Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has accused the owner of the National Enquirer of attempted blackmail over threats to publish "intimate photos" that the billionaire allegedly sent to his lover. The accusation has once again drawn attention to the private life of the world's richest man and is likely to serve as an impetus for a battle with a leading American tabloid, writes Reuters . “Well, it got my attention, but not in the way they most likely hoped,” Bezos told the publication.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry notified the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) about the refusal of accreditation to Russian citizens who were supposed to arrive in the country to monitor the presidential elections in Ukraine.

The Human Rights Center "Memorial" recognized the activist of "Open Russia" Anastasia Shevchenko as a political prisoner, accused of participating in an "undesirable organization".

To transfer data from smart electricity metering systems to the metering system, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications proposes to use LPWAN radio technology and the XNB protocol developed by the company Modern Radio Technologies (SRT, operating under the Strizh brand). Vedomosti writes about this. According to SPARK-Interfax, 45% of SRT’s authorized capital belongs to Arkady Rotenberg’s eldest son Igor Rotenberg and Andrei Shipelov, 10% belongs to Pavel Staryuk.

Based on the results of an inspection of the construction of a landfill at the Shies station in the Arkhangelsk region, the North-Western Department of Rostekhnadzor revealed a violation of the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation - construction on the site is being carried out without permission and project documentation that has passed the examination. The audit was carried out from 24 to 29 January.

Viktor Shenderovich about the great actor This text was written three years ago. Let it stay that way - in the present tense... I learned about Lensky's death from Yursky. This was in the early seventies of the last century. My parents brought me to a crowded hall named after him. Tchaikovsky, and it was the happiest day. Yursky read the sixth chapter of Onegin... I didn't understand much, but I liked it.

Vladimir Putin will deliver his annual address to the Federal Assembly on February 20. This was announced by the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports . Earlier, Peskov said that work on the appeal has already begun, and divisions of the presidential administration are also participating in it, ministries and departments are involved. The President's Address to the Federal Assembly is an annual one.

Kolomna activist Vyacheslav Egorov was charged under the article of repeated violation of the procedure for organizing or holding rallies (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). Lawyer Maria Eismont reported this to OVD-Info . According to Eismont, Egorov’s article on the Yandex service was added to the charge.

Viktor Shenderovich about the great actor This text was written three years ago. let it stay that way - in the present tense... I learned about Lensky's death from Yursky. This was in the early seventies of the last century. My parents brought me to a crowded hall named after him. Tchaikovsky, and it was the happiest day. Yursky read the sixth chapter of Onegin... I didn't understand much, but I liked it.

Investments in the modernization and development of roads are growing every year: in 2018, the road funds of Russia received 1.6 trillion rubles, but the situation with highways in the regions has not changed, said Valery Bogomolov, auditor of the Accounts Chamber. “In general, in Russia, the share of low-quality regional roads from 2012 to 2017 decreased to 57%, or only 7%.

Daria Burlakova, the author of an investigation in Novaya Gazeta about the food system in schools and kindergartens in Moscow, said that she began preparing an article a year ago for TASS, but the agency refused to publish it.

SergeyYursky participated with us in conferences, campaigns and rallies, spoke out against the war in Chechnya, and in recent decades has spoken out in support of political prisoners in Russia, against the annexation of Crimea and against the war in eastern Ukraine Sergey Yursky died. We have lost not only a great actor, a caring citizen, but also a close friend and colleague. Sergei Yursky has been a friend of Memorial since the beginning of the movement.

I learned about Lensky's death from Yursky. This was in the early seventies of the last century. My parents brought me to a crowded hall named after him. Tchaikovsky, and it was the happiest day. Yursky read the sixth chapter of Onegin... I didn't understand much, but I liked it. When I was in the sixth grade, I must say, I liked almost everything: grandfather Lenin, the writer Green, the actor Lanovoy in the film "Officers" ... I was a rather undemanding boy.

With his departure, the already vague value system of our Theater has lost the Standard of Acting Quality, has lost the bearer of the Great Style, has lost the professional Landmark for many generations of artists Now we will live WITHOUT JURASSIC.

The shift bus carrying the workers of the Raspadskaya mine ran off the road and overturned. As a result, six people died, 18 were injured, four of them are in intensive care. According to Interfax , the bus rolled over after leaving the technological road and fell onto the roof from an embankment more than 10 meters high.