NASA head Jim Braidenstayn confirmed the readiness to come to Russia on a working visit, the press service of Roscosmos reports . The Russian state corporations report that Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin and the head of NASA Jim Brydenstein conducted a television conference, during which they discussed further cooperation in the field of space development, as well as the prospect of the meeting.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, who oversees social policy in the Russian government, said that the authorities intend to change the approach to calculating the subsistence minimum, RNS reports. During the speech at the Gaidar Forum, Golikova noted that a working group was created in the framework of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development to revise the approach to calculating the subsistence minimum - first of all, it is proposed to abandon the use of poverty indicators.

The press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies confirms that rescuers discovered the body of the second who died as a result of an explosion of domestic gas in a residential building in the city of Shakhty Rostov Region, Interfax reports. It is assumed that the second victim of the explosion is a woman living in apartment No. 72. Earlier it was reported that the rescuers found the bodies of four people, but later these rumors were refuted .

The Anti Business Patriotism Association sent Valentina Matvienko and Vyacheslav Volodin, as well as the heads of Rostorism Oleg Safonov, a letter to the chairmen of the Council of the Federation and the State Duma with a proposal to introduce a departure from Russia, RIA Novosti reports. The letter notes that this measure will contribute to the revival of domestic tourism in Russia and an increase in its competitiveness.

The Numbeo research service has compiled a rating of cities in the world in quality of life. The best representative of Russia in it was Nizhny Novgorod-109th out of 226. Four more Russian cities were in the ranking : St. Petersburg (182), Moscow (191), Yekaterinburg (199) and Novosibirsk (206). The Australian Kanberra, Aidhoven in the Netherlands, American role, Australian Adelaide and the Swiss Zurich are recognized as world leaders in the quality of life.

The Bank of Russia sent recommendations to credit organizations to strengthen attention to certain customer operations - primarily regular money transfer abroad, TASS reports. Persons who repeatedly during the day with a minimum temporary interval between operations have been under suspicion of the Central Bank .

On the morning of January 15, for technical reasons, trains were interrupted on the ground section of the Filevskaya line of the Moscow Metro, Interfax reports. Currently, there is no movement of trains on the Filevskaya line between the Kuntsevskaya and Bagrationovskaya stations. Movement on the line can be restored within half an hour. According to the source, the cause of the traffic stop was a malfunction of the contact rail equipment.

In educational institutions, they can return courses to ensure students' actions in the fall of asteroids. In support of this idea, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexander Sergeyev made up, RIA Novosti reports. He noted that at the moment, instead of civil defense, a course is underway to ensure the safety of life.

The Russian government has not yet considered the proposal to introduce a gathering for departure from Russia, it has not received there. About this, as Interfax reports, said Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets. According to Golodets, it is not the time to talk about an increase in any additional fees-it is necessary to talk about the benefit of all types of tourism.

It is planned to spend about trillion rubles this year on the purchase of the latest weapons and equipment for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Minister of Defense, Army General Sergei Shoigu, almost 71% of these funds will go to serial purchases of the latest samples so that by the end of the year the share of modern weapons and equipment was 67%.

From the "Gaidar Forum" dozens of statements are pouring on us. How much does the destruction of poverty cost? How to help business, but not overpay? What is the problem of Russian government? How does the nature of inequality in Russia change? At the same time, the speakers talk about the rules for preparing an omelet, remember the guillotine and try to draw the attention of the public to their performances in other ways.

A woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus Primigenius ), which has extinct about ten thousand years ago, could be the first in history to disappear animal to defend the Convention on the International Trade of the View of the Wild Fauna and Flora, which are threatened with disappearance (CITES). This measure is proposed to eliminate the loophole in the international legislation on the trade in ivory and to help better protect modern African elephants.

The Ministry of Labor has created a working group to revise approaches to poverty assessment in Russia. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, speaking at the panel discussion “Social Triad: Demography-Employment-income” as part of the Gaidar forum. Work on new standards will be conducted by the department together with social partners and parliament. This is not about radical transformation, but about the gradual improvement of the standard.

Today in Thailand, Anastasia Vyukevich, Alexander Kirillov and six more accused found themselves guilty of organizing intimate services in the kingdom. All of them are sentenced to conditional terms of conclusion and actual conclusion, which is equal to the time, ”RIA Novosti reports . The information is confirmed by the head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Thailand Vladimir Pronin.

The repair of the hall and the repair of canteens of the State Duma are laid in the amount that the lower house of the parliament has saved, writes Kommersant . Earlier it became known about the growth of costs on the planned reconstruction of the buildings of the State Duma. The cost of work increased five times - to more than 4 billion rubles. In general, according to the source, the State Duma plans to return to the Russian budget about 500 million rubles, saved for 2018.