The former deputy head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexander Gorshkolepov, who was accused of receiving bribes, was sentenced to seven years and nine months of a maximum security colony, the Kommersant newspaper writes. According to the publication, a businessman from Yekaterinburg Andrei Knyazev claimed that the official in the form of eight bribes is about 37 million rubles. Gorshkolepov himself partially pleaded guilty.

Five people died, including a police officer as a result of a series of explosions in Jakarta, Reuters reported. According to the agency, one of the explosions occurred at the Sarina Thamrin shopping center opposite the Starbucks coffee shop. In total, seven explosions thundered, after them there was a shootout between the police and criminals.

At a very large telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the first observations were made using the new Gravity tool, designed to study black holes. The tool was created by a group of astronomers and engineers under the leadership of specialists from the Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics of the Max Planck Society in Garkhing. This was reported in a press release from the European Southern Observatory.

At a meeting of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers on January 14, a bill on fines for employers for violation of the terms of payment of salaries will be discussed on January 14, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said, Interfax reports. “The total salary arrears remains very significant. Well, taking into account the situation in the economy, this process can accelerate, increase, ”Medvedev noted.

The organizers of the attack in the center of Jakarta, as a result of which seven people died, copied the actions of terrorists who staged numerous terrorist attacks in Paris, TASS reports with reference to the official representative of the Indonesia police Anton Charlia. “They copied the attack in Paris. They are probably associated with the group (the Islamic State, the organization prohibited in the Russian Federation - approx. Polit.ru), ”Charlian said.

As a result of a series of explosions in the capital of Indonesia, an UN employee was killed, Al Jazeera reports . The UN employee was a citizen of the Netherlands. According to Al Jazeera, among the dead - at least four militants and one policeman. It is noted that all six explosions occurred in the central business area of ​​Jakarta, in which the UN office is located.

The head of the Accounts Chamber, Tatyana Golikova, said during the Gaidar Forum that the current economic situation in the country has nothing to do with the 1998 situation, TASS reports. Golikova noted: "We are in a fundamentally different economic situation that has nothing to do with 1998." At the same time, the head of the Accounts Chamber recognized the presence of “certain risks”, as well as the fact that the drop in oil prices looks “quite dramatic”.

The Islamic State Terrorist organization prohibited in Russia took responsibility for a series of terrorist attacks in the capital of Indonesia Jakarters, Reuters reports. Currently, the Jakarta police managed to detain four people suspected of involvement in the implementation of terrorist attacks. According to some reports, five terrorists died or were killed during attacks.

The prisoners of Russian investigative insulators (pre -trial detention centers) were banned from using obscene vocabulary and prison jargon in communication with each other and the administration, Interfax reports.

Two civilians were killed, ten more were injured from explosions and shooting in the center of the capital of Indonesia Jakarta, the responsibility for which the Islamic state jihadists took upon themselves (the organization is prohibited in the Russian Federation), Reuter reports.

The cartoon “We cannot live without space” by the Russian director Konstantin Bronzit from the Mill studio got into the short list of Oscar nominees in the category “Best Short Animation Film”. This is a 15-minute story of two bosoming friends-cosmonauts, who have dreamed about flights to the stars since childhood and prepared for them for a long time.

On January 13, books published with the support of the Soros Foundation were burned at Vorkutinsky Mining and Economic College (Komi Republic). Following this, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky requested materials to verify the relevant messages, noting that “burning books is from the same series as the demolition of monuments” and causes “strange historical associations”.

The Russian authorities support all conclusions and decisions of the Independent Commission of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA), TASS reports with reference to the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko. “The second part of the report is more related to corruption in the management system, in the international sports movement, in particular, in IAAF (International Association of athletics federations - approx. Polit.ru),” said Mutko.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he signed an agreement on the transfer of his share in the Roshen Corporation. He stated this during a press conference, the broadcast of which was conducted by the 112 Ukraine television channel. “This year I signed the contract, finally, because they really took legal issues a lot of time about the transfer of my share of Roshen in an independent trust, which is based on the model of the“ blind trust ”,” the Ukrainian president said.

The speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol Alexei Chaly changed his mind to resign after meeting with the first deputy leader of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin, RBC reports with reference to sources. According to the deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol Ekaterina Altabaeva, the meeting was held on January 11. However, the source in the Kremlin did not confirm and did not refute this information.