Moscow Exchange reports with an eye on IPO The Moscow Exchange has published reports that will become a reference for investors wishing to take part in the initial public offering if the exchange's IPO takes place in early February. Over the nine months of 2012, the exchange's net profit by international standards increased by 12%.

The Supreme Economic Court confirmed the legality of the courts of first and appellate instances, which imposed an obligation on the Cabinet of Ministers to pay the Russian Ministry of Defense 3.113 billion UAH of debts to the Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation. The court's decision was announced at the meeting by presiding judge Galina Prokopanich.

Neurology 874 1 min. ... A team of American and Chinese scientists managed to refute the claim that nerve cells do not recover. Researchers have managed to transform fibroblasts—connective tissue cells that grow at the site of cuts or burns—into full-fledged and functioning nerve cells—neurons.

Psychophysiology 486 1 min. ... Materials prepared by Vladimir Tikhomirov, Elionora Samotaeva, Svetlana Makarskaya Hot-tempered people live longer than calm people, scientists from the University of Jena in Germany came to this conclusion.

The Supreme Economic Court began considering the cassation appeal of the Cabinet of Ministers against the obligation to pay the Russian Ministry of Defense 3.113 billion UAH of debts to the Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation. Judge Galina Prokopanich announced the start of the trial.

New requirements for bank reserves have added work to collectors Banks responded to the Bank of Russia’s tightening of control over risks by changing their mode of working with collectors. Now debts that are only 5-15 days overdue are transferred to debt collectors; previously, banks preferred to deal with such loans on their own. Participants in the collection market told Kommersant that banks began to involve collectors in dealing with problem debts of individuals at the earliest stages.

A military invasion of Mali will renew conflicts in the region, says Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. ''We will never approve of military intervention in Mali because it will lead to renewed conflicts in this African region. It is necessary that the intervention be peaceful and only financial efforts aimed at development be used,” Mohamed Morsi said at the opening of the Arab League economic summit in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

The US supported Japan in a territorial dispute with China The dispute between Japan and China over the ownership of the Senkaku Islands has gone beyond a bilateral conflict. The United States became its third party - for the first time they openly supported Tokyo on the island issue. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that Washington opposes any attempts to undermine Japanese sovereignty over the islands.

Ex-mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky launched a new personal project - the investment company Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG). The LLC of the same name was registered in Kyiv on January 10 of this year, according to information in the state register. “As a personal project of Leonid Chernovetsky, the investment company CIG has significant investment potential, the size of which exceeds $750 million,” the company’s website says.

This week, the Russian release of the main Oscar favorite, the historical and biographical drama “Lincoln” by Steven Spielberg, begins in Russia. The director again convincingly proves that serious themes in his performance are truly socially significant: the film has already been called an important cultural event and a democratic masterpiece, despite the fact that Lincoln was a Republican.

14K 1 min. ... Last Saturday, the funeral of Aslan Usoyan, who was killed in Moscow, was supposed to take place in Tbilisi. The charter flight with the body of Ded Hassan was awaited at the Tbilisi airport by dozens of journalists, as well as hundreds of Kurds and Yazidis - the legendary thief in law, born and raised in Tbilisi, belonged to this community. Late at night, the greeters were told that the plane would not fly from Donetsk, since the Tbilisi airport refused to accept it.

The fate of Hospital No. 31 in St. Petersburg will be decided this week. The presidential administration proposed reorganizing it into a medical institution for the Supreme and Higher Arbitration Courts, which are moving from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from United Russia Vitaly Milonov and director Alexander Sokurov discussed the situation with presenter Andrei Norkin. Defenders of the clinic turned to Vladimir Putin.

The mayor of Zhukovsky near Moscow, Alexander Bobovnikov, resigned after a meeting with the acting governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, the press service of the Moscow region government reported to RIA Novosti on January 21. “After the meeting with Vorobyov, the head of Zhukovsky, Alexander Bobovnikov, resigned,” the message says. In 2013, several mayors resigned after communicating with the head of the region.

Result Russian championship 14th round. "Dynamo" (Moscow) - "Grozny" 3:0. "Dynamo" (Krasnodar) - "Belogorye" (Belgorod) 1:3. "Prikamye" (Perm) - "Lokomotiv" (Novosibirsk) 1:3. "Iskra" (Odintsovo) - "Zenit" (Kazan) 0:3. "Lokomotiv" (Kharkov) - "Kuzbass" (Kemerovo) 0:3. "Shakhtar" (Soligorsk) - "Gazprom-Yugra" (Surgut) 0:3. "Fakel" (Novy Urengoy) - "Ural" (Ufa) 2:3. "Guberniya" (Nizhny Novgorod) - "Yaroslavich" (Yaroslavl) 3:0. Team position Blue group. 1. “Zenit” – 34 points. 2.

Conspiracy theorist With new code! Having gone halfway through his earthly life, he found himself... No, not in a gloomy forest, but in gloomy, cold Florence, where detective No. 1 in the world ranking of the detective genre Dan Brown announced the imminent release of a new novel "Inferno", in which Beloved Harvard University history professor Robert Langdon will unravel Dante Alighieri's code hidden in the first volume of his Divine Comedy.