A video with Parnass chairman Mikhail Kasyanov and party deputy chairman Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. has disappeared from the personal Instagram of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, Vedomosti reports , citing a representative of the social network. According to him, the video was removed by the social network itself for violating the rules of the service. The video violates the requirement to respect other members of the Instagram community, the source said.

The European Union will continue sanctions against Russia, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, reports . TASS “Since the Minsk agreements were not fully implemented, we will have to continue sanctions against Russia,” Merkel said.

The United States is preparing to expand the sanctions "Magnitsky list" against Russia, reports Bloomberg. The names of five people can be additionally added to the list. Bloomberg does not specify who exactly the sanctions may affect. An official announcement is expected this week. The list could have been expanded last week, but this was prevented by US Secretary of State John Kerry.

The leadership of the organization "Islamic State" banned in Russia has reduced payments to militants by a third after a decrease in income from the illegal sale of oil to Turkey. This was stated to Interfax by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

Human Rights Commissioner Ella Pamfilova appealed to the Moscow City Court with a request to release RBC correspondent Alexander Sokolov from custody, the agency reports . The Moscow City Court, in its response to the ombudsman, promised to make a decision “in the near future.” Pamfilova sent her appeal to the Moscow City Court in December.

Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute in London have received permission from the Office for Embryology and In vitro fertilization to genetically modify human embryos, reports the BBC. It is noted that the main purpose of the modification is an experiment. “We would like to understand what genes are needed for a human embryo to develop into a healthy baby,” explained Dr. Katie Niakan, project leader.

Transneft is going to purchase a printing complex, the corresponding application is published on the public procurement website. According to the data posted there, the cost of the goods is 790 thousand rubles. Delivery is due in March 2016. In accordance with the contract, the company should be supplied with the Diana-07 complex. Transneft refused to comment on the information about the need to purchase such equipment, Interfax reports .

The Investigative Committee of Russia created an officer honor court, TASS reports with reference to the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin Photo: Kremlin press service The Investigative Committee of Russia created an officer honor court, TASS reports citing the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin.

United Syrian opposition spokesman Salem al-Muslet denied reports that the Kurds were not represented in the peace talks on Syria. This is reported by a source of Novaya Gazeta in Geneva. “The fact that the Kurds are not allowed to negotiate is not true. The delegation of the United Syrian Opposition includes seven representatives of Kurdish groups.

In the St. Petersburg Clinic named after Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva, thousands of our fellow citizens with you are treated annually from cancer. For many of them, this is the last chance to survive, and you and I are not safe from this misfortune. For the functioning of six laboratories of this clinic, more than 30 million rubles are needed per year. We do not have that kind of money, this is a lot of money. Especially the crisis in the yard.

Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko, accused of involvement in the murder of two Russian journalists near Lugansk and illegal crossing of the Russian border, at the trial in the Donetsk city court of the Rostov region, said that she identified the driver of the car in which she was taken to Russia in 2014 after she was captured by the separatists, a former employee of the presidential administration, Pavel Karpov.

Sberbank of Russia filed suits with the Moscow Arbitration Court to declare bankrupt entrepreneur Lenur Islyamov, who is considered one of the organizers of the blockade of Crimea, and his wife, the , citing a source "familiar with the situation." Moskva agency reports According to the source, the total amount of claims amounted to 2.2 billion rubles. Sberbank is a secured creditor of Queengroup, a company controlled by Islyamov's wife.

Producer Marek Chunkiewicz, fired from the Polish TV channel, refused to work in the Russian Ministry of Culture, reports . Interfax “I cannot receive Russian taxpayer money. It wouldn't be fair. Friendship is not paid,” Chunkevich said in a letter to the ministry. According to the producer, he "cannot be the cause of the conflict", and with such "great tension" you should not think about yourself.

More than 1,500 Moscow officials will be tested on a polygraph in 2016, reports . the press service of the Moscow Department for Competition Policy “A polygraph test has become an obligatory part of the corruption prevention program. Particular attention is paid to testing those who work in the procurement system,” said Moscow Deputy Mayor Natalya Sergunina, adding that a regular rotation of members of procurement commissions has also been introduced.

The Prosecutor General’s Office should be in charge of verifying the data set forth in the Navalny Foundation’s investigation into the business of the Prosecutor General’s family, follows from the response of the ICR to Dmitry Gudkov’s deputy request, published by him today. The questions asked by Gudkov do not relate to the Investigative Committee, and the statement does not contain arguments that fall within the competence of the TFR, the agency said in a response to a deputy's request.