The Investigative Committee charged with fraud for 14 billion rubles. Former Minister of Finance of the Moscow Region Alexei Kuznetsov, according to the website of the department. According to the investigation, in 2005-2008, an organized group, led by Kuznetsov and his deputy Valery with a nosov fraud, acquired from municipal unitary enterprises in the Moscow region, providing housing services to other people's property in the form of debts of other enterprises that did not pay utilities.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved two bills that allow you to unlock the work of the American government, which was suspended on December 22. It is reported by Reuters. The work of the government will be resumed at least until September 30. Also, a package of bills approved by democrats involves maintaining a budget for the protection of borders in the current framework.

The government agreed on the move of part of the federal departments to the complex on the territory of the Moscow-City business center, according to the website of the executive body. Until the end of 2019, the central devices of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Economic Development, as well as the Federal Agencies of Rosakkreditation, Rosstandart, Rosturism and Rosimuvity will move into new premises.

The 35-year-old resident of Chechnya Hava Akheadova and a 4-year-old Khalid, the grandson of a resident of Dagestan Roza Yuzbekova, died in Syria during the bombing of the village of Ashhafa in the province of Deir-Ez-Zor. This was told by a member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya Hed Saratov, referring to the words of other Russians who are in Syria. The dead had Russian citizenship.

US citizen Paul Wylan, detained in Moscow on suspicion of espionage, is also a citizen of Great Britain and Canada. Wylan writes about British citizenship The Times. The country's Foreign Ministry said that they requested consular access to the British detained in Russia without naming the name. The Canada Foreign Ministry said that “a Canadian citizen was detained in Russia,” CBC reports .

The administration of Magnitogorsk published a list of gas explosions in the entrance of the house. On Monday, December 31, in Magnitogorsk, the floors of the ceilings occurred in one of the entrances of a 10-story residential building. The priority version of the Investigative Committee called the explosion of domestic gas. The case of causing death by negligence has been opened. In the tragedy, 39 people died. On January 2, an explosion occurred in a minibus in Magnitogorsk. Three people died.