President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council on Friday, said that responsibility for the worsening situation in eastern Ukraine lies with those who give “criminal orders” to use artillery and aviation against populated areas, Interfax reports .

Hospital ship "Kostroma", 1905 The first steamship in Russia appeared less than 10 years after its invention in the USA, and by 1914 the country was ahead of England and Germany in the number of steamships In October 1890, a tall thirty-year-old passenger with a small beard and a slightly puffy face boarded the steamship Petersburg, moored at the pier of the Korsakov post on Sakhalin.

photo by Corbis/All Over Press Proponents of the hypothesis about the end of the period of sustainable economic growth have not yet provided convincing evidence The crisis in the global economy has dragged on for so long that the voices of skeptics are increasingly heard, doubting that in the foreseeable future the current fluctuations will be replaced by an upturn.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt (No. 49 in Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans, net worth $8.3 billion) predicted the disappearance of the Internet, reported on Friday, January 23. The Daily Mail “I will answer very simply - the Internet will disappear,” said the head of the board of directors of Google when asked what the future of the global electronic network will be, during one of the discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

VostokService structure Ruslan Baysarov's has increased its stake in Stroygazconsulting (SGK) to a blocking stake, increasing it from 14.5% to 25.69%, Interfax reported on Friday . Billionaire Ziyad Manasir's share in STG decreased from 57.4% to 48.42%. The remaining shares belong to Alexey Likhachev (14.36%), Mikhail Yakibchuk (7.93%) and Roza Prilepa (3.6%). In December 2013, Baysarov’s structures bought 30% of Stroygazconsulting from Manasir.

The Bank of Russia recommends that banks consider the issue of restructuring foreign currency mortgage loans, including by converting them into rubles at the rate of 39.4 rubles per $1, follows from a letter from the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, published on the regulator’s website on Friday, January 23. When converting, it is recommended to use the official Central Bank rate established as of October 1, 2014, writes Nabiullina.

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said at the economic forum in Davos that government funding for large projects for the construction of transport infrastructure will be reduced by an average of 10%, TASS reports on Friday, January 23 . “In general, we do not plan to sharply reduce the amount of infrastructure financing. There will be a general reduction of 10%, and unevenly across projects. In some places we will fully finance expenses, in others we will reduce them.

The Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) at its meeting on Friday decided to exclude Crimean football clubs from the Russian football championship, the TASS agency reported . We are talking about the Crimean clubs SKCHF (Sevastopol), Zhemchuzhina (Yalta) and TSK (Simferopol), which in the summer of 2014 became participants in the second division of the Russian championship.

Employees of the Investigative Committee and the FSB department for the Primorsky Territory are searching the premises of Dalta Bank in Vladivostok in the case of the theft of 2 billion rubles during the construction of the Primorsky Oceanarium on Russky Island, a told TASS.

The head of VTB, Andrei Kostin, said that the disconnection of Russian banks from the international payment system SWIFT with increased sanctions will mean a break in relations between Russia and the United States, TASS reports on Friday, January 23 .

Photo by RIA Novosti The only people left in the president’s inner circle are security officials who support his position on Ukraine, the agency claims.

The State Duma approved on Friday in the first reading a bill lifting the ban on advertising on pay TV channels that show only Russian content, Interfax reported . The bill provides that TV channels will be allowed to sell advertising on pay TV channels when they “distribute exclusively national media products,” the text of the bill says.

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday, said that an oil price of $50 per barrel would not be painful for Russian oil companies, Interfax reports . According to Shuvalov, in Davos he spoke with Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov and with representatives of other companies. “They will develop, sell their goods.

The international PayPal service, which provides clients with the opportunity to pay bills and purchases in online stores, has stopped servicing residents of Crimea, Interfax reported on Friday, January 23 . The agency refers to a correspondent who received a letter from the company about deactivating the account.

The next release of the free application “Forbes. Topic of the week" is already in the App Store The topic of the new issue of the weekly Forbes supplement. The topic of the week is Russia’s oil dependence and oil price fluctuations. In this issue - how does GDP depend on oil prices and what does this threaten us with? The iPad version of Forbes Russia Mag is available in the App Store at the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/forbes-russia-mag/id934323468?mt=8 . Forbes Weekly Supplement.