In the economy Savings will begin when reserves end March 4, 2015. Maxim Blot The Ministry of Finance published a new budget version for this year. Instead of previously announced reduction of all expenses by 10%, which would save about one and a half trillion rubles, officials of the financial department preferred to spend the reserve fund in an accelerated mode. The total reduction in expenses will result in a “symbolic” amount for a 15-thrillion budget-300 billion rubles.

In society Dissertations sewing expert March 4, 2015 Andrey Zasakin Dissernet does not get tired of reminding that the highest certification commission is the main organizing and guiding force of the false dissertations in Russia. The key positions in the expert councils - its main working bodies playing the role of the appeal instance when considering statements about the deprivation of the scientific degree - were seized by those who traded these dissertations.

Sakhalin Governor Alexander Khoroshavin, after a search in his residence, was arrested and sent to Moscow in handcuffs by the regular flight of SU 1743. Together with the governor, the head of the Governor’s secretariat Vyacheslav Gorbachev and assistant governor Andrei Ikramov were arrested. RBC with reference to a "source close to the Kremlin" reports that searches can have a political connotation, since Khoroshavin planned to go to early elections this year.