An American court on Wednesday, January 16, fined Russia $50,000 a day until it complies with the demands of a previous court decision to return historical books and documents to a Jewish organization from the United States. Judge Royce Lambert of the U.S. District Court issued a decision in the case a week after the hearing began, despite a request from the Justice Department not to issue a fine, since such a measure, in the opinion of the department, would not lead to any results.

OJSC Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill (BPPM, Irkutsk region) has postponed the start of production, previously scheduled for Wednesday, January 27, a source at the company said. According to him, the postponement of the resumption of production was influenced, among other things, by weather conditions and shortages of raw materials. “Temperatures are expected to drop, which may affect the process of supplying the plant with timber.

Penalties from small enterprises should be assigned depending on the organization’s cash turnover. At the moment, the fine is 300 thousand rubles. is minimal, but if the company’s turnover is less than this amount, then the fine will be underestimated. Experts are confident that this measure will allow small businesses to resist pressure from supervisory authorities. The Constitutional Court protected small businesses from heavy fines.

Cultural policy The tour of our cities and towns by the Frenchman Depardieu and the coincidental release of the British "Anna Karenina" on the screens aggravated the typically Russian ailment. We want to be the center of universal love, the measure of truth, the cornerstone of all foundations. The homeland, if not of elephants, for whose lives Brigitte Bardot fights, then at least of the entire European fauna.

Norway increases gas supplies to the EU Norway, Russia's closest competitor in the European gas market, is finding new ways to fight for consumers. Already at the end of 2012, the country was able to increase sales in Europe by 16%, while the Russian Gazprom reduced them by 8%. As a result, the volumes of supplies from Russia and Norway to the European market are almost equal. Gazprom's sales in the EU may fall this year as well, which could be good for Ukraine, experts say.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow has completed an investigation into a criminal case accusing banker Alexander Lebedev of beating businessman Sergei Polonsky. The owner of the National Reserve Bank, Lebedev, as reported by the Investigative Committee, is accused of committing crimes under paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Art.

Approval of the list of business inspections, as well as the issue of assigning a business entity to one or another risk group must be finally closed before March 1, 2013, President Viktor Yanukovych said, speaking at a meeting of the Economic Reform Committee. Mr. Yanukovych emphasized that the newly created Ministry of Revenue and Duties needs to build a conflict-free model of cooperation with business. “I will closely monitor this process,” the president said.

Police are checking two metropolitan schools after a report of a threat of a terrorist attack, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow told Interfax on January 17. “At 12:00, the control panel received a message about a threat of a terrorist attack at school N249,” said a press officer.

According to the press service of the Motiv telecommunications group, at the end of 2012, the operator’s subscriber base exceeded 2.34 million users. The bulk of subscribers are located in the Sverdlovsk region, about 20 thousand subscribers are in the Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs and the Kurgan Region, in whose territory the operator began providing mobile communication services only last fall. Alexey Burov, Kommersant-Online

The case of Vyacheslav Dudka will be considered by the district court Yesterday, preliminary hearings were held in the Tula Regional Court in the case of the former governor of the region, Vyacheslav Dudka, accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of 40 million rubles. The defense insisted on a jury trial, but the court denied this to the accused.

Drama theater director accused of embezzlement acquitted by court The cassation board of the Saratov Regional Court issued a final verdict in the criminal case of the artistic director of the Balashov Drama Theater, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Vladimir Popov. He was charged with theft of 471 thousand rubles by illegally accruing cash payments to himself. As the drama theater reported, he was completely acquitted.

The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has picked up the trail of the person who ordered the high-profile murders in Moscow In Georgia, a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Temur Pataridze, who is suspected of organizing assassination attempts in Moscow on crime bosses and Georgian opposition leaders, has been arrested.

The share price index at trading on the PFTS stock exchange decreased by 3.84 points, or 1.19%, to 318.46 points. Since the beginning of the year, the PFTS index has decreased by 10.23 points, or 3.11%, from 328.69 points. The share price index at trading on the PFTS stock exchange on Wednesday decreased by 3.97 points, or 1.22%, to 322.30 points.

The department wants to improve its status According to Rosrybolovstvo, which addressed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the Ministry of Agriculture is not able to carry out effective government management of the industry. The head of government was asked to create a separate ministry. Market participants in Primorye note that the reform is unlikely to benefit business. Analysts believe that industry reformers must not only manage it, but also take responsibility for their decisions.

In St. Petersburg, Natalya Mityukhina, the chief tax inspector of the Interdistrict Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service of Russia No. 18, was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe, as reported on January 17 on the website of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Russian Federation for the city . Ms. Mityukhina is suspected of having made a demand to the management of one of the commercial organizations in December 2012 to hand over a bribe in the amount of 800 thousand rubles.