The curator who worked at the Arkhip Kuindzhi exhibition in the hall of the Tretyakov Gallery on the day the painting was stolen was fired. “The keeper has been fired. The statement was signed on Tuesday," told TASS . the gallery's press service The painting “Ai-Petri. Crimea ”from the Tretyakov Gallery, a man took out in front of visitors on January 27. On the morning of January 28, Denis Chuprikov was detained, who told him where the painting was.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne found 12 Russian athletes guilty of violating anti-doping rules. Among them are high jumpers, gold medalist of the 2012 Olympics Ivan Ukhov and Svetlana Shkolina, who won a bronze medal at the same games. The court deprived them of their awards, Interfax reports . “In all cases, athletes found guilty of anti-doping rule violations are subject to suspension,” the court said in the ruling.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky will sue Roskomnadzor for blocking the mbk.news domain, said lawyer Sergei Badamshin, who will represent Khodorkovsky in court. “This is an unreasonable and illegal decision, we will appeal against it,” the lawyer told MBKh Media . On January 31, Badamshin received an official response from Roskomnadzor to a request about the reasons for blocking mbk.news.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov expressed condolences to the activist of the "Open Russia" Anastasia Shevchenko and her family in connection with the death of her daughter. “We offer our condolences to the family, relatives and friends. Every time, any death is a tragedy, ” Rain quotes Peskov . Shevchenko was charged under a criminal article on the activities of an organization recognized as undesirable in Russia. She is under house arrest.

Alina Shevchenko, daughter of the pursued activist of Open Russia Anastasia Shevchenko, the state killed Andrey Kolesnikov. Photo: kgi Putin was aware of the detention of Senator Arashukov. The Kremlin, according to Dmitry Peskov, was not aware that the first criminal case was instructed in the country under the article chasing unwanted organizations, and the 17-year-old daughter died at the defendant of this case.

Facebook and Instagram have suspended 783 accounts for "coordinated misbehavior." The pages were maintained on behalf of residents of 26 countries of the world, but during the check it turned out that the accounts were connected with Iran, Meduza reports . The account activity was primarily focused on the Middle East, South Asia and the US. About two million people were subscribed to one of the blocked accounts.

Crisis-stricken Venezuela seeks to remain solvent, so in the coming days it will sell 15 tons of gold from the vaults of the Central Bank to the United Arab Emirates. This is reported by Reuters , citing a senior official. In total, the United Arab Emirates is scheduled to sell 29 tons of gold stored in Caracas by February to provide "liquidity for imports of key commodities," an agency source said. Neither the UAE Embassy nor the Central Bank of Venezuela commented on this information.

On February 1, the deadline for launching the system for checking the presence of OSAGO with the help of video cameras expires. The police and insurers were supposed to "integrate information databases" in January, but the order of Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov was not fulfilled, Kommersant writes . The Russian Union of Auto Insurers first announced the possibility of using cameras to check the “auto citizen” back in 2015. It was decided to launch an experiment in Moscow.

In honor of the anniversary of the entry of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation, a three-day festival, "Crimean Spring," will be held in Moscow. The celebrations will last from March 16 to 18, according to the Moscow mayor's website. "In a big city like ours, there should always be an opportunity to use a free day to go somewhere, relax, have fun. And festival sites are one of the most accessible and democratic places.

Independence and opposition are, perhaps, the key signs of “undesirability” The goal of fighting "undesirable organizations" and, in particular, "Open Russia" is banal, like any evil. The authorities want to reliably control grassroots opposition activity, especially in the regions. It cannot allow such activity to be accumulated by politicized organizations and public associations that have real independence from power structures.

A bill on a tenfold increase in fines for "non-fulfillment of military registration duties by citizens" was submitted to the State Duma by Andrey Krasov, First Deputy Head of the Defense Committee of the Lower House of Parliament. Thus, the draft law provides for the introduction of a new fine for the non-appearance of a draftee on a summons to the military registration and enlistment office after reaching military age, according to the website of the State Duma.

The SOVA Information and Analytical Center is filing a complaint with the Constitutional Court against the law on the right to be forgotten.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for additional benefits for the largest oil production in the country, the Priobskoye field. If we add up the amounts already allocated to Rosneft with those requested by Sechin, it turns out that it will cost the Russian budget 460 billion rubles. for 10 years, writes RBC . Rosneft in 2017 received benefits from the state for 350 billion rubles.

Investigators are interrogating another defendant in the criminal case on the theft of natural gas from Gazprom in the amount of more than 30 billion rubles, in which Senator Rauf Arashukov and his father, Raul Arashukov, adviser to the general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, are involved. The new suspect is the executive director of Essentukigorgaz JSC Alan Kyatov, Interfax reports . At the end of the interrogation, the investigation will petition for his arrest.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the Deputy Prime Minister of the Leningrad Region in a fraud case until March 28. In 2013-2015, Koval, being Deputy General Director for Capital Construction and Investments of Gazprom Gas Distribution OJSC and the actual owner of Mezhregionstroy LLC, led the embezzlement of funds allocated under the investment program of the gas company and transferred to Mezhregionstroy.