Alexey Navalny was arrested for 30 days. On February 2, the court may send him to the colony for 3.5 years The second day of Alexei Navalny in his homeland was marked by the continuation of the farce - the court on the measure of suppression for the opposition was held right in the Khimkinsky police department, where he was delivered from Sheremetyevo on the eve, and wrote to Navalny 30 days of arrest.

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has decided to move the Minsk part of the 2021 World Championship outside of Belarus. The federation cited “security issues beyond its control” as the reason for this decision. The Ice Hockey World Championship this year will be held from May 21 to June 6. In 2017, Minsk and Riga received the right to host the championship.

The Washington DC Capitol complex was locked down by security forces January 18 following reports of an external threat. Today, the building hosted a rehearsal for the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden. According to Bloomberg , the rehearsal participants were evacuated from the western facade of the parliament building. Rehearsal participants, including brass bands, are sheltered inside the building. A fire is reported near the parliamentary complex.

Before the decision of the court, which sent oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who had just returned to Russia, under arrest for 30 days, the politician wrote down an appeal to the Russians. In it, he urged people "to be afraid of nothing" and take to the streets, his headquarters began preparations for all-Russian actions. In an appeal from the court, Navalny said that the authorities are most afraid of people taking to the streets, and this is precisely the essence of politics.

Billionaire Virgin Orbit founder Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has successfully launched light satellites into orbit with its commercial air-launch rocket. This is good news for the Virgin Group, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus restrictions on leisure and leisure and is forced to resort to the help of investment funds to save Virgin Atlantic.

Opposition politician Navalny was arrested by the court for 30 days, until February 15, the judge announced the decision. The court hearing at the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace his probationary period with a real one in the Yves Rocher case is scheduled for January 29 - his oppositionist will wait behind bars. The meeting was chaired by Khimki city court judge Elena Morozova, reported Dozhd .

The vice president of Samsung Electronics, who has effectively led the Samsung Group since 2014, Lee Jae-yong received two years and six months in prison in a bribery case, reports Reuters . A court in Seoul found South Korea's most powerful businessman guilty of embezzlement and concealment of criminal proceeds of about 8.6 billion won ($7.8 million). In 2017, Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to five years in prison in the case of a bribe in the amount of more than $6 million.

On January 18, the next day after the dramatic detention of the opposition Alexei Navalny at Sheremetyevo Airport, the court began to choose a preventive measure for him. The court hearing began without presenting the agenda, right in the building of the Khimkinsky police department. How legal it is and what is now threatening Navalny, The Bell found out from the lawyers. Why is Navalny a judge in the police?

The trial for the detention of politician Alexei Navalny on Monday, January 18, is taking place right in the police department, and the lawyers were notified about this a minute before it began. This was written by the press secretary of the opposition Kira Yarmysh on Twitter.

The damage to the state budget from tax crimes from 2011 to September 2020 exceeded 450 billion rubles. This is reported by Izvestia with reference to the Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee Elena Leonenko. It was possible to return 208 billion rubles, as well as seize property worth 67 billion rubles, the report says. Measures taken over the past four years have compensated, on average, half of the damage caused by tax crimes.

Google services will again appear on Honor smartphones, writes : the brand has sufficiently separated from the sanctioned Huawei and will be able to strengthen its position. Kommersant Honor is preparing a new line of devices with support for Google services - they may appear on the market (including Russia) in the spring of 2021, Kommersant's interlocutors say. The new smartphones will not have the Huawei AppGallery app store, but will support Google services.

The detention of Navalny caused a violent world reaction: the media say that now any course of the Kremlin will play against him, and politicians publicly admire the “courage” of the Russian oppositionist. We have chosen the most interesting of the foreign comments. The New York Times Navalny was detained on the border, which became a demonstration of the fearlessness of the most prominent leader of the Russian opposition and fears of President Vladimir Putin.

The American non-profit organization Coalition for a Safer Web ("Coalition for a safer Internet") filed a lawsuit against Apple demanding to remove the Telegram messenger from the App Store, reports The Washington Post. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Coalition for a Safer Web and personally by its chairman, former US Ambassador to Morocco Mark Ginsberg.

The detention of Alexei Navalny gives the Kremlin for at least 10 days for thought about his future fate After the poisoning and treatment in Berlin, Alexei Navalny in Russia turned into a farce with a predictable ending: a politician plane (and with it - several more guilty flights) at the last moment was redirected from Vnukovo to Sheremetyevo.

At the end of 2020, China's GDP grew by 2.3%, follows from the data of the country's state statistical office. China is the only major country to avoid a recession in the pandemic year. Growth by 2.3% is the lowest for China in almost 45 years: in 1976, the country's economy shrank by 1.6%. In recent years, the growth rate of the Chinese economy has slowed down, but it was at least 6%: in 2017 - 6.8%, in 2018 - 6.6%, and in 2019 - 6%.