In St. Petersburg, due to repair work on the pipeline, traffic along the Fontanka embankment and Moskovsky Prospekt is difficult. This was reported by the Department of Emergency Situations for the city. Work on the pipeline is being carried out on the Fontanka embankment near house 110. As a result, traffic along the embankment and Moskovsky Avenue is difficult. The department encourages drivers to choose their route in advance.

Rosobrnadzor completely deprived six universities of state accreditation. This is stated in a message on the department's website.

A Russian citizen was sentenced to 13 years in prison with confiscation of property for serving in the armed units of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. The report notes that the Russian fought in the Prizrak battalion and the 1st Platov Cossack Regiment during 2015. The decision to find the Russian guilty was made by the Popasnyansky District Court of the Lugansk Region.

The ex-director of an orphanage in Sovetskaya Gavan (Khabarovsk Territory) will stand trial for negligence - she knew about sexual crimes against three children, but did not take the necessary measures to stop them. This was reported on the website of the ICR department for the Khabarovsk Territory. According to investigators, between 2012 and 2014, nine sexual crimes were committed against three young pupils of the orphanage (two girls and a boy).

Sanctioned Turkish companies will be allowed to operate in Russia if their services cannot be dispensed with or replacement is too expensive. The draft government resolution has been submitted for public discussion The Ministry of Economic Development has prepared a draft government decree that will allow Turkish companies subject to Russian sanctions to operate in Russia subject to certain conditions. The document was published on the Federal Portal of Draft Regulatory Acts.

Singer Celine Dion's husband Rene Angélil has died at the age of 73. This was reported on her Facebook page. He died in Las Vegas "after a long and courageous battle with cancer." “Further information will be provided in the next few days,” the statement said. René Angélil was a singer and manager.

Information about the detection rate of serious and especially serious crimes provided by the representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin contradicts the data published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Swiss authorities force refugees arriving in the country to hand over cash to pay for accommodation in migrant detention centers Migrant camp in Switzerland (Photo: Reuters/Pixstream) According to Reuters , the topic of forcing migrants to hand over money to representatives of the Swiss authorities was raised on the air of the SRF television channel.

Turkish airline Pegasus Airlines has announced a solution to the problem with visas for its pilots, due to which it was forced to stop flying to Russia. Flights will resume on January 15 A plane of the Turkish airline Pegasus Airlines (Photo: Marina Lystseva/TASS) The Turkish airline Pegasus Airlines announced the resumption of flights to Russia, suspended on January 4, 2016, after crew members of the company’s airliners were unable to obtain Russian visas.

At least 14 people have died in Japan after a tourist bus fell into a ditch. reports this Bloomberg with reference to the local fire department. At the same time, 27 people were hospitalized, 19 of them with serious injuries. A bus carrying 41 people crashed through a road fence in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, and then fell three meters into a ditch.

Frosts are returning to the Northern capital At night, the air temperature in the suburbs of St. Petersburg dropped to minus 20 degrees and below. According to the forecast of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation, over the next week the average air temperature will remain at minus 17-20 degrees at night and minus 11-14 degrees during the day. Today in the Northern capital it is 19 degrees below zero. Cloudy weather and light snow are expected this coming weekend.

A factory in Lipetsk owned by the Ukrainian confectionery company Roshen is put up for sale. The head of the company explained that there are no real buyers for this asset yet In the packaging workshop of the Roshen confectionery factory in Lipetsk (Photo: Alexander Ryumin/TASS) The factory in Lipetsk, owned by the Ukrainian confectionery company Roshen, is put up for sale for $200 million, the company’s general director Vyacheslav Moskalevsky said in an interview with the Liga.net portal.

Czech Andrej Babis is one of the richest ministers on the planet. A hereditary trade worker, he made his fortune using government subsidies, and now lays claim to fame as an anti-corruption fighter and the post of prime minister Czech businessman Andrej Babis (Photo: Bloomberg) On last year's Forbes list of billionaires, Czech businessman Andrej Babis was ranked 737th with a fortune of $2.5 billion.

During today's trading on the ICE exchange, the price of Brent oil futures for delivery in March 2016 fell again below $30. At the minimum, the price dropped to $29.74, which is 3.7% lower than the closing level of previous trading. Experts associate the new fall in world oil prices with expectations of consequences from the lifting of sanctions on Iran.

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma from A Just Russia, Nikolai Levichev, called on the head of Sberbank to voluntarily resign. The deputy’s dissatisfaction was caused by German Gref’s words that Russia was on the list of “downshifter countries” Head of Sberbank German Gref (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC) Speaking at the Gaidar Forum on Friday, Gref said that the era of hydrocarbons was a thing of the past and Russia found itself in “the camp of countries that are losing, downshifter countries .