The true version of the brutal attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater ballet Sergei Filin has become known. Police said that ill-wishers disfigured the artist’s face because of his professional activities. Thus, law enforcement officials are relegating to the background the version of the assassination attempt in connection with domestic quarrels and jealousy, which Sobesednik.ru previously reported.

A serious explosion in one of the buildings in Krasnoyarsk occurred on January 22, 2013, followed by a fire . The explosion of gas equipment occurred around 14:00 Moscow time. The explosion started a strong fire. According to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the area of ​​the fire in the building was 300 square meters. Seven people who were injured in the explosion were rushed to hospital.

On January 24, 2013, it was reported that the State Defense Committee of the DPRK, headed by Kim Jong-un, announced plans to carry out a new, third nuclear test directed against the United States. “We do not hide the fact that various kinds of satellites that we will launch, long-range missile launches that we will carry out, and high-level nuclear tests that we will conduct are directed against the United States,” the North Korean State Defense Committee wrote in a special message.

On January 26, 2013, it was reported that an Egyptian court had sentenced to death 21 defendants in connection with the Port Said stadium pogrom in February 2012. In total, 73 people are involved in the case, including police officers. The others will be sentenced on March 9, 2013. It is reported that relatives of those sentenced to death, having learned about the court decision, tried to storm the prison where they were being held. This was reported by the France-Presse agency.

Saxophonist Vladimir Boluchevsky died at the age of 60 from cancer in a hospital in St. Petersburg. On Saturday, January 19, the musician of the groups “Pop-Mechanics”, “Aquarium” and “Time Machine” Vladimir Boluchevsky died. He lived only two weeks after celebrating his 59th birthday. The musician had been in serious condition since the end of December 2012; he suffered from severe cancer. Recently he was in hospital No. 31 in St. Petersburg.

There have been no official reports from the Investigative Committee confirming or denying the sudden death of one of the defendants in the Oboronservis case. On January 23, the media spread information that one of the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense died at his dacha last Sunday; this allegedly happened shortly after he returned from interrogation in the Oboronservis case. The official's age, as well as his name and other circumstances of death are not reported.

Tbilisi refused to accept the body of crime boss Ded Khasan. The charter in which the corpse is transported will return to Moscow. On January 18, after the farewell ceremony for Aslan Usoyan , known as Ded Hasan , the plane carrying his body was sent to Georgia due to popular demand. However, when the charter was already on the way, a refusal was received from Tbilisi.

On January 22, 2013, it was reported that police detained four attackers attempting to attack an office center in the north-west of Moscow. As the press was told at the capital's headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at about four o'clock in the morning a group of armed unknown persons broke into the building in Novokhoroshevsky Proezd. The security of the commercial enterprise that was attacked managed to press the “panic button” and thereby call the security.

The director of the Vakhtangov Theater denied the information that doctors diagnosed Vladimir Etush with pneumonia. Kirill Krok, director of the Vakhtangov Theater, where Vladimir Etush has been working for more than 50 years, keeps in touch with the actor’s doctors. Doctors diagnosed the elderly actor with bronchitis. They emphasize that there is no threat to life. Meanwhile, information was disseminated in the media that Vladimir Etush was urgently hospitalized with acute pneumonia.

Last week, police detained the husband of journalist Irina Kabanova, who disappeared in Moscow on January 3. The whole world was looking for her, including volunteers of the Lisa Alert detachment, which specializes in searching for people. Recently, there have been more and more organizations that voluntarily help everyone who needs it. “Interlocutor” tried to figure out why volunteering has become a trend and what makes people leave their work and do what the state sometimes does not do - help.

The artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet, Sergei Filin, is confident that the attack was related to his success at work. In an interview with journalists, Sergei Filin hinted that he guessed who was behind the attack, but did not name specific names. He hopes investigators will figure it out themselves. “If this crime remains unsolved, I don’t even know what to believe then,” the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater ballet explained to reporters.

On January 23, 2013, it was reported that operatives investigating the murder of Aslan Usoyan (Ded Hassan) do not rule out that the execution of the crime boss could be revenge for the death of Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik). Journalists managed to unearth interesting information: in the case of the murder of the patriarch of the criminal world Aslan Usoyan (Ded Hasan), a “Slavic” trace most likely appeared.

Russian singer Alexey Vorobyov, who was involved in a car accident on January 23, 2013 in Los Angeles, came to his senses, but due to a serious injury, part of his body was paralyzed. On January 24, 2013, encouraging news came from America: doctors reported that Alexey Vorobyov , who had been unconscious for almost two days, had finally regained consciousness. But the joy was short-lived: it turned out that the singer’s face was paralyzed.

Fifty people died due to a riot by prisoners in a Venezuelan prison. About a hundred more were injured of varying degrees of severity. The incident occurred on Friday, January 25 in the city of Barquisimeto. The riot, accompanied by grenade explosions and gunshots, began in the morning. Then the leaders conducted an inspection of the prison and began to try to forcefully seize weapons from the rioting prisoners.

On April 12, it became known that the family of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has been gradually transferring foreign accounts and assets to Russia since the end of 2012. Experts believe that Igor Shuvalov is preparing to introduce a ban on high-ranking civil servants having accounts and assets abroad, because the corresponding bill was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading back in February.