Why is Nursultan Nazarbayev the main beneficiary of the Syrian settlement in Astana The UN Special Representative for Syria de Miscistry (in the center) and the head of the rebel delegation (right). Photo: TASS On Monday, in the capital of Kazakhstan, negotiations began between representatives of the parties fighting in Syria, as well as countries, one way or another participating in a military conflict.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order revoking the country's membership in the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership (TPP), reports . Reuters According to Trump, this decision was made for the sake of American workers.

By what law do 150 million people actually live Photo: RIA Novosti In Russia, written and unwritten laws are constantly competing with each other. But if dozens of volumes of legal research are devoted to the written laws, then unwritten laws remain in the shadows, in the literal and figurative sense of the word. I decided to make up for this fundamental gap and recreate the constitution, which in fact lives almost one hundred and fifty million people.

Officers of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Donskoy District of Moscow refused to open a criminal case in connection with the attack on the sociologist Sergei Mokhov, the wife of the lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Lyubov Sobol. On her Facebook page, Sobol said that she found out about this “completely by accident”, from the answer to State Duma deputy Oleg Shein, who turned to law enforcement agencies with a request to look into the situation.

The Saint Petersburg Property Relations Committee has demanded that the European University be evicted from its mansion in the city center on Gagarinskaya Street, the committee’s press service told Novaya Gazeta. "We sent a notice of unilateral termination of the lease. During inspections in 2016, it was revealed that the party did not comply with the terms of the agreement in terms of the requirements of the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments.

Sergei Ivanov, a member of the LDPR faction, submitted a bill to the State Duma that introduces administrative arrest for threatening doctors. It is reported by TASS. “The increasing cases of attacks on employees of medical institutions who are in the performance of their official and professional duties testify to the insufficiency of existing measures to protect them, including legal ones,” the explanatory note says.

The electronic wallet in the Yandex.Money system, for which opposition politician Alexei Navalny collects money for his election campaign, will be closed due to the fact that the use of a wallet in such a case can be regarded by the Bank of Russia as a violation of election law. This is stated in a letter from the payment service manager, which Navalny published on his blog.

From February 1, the pensions of non-working pensioners will be indexed and will increase by 5.4%. The corresponding order of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is published on the website of the government. According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, the average pension in 2017 will be 13,620 rubles, which is 60% higher than the subsistence minimum for pensioners, reports .

Murmansk spent a weekend without warmth and in snow captivity Photo: VK/Murmansk - the capital of the Arctic! "Pavlova without heating." “There is no heating, hot water and electricity on Frolov.” "Zhilstroy is freezing." “There is no heating, no hot water on Papanin,” “There is no heating on the forecourt in the morning.” "Regional hospital without heat, patients freeze, SOS." Khalturin, Perovskaya, Vorovsky, Lenin, Volodarsky, polar dawn, naval ...

The request of the Russian Ministry of Justice for the possibility not to comply with the decision of the ECtHR, which awarded compensation to the former shareholders of Yukos, was not admissible. This opinion was expressed by the judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia Vladimir Yaroslavtsev, reports .

The prosecutor's office of Volgodonsk is investigating the situation with the conclusion of contracts for the supply of food to schools and kindergartens in the city. The department confirmed the information to Novaya Gazeta, refusing to comment further. According to Novaya Gazeta, at the end of last year, the education department ordered directors of educational institutions to conclude these contracts under threat of dismissal.

The Moscow Mayor's Office did not agree on holding a rally on Bolotnaya Square against the decriminalization of beatings in the family. This was announced on the Facebook page of the event. According to the organizers' plans, up to a thousand people could attend the rally.

On the “left” primaries in France, absolutely left won: former Minister of Education Benois Amon went around the chief favorite - Manuel Waltz Photo: EPA In the first round of the primaries, among members of the French Socialist Party (and their allies), a 49-year-old quiet fighter for ecology and bioproducts Benois Amon, the highest political achievement of which still had a 5-month-old stay as a Minister of Education (2014), won.

The Russian government opposed the introduction of administrative liability for HIV-infected people who are not registered. It is reported by RBC with reference to the report of the ministers to President Vladimir Putin. The order to work out the possibility of introducing fines for HIV-infected people for refusing to register Putin gave in May 2016 at a meeting of the Security Council, the report says.

At the trial in the Kirovles case, lawyer Vadim Kobzev asked that a collective statement by the defendants and their lawyers about the removal of the judge be attached. It is reported by Mediazona. “The judge completely ignored the professional employment of the participants ...”, the Newsler.ru information portal quotes the defense. This is the second attempt by the defense of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov to challenge the judge, the portal notes. The first time, she was unsuccessful.