The amount of payments accrued to members of the board of Sberbank for 2014, taking into account payments during business trips, amounted to 2.717 billion rubles, as indicated in the bank’s quarterly securities report. This is approximately 21% less than in 2013, when the amount of payments to members of the bank’s board amounted to 3.44 billion rubles. At the end of 2014, the bank’s board included 13 people, at the end of 2013 - 14 people.

Employees of the internal affairs bodies “understood” the restriction on travel abroad, the press center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported to Interfax on Monday, February 16 .

Assistant to the Russian President Vladislav Surkov said that, despite the financial crisis, Vladimir Putin decided not to reduce financial assistance to Abkhazia, Interfax reported on Monday, February 16 . “The situation in Russia today is difficult, we all know this, and budget spending is being cut. But the Russian President decided not to cut costs associated with supporting Abkhazia,” Surkov said at a press conference after a meeting with Abkhaz President Raul Khadzhimba in Sukhumi.

Assistant to the Russian President Vladislav Surkov expressed the opinion that there should be no borders between Russia and Abkhazia, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, February 16 . Thus, Surkov commented on the journalists’ question about the queues on the Russian-Abkhaz border. “Ultimately, this border must be removed.

Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), former top manager of Alfa Group Vladimir Ashurkov , who was put on the wanted list at the end of July in the case of violations of financing the election campaign of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, received political asylum in the UK, reports Monday, 16 February, Interfax . “I know that Ashurkov received political asylum in the UK,” the lawyer of his common-law wife, Alexander Salnikov, told the agency.

The new EU sanctions list, published on February 16 and including, among other things, State Duma deputy from United Russia Iosif Kobzon, looks “strange,” a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “It all looks strange, some kind of deja vu. As if by inertia, they are stamping out sanctions lists, ” Interfax quotes him .

Chairman of the State Duma subcommittee on water resources Georgy Karlov said that the lower house of parliament may accept a statement about the ecocide of Crimea by Ukraine due to the blocking of water flow through the North Crimean Canal, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, February 16 . “We are going to raise the issue of ecocide in Crimea, deliberate harm to the environment and human life, to the all-Russian parliamentary level.

Russia considers it illogical for the European Union to expand the sanctions list to a number of Russian individuals and legal entities and will give an adequate response to this, according to a comment published on Monday on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, in connection with the entry into force of the decision of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on the expansion of anti-Russian sanctions.

Photo by Alexander Karnyukhin President of the Tashir group of companies and one of the leaders in the rating of kings of Russian real estate - about the crisis, new projects and heirs Samvel Karapetyan first appeared on the Forbes list in 2010 with a fortune of $750 million (No. 91). Since then, the developer has managed to multiply the volume of business; in 2014, Forbes estimated the entrepreneur’s fortune at $4.3 billion (No. 26). What is the secret of Karapetyan’s success?

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the volunteers detained while distributing leaflets in the Moscow metro were released from the police, said on Twitter on Monday, February 16. Navalny himself “Everything is fine, everyone was released and even a special police officer gave us free access to the subway. Thank you all for your support,” he said. According to the politician, in total he spent more than eight hours in the police department.

The government of Dmitry Medvedev proposed reducing funding for the federal target program (FTP) to strengthen the unity of the Russian nation, designed until 2020, by 452 million rubles, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday . The proposal is contained in a draft government resolution.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that relieved Sergei Dubik from the post of presidential adviser, reported the Kremlin website on Monday, February 16. The reason for Dubik's dismissal is not specified in the message. Since 2005, Sergei Dubik has been involved in the fight against corruption in the Kremlin administration.

The Central Bank does not plan to issue a 2,000-ruble banknote with the image of Vladivostok into circulation, since there is no need for banknotes of a new denomination, the TASS agency reported on Monday , citing the Far Eastern Department of the Bank of Russia. “The current nominal series of banknotes of the Bank of Russia fully meets the needs of cash circulation,” the department said.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Monday, February 16, ordered the company Ural-Invest, associated with the former general director of Bashneft Ural Rakhimov , to pay 70.7 billion rubles in favor of AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov as recovery of losses incurred as a result of the seizure shares of Bashneft, Interfax reports . The defense of Ural-invest will appeal this decision, said the defendant’s lawyer. “We will fight as long as we can,” he stressed.

The director of the Federal Service for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (FSKN), Viktor Ivanov, may take the post of adviser to the head of state after the dissolution of the department, the reported , citing its sources on Monday, February 16. Kommersant newspaper The newspaper's interlocutors emphasize that there is no final decision on disbanding the department yet. Relevant documents may be withdrawn from the government.