The day after a press conference by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who spoke about the increasing cases of recruitment of Russian diplomats in the United States, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova spoke about another similar incident. “What Sergey Lavrov said the day before (about cases of recruitment of Russian diplomats) is a small part of what we faced,” she said on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel (quoted by RIA Novosti ) .

Former prisoner of IK-7 Oleg Kuznetsov filed a lawsuit against the head of the colony, Sergei Kossiev, for moral damages for illegal placement in a punishment cell (SHIZO), TASS reports . According to the agency, Kuznetsov filed his lawsuit back in 2016, at the same time he was released. In February, the Segezha City Court declared illegal and canceled two of Kossiev's orders to place Kuznetsov in a punishment cell for 11 days.

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The US Central Intelligence Agency has released a huge archive of declassified documents to the public: almost 13 million pages for almost the entire second half of the 20th century. They concern the activities of the CIA for 50 years: from the moment of its foundation in 1940 to 1990. This was reported by Bloomberg and CNN . The files are available on the agency's website .

A fairy tale for security officials at baptism According to popular belief, the evening of January 18 is the time of rampant evil spirits. This is the last day of Christmas divination, and they were considered the most truthful. Here is what the narrator from the royal retinue said, and I wrote down on my knee. Once the king came to the palace by the stream, overlooking the sea. Looks - behind the fence of strangers' towers, as in a forest of trees.

On Wednesday, in the process in the case against opposition politician Alexei Navalny and businessman Pyotr Ofitserov, prosecution witnesses were interrogated. In particular, they interrogated employees of KOGUP "Kirovles": Maria Bura, Sergey Chernik, former general director Larisa Bastrygina.

In Stavropol, the Church requires the seizure of the family from the house that belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church before the revolution Photo: Ivan Zhilin / "New Gazeta" In early January, the editorial office came to the editorial office: “Continuing the expansion of church territories, the archbishops moved to the residential building on Oktyabrskaya Street 233 V, where until 1918 the Ioan-Mariinsky Convent was supposedly,” the residents of the house wrote.

Producer Igor Sandler recalls the great musicians who died in 2016 The first last year we were left by the great David Bowie, known as the Hameleon Rock, the thin White Duke and Ziggy Stardast. He died on January 10 in the 69th year, having managed to release a new album the day before his death. Glenn Fry left the next, he was gone on January 17.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg dismissed the administrative case against yoga teacher Dmitry Ugay, who was accused of illegal missionary activity, writes . Mediazona The case under the article “implementation of missionary activity in violation of the requirements of the legislation on freedom of religion” was closed due to the lack of corpus delicti. A witness spoke in court - policeman Arsen Magomedov, who drew up an administrative report on Ugai.

A prisoner suffering from cancer complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the conditions of detention in correctional facilities in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by human rights activists of the Zone of Rights project.

The Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow dismissed the claim for the protection of the honor and dignity of the athlete Kristina Ugarova against the German TV channel ARD because of a film about doping. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the court Yevgenia Gorokhova. This is a documentary film by journalist Hajo Seppelt, which tells about the systematic use of doping by Russian athletes.

Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko said that in order to abolish the so-called "Dima Yakovlev law", which prohibits adoption by US citizens, certain guarantees are needed from the Americans - the health, life and rights of Russian children, Interfax .

The Ministry of Culture stated that the department could not influence the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. “We have already said that we cannot influence the process and timing of the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church,” the press service of the Ministry of Culture told Novaya Gazeta. The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg asked the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky to expedite the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral.

The Samara-based non-profit organization Gagarin Park has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against the inclusion of NGOs in the register of “foreign agents,” lawyer Irina Khrunova told Novaya Gazeta. The complaint was sent on Tuesday, January 17th. The Ministry of Justice recognized Gagarin Park as a so-called "foreign agent" on August 31, 2016, after an unscheduled inspection carried out at the request of an unknown person.

At the first plenary session of the spring session, the Federation Council prematurely terminated the powers of Senator Arnold Tulokhonov, who represented the executive power of Buryatia in the upper house, reports . TASS Back in December, the senator filed an application for the early termination of his powers at his own request addressed to the speaker Valentina Matvienko.