The British Parliament approved tougher sanctions against Russia. The adoption of the relevant law is stated on the official website of legal information in the UK. Prior to this, only those who directly contributed to the destabilization of the situation in Ukraine could fall under sanctions.

The ex-Chancellor of Germany and Gazprom Candidate Gerhard Schroeder met with members of the Social Democratic Party (SDPG) on the eve of the visit of the current head of government and also a member of the SDPG Olaf Sholtsa in Moscow. This is reported by Spiegel with reference to the participants in the meeting. The meeting was held in Hanover on January 5 and was dedicated to Germany’s policy in relation to Russia.

The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow decided to recover 100% of the share of the former Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov in the authorized capital of RU-COM to pay off the debt. It is reported by TASS. RU-COM was also banned from selling property. The Gagarin Court considered the issue of seizing Abyzov's company as part of the recovery of 32.5 billion rubles from him in favor of the state.

In France, a scientist Luke Montagnier died, who received the Nobel Prize for the opening of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This was reported by the Libération newspaper. Photo: Gettyimages / Roberto Serra - Iguana Press Montagne was 89 years old. According to the publication, he died on Tuesday in an American hospital in Neui-Sure-Sen (Paris of Paris).

The Pskov police started an administrative case of demonstrating the symbols of extremist organizations (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) to the local municipal deputy Nikolai Kuzmin because of two images from the opening of the “headquarters of Navalny”* in Pskov and a call for a rally. About this writes the "Pskov province." Nikolai Kuzmin. Photo: Biplexer / Instagram According to the document, they want to draw up a protocol on Kuzmin due to publications dated to 2017.

SpaceX Starlink satellites, failed due to geomagnetic storm, burned in the Earth’s atmosphere over Puerto Rico. The Netherlands specialist Marco Langbrek drew attention to this in his blog. Due to increased atmospheric resistance at low altitudes of 40 of 49 Starlink satellites, launched on February 3, they could not get out of a safe regime and begin the orbit correction, the SpaceX blog reported .

The United Kingdom celebrates the 70th anniversary of the stay on the throne of Elizabeth II Last year, Her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain, Elizabeth II, politely rejected the proposal to accept the title of “The Oldie of the Year Awards), which awards the magazine for the elderly The Oldie. But already last Sunday, she became the first monarch in the history of the country to scratch for 70 years. Elizabeth II.

65-year-old philosopher Vladimir Matskevich is starving in the Belarusian pre-trial detention center Thousands are sitting in Belarus. One of these thousands declared a hunger strike, the second of the same thousands stopped it. However, maybe more starving: the prison administration has long and perfectly mastered the art of hiding information, not to issue letters and not to let lawyers. But about two hunger strikes in Belarusian prisons is known for sure.

For the seventh competitive day at the Olympics in Beijing, the Russian team did not win a single medal. In the medal standings, the Russian team sank to ninth place. The athletes have two gold, three silver and six bronze medals. The first three places in the table are now occupied by Germany (6-3-0), Norway (5-3-4) and Austria (4-5-4). According to the total number of medals, Russia is in fourth position.

The Murom Court of the Vladimir Region recognized the actions of the employees of the pre-trial detention center of Angarsk, who did not let the lawyer to convicts, the human rights project “For Human Rights”* reports . Training base near the SIZO-6. Photo: Victoria Ivleva / for "New" The refusal to access the lawyer Yulia Chvanova to the convicts was due to the fact that they allegedly took part in the prison riot on April 9-10, 2020 in IK-15 of the Irkutsk Region.

The Parliament of Chechnya submitted a bill to the State Duma , in which it asked to rename four district courts in Grozny. to this . drew attention Interfax The deputies proposed to rename the following courts in Grozny: Leninsky district court - in Akhmatovsky, Oktyabrsky - to Baisangurovsky, Staropromyslovsky - to Visaitovsky, Factory - in Sheikh-Mansurovsky.

By the 185th anniversary of the death of Alexander Pushkin Sketches of the dolls to the play “Peak Lady”, the works of Sergey Alimov, presented in the central house of the artist. Photo: Victor Velikzhanin / Photo Chronicle TASS The Queen of Spades (1833, Boldino) is one of Pushkin’s most mysterious and attractive works.

Vulgarity as a sign of proximity to the people Illustration: Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" The television propagandists who rejoice the day - the boss (so serving, but with the shares of familiarity, the employees of his administration call Putin, and after them the journalists subordinate to him) joked again, and again successfully.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Ulan-Ude (Buryatia) declared illegal the collection of two TV sets and a vacuum cleaner from a local resident Valeria Travkina. According to the edition "Number One", the court found that bailiffs from the Oktyabrsky branch of the FSSP in Ulan-Ude mixed up the premises of Travkina and the debtor and illegally took away expensive equipment for other people's debts.

The Humanitarian Action charitable foundation* has terminated the work of a mobile HIV prevention of transgender people in St. Petersburg. About Novaya Gazeta, the Development Director of the Fund Alexei Lakhov spoke. It was necessary to curtail the work against the backdrop of the provocations and threats that the leadership of the Fund.