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What are they talking about this morning
- So far on the Maidan, everything is relatively calm, Kiev calculates the missing. According to the Euromaidansos group, there are already 36 of them. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine claims that from mid -November to the end of January 26 appeals about the missing were received in the police.
- The European Union decided to help Ukraine not only with advice, but also with money. As the head of the EU foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, announced , Europe and the United States want to support the Provisional Government of Ukraine in the transition period, before the next presidential election. The size of assistance has not yet been determined, but the numbers "will not be small."
- News of the struggle for spiritual scrapers. In Russia, the first case was recorded when the child was punished for gay propaganda, Znak.com found out . In one of the small cities, the Bryansk region “revealed” the 9th grade student, who “openly recognized herself as the face of non-traditional sexual orientation” and formed classmates “a distorted idea of the social equivalentness of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations”. They decided not to initiate a criminal case, the girl escaped with a warning and registration with the minors' commission. So.
-Igor Sechin for some reason deceived Dmitry Medvedev. On January 24, the head of Rosneft, at a meeting with the prime minister, announced that “over the past year, if on January 24, we gave about 18% of growth,” referring to the capitalization of the company. In fact, according to the London Stock Exchange (LSE), on January 24, 2013, Rosneft's capitalization amounted to $ 94.64 billion, and on January 24, 2014 - $ 75.78 billion, that is, decreased by 25%. On the Moscow Exchange, the company fell into 8%, writes RBC . And only on Sunday, the representative of Rosneft explained what was meant capitalization in a year and a half. From July to December 2012, the company really rose against the backdrop of the purchase of TNK-BP, resemble Vedomosti.
- On February 2, early parliamentary elections were held in Thailand, but how it all ended, we will not recognize until the end of the month. Due to the protests, some polling stations were closed, and almost a quarter of voters could not vote, BBC reports . An additional vote will be held on February 23, but for now, Prime Minister Yinglak Chinavat remains in power.
- The Russian government came up with a subscription fee for electricity to the Russians. As planned by the FCS, if you fix such a column in monthly payments, for most citizens, the costs will not change, but the owners of empty “investment” apartments or cottages who do not pay anything, compensate the electric grid costs of their connection. Details of the project - at Kommersant .
-In New York, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died. On Sunday, the holder of Oscars was discovered in his bathroom with a syringe in his hand, writes New York Post . The alleged cause of death is an overdose of heroin. The actor was 46 years old.
- Shocking from Izvestia: “United Russia” for ten years hid the partisan of Alexei Kudrin, the newspaper writes . Then the Minister of Finance, Kudrin submitted an application for the entry into the EP in 2004, and he was accepted, but they did not advertise this fact. And even now some people refute. In general, around the secrets.
- The son of the President of the Russian Railways Andrei Yakunin became interested in medicine, the Vedomosti reports . The investment company VIY Management, which he is a co -owner, acquired a blocking package in the Moscow network of the Family Doctor Clinic. How much the pleasure cost is a secret.
What else to read in the morning: a portion of economic predictions in the newspaper Vedomosti: Konstantin Sonin about the correct swimming of the ruble and Vladimir Mau on the post -crisis world as a whole; New rating from Forbes - “Kings of Russian Real Estate”.
Bonus Video : Vladimir Putin soloes in an excerpt from the film "Philosophy of the Soft Way" on the channel "Russia". The president talked about how he chose a place for the Olympics, and laughed at the question of corruption in Sochi.