In Belgium, two more men suspected of involvement in the November terrorist attacks in Paris, Reuters reports citing the Belgian authorities. One of the detainees is the subject of Belgium Zachariah J. born in 1986. The second is Mustafa E. Moroccan, born in 1981. The detention occurred during the inspections of apartments in the immigrant commune of Brussels Molenbek. During searches in the apartments, the detainees did not find weapons or explosives.

The Central Bank of Russia revoked license from three credit organizations, follows from the materials on the regulator website . The licenses were deprived of the Omsk “MiF-Bank”, the St. Petersburg “Turbobank” and the capital's “Foreign”. The first credit institution had problems with satisfying the claims of creditors. In addition, the bank revealed a significant inaccuracy of reporting data.

Construction of a nuclear power plant based on a Russian design has begun in Finland. On January 19, at the site of the Finnish nuclear power plant Hanhikivi-1 in Pyhäjoki, a solemn ceremony took place to begin work on the construction of the pit. During the ceremony, a special explosion of rock was carried out and a memorial stone was installed.

Former Minister of Finance of Russia, the head of the Civil Initiatives Committee, Alexei Kudrin, announced the possibility of falling oil prices to $ 16-18 per barrel. It is reported by TASS . “Today there are a number of factors that work to reduce the price. It will be lower than we see today. It can reach up to 18 and even to 16 [dollars per barrel], ”he said at one of the events in the Swiss Davos, where the World Economic Forum takes place.

Businessman Dmitry Kovtun called the evidence of British justice in the case of the murder of a former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, Interfax reports. Today in the UK, a final report was published based on the results of an open trial, in which the responsibility for the murder of Litvinenko was assigned to Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi.

Russia has prepared an extensive report on the provision of humanitarian assistance to Syria, which the United States doubts. This was reported at a briefing by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova, RIA Novosti reports. “The US State Department with the mouth of representatives of its press service stated that it does not see the efforts that Russia makes regarding the provision of humanitarian aid of Syria.

The Tver District Court of Moscow appointed on January 25 a hearing in the case in respect of the former member of the Expert Council of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Knogy and his alleged accomplice Alexander Belyakov. Both are defendants in the case of an organized criminal community, headed by the former head of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Sugroobov, Kommersant writes.

Director Fedor Bondarchuk and singer Nikolai Baskov took part in a flash mob in support of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov after his conflict with the opposition, RBC reports. I am proud that in the person of Ramzan Kadyrov is friends with the Chechen people, with their traditions and culture, his patriotism and faith in the great future of the peoples of our common homeland - Russia !!!

Sergey Ivanov will talk about the owner of the tomb of tea in ancient Egypt photos from the archive of the lecturer January 28, 2016 (Thursday) in the library-reader named after I.S. Turgenev with a lecture on the “righteous life” and “excellent burial” of the ancient Egyptians will be a candidate of historical sciences, a researcher at the Center for Egyptological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the head of the structural unit of this center in Egypt, Sergei Ivanov .

The murder of the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is not completely revealed, his daughter Zhanna Nemtsova said, Interfax reports. Nemtsova said that she did not agree with the opinion of the head of the IC of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin. According to her, the department is not interested in the complete disclosure of the murder. Nemtsova said that, according to sources, Bastrykin did not sign a decision on the absentee prosecution of the case by Ruslan Geremeyev.

The ruble sharply handed over a position in relation to the dollar and the euro. During the trading of January 21, the dollar reached 85.99 rubles. The cost of the euro at the same time exceeded 93 rubles. The official dollar exchange rate for January 22 is 83.5913 rubles, the euro is 91,1814 rubles. In the traditional poll, Polit.ru asked readers to share advice on what the savings should be stored in. Most respondents complained about the lack of savings.

The meeting of Russian bankers in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation was planned, bankers called the current economic situation “quite stable” and “managed”. About this Rambler News Service was told by the head of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia Anatoly Aksakov. “Now I only left the meeting at the Central Bank. [First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexei] Simanovsky conducted. There was a working meeting, ”he said.

The first deputy chairman of the Council of Economic Policy, Sergei Kalashnikov, considers it necessary to transfer the ruble from convertible to a strict ratio with the dollar and other reserve currencies. In this case, the dollar may amount to 40 rubles, quoted by the Senator RIA Novosti .

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Kalmykia satisfied the request of Viktor Baturin and replaced the part of the punishment for a fine of 300 thousand rubles that had not been served by him, RIA Novosti reports. According to the court’s decision, Baturin served his term in IK-1 in Kalmykia due to the fact that he was registered in the republic.

The Petrozavodsky City Court confirmed the legality of the resignation of the head of the city administration Galina Shirshina, TASS reports. Recall, on December 25 last year, the City Council of Petrozavodsk by a majority vote resigned Shirshin. Most of the deputies considered that the head of the city lost control. On January 11, Shirshina sent a statement to the Petrozavodsk city court, in which she challenged the dismissal.