Aleksey Navalny, an outspoken Putin critic, has stated that he is due to return to Russia on 17th January.

The start of the project was announced on the 11th January by the head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Sergey Kirienko.

A telecom operator Enforta is looking into an insulting comment about Putin that had been up for 12 hours on the website of the Habarovsk region administration. The critical comment with the word PUTIN had been noticed on the background of a live coverage of a building site in Komsomolsk-na-Amure.