TV presenter Yana Churikova has been appointed head of youth and music television broadcasting at Viacom International Media Networks in Russia, RIA Novosti reported citing the VIMN press service. With her appointment to the new position, Churikova’s responsibilities will expand. “Now she will be fully responsible for the broadcasting of the MTV Russia TV channel and niche music channels, develop the MTV Russia brand itself, and also manage its licensing issues,” the press release says.

The young man who broke into the building of school No. 263 on Otradnaya Street in the north-east of Moscow on Monday turned out to be a student of one of the senior classes of the same school, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. He has now been neutralized, the department reported. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, one police officer and one teacher were killed as a result of the incident.

An armed man who opened fire in the building of school No. 263 on Otradnaya Street in north-east Moscow is holding more than 20 schoolchildren and one teacher hostage, ITAR-TASS reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “At the moment, the criminal is in one of the high schools. There are more than 20 students and a teacher in this classroom,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs press center said in a statement.

The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg submitted to the State Duma a bill on the next renaming of the Day of Lifting the Siege of Leningrad; the corresponding initiative was placed in the legislative framework of the lower house on Monday. The new draft law proposes to call the day of military glory of Russia on January 27 the Day of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade.

The board of directors of AFK Sistema of Vladimir Yevtushenkov reported on Monday, February 3, (No. 23 on the list of the richest businessmen in Russia, net worth $6.7 billion) approved on February 1 a deal for the company to enter the capital of the Ozon Internet holding, Interfax with reference to a source familiar with the situation. At the same time, he did not name the size of the Ozon stake acquired by Sistema, but noted that the company will be a minority shareholder in the holding.

The growing debts of municipal heat and power enterprises to Naftogaz of Ukraine threaten to disrupt settlements with Gazprom for supplied Russian gas, Interfax reported on Monday with reference to the press service of Naftogaz. According to the company as of February 3, the debt of utilities for consumed gas amounts to almost 27 billion hryvnia ($3.4 billion). Over the past three months, the debt has increased by almost UAH 10 billion, Naftogaz noted.

Satellite operator Tricolor TV has decided to terminate the contract with the Dozhd TV channel and will officially stop broadcasting on Monday, February 10, according to a message published on Monday, February 3, on the operator’s website.

The high school student who took hostages at school No. 263 in northeast Moscow on Monday and killed a police officer and a teacher most likely had an emotional breakdown, Russian Investigative Committee (ICR) spokesman Vladimir Markin told reporters on Monday. He also confirmed information that had previously appeared in the media that the 10th grade student who opened fire at the school was an excellent student, Interfax reports .

Skyscanner has calculated the cheapest times for flights to five popular tourist cities - Rome, Paris, Barcelona, ​​Istanbul and Bangkok The international flight search service Skyscanner studied how prices for flights to popular tourist cities (Bangkok, Barcelona, ​​Paris, Rome, Istanbul) change at different times of the year. For example, for residents of Russia, in order to save as much as possible, it is better to buy tickets 29 weeks before departure.

The former head of the Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, registered on the VKontakte social network and has already passed verification. Khodorkovsky’s Twitter, which is maintained by the businessman’s press service, also included a link to the page of the ex-head of YUKOS. “Mikhail Khodorkovsky now has an officially certified page on the VKontakte network,” the message says. Representatives of the businessman also thanked VKontakte press secretary Georgy Lobushkin for his help.

Photo by PhotoXPress The Bank of Russia had recipes for preventing speculative attacks, but it did not use them The gradual transition to free floating of the ruble suddenly looked like a rapid devaluation. This did not happen at the request of the Bank of Russia; The regulator most likely did not expect such a rapid development of events. But the lack of a clear response to them is a responsible decision of the Central Bank. Such inaction risks becoming a rather serious miscalculation.

Top 10 best-selling models in Russia in the prestigious segment of the car market The Russian car market, which had demonstrated double-digit growth since 2010, sharply slowed down in 2013. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates, last year sales of new cars decreased by 5.5%, and in monetary terms, dealers lost 3%, having sold $69 billion over the year. The situation was slightly better in the premium segment, in which, according to forecasts, about 200 cars were sold.

Alexey Krivoruchko has been officially appointed general director of the Kalashnikov concern, RIA Novosti reported on Monday , citing a representative of the Rostec press service. “On January 30, 2014, the supervisory board of Rostec approved the appointment of its new shareholder Alexey Krivoruchko as general director of the Kalashnikov concern,” the agency quotes him as saying. Krivoruchko began his duties on January 31.

The Accounts Chamber of Russia discovered during an audit that during the period from 2010 to 2012, enterprises of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia concluded more than half of the construction contracts in violation of the law, the volume of which amounted to 7.1 billion rubles, the reported on Monday.

The British investment company VIY Management (VIYM), among the founders of which the eldest son of Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin Andrei Yakunin, acquired a blocking stake in the equity capital of the Family Doctor clinic chain, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Monday, February 3, citing the head of the department for interaction with VIYM investors Nadezhda Nesterova and co-owner of the company Alexey Vetrov. The parties refused to name the amount of the transaction.