What are they talking about this morning

-The British intelligence services really used the Spy Stone in Russia , the former official of the administration of Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted . According to Jonathan Powell, Russia knew about the stone for a long time, but “adhered” it for political needs. The scandal with an intelligence devices, disguised as a stone, erupted in 2006. Soon after, the law was adopted in the Russian Federation that tightened the financing of non-profit organizations from abroad. His critics stated that the story with the stone was fabricated specifically to limit the freedom of civil society.

- Sergey Lavrov will remain to lead the MID after the presidential election , the sources of Kommersant say in the foreign policy. According to them, it is comfortable candidate Vladimir Putin to work with Lavrov, and he himself, summing up the results of 2011 on Wednesday, confidently spoke about the “continuity” of Russian foreign policy after Dmitry Medvedev left.

- Suleiman Kerimov naps the next profitable deal . He is going to sell 3.1% of Rostelecom (half of his package) to her daughter - the mobile operator. If the transaction takes place, Kerimov will earn 1.5 billion rubles on it. The billionaire became the owner of Rostelecom shares three months ago, after the August collapse of the operator's quotes.

- The head of Gazprom Alexei Miller and the owner of Renova Viktor Vekselberg extended the term of the agreement on the merger of his energy acts . The parties submitted a new application to the FAS, the process itself is supposed to be completed by the end of the first quarter of this year . According to the terms of the agreement, in the structures of the gas monopoly created by the joint venture, 75% of the shares will receive, the bill of promotion - 25%.

- The Moscow government is going to transfer the construction of social facilities in Moscow (kindergartens, housing, schools, hospitals and clinics) in the hands of one “super -price” - the official enterprise “Moscow Center for Children's, Family Rest and Holy of Highlight”. If this happens, over the next three years, the center will receive about half a trillion rubles from the budget for construction needs.

- In response to the government’s demand to disclose the beneficiaries of companies - counterparties of state -owned companies - the first refusal was received. The Interfax’s private news agency refused to call their end owners . According to the press secretary of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the media do not fall under the assignment.

- The Moscow City Hall proposed the Organizing Committee of the Movement “For Honest Elections” options for holding a protest march on February 4 : go from Kaluga Square to Bolotnaya Square or along the Frunze embankment to Luzhnikov. Alternative: go from Kaluga to Manezhnaya Square, but not on Saturday, but on Sunday, February 5.

- President Dmitry Medvedev will keep his promise and visit the journalism faculty of Moscow State University again on Tatyana's Day - January 25 . The last visit of the head of state ended ambiguously: many people did not get to a conversation with Medvedev, and the FSO officers detained the most zealous of them. The organizers will prepare for the current meeting in advance: they will give out students about the FSO memo, and the opposition will be allocated in 3 square meters. meters.

- The prominent unicorn and coordinator of the “Popular Front” of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov ranked last year's opposition rallies to the merits of the era of Putin . “Can anyone recall such mass rallies of protest against all this in ruined Yeltsin Russia? No, because they were not there. And there were no them because people were simply not up to rallies, ”he said in an interview with Rossiy newspaper .