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7:40. Everything You Want To Know On January 29

Today’s Highlights:

• Office Manager of the FBK Navalny shared how the authorities tried to recruit her, promising to pay for the treatment of her mother and threatening her with a criminal case.
• Today, the Moscow court will determine the measure of restraint to a native of Crimea, who stole the picture of Kuindzhi "AI-Petri. Crimea” from the Tretyakov gallery. The picture was found.

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