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Violations in the construction of facilities in the presidential residence in Novo-Ogarsov (in the photo) became part of criminal cases of multi-billion dollar corruption in the FSO The 235th garrison court in Moscow arrested on charges of corruption the deputy head of the construction department of the Federal Security Service of Alexei Golokhvostov. A 42-year-old official is suspected of receiving bribes worth about 20 million rubles.

The film by Andrei Kiselev In Tarusa - a small town on the banks of the Oka, more than a hundred kilometers south of Moscow - in October the local authorities decided to rename several streets, getting rid of the names of Soviet times. Lenin Street was offered to be called Kaluga, Lenin Square - Sobornaya, Oktyabrskaya Street - Voskresenskaya, Karl Marx Street - Poleva, Karl Liebknecht - Tarusa, Rosa Luxembourg - Posadskaya, Decembrist Street - city embankment.

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Are there any reasons for gloating in the Kremlin? Biden: vaccinated from illusions of the reboot lesson? More smart sanctions? Will anti -Americanism lose its effectiveness?

Shop in Kyiv, Archive Since January 16, the entire Ukrainian service sector is obliged to switch to Ukrainian when communicating with clients. This provision is contained in the law on the state language adopted back in April 2019. The innovation concerns not only conversations, but also the information of the menu, price tags and signs.

Search and rescue operation in Norilsk In Norilsk, employees of the Investigative Committee detained the head of the city department of civil defense and emergency situations. He is suspected of involvement in the deaths of three people under a snow avalanche in the Separate Mountain Ski -Salting Center. This was reported by the Krasnoyarsk regional investigation department.

In the 86th year of life, the scientist and writer Anatoly Vishnevsky, director of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School, died from the consequences of the Covid-19. Anatoly Vishnevsky has more than once was a guest of Radio Liberty. We publish the text of the program recorded in 2010, when the second edition of his book “Interpretched Letters” was published. This is a collage novel, mainly from documents preserved in the archive of the noble family of Tatishchevs.

For more than five years, an armed conflict has been going on in eastern Ukraine, and during this time we learned a lot about what a hybrid war is, although this term was known to specialists much earlier than journalists.

On January 17, Alexei Navalny should fly to Moscow by the flight of Victory. Hundreds of people will probably come to meet him at Vnukovo Airport. Navalny announced the decision to return to his homeland after several months of health restoration in Germany.

On January 12, Anastasia Panchenko, the coordinator of the Navalny headquarters in Krasnodar, said that she was instructed to administer under Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation for disrespect to state authorities. The activist published on the story of her page on Instagram the post of Alexei Navalny and added her own comment, where she called Putin an extremist. A few days later, the FBK operator Pavel Zelensky was arrested.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained two activists of the Youth Democratic Movement of the Spring near the office of the local branch of United Russia.

Kantemir Balagov The American company HBO invited the director Kantemir Balagov to become the director of the pilot episode of the series "Last of us" - The Last of US (the official name in the Russian "One of us"). The series is based on the video game of the same name. According to TJournal, the author of the script and producer will be Craig Meinz, who previously worked on the Chernobyl series.