The decision of the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov to ban in Russia private lotteries threatens the monopolization of this market by the Russian Lotto company. This conclusion was reached by the legal department of the president. The newspaper Vedomosti refers to a letter of December 27 of the head of the State Law (GPU) of President Larisa Brycheva to the then Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Savatyugin, who has resigned from January 17.

The Russian Newspaper criticized Dmitry Livanov’s Minister for the new standard of school literature. The literature program is radical - 1.5 times - reduces the number of hours of teaching literature in two senior schools.

The Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow began an audit on the application of Alexander Yevtukhov, a witness in the case of the murder of Yuri Budanov, the official website of the department reports. On January 21, Yevtukhov in the name of the judge of the Moscow City Court wrote a statement to the lawyer of the accused Yusup Temerkhanov Murad Musaev, who allegedly threatened him during the break.

In one of the unfinished Moscow City towers, a fire arose. This was reported to the " Interfax " by an eyewitness. According to him, strong smoke arose on the top floor of the unfinished tower at 12 Presnenskaya embankment, 12. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, we are talking about the Vostok tower, there are no information about the victims yet. “According to preliminary data, the fire occurred on the roof of a high -rise building under construction.

The Minister of Communications and Information of Vesenuela Ernestu Vilhegas promised to answer the publication of the Spanish newspaper El Pais for a fake photo of Hugo Chavez in intensive care. He stated that the newspaper violated ethics and caused harm to Chavez and his family, so Venezuela would take all legal measures in response to this information campaign.

Kirill Kobrin . We begin this text epic, likening the countries to people, as was customary in the blessed times of steam machines, orientalist painting and heroes of wars for national independence. At first there were two of them. They fought all the time: in the XII century, in the XIII-M, XIV-M, XV-M, XVI-M, XVIII-M, XVIII-M and XIX. The last time they managed to fight so much that they still write novels about this, make cinema, compose operas.

The passenger fell on rails at the Oktyabrskoye Field station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line of the Moscow Metro, RIA Novosti reports. As a result, the man fell under the train and died. The message about the fall was received at 10:34 Moscow time. According to NTV , an unknown man committed suicide and rushed under the train. At the same time, the composition by inertia went to the tunnel, from where the body of the deceased then had to extract.

A Russian citizen joined the ranks of the Free Syrian Army. The corresponding video was posted on YouTube. According to the description, a woman is a resident of Damascus. She says that Russia “has turned into a fascist state”, which supports the regime of President Bashar al -Assad in Syria for money from the sale of weapons. According to her, she herself supported the regime of Bashar al -Assad, while the government army and half -naked Alawit formations began to kill her loved ones.

On January 24, a round table was held in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the topic "Professional and ethical aspects of illumination of crimes in the media." The audience said that the media should self -regulate in order to avoid restrictions on their activities from above.

The United States has left the working group in civilian society. The de facto “Commission of Surkov-Makfol” ceased to exist. And even wider: in fact, the “rebooting” of relations between Moscow and Washington, which Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, was so proud of. The relations of Russia and the USA in the past few months, thanks to the "efforts" of both countries, are getting worse and worse. The Russian side with its strange anti -Sirot law here, of course, made more states.

Ilya Karpyuk Ministry of Regional Development Minregion.ru The Ministry of Regional Development decided to build a new type of federalism in Russia.

On January 31, the Rosselkhoznadzor will hold a meeting with the unions and associations of market participants dedicated to the execution by the supply countries requirements for the non-use of ractopamine in the production of meat products intended for deliveries to the market of Russia and other countries of the Customs Union. Rectopamine is a substance used as a feed additive to increase muscle mass in pigs and cattle.

In the territories of New Moscow, it is planned to place 25 thousand officials, and not 210 thousand, as previously expected. According to Izvestia , such figures are contained in the draft report by President Vladimir Putin on the needs of state bodies in networks and means of communication after moving to New Moscow.

For a long time, I did not consider it necessary to interfere in the discussion of the St. Petersburg "Law of Milonov" - on the prohibition of propaganda of homosexuality among minors. Not because he could bring suspicions of personal interest. I am already at the age when such laws can neither protect me nor threaten me. The protection of my grandson is also not visible: if the grandson succumbs to the temptation, then either I brought him up poorly, or natural factors affected him.

Speaking on the “open rostrum”, experts suggested that the regions actually buy direct governor elections. They formulate the proposal something like this: if the region is able to provide itself and it has enough money, it means that it has “matured” to hold direct elections of the head of the region. The rest is an appointment.