US President Barack Obama today signed a decree strengthening sanctions against Iran, Interfax reports. The document provides for the freezing of any assets of the Iranian government in the United States. In addition, US sanctions apply to the Iranian central bank and other financial institutions in that country.

Greece missed the deadline for completing negotiations on a second bailout program from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund, Kommersant reports citing Reuters. Athens now needs to make urgent decisions, the European Commission said on February 6. "We have already passed the deadline," European Commission spokesman Amadeu Altafage said at a press conference today. He stated that the Greek authorities still have not made important decisions.

The Minister of Internal Affairs reacted to the tragedy and launched a wave of "re -certification" On February 7, 60 officers from the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia arrive in St. Petersburg. By order of Nurgaliev, they will have to “re-quote” the entire personnel and all areas of the work of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region ...

Today, on the sixth of February, the opening of the public reception organization "Seated Rus'" under the leadership of journalist Olga Romanova took place. A small room - the former reception room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - at Zubovsky Boulevard, house 4.

The US State Department closed the embassy in Syria and began evacuating staff after Damascus refused to guarantee security, Gazeta.ru reports , citing CNN. 17 members of the diplomatic mission, including US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, left the country. Two employees left Syria last week on commercial flights, most of the diplomats have already been evacuated.

As Nadezhda Mityushkina, an activist of Solidarity, told Novaya Gazeta, she and other applicants for the protest action on February 4 were summoned to the Yakimanka police station: “Tonight, a woman from the Yakimanka police station called me, they invited me to tomorrow at 9 am to draw up administrative materials . She said that we violated the start time of the procession indicated in the notice. In addition to me, they called Sergey Davidis, probably, they will call the others.

According to Yevgeny Bunimovich, the children's rights ombudsman in Moscow, Isaac Kalina, the head of the Moscow department of education, called him this morning, without waiting for an official request about the dismissal of the director of the Zelenograd Center for Children and Youth Creativity "Karavella". (It was the message that the Commissioner took control of the issue and wrote a request that ended the publication: “I did not send people to Poklonnaya. I was fired” - “Novaya” No.

The fire on the Captain Ivan Vikulov dry truck was successfully extinguished today. The remaining four crew members, led by the captain yesterday, took on board the icebreaker Captain Moshkin, who had arrived at the scene of the accident. After that, he immediately went to the port of the Caucasus. The dry load itself, located in the zone of responsibility of Ukraine, was abandoned to the mercy of fate.

In Tyumen, the criminal case against Vladimir Yefimov, editor-in-chief of the Vechernyaya Tyumen newspaper, was terminated, the human rights organization Agora told Novaya Gazeta. The journalist was accused of “inciting hatred and enmity towards the social group “policemen”, committed using the media and his official position” (clause “b” of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Accused of committing a double terrorist attack on July 22, 2011 and the death of 77 people, Andres Breivik demanded his immediate release from custody during a court session held today, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Norwegian media. On Monday afternoon, the Oslo District Court is due to decide whether to extend Breivik's pre-trial detention for another 12 weeks, before his trial begins on April 16.

The leadership of the Omsk branch of "United Russia" posted on the federal website of the party deliberately unreliable information - that 8 thousand people participated in the local "pro-Putin" action. And thus it turned out to be almost the most numerous in the regions. At the same time, the news was illustrated with a photograph from a Moscow rally on Sakharov Avenue, which took place on December 24th.

The situation with Lanta-tour's clients abroad has practically been settled, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Federal Tourism Agency. The head of the press service, Oleg Moiseev, said that complaints from customers have practically ceased to come, and hotels receive payments. He also stressed that before February 12-13, all Russian tourists who are abroad, including those in Thailand, India and Indonesia through the Lanta Tour, must return home.

The CEC of the Russian Federation registered today 499 proxies of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti reports . The list includes more than 200 famous musicians, actors, athletes and public figures.

On February 7, 60 officers from the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia arrive in St. Petersburg. By order of the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliyev, they will have to check all the personnel and all areas of work of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

Former Romanian Minister of Justice Catalin Predoiu headed the government, writes Lenta.ru with reference to Reuters. According to Reuters, it is not yet clear whether Predoiu will receive a mandate to form a new cabinet, or if he is only a temporary figure. Meanwhile, the Romanian resource Realitatea.NET reports that, according to Basescu's decree, Predoiu will only serve as prime minister until a permanent government is established.