Antismoking campaign has begun in the city of Sochi. Smoking in the Olympic Games host city – 2014 is prohibited now on the beaches (there are 161 beaches in Sochi), in parks, public gardens, schools, hospitals and cultural institutions.

The Palestine leader Mahmoud Abbas has given a lecture in the Russian Islam University in Kazan under his official visit to Russia. He was speaking about the need to live in peace and told about the problems of his motherland.

More than 40 000 dzerens (antelope species) crossed the border between Russia (Zabaykalsky Territory) and Mongolia this year, having damaged 6 kilometers protecting structures of the Russian-Mongolian border.

An unknown murderer shot down a man, coming from Armenia. The incident took place on the north of Moscow, in the café on the Dmitrovskoe Avenue, 133. The murderer took several shots to his victim sitting at the table with a woman and left the café.

6 sailors from Ukraine, crew members of the Sea Star vessel which stays in the port of Nakhodka are on strike because of the wages held back. They have given their complaint to the representatives of the Russian Sailors Guild to hand it over to court. The sailors claim to arrest the vessel until they get their money.

A naked passenger was arrested in the Moscow metro. Three absolutely naked young men were dancing on the metro station of Novogireevo. They were laughing and taking photos of each other with handies.

14 persons were attacked and bitten by a homeless rabid dog in the Moscow Region. All the people are being vaccinated now. Moreover, medical care is being delivered them comprehensively.

An evening consecrated to the memory of journalist Natalya Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov killed in Moscow one year ago took place in the city of Kazan on the January, 19. This murder was considered as a political one at once and drew attention of the world public.

Two men were arrested next one of the Moscow ATMs on the Amundsen Street. They are suspected in committing Serious Fraud with plastic cards. The swindlers have retrieved about 15 millions rubles from the ATMs, using 50 plastic cards, supposedly false ones, titled in the different people’s names.

A Russian company headquartered in Rostov, focusing on farming machinery production, has represented the world's fastest tractor.