The United States has imposed sanctions on the Venezuelan oil and gas company PDVSA. This was stated by US presidential adviser John Bolton and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a briefing broadcast on the White House website. The company's $7 billion assets will be blocked. Mnuchin expressed hope that the restrictions imposed would not affect the American consumer. "The goal [of sanctions] is to change the behavior" of the Venezuelan authorities, the head of the US Treasury said.

The confrontation between Russia and Iran for dominance in the Middle East comes to the surface Photo: Reuters All January on the Syrian front, unexpected events are unfolding: new sources report fierce clashes that broke out between various units of the Syrian Arab Army against the backdrop of the division of zones of influence in the territories of Syria controlled by the government.

In Moscow, a 16-year-old teenager was arrested, suspected of setting fire to a peer in the entrance of the house. This is reported by TASS with reference to the senior assistant of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Yulia Ivanova. On the fact of arson, a criminal case was opened under Part 1 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm).

Ruslan Tsukanov, General Director of JSC Novovyatsk Timber Processing Plant (NLK), one of the main witnesses for the prosecution in the case of the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, was accused of seizing the buildings and land plot of the Sokolsky plywood plant in the village of Murygino.

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine has registered two more candidates for the presidency of the country, reports . UNIAN The head of the public organization "Center for Defense Reforms" Oleksandr Danilyuk (self-nominated) and candidate from the Svoboda party Ruslan Koshulinsky are running for the post of head of state. Thus, the Ukrainian Central Election Commission has registered 22 candidates for the presidential elections in Ukraine, which will be held on March 31, 2019.

The Crimean Supreme Court refused to reduce the term of his sentence to the defense of Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh, accused of illegal possession of ammunition. The defense insisted that the trial court had incorrectly calculated the period of Balukh's detention before sentencing.

In the courtyard of a private house on Privolnaya Street in the Moscow district of Zhulebino, the former head of the Dalspetsstroy company, Dmitry Savin, was found dead, RIA Novosti reports , citing a law enforcement source. According to the preliminary version, he committed suicide. A weapon registered to him was found next to the body of the deceased, writes Interfax . According to Kommersant , death was caused by a gunshot wound to the head from a 7.62mm Browning acera carbine.

Activists congratulated the birthday of Karelian historian Dmitrieva: He is in a pre -trial detention center On the birthday of Yuri Dmitriev, single pickets were held at the reception of the presidential administration in Moscow. The historian and human rights activist turned 63 years old. He celebrates his birthday in a pre -trial detention center: a second criminal case is being conducted against the mass execution of the historian who opened up the mass execution of the historian ...

This year three dates crossed: the 100th anniversary of Daniil Granin, 75 years of complete relief of the blockade and 40 years of the release of the Blockade Book Photo: Bookstore.lohvinau.by “The time has come”, “people want to know”, “people need” ... These words are crossed out by the censor in the layout of the magazine version of the “Blockade Book”. More than forty years ago, Daniil Granin and Ales Adamovich continued the historians of V.M. Kovalchuk and G.L.

Photo: RIA Novosti Today, on Monday January 28, the interrogation of the main witness of the prosecution on the “theater case” Nina Maslyaeva is completed. It lasted in the Meshchansky court for two days. The number of conflicting indications (first of all, about yourself and your own “functionality”), confusion and directly discouraging unconsciousness in this case is a record.

In the Sunzhensky district of Chechnya, on the night of January 25-26, a mobile post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was fired from automatic weapons, according to the website of the department. Two police officers were injured in the incident. They received injuries of varying severity, they received medical assistance. Later, when combing the forest area, law enforcement officers found the body of one of the attackers. Next to him was a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

At the age of 93, a former member of the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP), Alexander Tizyakov, died, according to the website of the Yekaterinburg City Hall. Farewell to the Soviet political and public figure will be held on January 29. He will be buried at the Shirokorechenskoye cemetery in Yekaterinburg. Alexander Tizyakov was born in a village in what is now the Republic of Tatarstan.

Shatdown already cost the US economy more than the wall on the border with Mexico, because of which it began. And this is not the end Photo: Reuters In an uncompromising confrontation with the speaker of the House of Congress of Congress Nancy Peloshi, the president unexpectedly - both for supporters and for opponents - retreated.

What happened to the revolutionary cryptocurrency based on Telegram Photo: Reuters The day before the opening of the International Economic Forum in Davos, the profile channels of the Telegram messenger and portals covering the theme of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies hinted at the sensation: Pavel Durov will not be silent on the forum gallery, and triumphantly reveals its Ton (open telegram network, telegram Open Network) in all the splendor of the GRAM cryptocurrency, platforms

Foreign passports of Wagner PMCs (Private Military Company - ed. ) Wagner mercenaries who arrived in African countries indicate their connection with the Main Directorate (formerly GRU) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said Vasily Hrytsak, head of the Security Service of Ukraine.