Doghanganters, whale prisons and death during transportation - Russia is accustomed to cruel treatment Photo: Arthur Novosiltsev / TASS In January 2020, amendments to Federal Law No. 498 “On responsible treatment of animals” entered into force, which provides for licensing circuses, contact zoos and other places where animals are used for entertainment purposes. It also provides for the tightening of punishment for cruelty to animals and an irresponsible attitude to them.

Synergy Private University was fined for illegally collecting fingerprints of Krasnogorsk schoolchildren for an unscientific career guidance test. It is reported by Roskomnadzor. The educational institution was fined 150 thousand rubles for violation of the legislation in the field of personal data (part 1 of article 13.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on the full ratification of the powers of the Russian delegation. This was reported on her Twitter. 96 PACE members voted in favor of confirming the powers of the Russian delegation, 44 voted against, 7 abstained. Earlier, the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and the head of the Russian delegation to PACE, Petr Tolstoy, was elected as her vice speaker.

The United States expanded restrictions against Russia and included seven people and one company on the sanctions list. This was reported on the website of the US Treasury. The list includes, in particular, Acting Head of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozzhaev, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the region Vladimir Nemtsev, member of the Federation Council from Sevastopol Ekaterina Altabayeva and Crimean Prime Minister Yuri Gotsanyuk.

Will the new head of the Ministry of Cyphra Maksut Shadaev be given to the personal data of Russians to the security forces? Last week, the Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications appointed Vice President of Rostelecom on digital platforms of Maksuta Shadayev.

In Murmansk, the prosecutor's office requires 8 million from a disabled person. The court proven that this money went to the entertainment of the former governor Photo: RIA Novosti 8 million rubles - the amount of a lawsuit presented by the prosecutor's office of the Murmansk region to 4 former employees of the regional government and related structures.

Since January 31, Russia has decided to limit rail links with China due to the novel coronavirus. Interfax , this According to was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova. “According to the decision of the operational headquarters, we are restricting railway traffic from 00:00 on the 31st, that is, from Thursday to Friday. Trains will move along the route Moscow-Beijing, Beijing-Moscow,” she said.

In the city of Pechora in Komi, ten houses of Jehovah's Witnesses (an extremist organization banned in Russia) were searched. This is reported on her website. The searches began at 6:20 am on January 28, at the same time 14 people were detained. They seized electronic media, flash drives, phones. Several people were not found at home, they were taken away from work by special forces in masks. A day later, four believers remain in custody, despite their state of health.

The European Parliament approved the agreement on the exit of the UK from the European Union. This was reported on his Twitter. 681 deputies participated in the voting. 621 of them voted for the ratification of the agreement, 49 voted against, 13 abstained. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain signed the agreement on 23 January. Brexit was supposed to start on March 29, 2019 following a referendum, but the House of Commons rejected the draft agreement three times.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow has resumed proceedings in a criminal case of negligence against the head of the transplantation department of the National Medical Research Center for Children's Health (NCCH), Mikhail Kaabak. Lawyer Lyudmila Osinina told Such Cases about this. The decision to resume the investigation was dated January 9.

Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned the Israeli citizen Naam Issahar, who in Russia was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for the transport of hash in baggage. The decree is published on the Kremlin website. Photo: TASS The document comes into force from the day of signing.

In Finland, the first case of infection with a new type of coronavirus, which appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan, was confirmed. This is reported by the Finnish edition of YLE. A new virus was found in a tourist from Wuhan. A 32-year-old woman was taken to a hospital in the city of Rovaniemi in Lapland the day before. Mika Salminen, director of the National Institute for Health and Welfare of Finland, noted that the risk of the virus spreading throughout the country is still low.

How the 2019-NCOV virus behaves and how terrible it is for the economy: optimistic and apocalyptic scenarios By January 29, the number of deaths from the "Ugansky" coronavirus exceeded a hundred people, and the number of cases exceeded 6 thousand. A previous flash similar in 2003, then the coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars-Cov) led to death 774 people (at a little more than 8 thousand sick).

In Moscow, at the building of the representative office of Dagestan, single pickets were held in support of the journalist of the Chernivik publication Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta reports. Ilya Azar in a single picket. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" The first to a single picket was the municipal deputy and special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Ilya Azar. The planned time time is until 22:00.

New government — Wuhan virus — Child sex abuse in Siberia Photo: Pavel Golovkin / AP/TASS This Week’s Highlights Russia has a new government, but does it really matter? Prolific political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya breaks down the new cabinet for us. Plus, Russia forces pre-installed software on all smartphones sold in the country; pictures of long lines for fish in the Russian Arctic go viral (for all the wrong reasons), and other top stories that Russia has been reading this week.