I.O. Minister of Education Olga Vasilieva leaves the government. This was reported by RBC with reference to a source close to the White House, and two interlocutors close to ministries of education and science and higher education. According to the interlocutors of the publication, the head of Rosobrnadzor Sergey Kravtsov became a candidate for the post of Minister of Education in the government of Mikhail Mishustin.

In the struggle for a single legality “We know how difficult it was in the early 2000s. The Prosecutor General’s Office, including under the leadership of Yuri Yakovlevich [Chaika], did a lot for the uniform application and understanding of Russian laws. I hope that the most popular, the best examples, which, of course, were in the work of the General Prosecutor's Office, will be used by the new head of the department.

The ex-head of Interpol Meng Hunsvei was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to the agency, he did not appeal the verdict and did not appeal. On September 29, the previous head of Interpol Meng Hunsvei departed from France to China and since then has not got in touch. The Lyon prosecutor’s office initiated an investigation about his loss. On October 7, the General Secretariat Interpol received a retirement request from Hunwei.

The publication of declassified documents of the Ministry of Defense of Russia in connection with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw causes enthusiasm in the pro -Kremlin circles - and questions from specialists. In the center of the Polish-Russian dialogue and consent, the selection was considered one-sided : there are neither documents about murders in Augustovo, nor about how the Soviet leadership was determined with the attitude to the Warsaw uprising.

The Rostov Regional Court changed the verdict to the director of the Griff’s trading house Andrei Kokovkin, appointing a conditional term instead of real imprisonment, Interfax reports . “The verdict of the district court in relation to which to change. The punishment in the form of 3 years of imprisonment is considered conditional and set him a trial period for 2 years. From the custody of Kakovkin to free, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.

The prosecutor’s office with the new leader Igor Krasnov can regain investigative powers. This is written by "Vedomosti". According to the publication, in the bill on amendments to the Constitution there is a clause regarding the powers of the prosecutor's office. The new version of Article 129 among the functions of the department also includes “criminal prosecution in accordance with its powers”.

In Switzerland, two Russian agents were detained, who allegedly planned to organize an attempt on the founder of the Hermitage Capital investment fund William Brauder during the economic forum in Davos. This was written by the publication Tages-ANzeiger, the translation of the article publishes Inopressa. According to the publication, in August 2019, two alleged Russian agents were discovered in Davos. They are suspected of carrying out preparatory work to monitor the VEF.

On January 17, on the 75th anniversary of Warsaw’s liberation from the German occupation, the Ministry of Defense of Russia published on a special website archival documents containing “information about the Warsaw Uprising, about the release of the Red Army of the capital of Poland, about the atrocities created by the German-fascist invaders on Polish land, and about the help that the winners were disinterestedly released.” Lukash Adamsky, deputy director of the Center for the Polish-Russian

Belarus purchased 80 thousand tons of Norwegian oil. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the representative of the Belneftekhim State -Miner. According to the publication, it will be put on the Naftan oil refinery through the port in Lithuanian Klaipeda. Lithuania offered her infrastructure to ensure Belarus with raw oil on January 3 amid the suspension of supplies from Russia to the Belarusian NPZ NAFTAN and Mozyr. Then the parties could not agree on the conditions of oil supplies.

The deputy commander of the special forces regiment of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Alexei Krivul, nicknamed Green, was shot dead on the evening of January 20 in Donetsk. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Armed Forces of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov on his Twitter page.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia was won by the court to protect the business reputation of Senator Vyacheslav Markhaev, who asked to check the actions of the police and the Russian Guard due to detentions at a rally in Ulan-Ude on September 12. This was told by his lawyer Sergei Fedorov, reports MBH-Media. Marchaev’s statement was recognized as not true, but the senator will not have to make a refutation in the Federation Council.

The sports complex “Anji Arena” in the Dagestan city of Kaspiysk forbade women to visit the pool, write “Open Media”. Information about this was first published on the pool Instagram account, but later it disappeared from there. An employee of the complex in a conversation with the publication confirmed that women were stopped into the pool, because "the owner decided so." Women stopped issuing subscriptions and closed access when their validity expired.

The Russian airports began to check the health status of passengers arriving from China, where a new type of coronavirus is spreading, RBC reports with reference to Reuters and IrkutskMedia. Additional security measures were taken at four airports - Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, as well as in Irkutsk and Yekaterinburg. On the eve of the World Health Organization announced the convocation of an emergency meeting of the Extraordinary Committee due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

The German magazine Der Spiegel has published another version of the investigation about William Brauder, in which he offers more critically to the version of the death of Sergei Magnitsky in the presentation of the capitalist. In particular, the publication questions the conclusions of the Moscow Supervisory Commission, which conducted an investigation into the death of a lawyer, that the death of Magnitsky was a deliberate murder.

News Putin abolished the Ministry of the North Caucasus and reduced the number of deputy prime ministers 21 January 2020 Russian President Vladimir Putin abolished the Ministry of the North Caucasus, RBC reports. Its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Economic Development. Putin also signed a decree according to which there will be 9 deputy prime ministers in the new government.