The Kremlin has decided not to renew cooperation with the American PR agency Ketchum due to the need to save money, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Thursday. “This is due to the fact that contract owners have a certain need for cost-saving measures,” he said. “In addition, the general atmosphere at the moment is little susceptible to PR and communication efforts in the context of a real communication war that is taking place,” Peskov added.

The euro exchange rate in the first minutes of trading on the Moscow Exchange on Thursday, March 12, dropped to 64.33 rubles, updating the minimum against the ruble since December 29, 2014, reports the website Finanz.ru . According to data at 10:18 Moscow time, the euro exchange rate with settlements tomorrow decreased by 58 kopecks - to 64.54 rubles. The dollar fell by 69 kopecks to 60.92 rubles.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on the creation of a military cabinet of the country's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), reported on Thursday.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Tatarstan believes that the fire in the Admiral shopping center in Kazan, which killed five people, could have started due to electrical wiring, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, March 12, citing the department’s press service. “All versions of what happened are being pursued. The preliminary cause of the fire is electrical.

Representatives of the largest foreign companies, in particular, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Metro Group, Nestle, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, EY, held a meeting on Thursday, March 12, in the State Duma with the speaker of the lower house of parliament Sergei Naryshkin, RIA Novosti reports . “Those companies that were represented here at the meeting today, they want to develop their business, they want to invest.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told R-Sport on Thursday, March 12, that the government plans to allocate more than 1 billion rubles by 2017 for the revival and implementation of the “Ready for Labor and Defense” (GTO) complex project. “Until 2017, 1.145 billion rubles will be allocated for the implementation of the GTO project.

Photo by Arseny Neskhodimov for Forbes The owner of R-Pharm, in an interview with Forbes, told how the pharmaceutical company turned into the largest supplier of medicines under government contracts R-Pharm, the largest supplier of medicines under government contracts and a participant in the Forbes “Kings of Government Order” rating , appeared on the market very timely.

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Residents of the Krasny Oktyabr village in eastern Ukraine saw a missile in the sky shortly before a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was shot down over Ukraine on July 17, 2014, Reuters reported on Thursday .

Investigators interrogated Andrei Babushkin, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow and the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC), TASS reports on Thursday, March 12 . Babushkin told the agency that investigators were interested in the motives of human rights activists who visited those detained in the case of the murder of oppositionist Boris Nemtsov.

Chinese online retailer Alibaba invested $200 million in the developer of the Snapchat messenger, valuing the startup at $15 billion, The Wall Street Journal writes , citing sources on Thursday, March 12. In 2014, when Snapchat attracted funding from Yahoo, DST Global, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and a number of other investors, the value of the startup was estimated at $10 billion.

Photo by Francoise Huguier / VU / East News The elite and the population choose different strategies for behavior in a crisis. One thing unites everyone: no one understands what awaits Russia in the future What will our country be like in a year? And in three, in twenty? Strange questions, you might say, especially against the backdrop of war and the economic crisis. Okay, I’ll rephrase: how did you see the future of our country ten years ago? And a year ago?

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov linked the emergence of rumors about the possible illness of Vladimir Putin and the upcoming resignation of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin with the spring aggravation, TASS reports on Thursday, March 12. “As soon as the sun appears in spring, as soon as it starts to smell like spring, exacerbations begin.

Sberbank acquired controlling stakes in the Platius company, which created a loyalty and mobile payment system, and in Rutarget LLC, which developed the Segmento advertising platform, the reported on Thursday. press service of the largest Russian bank The amount of investment in the projects is not disclosed.

The Central Bank lowered the official euro exchange rate on Friday, March 13, by 2.29 rubles to 64.6232 rubles, Finanz.ru reported on Thursday , citing data from the Bank of Russia. This is the minimum value of the European currency since December 27. The official dollar exchange rate was lowered by 1.72 rubles and amounted to 60.9595 rubles. The cost of the bi-currency basket ($0.55 and €0.45) decreased by 1.73 rubles to 62.8516 rubles.