In court in the case of the BORN gang, the last defendant Yuri Tikhomirov was interrogated In court in the case of the BORN gang, the last defendant Yuri Tikhomirov was interrogated On Monday, the Moscow Regional Court resumed hearings on the case of BORN, the Fighting Organization of Russian Nationalists. There are four defendants in the dock - Maxim Baklagin, Vyacheslav Isaev, Mikhail Volkov and Yuri Tikhomirov.

“Do you want to know why we are being evicted?” So much has already been written about this ... They terminated the contract with us, accused of illegal redevelopment ... - The redevelopment was according to the instructions of the fire department. Here they made a door in the window frame, - adds Maxim. Numbered fire extinguishers pass by. From the auditorium comes the sound of something heavy falling. - I'm not from Doc at all, I'm an actor in the Praktika Theater.

The music festival of young performers "New Wave" will move from the Latvian resort of Jurmala to Sochi, announced . the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev According to the governor, the move will attract tourists, will "fill hotels, create new jobs." In addition to Sochi, the main contender cities were Kaliningrad and Yalta, Tkachev added.

In the Zamoskvoretsky court, Moscow said that the judge took into account the identity and role of the defendants in the commission of the crime when making the sentence to the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny, Interfax reports. December 30, 2014. Sentence to the brothers Navalny.

Wikileaks employee Sarah Harrison said that after former NSA officer Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow, the FSB offered him cooperation, reports Associated Press. The former journalist said in an interview for a German documentary that the dialogue took place in August 2013 when Snowden was at Sheremetyevo airport. According to Harrison, Snowden did not pass any data to the FSB. The documentary "Battlefield - the Internet: when the Web becomes a weapon" will be shown on Monday, January 12.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow refused to consider the petition of the investigation to extend the arrest of Valery Bashkatov, the road foreman of the track service of the State Unitary Enterprise Moscow Metro, and Alexei Trofimov, the deputy head of the overhaul distance, accused in the case of a catastrophe in the capital's subway.

The President of the Moscow Chamber of Advocates and Honored Lawyer of Russia Henry Reznik is sure that Russia will not extradite Ukrainian ex-president Viktor Yanukovych to Interpol. This would be contrary to the extradition convention, the well-known lawyer believes. Reznik told RIA Novosti.

Farewell to People's Artist of the USSR Elena Obraztsova will take place on January 14 at the Bolshoi Theater, told TASS. Natalya Ignatenko, director of the Elena Obraztsova Foundation, On January 15, the opera singer's funeral will be held at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The memorial service will begin at noon. Elena Obraztsova died today at the age of 76 after a serious illness in a German clinic. Obraztsova entered the stage of the Bolshoi Theater as a student.

In Cuba, 53 political prisoners were released, the Associated Press reports , citing the US presidential administration. The full list of the names of the released oppositionists will be submitted by the White House to the US Congress, and the parliamentarians will make it public. US President Barack Obama's spokesman to the UN, Samantha Power, did not give an exact release date, saying only that the prisoners were released in recent days.

The Central Election Commission of Russia awarded the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov with an honorary badge "For merits in organizing elections." The corresponding decision was published on the website of the CEC. According to the document, in addition to Kadyrov, senators Aleksey Aleksandrov, Galina Karelova, Andrey Klishas received a badge of honor for "significant contribution to the development of the electoral system of the Russian Federation".

The price of Russian Urals oil fell by 9.5 percent in 2014 to $97.6 per barrel, told TASS. Alexander Sakovich, a leading expert at the Tax and Customs Tariff Policy Department of the Russian Finance Ministry, Today, at the auctions of the Intercontinental Futures Exchange ICE, the cost of a barrel of benchmark Brent oil fell below $39. In 2013, the average Urals price was $107.88 per barrel, down 2.39 percent from 2012.

Politician Alexei Navalny announced the start of preparations for a major protest in Moscow and other major cities in February. He wrote about this on his official website. “We are starting preparations for a big political action, which will take place in the form of mass actions in Moscow and several large cities. There is no date now <...>, but I propose to focus on the second half of February, ”Navalny writes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the pardon of three convicts. The relevant documents are published on the official portal of legal information. The first pardoned -Valery Gudnikov, born in 1963. In 2007, the employee of the Department of Internal Affairs Gudnikov was convicted under part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, which entailed the death of the victim by negligence").

Former Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was summoned for interrogation in the Oboronservis case on January 15. The press service of the Presnensky Court told Interfax that Serdyukov had been sent a summons stating that he should appear for interrogation by 10:00. in court today The former secretary of defense did not appear .

After a temporary suspension of trading that lasted 47 minutes, the Moscow Exchange resumed trading at 14:50 Moscow time on Monday, January 12. “During the intermediate clearing session of the Derivatives Market, a technical error was discovered, to correct which the trading and clearing system was restarted and the intermediate clearing data was rechecked,” the says .