SR Dmitry Gudkov planned to discuss the bill prepared on the basis of Novaya Gazeta's petition with his colleagues on Friday at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation. But it turned out that this requires the decision of the Council of the Duma, which includes the speaker of the chamber, his deputies and leaders of party factions. The meeting of the Council of the Duma took place on Monday, but not a word was said about Gudkov-Ponomarev's initiative.

The Lithuanian authorities, along with the Swiss authorities, have frozen funds on accounts related to the embezzlement of budgetary funds, uncovered by Hermitage fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. This was reported by the international publication BloombergBusinessweek.

Tomorrow, January 22, in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk, the trial of the 47-year-old director of the scientific and educational center "Pomor Institute of Indigenous and Minorities" at the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after Lomonosov Ivan Moseev will resume. He is accused of inciting hatred and enmity towards the ethnic group "Russians" (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The initiator of the persecution of Moseev is the FSB.

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, checking the activities of OAO Oboronservis in 2009-2011, revealed major violations, Interfax reports .

Businessman Sergei Polonsky was transferred from a prison cell to an isolation cell after he burned his personal belongings in protest. This was reported today by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax. “Sergei Polonsky, while in the cell, burned all his personal belongings, after which the prison administration decided to transfer him to the isolation ward.

Violetta Volkova, Nikolai Polozov and Mark Feigin filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against the Kommersant publishing house and lawyer Irina Khrunova in the Tverskoy court. As Violetta Volkova told Novaya Gazeta, the lawsuit is related to Grigory Tumanov's article "Punk prayer reached Strasbourg", which was published in the Kommersant newspaper on December 8, 2012.

The body of a 12-year-old girl was found in the St. Petersburg children's Fairy Tale Theater (Moskovsky Prospekt, 121), Fontanka.Ru reports . The law enforcement agencies of the Moscow region began a pre-investigation check into the death of a child. It is noted that there are no signs of violent death on the girl's body, a medical examination is being carried out.

The former governor of the Omsk region, Leonid Polezhaev, was deeply outraged by the criticism that his spiritual comrade-in-arms, Bishop Theodosius, who replaced him, Metropolitan Vladimir of Omsk and Taurida, subjected to. As reported in the latest issue of Novaya ( To whom God sent all this , January 21), the head of the diocese accused his predecessor of embezzling numerous church property, including the building where the diocesan administration was previously located.

The head of the council of the metropolitan area of ​​​​Severnoye Medvedkovo was detained while receiving 3.5 million rubles in the form of a bribe, Interfax was told in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow. According to police, the 55-year-old official was detained in his office right at the time of receiving the money.

The Investigative Committee of Russia launched an investigation on suspicion of bribing a witness in the murder case of Yuri Budanov. This was reported today by Gazeta.Ru with reference to the RF IC. An eyewitness to the murder of ex-colonel Alexander Yevtukhov said at a meeting of the Moscow City Court on Monday that the killer was of Slavic appearance and did not look like Yusup Temerkhanov, accused of the murder.

Today, January 21, in the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, preliminary hearings on the case of the murder of 15-year-old Nikita Leontiev were to begin. However, at the request of the mother of the deceased boy, the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office. Recall, exactly a year ago, late in the evening on January 21, Nikita Leontiev was returning home from training.

The head of the Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, said today that he does not see a noticeable increase in the number of Russians who would like to move abroad. According to him, about 33,000 people voluntarily declared their desire to leave for a permanent place of residence when they were deregistered last year. “There is no significant growth. It would be wrong to say that a million people a year are leaving us.

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Moscow City Court dismissed the complaint of the victims who challenged the sentence of sambo wrestler Rasul Mirzaev in the case of the death of 19-year-old Muscovite Ivan Agafonov, RIA Novosti reports . Thus, the complaint of Ivan Agafonov's relatives was dismissed. The family of the deceased student insisted that the sambo wrestler should be convicted under a more serious article.

A residential building on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow is being evacuated due to an explosion threat, Interfax reports . According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, at 14:05 an unknown person called the 02 service and reported a threat of an explosion in a residential building at 60 Leningradsky Prospekt. detachment. An audit is currently underway. Residents of the building are being evacuated.

The Americans made up an unexpected and powerful competition in the fight for Russian money in offshore The Americans have made an unexpected and powerful competition in the fight for Russian money in offshore. And the offshores themselves turn white before our eyes ... Is it worth it to react to this news from the Caribbean, when the political struggle inside Russia and the anti-corruption campaign, albeit fading, occupy the general attention?