The most popular word searched by users in the Yandex search engine in 2014 was “selfie,” the reported internet company on Wednesday. “Selfie,” which debuted on the list, displaced the word “love,” which had been leading the Yandex ranking since 2010, from the top spot. In 2014, “love” took fourth place.

The government, representatives of the largest retailers and manufacturers will gather with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Gorki near Moscow to discuss the work of retail chains with suppliers, the Kommersant newspaper reports , citing a source familiar with the preparations for the meeting and the prime minister’s press secretary Natalya Timakova on Thursday , 11th of March.

The website of the Internet encyclopedia “Lurkomorye” (Lurkmore) has been excluded from the register of prohibited sites, Roskomnadzor reported on Wednesday in its microblog on Twitter. “Lurkmore.to has been excluded from the unified registry after restricting access to illegal information,” the service said in a statement. The day before, March 10, Roskomnadzor promised to block Lurkomorye because of pages dedicated to pedophilia and drugs.

The board of directors of Bashneft, which in December passed from AFK Sistema under Vladimir Yevtushenkov to state control, elected on Wednesday, March 11, the first deputy head of the Ministry of Energy, Alexei Teksler, as its chairman, the press service of the energy company reports . Earlier on Wednesday, at an extraordinary meeting of Bashneft shareholders, the company’s board of directors was also elected.

Russia has the right to deploy nuclear weapons throughout its territory, including Crimea, Mikhail Ulyanov, director of the department for nonproliferation and arms control at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on Wednesday. “In principle, we proceed from the fact that we have such a right. Although Kiev thinks differently,” the TASS agency quotes him as saying.

The Russian Youth Union (RSM) proposes to amend the traffic rules to prohibit smoking while driving for all drivers, regardless of category, the reported on Wednesday, March 11. organization’s website RSM sent a corresponding appeal to the head of the State Duma Committee on Transport, Evgeny Moskvichev.

Photo TASS On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Putin had canceled a planned visit to Astana due to illness. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on a Reuters report that the reason for postponing the Russian leader’s visit to Kazakhstan could be his illness, RBC reported on Wednesday, March 11. Peskov forwarded the question of where Reuters could get information about Putin’s possible illness to a foreign agency.

Members of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) Eva Merkacheva and Andrei Babushkin, who visited the defendant in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Zaur Dadaev, in the pre-trial detention center, will be summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) in connection with “interference in the activities of the investigator,” according to the ICR website. on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, March 11, the press service of the Basmanny Court commented on the words of Zaur Dadaev, accused in the murder case of politician Boris Nemtsov, about his non-involvement in the case, Interfax reports . Court press secretary Anna Fadeeva explained that Dadaev was allowed to express his position regarding the investigation’s request to place him in custody. “Dadaev was given the floor.

The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, said that, following the leadership of the country, he decided to cut his salary, but not by 10%, but by half, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, March 11 . “I am ready to cut my own salary in half. The decree is being prepared and will be published this week,” Aksenov said, answering a corresponding question from journalists.

The LetterOne group, controlled by Russian businessmen Mikhail Fridman , German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev , provided the British government with detailed information on the purchase of oil and gas fields in the North Sea as part of a deal with the German energy concern RWE, Reuters reports citing a LetterOne message. The company stated that it intends to seek a solution to the dispute with London until the last minute.

At the upcoming negotiations with Russia on gas supplies, Ukraine will raise the issue of increasing the gas transit rate through its territory by said on Wednesday . 30-100%, Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Vladimir Demchishin The transit rate in force in the first quarter of 2015 is $2.88 per 100 km. “Comparing these costs with other countries, I understand that this rate can be increased up to $5.5, twice,” the Interfax agency quotes Demchishin’s statement .

Getty Images According to the head of the British Foreign Ministry, in this way London hopes to increase pressure on Moscow British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond announced the possibility of publishing “interesting” information about the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle in order to increase pressure on Moscow, The Telegraph newspaper reported on Wednesday, March 10.

Russia and the DPRK declared 2015 the year of friendship between the two countries against the backdrop of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Korea from the Japanese Empire and victory in the Great Patriotic War, the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Wednesday, March 11.

The political council of the Sakhalin regional organization "United Russia" at an extraordinary meeting suspended the membership in the party and regional council of the governor of the Sakhalin region, Alexander Khoroshavin, who is suspected of receiving a bribe of $5.6 million, the TASS agency reported on Thursday, March 11.