The Investigative Committee completed the investigation of the criminal case against the head of the city of Voskresensk, Yuri Sleptsov, who is accused of excess of official powers and a bribe, the press service of the department reports .

A state of emergency has been declared in Tunisia, any street promotions are prohibited, in which more than three people take part, the Russian BBC service reports. Tunisia security forces are given an order to open fire on all who do not obey the decree on the emergency. The country is held in protest shares demanding the resignation of the president. In the course of riots, according to official figures, more than 23 people have already died.

The journalist of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg, Alexander Astafyev, told how he was sitting in the Belarusian pre -trial detention center. Astafyev did not participate in the protest in Minsk on December 19, after voting in the presidential election. Then thousands of opponents of Alexander Lukashenko entered the Minsk streets, and Astafyev emphasizes that he only photographed what was happening and, as far as possible, talked with people.

Today, January 14, investigators will interrogate the vice-mayor of Khimki Alexei Valov in the case of the beating of the ecologist Konstantin Fetisov, and tomorrow they will call to testify the mayor of the city of Vladimir Strelchenko, Rapsei reports. According to a source in law enforcement, Valov and Strelchenko will be questioned as witnesses. According to him, at present, four people have been arrested in the case and another is put on the federal wanted list.

The State Duma ended up the discussion approved in the first reading amendments to the Tax Code, as stated, with the aim of “forming favorable tax conditions for innovative activities,” the Polit.ru correspondent Lev Finberg reports. The document was entered on November 2. The bill clarifies the procedure for accounting for expenses for scientific research and development developments (R&D) when calculating the tax base for income tax of organizations.

38% of Muscovites believe that this winter the streets are removed noticeably worse than a year ago, another 40% are sure that the quality of street cleaning has not changed compared to last year. The fact that this winter to remove the streets of the city from snow became better than 10% of respondents, 12% found it difficult to answer. These are the results of the survey conducted by the portal Superjob.ru .

The state of civil rights and freedoms in Russia worsened over the past year, the Vedomosti newspaper, the conclusion of the annual report “On Freedom and Peace” by the international human rights organization Frida House. Human rights activists associate this, first of all, with the next sentence Mikhail Khodorkovsky, especially since the report is especially noted by Vladimir Putin's comments on the process on the eve of the announcement of the verdict.

Sergei Sobyanin resumed the process of reforming the remuneration of Moscow state employees who had begun by the mayor of Yuri Luzhkov, the Kommersant newspaper writes. According to the resolution of the mayor “On Improving the Remuneration of the Workers of State Institutions of the City of Moscow”, the transition to the industry system should be carried out from July 1 to September 1, 2011, signed at the end of last year.

The emergency regime was canceled in 8 districts and one city in the Moscow Region. This regime was introduced after a violation of power supply as a result of snowfall at the beginning of this year. The regime is preserved in 10 districts and three cities of the Moscow Region. Over the past day, there were 9 emergency disconnections in the region. All of them are liquidated, they say in the government of the Moscow region, ITAR-TASS reports.

A criminal investigation was completed against three mino -defense officers and a businessman accused of theft of cars and apartments in the suburbs. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee.

Russia and the United States should avoid politicizing cooperation in the nuclear sector. This was announced on January 11 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting with the General Director of the Rosata State Corporation Sergei Kiriyenko.

NASA appointed the “reserve” commander of the Mission “Indevour” in case the astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of the seriously wounded congress Gabriel Giffords, will not be able to go on flight, according to CNN .

Today, on suspicion of espionage in favor of Georgia, a Russian soldier and his mother were detained, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the FSB.

In St. Petersburg, all criminal cases of injury and death of people from the fall of snow and ice from the roofs are taken under special control. This was announced by the representative of the Investigative Committee (SK) Vladimir Markin, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, the UK intends to achieve the transfer of similar cases from the internal affairs bodies to the city investigative department.

The procession allowed by the authorities in memory of the deceased in a fight with the Caucasians Yegor Sviridov, which will be held on Kronstadsky Boulevard, will hold the Yabloko party. This was announced on January 13 on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, adviser to the party chairman Arthur Grokhovsky. He noticed that the party would try to “re -educate” the nationalists formed as a result of a failure national policy of the authorities.