Law enforcement officers referred the case to the use of Strezsheychi Mara Baghdasaryan of a fake sick leave to avoid administrative punishment in the form of compulsory work. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

The leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, called on the prosecutor general Jeff Sehns to resign due to the alleged contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, AP reports . Seoshns resignation was also demanded by the leader of the Democrats in the House of Congress Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his trusted people “created a criminal scheme” based on non-profit funds. Thanks to this, Medvedev owns "huge plots of land in the most elite regions, disposes of yachts, apartments in ancient mansions, agricultural complexes and winery in Russia and abroad." This was announced by politician Alexei Navalny.

Podgorica sent a request to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to assist in the investigation of attempts to a coup in October 2016. This was announced by Interfax in the Prosecutor General. As noted in the department, the request of Montenegro is now “considered in the prescribed manner”.

US Prosecutor General Jeff Sashns met twice with Russia Ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak to the presidential election. This was written by The Washington Post with reference to representatives in the Ministry of Justice. According to the publication, one of these meetings took place in September 2016 in the Sashns office, which was then the Senator of the Congress from Alabama.

The Kostroma court sentenced the former mayor of Sergiev Viktor Bukin to eight years in a maximum security colony, Mediazona reports. In December 2016, the Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma sentenced Bukin to a fine of 4 million rubles, the prosecutor's office at the same time announced that she would appeal the verdict. Bukin was found guilty under part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe by the head of the local government with extortion).

In the ranking of “Kings of the State order” -2017, which annually makes Forbes, the owners of the Ufa company “Paton” Igor Mnushkin, Oleg Polyakov and Vladimir Zaitsev took the first place. Their company received 176 billion rubles from Gazprom. In second place - VAD CJSC Valery Abramov and Viktor Perevalov (163 billion rubles). On the third - Stroytransneftegaz (153 billion), which is associated with billionaire Gennady Timchenko.

Representatives of United Russia were recommended to provide candidates from the parliamentary opposition in assistance in overcoming the municipal filter in the regions. According to Kommersant, such a recommendation was given at a closed party seminar. The party will help competitors with the collection of signatures to overcome the municipal filter in each of the 14 regions, where the elections of governors will be held in September.

In New Moscow, a collapse of the tunnel under construction occurred on the Kaluga highway. According to TASS, citing the Department of Health of the capital, one worker died as a result of the incident, three more workers were injured. “Three workers were removed from the tunnel and hospitalized with injuries of varying severity,” the source said. According to him, there may be one person under the rubble.

Deputies of the Kiev City Council decided to rename the Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, the League. News reports . Now the museum will be called the National Museum "Kyiv Picture Gallery". The official abbreviated name is the Kyiv National Picture Gallery. The renaming was supported by 84 deputies. “The Museum of Russian Art, where more than 13 thousand cultural monuments are now exhibited, will have its former name. It was opened in 1922 as the Kyiv Picture Gallery.

The MSU was liquidated by the dissertation council on the basis of the Faculty of History, which considered the dissertation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichi. “This dissection is not. It is already closed, ”Sadovnichy explained and added that this happened according to the law.

The politician and activist Marco Kappo fell under the investigation after the euthanasia of the Italian DJ in Switzerland. This was reported by the newspaper La Stampa. DJ Fabo, Fabio Antoniani, in 2014 got into an accident. After that, he remained paralyzed and blinded. In January 2017, Antoniani recorded a video message in which he asked the president of Italy to grant him the right of euthanasia at his homeland.

Since 2014, the Investigative Committee of Russia has opened 102 criminal cases of war crimes in the Donbass. According to RIA Novosti, the head of the UK Alexander Bastrykin stated this at the college of the department. According to him, 90 officials of Ukraine became the defendants in these cases.

The director of the Corruption Fund Roman Rubanov submitted an application to the Investigative Committee of Russia with a request to make cases of a bribe against Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and billionaire Alisher Usmanov. This is written by "Vedomosti". The statement states that in 2010, Usmanov handed over to the Fund for support for socially significant state projects, which is managed by Medvedev, a plot in the village of Znamenskoye, Moscow Region with a residential building.

On February 2, Russian media reported on the publication of a special report on the Committee on International Relations of the House of Communities of the British Parliament, dedicated to bilateral relations of Great Britain and Russia.