Metalloinvest of Alisher Usmanov (No. 1 in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia, fortune: $18.1 billion) is ready to sell its stake in Norilsk Nickel if there is a good offer. The billionaire himself told reporters about this on Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. As he put it, “if there is a good offer, we will always consider it.” “We have a portfolio package there, but why buy it? To make money,” RIA Novosti quotes the businessman as saying .

The structures of businessman Ruslan Baysarov can obtain a license for the Elegest coal deposit in Tuva, the reserves of which are estimated at 900 million tons of coking coal. Rosnedra revoked the license for the Elegest deposit from the Yenisei Industrial Company of the former senator from Tuva Sergei Pugachev, four sources told the Kommersant newspaper. A temporary license was issued back to Baysarov’s structures.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) allowed Bashneft to acquire 25.00025% of the shares of the United Petrochemical Company (UNK) and thus increase its share to 100%, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a FAS message. Bashneft and Petrochemical Holding agreed in September 2011 to create a joint United Petrochemical Company. The authorized capital of the created joint venture was paid in cash in the amount of €10 million in proportion to the shares of the participants.

The Prosecutor General's Office sent a request to the State Duma to revoke the immunity of deputies Konstantin Shirshov and Oleg Mikheev. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Wednesday, January 23, by the official representative of the supervisory agency, Marina Gridneva. The head of the Duma's regulations committee, Sergei Popov, said that if the documents arrive in the chamber in the coming days, deputies could consider them in January.

State Duma deputies believe that Rosfinagency should not be created in the form of an open joint-stock company. “This can only be a state organization,” the Prime agency quotes the statement of the head of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes, Andrei Makarov, which he made during a discussion of the draft law on the creation of the RosfinAgency at a committee meeting. The deputy emphasized that there can be no open joint-stock company.

The State Duma increased the salaries of employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia. The bill was adopted in the second and third readings on Wednesday, reports the RAPSI agency. The increase in the salary of ICR investigators will take place in several stages and will begin on January 1 of this year. The document proposes to increase the salary of TFR workers by gradually increasing the amount of additional payment for special conditions of service.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev does not rule out his participation in the 2018 presidential elections, but considers it impossible for himself to compete with Vladimir Putin. “What will happen in the future? Wait and see. I've never given up anything, but I love my job. “I have to complete this part of my work,” Medvedev said in an interview with Bloomberg TV in Davos.

The Moscow City Court upheld the legal sentence of Maxim Luzyanin, a participant in the “March of Millions” on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, who received 4.5 years in prison for participating in mass riots and violence against police officers. The cassation court did not commute the punishment, as Luzyanin’s defense requested, an Interfax correspondent reports. Thus, the verdict came into force.

The head of Stroyimpuls, Sergei Amelin, who died on Sunday at his dacha, was not interrogated in the Oboronservis case, but in the future he could be summoned for questioning on corruption in the Ministry of Defense, said Vladimir Markin, official representative of the Investigative Committee. “In connection with the information that appeared in the media about the death allegedly after the interrogation of Sergei Amelin...

The head of the Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov, addressed the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank with a proposal to develop regulations for the operation of electronic wallets. According to Ivanov, the system of anonymous Internet payments is increasingly being used to purchase large quantities of drugs. has obtained CNews a presentation about the threat to the anonymity of electronic payments.

Zyuganov as the future president, and Medvedev as Gorbachev, Who is Mr. Putin?, withdrawal of invitation to Deripaska and other bright stories related to the participation of Russian delegations in the forum in Davos The World Economic Forum opened in Davos on Wednesday. This time the Russian delegation is headed by Dmitry Medvedev.

Russian businessman, ex-head of Mirax Group Sergei Polonsky, arrested in Cambodia on charges of attacking local sailors, said that the court has already decided to put him in prison, and he is currently serving his sentence. “The judge read out to us specifically: 3 years, 3 years and 1 year. It’s all an illusion, what they say there,” Polonsky said in an interview with the Rossiya 1 TV channel, adding that he still doesn’t even have a lawyer.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has suspended the purchase of Italian Iveco armored vehicles and will not enter into new contracts for these vehicles with Italy. This was stated on Wednesday by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Vladimir Chirkin. “The contract for the further purchase of these vehicles with Italy has been suspended,” RIA Novosti quotes Chirkin’s statement.

The second plane of the Ministry of Emergency Situations with Russians taken out of Syria flew from Beirut to Moscow Il-76 landed at Domodedovo airport on January 23 at 05:25 Moscow time, an Interfax correspondent reports. The Russians were accompanied by specialists from the Emergency Psychological Assistance Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and doctors from Tsentrospas. A psychological assistance center will also be set up at the airport.

photo East News / AFP / ImageForum Negotiations, receptions, cocktails, speeches by politicians and closed events - what Bill Gates, Alisher Usmanov and other participants of the economic forum are doing in Davos “Davos is like a speed dating session,” says 51-year-old investor Nicholas Berggruen in an interview with Bloomberg . “The quality of people is very high, and if you can talk to someone, that’s great.