The Investigative Committee of Russia claims that journalists Orkhan Dzhemal, Kirill Radchenko and Alexander Rastorguev died as a result of a robbery, and other versions were called an attempt by the Investigation Control Center to "justify their own miscalculations in preparing a dangerous trip" The Investigative Committee published their version of what happened in the Central African Republic.

I am convinced that the murder of journalists was the result of Prigozhin's attempt to find out what the group, and specifically Orkhan, had on the issue of illegal arms trafficking and the illegal training and use of Russian mercenaries, as a result of an investigation in Russia Yesterday we handed over to a number of journalists the results of the Dossier Center's investigation of the tragedy in the CAR.

French President Emmanuel Macron will not attend the economic forum in Davos due to a busy schedule, including a debate over the Yellow Vest protests. According to Reuters , on January 21, Macron will hold his “Choose France” forum with business representatives. Earlier, US President Donald Trump canceled his visit to the Davos forum due to a conflict with Democrats over the suspension of the government.

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the US presidential election, is checking Ukrainian politicians and businessmen who were present at the inauguration of Donald Trump. According to The New York Times , citing sources, there are all indications that some of the Ukrainians who came to Washington were promoting big deals or "peace" plans that were in Russia's interests, including the lifting of sanctions. .

Three militants who tried to attack traffic police officers in Dagestan were killed, according to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. “Today, at about 18:00 Moscow time, at the Kizilyurt-Makhachkala section of the Kavkaz federal highway, a group of unknown persons traveling in a VAZ-2107 car attempted to attack traffic police officers,” TASS quoted the message as saying . Police officers pursued the attackers, the car was found near the village of Agachaul, Karabudakhkent district.

On Mira Avenue in Moscow, a native of Kharkov, Yuri Vasilenko, was kidnapped, who in Ukraine is considered an accomplice in the murder of ex-deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Denis Voronenkov, which occurred in March 2017 in Kyiv. This was reported by Interfax , citing a source. The interlocutor of the agency clarified that Vasilenko has dual citizenship - the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

Belarus has removed the limit on the number of American diplomats who can work in Minsk Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei informed US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell about the lifting of restrictions, Foreign Policy magazine writes , citing its sources. According to US officials, this is a significant diplomatic breakthrough in relations between the countries against the backdrop of deteriorating relations between Minsk and Moscow.

The number of doctors and nurses in Moscow is decreasing every year, and already in 2017 there were fewer of them than stipulated in the state guarantees of free medical care.

In the United States, the White House is preparing to declare a national emergency to build a wall on the border with Mexico, which President Donald Trump insists on. According to The Washington Post , the Trump administration is considering allocating money to build the wall from unused funds from the Army Corps of Engineers, which were previously allocated for disaster relief.

I’ll tell you a simple story, how the lack of doctors, to which “optimization” has brought, turns around in practice The Accounts Chamber counted Moscow doctors. It turned out that their number is lower than required by the state program and is declining every year. To hide this data, the city authorities simply excluded the indicator of the number of doctors from the results of their work.

The work of the new, third runway of the Sheremetyevo airport, on which more than 55 billion rubles have been spent, will be limited at night due to its proximity to residential buildings. This is stated in the explanatory note to the draft law on aerodrome territories, developed by the Ministry of Transport. The runway is located 5 km from Lobnya, 3 km from Skhodnya and 5 km from Zelenograd, Kommersant writes .

A Paris court found the artist Pyotr Pavlensky and his ex-comrade-in-arms Oksana Shalygina guilty of setting fire to the doors of the Bank of France in October 2017. Pavlensky was sentenced to three years in prison, including two suspended sentences. He will not return to prison, as he has already served most of his term on remand, according to RFI . Shalygina received two years in prison, including 16 months probation. She will also not serve time in prison.

A draft resolution has been submitted to the Russian government, allowing to shoot down passenger planes that have violated the border, if they pose a threat of death to people or an environmental disaster. The document notes that the military must first contact the aircraft, if there is no reaction, then it is forced to land or leave the airspace of Russia by planes or helicopters raised into the air.