Photo by Max Novikov for Forbes The Russian Central Bank is unlikely to change its key rate of 17% this week and is likely to keep it unchanged until the summer of 2015, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing the results of two surveys of 23 economists. The majority of survey participants believe that the first reduction in the key rate could occur in June or July of this year. They believe that the Central Bank will do this only if inflation drops below 11.2%.

photo TASS The new Greek Foreign Minister will take part in an emergency meeting of foreign ministers for the first time Representatives of EU governments at a meeting on Wednesday, January 28, were unable to agree on a six-month extension of sanctions against Russian officials, which expire in March, Bloomberg reported, citing three sources. Consensus on proposals to add new names to the “black list” and prepare further economic sanctions also seems difficult to achieve, the agency notes.

The Baltika brewing company announced the cessation of operations at its factories in Krasnoyarsk and Chelyabinsk from April 30, 2015 due to the decline in the beer market and unbalanced regulation and taxation of the industry in Russia, the company said in a statement published on Thursday, January 29. “The Baltika Brewing Company carefully examined its operational activities and production structure and decided to terminate the activities of its branches in Krasnoyarsk and Chelyabinsk.

The dollar exchange rate in the first hour of trading on the Moscow Exchange on Thursday, January 29, exceeded 69 rubles, reports the website Finanz.ru . As of 10:58 Moscow time, the dollar exchange rate with settlements tomorrow rose by 1.03 rubles - to 69.05 rubles per $1. The euro rose in price by 1.1 rubles - to 77.95 rubles per €1. The ruble is weakening on the eve of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, where they will discuss expanding sanctions against Russia.

source A Reuters close to Moscow State the University confirmed that Katerina Tikhonova, director of the National Intellectual Development Foundation, which is involved in the project to create scientific and technological valley of Moscow State University, is the daughter of the President of Russia, reported on Thursday. the agency’s website “Yes, it’s her,” Reuters quoted its source as saying. The agency was unable to contact Tikhonova herself.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates (No. 1 in the ranking of the richest people in the world according to Forbes, worth $76 billion) at an online conference organized by the website Reddit , said that he was impressed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (No. 21 in the ranking of the richest people world, $28.5 billion) learned Chinese. “Mark Zuckerberg learned Mandarin great and answered questions from Chinese students - it’s incredible,” Gates wrote in correspondence with users.

The world's largest domain name registrar, Go Daddy, has stopped serving residents of Crimea due to sanctions imposed by the United States, Interfax reported on Thursday, citing programmers on the peninsula. “According to our data, you may be in Crimea.

The Rostechnadzor commission recognized the main cause of the accident at the Uralkali mine in Solikamsk in November 2014 as the earthquake that occurred in 1995, reported on Thursday. the company’s press service The commission found that the cause of the breakthrough of fresh water into the mine workings of the Solikamsk-2 mine in November 2014 was the massive collapse of rocks during the accident and earthquake of 1995, the press release says.

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A meeting of the trilateral contact group on Ukraine will be held in Minsk on January 30, 2015, the TASS agency reported on Thursday, citing a statement by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. “The Contact Group informed the Belarusian side of its intention to hold the next meeting in Minsk on January 30, 2015,” the statement said. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry promised to provide details about the time and place of the meeting on the morning of Friday, January 30.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes According to him, many girls were passed off as the president’s daughters Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Forbes that he does not know whether the director of the Innopraktika company, Katerina Tikhonova, is the daughter of the Russian president. “I don't know who it is. I can't appreciate it, I don't know. Until now, many girls have been passed off as Vladimir Putin’s daughters,” Peskov said.

Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika announced on Thursday the results of an inspection of retail and pharmacy chains, during which cases of inflating prices for medicines and food products by 400% were identified. “The picture, of course, is depressing,” RIA Novosti agency quotes him as saying. Chaika noted that in many cases prices are unreasonably inflated by hundreds of percent - by 300-400%.

Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev did not rule out on Thursday that the United States may take a risk and move from the “cold war”, in which Russia is already involved, to a real “hot” war, the Interfax agency reported . “Unfortunately, I can no longer firmly say that the cold war will not lead to a hot war. I’m afraid that they may take a risk,” Gorbachev said.

Photo by Reuters The Russian government is counting more on the recovery of oil prices than on the effect of its own actions The government approved the “Plan of priority measures to ensure sustainable economic development and social stability in 2015.” The preamble, in addition to responding to current challenges, also promises structural reforms in the Russian economy. But this is where the problems begin.

Rossiya Bank, which came under US and EU sanctions, has begun testing operations through the operational and payment clearing center of the National Payment Card System (NSCP), the reported on Thursday, January 29. bank’s press service The message clarifies that the start of Bank Rossiya's work through the NSPK system is scheduled for early 2015.