In March, the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences will visit the United States and sign a cooperation agreement with the American Academy of Sciences, said the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev.

Members of the US Democratic Party have declared a potential conflict of interest on the part of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in connection with the decision to lift sanctions on the companies of Oleg Deripaska. On Tuesday in the US Congress, Democrats raised the issue of links between the minister and billionaire Leonid Blavatnik, who will benefit financially from the removal of Deripaska's companies from the sanctions list.

12 members of the Federation Council convicted over the past 10 years 2018 - The Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow delivered a verdict in absentia in the case of Sovcomflot: in particular, a former senator from the Volgograd region and a former general director of the company, 48-year-old Dmitry Skarga, was convicted. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for organizing a criminal community, abuse of power, embezzlement on an especially large scale and money laundering.

“Targeted repressions” in the quasi-Beria spirit will not calm society, but will only throw firewood on the blazing fire of hatred for officials “They are all one gang there!” Here is such a mass reaction to the demonstrative arrest of a dignitary in the Federation Council. Power in public perception does not look like self-cleansing, but a bunch of corruption and crime.

Why the problem-2024 has no good solutions-the expert Tatyana Stanovaya thinks Tatyana is becoming. Photo: Facebook.com Based on the experience of 2007, we can say with confidence that almost no one, with the exception of the president himself and, possibly, his closest environment, today is not aware of the actually discussed scenarios. And even potential successors may not guess that they are considered as possible candidates for the presidential post.

The desire not to comply with anti-corruption legislation, not to provide real information about income, to take on the work of their children - all these desires are irresistible for an official Any lawyer knows what it is: floods, fires, hurricanes and other natural disasters. The Ministry of Justice did not study legal sciences, they have a different understanding, which they could not even formulate on the first attempt. I am ready to help them.

“Russia has never approached the North Korean authorities with a proposal to build a nuclear power plant in the people’s republic in exchange for the complete abandonment of nuclear weapons,” Russian Ambassador to Pyongyang Alexander Matsegora commented on an earlier article by The Washington Post, which contained allegations to this effect.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Rauf Arashukov, Senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, for two months, until March 30. The meeting on choosing a preventive measure was held behind closed doors at the request of lawyers, Kommersant reports . Arashukov was previously charged with participation in a criminal community, pressure on a witness and murder. Substantiating the request for arrest, the investigator said that Arashukov could hide abroad, as he probably has a residence permit in the UAE.

A group of State Duma deputies has prepared a bill according to which the police will have the right to shoot down drones launched over places of mass events, including rallies.

The Internet Development Institute (IRI) from February will support the leadership of the regions in working with social networks. “IRI will be engaged in advising regional administrations on building work on the Internet: the correct maintenance of the official communities of the regions in social networks, responses to complaints and appeals from social network users, work in emergency situations, and so on,” a source close to the presidential administration told .

On Wednesday, January 30, a mass evacuation of schools, government agencies and shopping centers was carried out in several regions of the Russian Federation in connection with reports of mining. Threatening letters were received in Ryazan, Veliky Novgorod, Tambov, Vladimir, Lipetsk, Murmansk, Pskov. Earlier it was reported about the cancellation of classes in all schools in Arkhangelsk and the evacuation of ten educational institutions in Astrakhan due to similar threats, TASS reports .

The father of Raul Arashukov, suspected of involvement in the murders of Senator Rauf Arashukov, was detained today in St. Petersburg in one of the Gazprom offices. This is reported by Interfax . TASS clarifies that investigative actions are being carried out in the case of embezzlement of 10 billion rubles. Raul Arashukov is an adviser to the general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC, a deputy of the People's Assembly of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Open Russia activist Anastasia Shevchenko was charged under the article “on the activities of an organization recognized as undesirable on the territory of Russia”, she herself pleaded not guilty. The case of the Open Russia activist is the first in the country under this article.

Senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov was detained and taken out of the meeting room of the Federation Council. Before that, the Federation Council agreed to the detention of the senator, TASS reports , citing a source. The detention is connected with the murder committed in 2010, clarifies with reference to the Interfax source .

Venezuela's Supreme Court has banned opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president of the country, from leaving the country, making real estate transactions and using bank accounts. The reason for this decision was the investigation against Guaido, which was initiated by the country's Prosecutor General's Office because of protests in the country, RBC reports with reference to El Nacional.