The colony in the Arkhangelsk region, which contains Plato Lebedev, received the documents necessary for his release, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service. It will take some time to sign the papers, but Lebedev will be released as soon as possible, the department’s press service said.

Law enforcement officers left the building of the regional administration captured by demonstrators in the city of Rivne in the west of Ukraine, UNIAN reports . The police left the building, securing guarantees that the protesters would take responsibility for the safety of the premises and property of the regional administration. Meanwhile, employees of the State Security Service remained in the building, who carry the service here.

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The prosecutor's office of the Ternopil region in the center of Western Ukraine opened a criminal case on the fact of capturing the demonstrators of the regional administration building in Ternopol, UNIAN reports . Criminal proceedings were begun in terms of the first of Article 341 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “The capture of state or public buildings or structures”, which provides for imprisonment for a term of up to six years.

A group of parliamentarians introduced a bill to prohibit the propaganda of sexual relations between minors to the State Duma, RIA Novosti reports.

The Ministry of Energy proposed to divide Gazprom into a mining company (it will remain a monopoly) and transportation (which will compete for gas delivery with other market participants). This is stated in the main provisions of the "Energy Strategy of Russia for the period until 2035", published on the website of the ministry. “In the future, it is necessary to complete the departments of natural-monopoly activities from competitives in the system of Gazprom OJSC,” the document said.

Russia takes the position of non -interference in the situation in Ukraine, although it is in contact with Kiev, the assistant to the Russian president Yuri Ushakov told reporters, RIA Novosti reports. “We have emphasized non -interference, but this does not mean that we have no contacts between different representatives, including the highest ones,” the president’s assistant to reporters said. Ushakov refused to disclose details of interaction with the Ukrainian authorities.

In the Stavropol Territory, the bodies of two police officers were discovered, Interfax reports. According to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, the bodies were found in the Soviet district of Stavropol. The circumstances in which the remains of the police were discovered are not specified. An anonymous source in the Stavropol law enforcement agencies said that in the evening of January 24, a maneuver train driver drew attention to two cars and informed the dispatcher about this.

Platon Lebedev left the Velskaya colony in the Arkhangelsk region, Interfax reports with reference to the press bureaus of the Federal Penitentiary Service. According to an employee of the press burea, Lebedev was released from serving a sentence after the original decision of the Supreme Court was received by the administration of the correctional institution. After the release, Lebedev went to Moscow with his daughter and son, said Lebedev’s lawyer Vladimir Krasnov.

Most of the population of Switzerland (64.3%) considers the work of the necessary atomic reactors in the country. This is evidenced by the survey data conducted by telephone by ordering the Swissnuclear group of the Demoscope Market Research Institute. According to Swiss sociologists, 68% of respondents agree that the nuclear power plant should work as long as they are safe.

Former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko and lawyer Stanislav Batrine appealed to the district administrative court of Kyiv with a request to officially recognize the actions of the fighters of the police special forces "Berkut" illegal. The ex-head of the defense department told about this by RIA Novosti agency. According to Gritsenko, the corresponding lawsuit was filed on Thursday January 23.

Miami police presented the Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, detained on the eve of the Lamborghini race along the streets of Miami-Beach, an accusation on four articles, ABC News reports . The singer is accused of driving in a state of alcohol and narcotic intoxication, of resistance during arrest, as well as in driving without rights - his driver’s license was not indeed at the time of his detention.

In the training center of the Autobonan Service in the city of Ostrogozhsk, the Voronezh region, a soldier, was ill with lung inflammation. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the military investigative authorities of the Voronezh garrison. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the death of a soldier who died in the Podolsk hospital became complications in pneumonia. However, the final conclusion will be made only at the end of the forensic expertise.

Employees of the Ukrainian GUBOP recently stopped the activities of one of the Kiev groups, which, according to law enforcement agencies, supplied weapons to Euromaidan, reports Interfax-Ukraine . According to police officers, at present, about 20 structures are operating on the territory of Kyiv, having "all signs of criminal groups of an extremist nature." One of them was just eliminated. In December 2013, the group captured a 22-year-old Kievite.

Ex-employee of the US intelligence officers Edward Snowden, who received a temporary asylum in Russia, held an online press conference on the night of January 24, reports Lenta.ru Questions to the disgraced agent could be sent all day on January 23 through Twitter using a hash tag #asksnowden. The conference began at 20:00 Greenwich time (0:00 in Moscow). Snowden’s communication with Internet users lasted almost two hours instead of the planned hour.