Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said that the Ukrainian authorities are considering the possibility of international mediation in resolving the internal political crisis and are negotiating with representatives of the EU and Switzerland about such mediation, the Prime agency reports . In an interview with the agency, Azarov said that he sees a role for international mediators in negotiations with the opposition.

The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a bill that toughens the punishment for false reporting of a terrorist attack and provides for imprisonment for up to five years if the crime caused major damage, RIA Novosti reported on Friday , citing the Duma apparatus.

About 1,000 people are being checked for involvement in the activities of about 20 extremist groups that took part in the riots on Grushevsky Street in the center of Kiev, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported on Friday, January 24. Members of these groups are suspected of committing serious and especially serious crimes.

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The founder and CEO of VKontakte Pavel Durov confirmed the information about the sale of his share (12%) in the social network to the CEO of Megafon and co-owner of the YuTV holding Ivan Tavrin (No. 200 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes , fortune - $0.5 billion ) and said that he was not going to leave the company. about this Durov wrote on his VKontakte page late Friday evening.

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Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group Mikhail Fridman (No. 2 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes , fortune - $16.5 billion) offered €5 billion for the company Dea, which is the oil and gas division of the German concern RWE, blocking the offers of others potential buyers, Reuters reported , citing sources. The offer from the oil and gas company Wintershall (part of BASF SE) turned out to be equal to €3.5 billion.

The chief engineer of the enterprise, Yuri Taratonov, was appointed acting general director of the St. Petersburg shipbuilding plant "Severnaya Verf" instead of the detained Alexander Ushakov, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the United Construction Corporation (USC), the shareholder of the "Severnaya Verf".

Investigators suspected Deputy of the People's Assembly of Dagestan Magomed Magomedov of creating a criminal community, extortion and fraud of 100 million rubles, official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said on Friday.

The Internet company Yandex in its mapping service Yandex.Maps has updated panoramas of Sochi, adding panoramic images of the 2014 Olympics facilities, according to a press release received by Forbes . Panoramas of nine Olympic venues and 1,500 km of Sochi streets and roads are available in Yandex.Maps. In total, more than 80,000 photographs were taken. Users can view panoramic images of Olympic Square or the Rosa Khutor ski complex, and see sports facilities.

The Chairman of the Volyn Regional State Administration (ROSA) Boris Klimchuk wrote a letter of resignation, the VolynPost portal reported on January 24 . The application is registered and will be sent to Kyiv later. According to Klimchuk, he wrote a statement to prevent bloodshed. The chairman of the Volyn regional council, Vladimir Voitovich, and the deputy chairman of the regional council, Yuriy Lobach, also resigned.

The State Duma on Friday, January 24, approved in the first reading a bill limiting rewards for early termination of a contract—the so-called “golden parachutes”—for executives of state corporations to six times the average monthly salary.

photo by Max Ryazanov A multifunctional complex will appear on the site of Moscow’s most famous long-term construction project The most famous unfinished construction project in Moscow, the water park on Aminevskoe Highway, has changed its owner. Samvel Karapetyan’s Tashir company bought a multi-storey abandoned building in the south-west of Moscow, where the last episode of the TV series “Brigade” was filmed, for $100 million, said Tashir vice-president Igor Bulatov.

photo Kommersant The main task is to raise the Russian company to the Swiss level The former head of Morgan Stanley in Russia, Rair Simonyan, headed the board of directors of UBS in Russia. Together with him, his longtime associate Elena Titova came to Russian UBS and took the position of chief managing director. UBS bank announced this on Friday. Simonyan told Forbes that his main goal is to create a first-class Russian investment bank.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images The share from the founder of VKontakte was bought by Megafon CEO and Forbes list member Ivan Tavrin The founder of the largest Russian social network VKontakte, Pavel Durov, sold his share (12%) in the company to the CEO of Megafon and co-owner of the YuTV holding Ivan Tavrin (No. 200 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes , fortune - $0.5 billion), reported on Friday, citing a source.