The United Russia faction in the State Duma proposed nominating deputies Pavel Krasheninnikov and Nikolai Bulaev to the post of Commissioner for Human Rights, which is currently held by Vladimir Lukin, State Duma Deputy Speaker from United Russia Sergei Zheleznyak told reporters on Monday. He noted that the presidium of the faction supported these candidacies unanimously, Interfax reports . Nikolai Bulaev is the first deputy head of the faction.

photo ITAR-TASS What will the co-founders of Dropbox spend their investors' money on and how is the service becoming similar to Twitter? The American service Dropbox, which allows you to store files in the cloud and synchronize them between different devices, has attracted another round of investment - for $250 million. Investors valued the company itself at $10 billion, this is one of the largest figures in the venture capital market.

Russian entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev (No. 164 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes , net worth: $0.6 billion) on Monday denied information about the upcoming sale of The Independent newspaper, published in The Guardian last week. Lebedev told ITAR-TASS that rumors about the sale of The Independent have appeared for the fifth time in the last two years.

The interplanetary probe "Rosetta", which was in sleep mode for two and a half years after launch, emerged from hibernation mode on Monday, January 20, according to NASASpaceFlight.com . The device sent a corresponding message to the European Space Agency (ESA) space operations center in Germany, confirming its awakening. On the official Twitter of the project on Monday evening, messages were published with the words “Hello, world!” in several languages.

High-ranking officials involved in public administration must receive high salaries if society wants to avoid problems of corruption, said First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov (No. 14 in the ranking of incomes of federal officials “Power and Money” , total family income - 448 million rubles ) in an interview with The New Times magazine published on Monday. The interview was published on the publication’s website; its full text is available only by subscription.

Train traffic on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow metro was disrupted on Monday afternoon due to a sagging cable in the tunnel, Interfax reports , citing the metro press service. “A sagging cable in the tunnel near the Kurskaya station interfered with the movement of trains,” said a representative of the press service. He clarified that the malfunction was detected at 13:57.

Photo by Diomedia Dividends, European economic recovery, consumer discretionary and other investment ideas for the next 12 months Having rebounded after the 2008 crisis, the Russian stock market has slipped into stagnation - indices do not fall to new lows, but each new high is lower than the previous one. The economy is slowing down, political risks are growing, which means that the indices have nothing to grow from. Therefore, it is impossible to make money on Russian stocks?

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the head of the Central Bank (CB) Elvira Nabiullina to work on the issue of stimulating a reduction in interest rates on ruble loans for organizations in the production sector by September 1.

The French authorities have decided to close the country's airspace to the plane on which the Syrian delegation is to travel to the Geneva 2 international conference in the city of Montreux in Switzerland. This was reported by the French publication Le Parisien with reference to an AFP report. “France denied the plane that was supposed to carry our delegation on Tuesday to cross their airspace.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia has allowed Ecofran Marketing Company Limited (part of the Gazprom-Media Holding group) to acquire a number of structures of the ProfMedia holding, according to the agency’s website. “The deal concerns federal television channels - TV3, “Friday!” and 2×2, radio stations - “Avtoradio”, “Romantika”, Humor FM, “Energy” and the film company “Central Partnership (TsPSh),” the FAS statement noted.

The investigation has opened a new criminal case against the former general director of Togliattiazot Corporation Evgeniy Korolev, reported on Monday. the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) website The case was initiated under Part 1 of Article 201 of the Criminal Code (abuse of power), which provides for a maximum penalty of imprisonment for up to four years.

A student of the Faculty of Journalism at one of the Moscow universities, a former employee of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia, allegedly hacked the official account of the agency on one of the social networks, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Monday. Currently, the suspect is under recognizance not to leave the place, the department noted.

The European Union and the United States lifted some sanctions on Iran on Monday, January 20, after the IAEA confirmed that Tehran had met the nuclear requirements imposed on it by the Geneva agreement concluded in November, Al Jazeera reports . The easing of sanctions provides, in particular, for the temporary lifting of restrictions on the export of oil and petroleum products.

photo Sergey Nikolaev/Vedomosti/Fotoimedia How are the reform of RAO UES of Russia, Igor Sechin and the former head of JP Morgan Natasha Tsukanova related? In April 2009, the head of the Russian office of the international investment bank JP Morgan, Natasha Tsukanova, unexpectedly left her post in the company, where she had made a brilliant career for 12 years. “You don’t know Tsukanova?

A bill to return winter time in Russia has been submitted to the State Duma for consideration, RIA Novosti reported on Monday with reference to the head of the lower house health committee Sergei Kalashnikov. “With the adoption of the bill, Russians begin to live according to astronomical time, as in nature; The seasonal switches have already been canceled by law,” the agency quotes him as saying.