Investigators plan to call the President of the Association of Cascaders of Russia Alexander Inshakov as a witness in the case of extortion of $ 2 million, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Moscow Glavk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The date of interrogation has not yet been determined. In the same case, six guards of the former member of the Council of the Federation Umar Dzhabrailov are held in the same case.

The Russian Embassy in Sudan has strengthened security measures after an attack on the Russian consul and his wife committed in Hartum, RIA Novosti reports citing a temporary attorney in the affairs of the embassy Yuri Vidakas. All employees are prohibited without the need to go beyond the embassy. In addition, representatives of the consulate are working together with the law enforcement agencies of Sudan in order to verify possible threats.

Agafya Lykova has long become a symbol of Russian man in extreme conditions, alone with severe nature.

The manager of the illustrious pilot F1 Michael Schumacher Sabin who refuted the reports about the beginning of the output of the athlete from the medical coma. This was announced in an interview with BBC . According to her, the state of the seven -time world champion in Racation F1 remains stable. She called information about the withdrawal of Schumacher from coma by speculations of the French media.

Former Director of the Earthlings, Sergei Cherenkov, announced a hunger strike after he was arrested until the end of March, the manager’s lawyer Alexander Karabanov told RAPSI . Cherenkov is accused of attempted fraud. According to the lawyer of the music manager, a friend turned to Cherenkov and reported a friend's desire to engage in politics. Cherenkov introduced this person who is now passing as a victim, with Sergey Zamlyuk.

The petition of the deportation from the United States Canadian singer Justin Bieber scored 102 thousand signatures on the White House website and entered the United States Administration. The collection of signatures in support of the proposal to deprive the Canadian singer of a residence permit in the United States began on the same day when Bieber was detained in Miami for drunken driving and resistance to arrest.

On the morning on Wednesday, in South Korea, an automatic shutdown of one of the atomic reactors took place, Yonhap reports . The stop of the Khanul No. 5 reactor in Ulzhin in the southeast of South Korea occurred at 04:17 Wednesday (23:17 in Moscow). The reactor is located approximately 330 kilometers southeast of Seoul. Local authorities assure that the reactor is currently in a stable state and there is no danger of a radiation leak.

The current deputy head of the Federal Customs Service (FCS), Sergei Komlichenko, may soon be appointed as the new head of the Federal Agency for State Border Development (Rosgranitsa), the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday. Sergei Komlichenko’s candidacy for this post is supported by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees Rosgranitsa. According to the publication, in the near future Dmitry Rogozin will send a corresponding representation to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The Supreme Court did not find grounds for canceling the sentence of ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This was reported on the website of Khodorkovsky. The court made such a conclusion after familiarization with the decision of the ECHR. The court said that even violations in the case discovered by the ECHR cannot affect the decision.

The Vatican communications department posted on his twitter a photograph of graffiti depicting the pope of the Roman Francis in the image of a superhero. “We share with you graffiti found on one of the Roman streets next to the Vatican,” the report said. Graffiti depicts a pontiff dressed in a white cloak, in flight with a raised right fist.

The Rain TV channel on February 2 will hold the TELEMARAPHONE “Love Homeland”, the channel’s press service reports . On this day, from 12:00 Moscow time, the leading television channel will be discussed “different facets of patriotism: in politics, business, culture, sports, attitude to history”.

A few days ago there were two socio-medical scandals : the news “Vesti” on Facebook appeared a quote from J. Hebbels about V. Lenin, the Rain TV channel conducted a survey on “ whether it was necessary to pass Leningrad to save hundreds of thousands of lives .” But the scheme of the symbiosis of the media and the state, presented in the comments on this occasion from the deputy minister of communications and mass communications, Alexei Volina, is more interesting.

The co -owner of the Akado Group of Companies Yuri Podachkin explained the cessation of the broadcasting of the Rain television channel in his network by commercial reasons, Prime reports. According to Pospachkin, operators are not satisfied with the cooperation model proposed by the rain: the channel management insists not only on the free broadcasting of the channel, but also on receiving a fee from operators. In addition, rain has a low rating in the Akado network, Posapachkin explained.

The head of the British Government Communications Center (GCHQ) Yen Lobban announced to withdraw from his post, reports Reuters with reference to the statement of the British Foreign Ministry. 53-year-old Yen Lobban, who headed GCHQ for six years, will leave his post until the end of 2014. The reasons for his resignation are not specified.

Several people were injured at Tuesday in high school in the Hawaiian Islands, where the policeman was forced to open a student armed with a knife, Associated Press reports . According to representatives of the local rescue service, the incident occurred during classes at the School of Theodore Roosevelt in Honolulu. A 17-year-old student, armed with a knife, was injured by one of the school staff and beaten several other adults.