The Fitch rating agency has changed the outlook for Russia's long-term issuer default ratings (IDR) in foreign and local currencies from "positive" to "stable", Interfax reports. At the same time, the ratings were confirmed at the "BBB" level. The agency also confirmed the Russian Federation's short-term IDR at 'F3' and the country's rating ceiling at 'BBB+'. The largest rating agency "Fitch Ratings" conducts analysis of the capital markets of more than 150 countries.

Members of the so-called “Sergei Tsapok gang” from the village of Kushchevskaya may be involved in the murder of Nizhny Novgorod special forces soldier Dmitry Chudakov and his family, which occurred on the Don highway in the Rostov region in 2009. Interfax reports this with reference to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region. “(The case) has been solved. And, in my opinion, Tsapok is there. In any case, that’s what is engraved in my memory.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced an immediate reduction in gasoline prices by 30% "in recognition of the difficulties that the country's residents are experiencing," the BBC Russian Service reports. The African head of state made this decision after a week-long strike against a doubling of gasoline prices, which rose from 65 naira (about 40 cents) to 140 naira (90 cents) on January 1.

At noon today, the magistrate of court district number 423 of the Tverskoy district of Moscow, S. Komlev, decided to collect from me, as the organizer of the unauthorized rally on December 31 on Triumfalnaya Square, a fine of 1,500 rubles. I received a discount of 500 rubles, I believe, based on this wording in the resolution: “the court takes into account...

This is probably the third tank failure in a week, but this time the statement was made after a meeting with the plenipotentiary, which has just ended. The very fact that the rally became the subject of an urgent meeting at this level speaks volumes.

German doctors do not yet recommend that the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Misharin, begin active work in the near future. As Interfax reports, on Monday, January 16, the presidential envoy to the Urals Federal District, Evgeny Kuyvashev, announced this. “Today I spoke with the governor on the phone; due to his state of health, doctors do not yet recommend that he begin active work, ” the plenipotentiary said. According to him, Misharin is currently in Moscow.

The government of the Kirov region claims that the situation with the increase in fees for hot water in the Novovyatsky district of Kirov was explained to residents using at least four communication channels. The issue of an unreasonable increase in tariffs for hot water supply in the Novovyatsky district of the city was raised by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a conference call on January 10.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for Karachay-Cherkessia issued a warning about expected avalanches in the mountainous regions of the republic. “Due to the threat of avalanches on January 16-17, there is a possibility of emergencies no higher than the local level associated with damage to buildings, communication and power lines, federal and local roads in mountain and foothill areas,” Interfax reported.

The former chief engineer of the Bryansk City Vodokanal municipal unitary enterprise, Igor Panov, was charged under Part 2 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Causing death by negligence due to improper performance by a person of his professional duties”) in connection with the death of a one and a half year old boy who fell into a sewer in Bryansk at the beginning of January.

Bryansk police detained a suspect in the theft of a regional flag from the facade of the building of the public reception of the United Russia party. He turned out to be a 24-year-old man who had not previously come to the attention of law enforcement agencies and had been demobilized from the Airborne Forces two months ago.

The Leninsky District Court of Ufa ruled in favor of two deceived pilgrims who paid a travel agency for a ticket for the Hajj to Mecca (Saudi Arabia), but were unable to leave due to visas not issued on time, the secretariat of the district court told the Interfax agency.

A resident of the city of Kyshtym (Chelyabinsk region) Oleg Kostin is suspected of attempted murder of his cohabitant’s four-year-old daughter.

There is a moderate avalanche danger in the mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria, and avalanche warnings are being carried out, the head of the North Caucasian paramilitary service, Khizir Chochaev, told the Interfax agency on Monday, January 16. “In the village of Terskol, 42 cm fell, and in Cheget - 63 cm of snow. Now the Elbrus anti-avalanche squad is firing at the sources of avalanches in order to prevent them from being released,” Chochaev said.

Well, are citizens parasites, lazy people and loafers?! Anyone interested in the sand pit? That’s why I’m interested, I’m not from the police, but quite the opposite. I am interested because we have appointed a new plenipotentiary representative. With the old plenipotentiary representative, everything was smooth and smooth with us, and there was no need to remember about work (not to be confused with Rapota). And here is a new one - Babich.

The Roskomnadzor Directorate for the Sakhalin Region, together with the Directorate for the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region, accepted the communication facility of OJSC Rostelecom for the project for the construction of a fiber-optic communication line (FOCL) on the Tymovskoye (Sakhalin) - Lazarev (Khabarovsk Territory) section.