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The State Duma has adopted a bill in the first reading , which will allow the media-foreigners to be recognized as individuals. 333 deputies voted for the document, one against, one deputy abstained. The co-author of the law, the vice speaker of the State Duma, Petr Tolstoy, speaking at the meeting, recalled that foreign agents will be obliged to mark their messages. Earlier, he said that such notes will have to appear when distributing messages on other sites and in social networks.

The court of the Aland Islands decided not to punish the rap artists of Simon Yardenfort and Frey Larsson, who opened a gay club in the territory belonging to the Chancellery of the President of Russia in the Aland Islands in Finland. It is reported by Radio Liberty. According to the court’s conclusion, it is not possible to prove the responsibility of the musicians for the construction of a gay bar on Russian land. Musicians are released in the courtroom.

Civil activist from Kolomna Valentin Sokolov, accused of arousing hatred for posts on social networks, sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. This was announced on Facebook by activist Vyacheslav Egorov with reference to the wife of Sokolov. Sokolov was taken into custody in the courtroom.

In the report on the businessmen close to the highest Russian authorities, whom the Donald Trump administration must submit to Congress as candidates for the introduction of sanctions, about 50 people will be mentioned, about 300 with family members. About this, citing the USA in the United States. The interlocutors of the publication did not reveal specific names.

Private investors for the first time in Russia purchased a power station for mining cryptocurrencies. About this writes "Kommersant". According to the publication, businessman Alexei Kolesnik bought two small TPPs in the Perm Territory and Udmurtia from Viktor Vekselberg, on the basis of which the data center and a mining farm can create. “In the future, there is an idea to develop a data center: this is not only mining.

The owner of the network of grocery stores in Kaluga Yana Gurov stopped maintaining the action of the “regiments of good”, in which at her own expense, she distributed bread for pensioners for free. She told the local publication “News News” that the reason was aggression and negative from those whom she tried to help. According to her, the problems began after the bread supplier began to bring it later than usual.

The Investigative Committee refused to conduct a pre -investigation of the detention of the head of the Chechen human rights center Memorial Oyub Titiev, who stated that the police officer threw the drugs allegedly found in his car. According to Interfax, this was reported in the press service of the Council for Human Rights under the President.

The collector of signatures for Grigory Yavlinsky in the Primorye of Ivan Geronk was first forced to quit the Bikin National Park, in which he worked, and after the scandal they restored in the service and sent without weapons to be a shift to the taiga, where the tigers live. This was reported in the Yabloko party.

The bus, which drove into an underpass in Moscow at the end of December and shot down four people to death, was working, established the Investigative Committee. The bus driver previously claimed that the brakes were refused the bus. According to the investigation, in the case of “enough data”, confirming that the bus that drove into an underpass in the area of ​​the Slavyansky Boulevard metro station in Moscow was in good condition.

Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya rejected information about her meeting and conversation with the daughter of American president Ivanka Trump after communicating with her brother Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016. She reported this to RBC. “When I left the meeting, there was some kind of blonde, passed by. Whether it was Ivanka or someone else, I have no idea. I did not exchange replicas with her, ”the Veselnitsky agency quotes.

A denunciation of the Deputy Minister of Education Grigory Trubnikov, in which he is accused of plagiarism in a doctoral dissertation in physics, was created in one of the "factories" to protect the stolen scientific papers. Such a conclusion follows from the analysis of the denunciation, which was carried out by one of the co -founders of Dissernet Andrei Zazakin.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin and the rector of the Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky Alexander Sokolov signed an agreement on cooperation between the department and the cultural institution, according to the SK website.

The prisoners purchased building materials for the VIP camera repair in the Sailor Sailure pre-trial detention center at their own expense, they were delivered to the pre-trial detention center as humanitarian aid with the permission of the administration. According to RBC, this was told by a source familiar with the materials for checking the pre -trial detention center, and the lawyer of one of the “sponsors of construction” Ivan Mironov.

Students of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University distributed signature sheets and demanded that they collect signatures for the nomination of Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate. It is reported by Rosbalt with reference to activist Oksana Borisov. “The first -year students were handed out to Putin’s signature sheets and demand that they collect these signatures, supposedly this will play an important role in the session. They need to collect at least 14 signatures ...