Oleg Deripaska sued Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov demanding 1 million rubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage. The reason for the lawsuit was Zyuganov's statement at the plenary session of the State Duma on January 9, when he called the business founded by Deripaska a scam and a crime: “I think that Deripaska's aluminum business is the biggest scam. First, the factories were stolen from the citizens, and now they are being handed over to the Anglo-Saxons.

Wealthy EU citizens living in the UK are increasingly leaving the country. Speaking to Bloomberg, Anthony Ward Thomas, who owns a relocation firm, said his company helped close to 300 clients leave the UK in 2018, up 82% from 2017 . According to Ward Thomas, most of his clients are wealthy Europeans with capital of at least £5 million. He noted that people are not so much worried about Brexit as about the general instability of the situation in Britain.

US President Donald Trump presented a new strategy for the further development of the American missile defense system. In particular, the United States intends to place an additional 20 missile interception stations at the Fort Greeley military base in Alaska, Kommersant reports . The missile defense system must be technologically capable of intercepting any missile fired at the United States, Trump said.

Dry cargo ship "Kuzma Minin" of the Murmansk Shipping Company was arrested for the debts of the shipowner. This was reported to TASS by the coordinator of the International Federation of Transport Workers Sergey Fishov. In December, the Kuzma Minin ran aground near the port of Falmouth and damaged its fuel tank. The cargo ship was refloated on the same day. He remained in the port until the investigation of the incident was completed and the damage was repaired, recalls Meduza .

The US Treasury has postponed the entry into force of sanctions against Rusal and En+. said in a statement OFAC that their license expiration dates have been extended to January 28. Until that day, you can make business transactions with companies.

The Center Social Nutrition company, associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, will receive almost 3 billion rubles as part of a contract to supply food for patients in Moscow hospitals. This is reported by the Daily Storm . The company associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin's Concorde, which is confirmed by joint contracts, won the tenders, valuing its services several hundred thousand rubles cheaper than its rivals. Meduza also discovered at least 10 tenders for more than 110 million rubles.

The delegation of the State Duma will not go to PACE, and in 2019 Russia will not pay a contribution to the budget of the Council of Europe.

Klishas' bill is completely reckless and rabid, its rejection was programmed by its very content, and it will be replaced by a new Here, under the leadership of the glorious Ekaterina Shulman, a certain wind of optimism wanders in social networks, raised by the negative reaction of the authorities to the Klishas bill. Some see even behind this collision the growing influence of "sound forces" within the regime, acting in the direction of gradual progress.

Facebook has reportedly removed hundreds of Russia-related pages that it suspected of "coordinated inauthentic behavior." “We removed 364 Facebook pages for engaging in coordinated misbehavior within a network that originated in Russia and operated in the Baltics, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Central and Eastern Europe. Page admins and account holders mostly presented themselves as independent news pages.

The future of the regime does not depend on the terms established by the Constitution, and above all on the level of confidence in the population to Putin, Fedor Krashennikov believes, continuing the NT discussion about the alternatives of the change of power in 2024 Fedor Krasheninnikov When we are talking about the “problem-2024” (read the beginning of the discussion here ), we are still a little cunning.

The Federal Security Service intends to classify its government procurement. The Ministry of Defense and the FSB have already done this earlier. An amendment to the law on public procurement, allowing tenders to be held on closed electronic platforms, was prepared by the Federal Security Service. Previously, as a measure to counter anti-Russian sanctions, purchases in a closed system were allowed by the Ministry of Defense and the FSB.

VTB has acquired a 63% stake in Medialogy, the developer of the media and social media monitoring and analysis system of the same name. Before the deal with VTB, the main owner was the IBS group, owned by Anatoly Karachinsky and Sergey Matsotsky. Medialogy was created on the IBS IT platform in 2003. According to Interfax , VTB does not disclose the details of the deal.

Anti-fascist Igor Shishkin was sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony, having been found guilty of participating in the "Network" terrorist community. Shishkin's case was considered in a special order, he fully admitted his guilt and entered into a pre-trial agreement on cooperation with the investigation, Mediazona reports .

Human Rights Watch's annual global report highlights the victories of new government-civil society alliances There is a growing trend in the world to counter human rights violations by autocratic politicians who aggressively promote their agenda, Human Rights Watch notes in the World Report 2019. The document contains an overview of the human rights situation for 2018 in more than 100 countries around the world.

Anastasia Vashukevich and Alexander Kirillov, known as Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie, were detained at Sheremetyevo Airport upon their arrival from Thailand. “They were detained. They are currently in a separate room. According to Nastya, they are charged with article 240, paragraph 2 (of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), this is involvement in prostitution, ”Kirillov’s wife told reporters, Interfax reports .