Mass protests in Karakas on January 23, 2019 Fighters of a private military company went to Venezuela to protect President Nicholas Maduro, whose legitimacy is not recognized by the Venezuelan parliament and a number of countries of the world, including the United States. According to Reuters with reference to sources , the number of armed people from Russia can be about 400. Other interlocutors of the agency, in turn, indicate a fewer mercenaries.

In the Meshchansky District Court, the interrogation of the main witness of the prosecution, the former chief accountant of the Seventh Studio, Nina Maslyaeva began. Radio Liberty continues a series of reports from the process against Kirill Serebrennikov, Alexei Malobrodsky and Yuri Itin. Read the previous reports on these links: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . Maslyaeva concluded a deal with the investigation, its case was allocated into a separate production.

Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras votes for the new name Macedonia The Greek parliament ratified the agreement on the renaming of Macedonia into the Republic of North Macedonia. This was reported by the Macedonian Radio Liberty Service. For supporting the renaming, 153 deputies spoke, 146 against, writes the Athenian newspaper "Naftemporiki". The debate in parliament lasted 38 and a half hours.

In several regions of Russia, spontaneous strikes of truckers are held. They protest against low tariffs for grain transportation. The Association of freight road transport last week reported to President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, heads of ministries of agriculture and transport last week. In strikes around the country, up to 70 percent of the drivers who take the grain can participate in the country, the Kommersant newspaper writes .

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The court in Moscow is considering a claim for the protection of honor and dignity to the leader of the “For Human Rights” movement Lev Ponomarev and the head of the “Sitting” movement Olga Romanova. The former incidental penal colony No. 2 Ing Krivitskaya, dissatisfied with the statements of human rights defenders about torture in correctional institutions, appealed to the court. It requires moral compensation in the amount of two million rubles.

After each “velvet revolution”, Putin’s regime followed the path of repression and restrictions on freedoms in Russia. What to wait for this time? The leader of the Party of Changes Dmitry Gudkov, and Latin American, Tatyana Vorozheikina will be discussed. Mikhail Sokolov is broadcast. Video and Text - on the link: https://www.svoboda.org/a/29730421.html

The Kerch City Court in the annexed Crimea refused to parole and release the Ukrainian activist Vladimir Balukh, convicted of charges of illegal storage of weapons and in destabilizing the work of the pre-trial detention center, reports Crimea. Realities. It is reported that Vladimir Balukh did not participate in the hearing.

The Federation Council proposed introducing from next year the mandatory registration of all mobile devices with Internet access. This was reported by RBC with reference to one of the authors of the bill - deputy head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation Lyudmila Bokov. Gadgets offer to register according to the international identifier of mobile equipment - IMEI.

The head of the city of Nefteyugansk in the Khanty-Mansi district Sergey Degtyarev, about searches in the apartment and office of which was reported on Thursday, was hospitalized. RIA Novosti write about this with reference to a source in the municipality. Degtyarev himself today stated that he was not charged. The official wrote on his page on the VKontakte social network that he was not removed from his post and continues to fulfill his official duties.

The Greek parliament ratified the agreement on the renaming of Macedonia into the Republic of North Macedonia. This was reported by the Macedonian Radio Liberty Service. For supporting the renaming, 153 deputies spoke, 146 against, writes the Athenian newspaper "Naftemporiki". The debate in parliament lasted 38 and a half hours.

If a person is immersed in thoughts about higher matters so much that he forgets about pressing problems, this becomes the cause of many curious situations and jokes. Thales, looking at the stars, falls into the pit; Archimedes, having made the discovery, runs out of the bathhouse naked; The non -wagoned deeply lucid is forced to save the dispersed passenger with a pan on his head, and Savva Ignatievich - to eliminate the consequences of the activity of a bulky for the kindergarten of Sobotov.

Taisiya Perechikova For the mother of Twelve -year -old Taisiya Perechikova, who asked President Vladimir Putin Tractor, colleagues write reports. Elena Perechikova herself from the village of Tonsino in the Pskov region herself informed Radio Liberty correspondent. "The nurse of the reception of Perechikov does not cope with his personal duties (does not change his linen after the patients, leaves dirt after his shift, arranges video shooting).

Evgeny Karakashev The North Caucasus District Military Court removed the accusations of extremism from the Crimean activist Yevgeny Karakashev for his statements on the social network VKontakte. This was announced by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group Agora Alexei Ladin. At the same time, the criminal case against Karakashev was not terminated for calls for terrorist activities.

The Presidium of the highest certification commission deprived the degree of candidate of sociological sciences of a member of the Central Election Commission, a former State Duma deputy Valery Galchenko. This was announced by a member of the Dissernet community Ivan Babitsky, who was present at a meeting of the Presidium. Galchenko confirmed the information to the newspaper Vedomosti. Galchenko received a degree in 2013 in the RANEPA.