Kyiv: local clashes on the street. Grushevsky continue. Maidan is calm. Berkut is self-confident (ONLINE)

The UN is holding urgent talks on holding an international conference "Geneva-2" on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Syria. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the Secretary General of the organization Ban Ki-moon. Who is involved in these consultations has not yet been reported. Earlier today, the main Syrian opposition group, the National Coalition, said it would not take part in peace talks in Switzerland unless the UN withdraws its invitation to Iran by 19:00 Monday GMT.

On Epiphany night, about 50 bathing places were opened in Moscow. The Novaya correspondent spent the evening at the only fonts in the central district - on Revolution Square

The Council of the European Union decided to suspend the ban on the import and transportation of Iranian oil products and on the trade in gold and precious metals, Interfax reports . The document says that "the ban on the import, purchase or transportation of Iranian oil products has been suspended." The ban on trading in gold and precious metals with the Iranian Central Bank and state-owned companies has also been suspended.

Boris Nemtsov, co-chairman of the RPR-Parnassus party, deputy of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma, was summoned for questioning to the regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. about this The politician wrote on his Facebook. “Interrogation at the request of United Russia deputy Krupin, who demands to initiate a criminal case against me under Art.

The Ministry of Justice has suspended the registration of the party of supporters of Alexei Navalny "People's Alliance", Interfax reports . As it turned out, there is another party with the same name - it was created on the basis of the Native Country party by political scientist Andrei Bogdanov, who was previously a member of Right Cause.

The amendments proposed by the State Duma to the Town Planning Code may deprive the people of the right to decide where and when new pipelines, power lines and communication lines appear to their eyes The amendments proposed by the State Duma to the Town Planning Code may deprive the people of the right to decide where and when new pipelines, power lines and communication lines appear to their eyes Do you think your country site belongs to you?

Human rights activists note that since 2011 the number of criminal cases against Tatarstan police has increased almost 4 times. In 2013, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan committed 50% more crimes than a year earlier. This was stated today by the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Yuri Alekseev at the final board of the republican department.

Singer Lolita, together with her colleagues, decided to raise money for the treatment of singer Zhanna Friske after the sad news that the latter had cancer. According to LifeNEWS , Friske has been diagnosed with grade IV inoperable brain cancer. Lolita hopes for the best. According to her, there are cases when people in this position coped with the disease and emerged victorious from it.

January 19, 2014 - The fifth year of the death of lawyer Stanislav Markelova and journalist Anastasia Baburova. On this day, a march of memory of the dead anti -fascists was held in Moscow, the purpose of which was to attract citizens' attention to the problem of neo -Nazi violence, xenophobia, chauvinism and discrimination on the principle of lack of Russian citizenship and “non -Slavic appearance”.

More than 200 anti -fascists from various political associations and civilian initiatives gathered on the Marse Field for the action of the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova

During a special operation in the suburbs of Makhachkala, three bandits were killed, Interfax reports . One of those killed has already been identified as Arslanbek Khasaev, who in March 2011 joined the so-called Kadar and later Makhachkala gangs. According to the NAC, this gang was responsible for a series of terrorist crimes.

In Kyiv, after a daytime ceasefire, street battles resumed Photo-online Evgenia Feldman Continuation of online broadcasts read here 20:00 The leader of the Opposition Party "Big" Vitaly Klitschko left the negotiation process with the power to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. This was reported to Interfax by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrei Klyuyev.

On January 20, in the suburbs of Ulaanbaatar, in pre-trial detention center No. 461, the trial of a well-known environmental activist, the leader of the Mongolian movement for the protection of rivers and lakes, Munkhbayar, and five of his comrades began. Despite the demands of the defense, the process does not take place in the capital's court, but far from the city in the backyards of CHPP No. 4, in a place where public transport does not go and where ordinary citizens cannot reach.