Politician Alexei Navalny wrote a statement to the Investigative Committee because of the words of the State Duma deputy Sergei Zheleznyak about attempts to blackmail on behalf of the opposition. Navalny reported this on his blog. Navalny proposed to check the deputy’s statement and bring to justice those who were involved in extortion.

The purchase price for New Year's decorations of lanterns on Tverskaya Street in Moscow was about five times higher than the real decoration costs. Meduza conducted the corresponding calculations. According to the publication, the cost of one “glass with champagne”, taking into account materials and installation, amounted to about 475 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Bank of Russia are developing a plan to reduce the long -term volatility of the real ruble course. This was in an interview with Bloomberg on January 19 was told by the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov, Prime reports. “Now the volatility of the ruble is beating on exporters, it does not allow them to plan a business,” he explained.

Options of oil prices that have an impact on the ruble course can be smooth out using the purchase and sale of currency for the purposes of a budget rather than monetary policy. This was stated in the press service of the Bank of Russia, Interfax reports. The regulator also emphasized that politicians still adhere to the floating course of the national currency and consider attempts to manage the nominal course of the ruble ineffective.

The Kremlin does not agree with the statements that Russia is interfering in the affairs of other states. Such a statement was made by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. “Russia has never intimidated anyone, never intervented in foreign countries, did not destroy the whole countries, and is not going to do this,” Peskov said.

The expert working group of the federal level, headed by the Minister for Open Government, Mikhail Abyzov, rejected the petition to cancel the Yarovaya Law. It is reported by Interfax . Experts came to the conclusion that the amendments correspond to the Russian constitution, and their implementation does not entail the consequences set forth by the authors of the initiative.

In South Korea, he rejected the prosecutor's request to issue an arrest warrant of the actual head of Samsung Lee Je Yen, reports Reuters . The court ruled that there was no “need to arrest at the moment”. Lee Jae Eun is a suspect in bribery against the backdrop of an investigation of a corruption scandal around Pak Kyn Hye temporarily removed from the post of president. The prosecutor's office of South Korea demanded to arrest him on January 16.

The Government of the Russian Federation extended the ban on the export of a leather semi -finished product outside the country. The resolution is published on the official portal of legal information. The ban will be valid from February 1 to August 1, 2017. The action of the past restriction ended on January 18, 2017. Such a measure is necessary to ensure the state defense order, explained in the document.

The National Directorate of Traffic Safety (NHTSA) of the United States will close the investigation of the world's first fatal accident with the participation of Tesla unmanned car. About this with reference to sources reports Reuters . The agency did not find a defect in the Tesla Model S car that would allow cars to withdraw, the agency said. Also, citing sources about the completion of the investigation, AP reports .

At the new Zenit Arena stadium on Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg, it will be necessary to allocate another 1.5–2 billion rubles. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, reports Fontanka . As he explained, this money will go to adapt the stadium to FIFA requirements. Mutko admitted that now the stadium satisfies only the level of the internal championship.

Photo: Photographies Archives du Deutsches Museum If you want to admire the panoramic views of a particular attraction of the globe, you will probably easily find it on satellite cards or in photographs taken using drones that have become tight into our lives. But at the beginning of the 20th century, when the planes were still new, photographs from a bird's eye view were a rarity.

The founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange departed from his promise to voluntarily return to the United States. About this writes Associated Press with reference to his lawyers. Earlier, Assange agreed to extradition, provided that the American authorities have mercy on the informant Chelsea Manning. On January 18, US President Barack Obama softened Manning, however, according to the decree, she will spend another 4 months in prison.

The Russian government plans to reduce the minimum amount of state -owned payments to 25% of the net profit in IFRS. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to two officials familiar with the situation. At the same time, the government is going to continue to achieve higher dividends from a number of companies, one of the interlocutors of the agency said. He did not specify the names of the companies.

At the Moscow procession of the memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Anastasia Baburova, who were killed in 2009, seven people were detained. It is reported by the OVD-Info. According to the project, the Arbat police department was delivered, including LGBT activist Marta Khromov, holding a rainbow flag.

In Spain, a programmer from Taganrog Stanislav Lisov was detained. This was told by RT by his wife Daria Lisova, the detention of a Russian was confirmed at the Russian embassy in Spain. Lisova was detained at Barcelona Airport on January 13, the police explained that this was done at the request of the FBI and Interpol, said Daria Lisova. Lisov was not brought against official charges, he is in the Brian prison in the Catalan Martorel.