has appointed a check for the presence of a public justification of terrorism and extremism in the actions of the organizers of the Artdocfest festival, the director of the film "Flight of a Bullet" Beata Bubenets and the director of the film "War for Peace" Yevgeny Titarenko, TASS reports . The inspection was appointed at the request of the head of the SERB movement, Igor Beketov.

The electoral headquarters of Vladimir Putin has canceled the signatures in support of his candidate, collected in the Kurgan region at two secure factories, Kommersant reports . “The management of two enterprises in the Kurgan region, without consultation with the headquarters, its regional branch, grossly violated the law and collected signatures at the enterprise during working hours, so we will not be able to accept such signatures,” said Andrey Kondrashov, spokesman for the headquarters.

The Ministry of Health of the Perm Territory reported on the condition of children and a teacher who were injured the day before at school No. 127, where two teenagers attacked fourth-graders with knives. “As of 8 am on January 16, there are still three victims in the city clinical hospital No. 4 of Perm: two young people are in a moderate condition, the teacher is in intensive care, the condition is serious, there is a positive trend,” the report says .

In Chechnya, on the orders of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, an anti-drug campaign is underway, during which the police raid, detain dozens of people, some of whom are tortured to extract a confession, Republic writes on Tuesday, January 16 . In 2017, 507 offenses related to drug use were identified in the republic.

After the start of the election campaign for the President of the Russian Federation, Levada Center stopped publishing the data of its polls regarding the elections, although it will continue to conduct them, Vedomosti writes . According to the director of the center Lev Gudkov, during the 2016 Duma elections, the organization was recognized as a foreign agent, and according to the electoral law, a foreign agent cannot participate in elections and referendums in any way.

Six strategies for voting day and six conclusions about them Over the past few weeks, I took part in two discussions of tactics for the coming months. In St. Petersburg at the headquarters of Navalny and in Moscow at the headquarters of Sobchak. In addition, I read the excellent articles by Dmitry Oreshkin and Alexander Kynev . What is curious - both, despite the disagreement, is a general conclusion about who and why the boycott tactics are beneficial. However, we will leave aside science.

The trial in the case of the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, who is accused of taking bribes, was transferred from the Presnensky Court of Moscow to the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center due to the defendant's poor health. On January 16, journalists who had gathered at the checkpoint of the pre-trial detention center were not allowed to attend the meeting, Mediazona reports .

Valeria Novodvorskaya - about Tolkien's trilogy The trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" came to us, as expected, from the West, from the publishing house "North-West" in 1991. It was the last treasure of Tamizdat... It was such a shock! After all, the orcs (as Tolkien himself called the Nazis) were then behind us, around and, possibly, in front. Our “red-browns” completely passed for them.

reports on Tuesday, January 16 Lawyers for the defendants in the Seventh Studio case admit that the studio employees cashed out the funds allocated by the Ministry of Culture, but do not consider this a crime, Kommersant . During the meeting of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, lawyers stated that the chief accountant Nina Maslyayeva cashed out 130 million rubles for her own needs, but later returned the money to the studio's cash desk.

The Ministry of Culture filed a claim for damages for more than 133 million rubles. in the case of the Seventh Studio, reports Dozhd with reference to the press service of the department. The statement of claim was filed for the amount of 133 million 237 thousand 920 rubles. Earlier that the amount of damage in the case increased from 68 to 133 million rubles. Interfax reported.

The eruption of the Mayon volcano began on the morning of January 16. Lava gushed and flowed down its slopes, volcanic ash reached nearby settlements, Associated Press reports . Almost 15 thousand people left the danger zone within a radius of 6-7 kilometers from Mayon, seismologists urge people not to return to the area.

Pupils of the Perm school No. 127 are perplexed about the official version of the TFR, according to which the blood spilled due to a sudden skirmish. They are sure: two teenagers came to kill Perm School No. 127, where the tragedy photo: 59.ru Bureaucous landing The massacre at the Perm school No. 127, as a result of which 12 people were hospitalized, caused a commotion in Moscow: from there the whole landing of officials and security forces set off to the place of the tragedy.

The Russian Federation retained its freedom indicators in the new rating of the human rights NGO Freedom House. The organization recognized the country as "not free". In the ranking, where 1 is the most free country and 7 is the least free, Russia scored 6.5. Political freedoms in the Russian Federation received the lowest possible rating, civil liberties - 6 out of 7 points. Freedom House wrote that power in Russia is concentrated in the hands of President Vladimir Putin.