Viktor Basargin found two investors for the pig farm Governor Viktor Basargin found two investors who are ready to buy the Permsky pig farm, but did not name them. He intends to coordinate the applicant with the Federal Property Management Agency, which expressed its intention to transfer the pig farm to the ownership of the region. According to Kommersant, among the contenders may be the Udmurt holding KOMOS and the Chelyabinsk Uralbroiler.

The net profit of one of the largest Polish oil refiners, PKN Orlen SA, at the end of 2012 decreased by 0.8% compared to 2011, to 2.34 billion Polish zlotys (about $748 million), the company’s report said. PKN Orlen's revenue in 2012 amounted to PLN 120.102 billion, which is 12.3% higher than in 2011.

Several people were wounded in a shooting at a Texas college. The incident occurred on January 22 near Houston. There were more than 10 thousand students on the student campus at that time. Kommersant FM correspondent in America Natalya Suvorova told the details to presenter Oksana Barykina. - What details do you know about how this happened?

The State Duma received proposals from the Prosecutor General's Office to deprive deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia, Konstantin Shirshov and Oleg Mikheev, of parliamentary immunity. Law enforcement officers suspected the communist of trading in a mandate, and the spravoross of real estate fraud. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia intend to join forces to protect their colleagues.

Chelyabinsk vice-governor is being checked for slander A criminal case has been opened regarding slander against the Chairman of the Chelyabinsk Regional Court Fyodor Vyatkin in the program “Man and the Law”. Yesterday, as part of his investigation, searches were carried out in the office and house of First Vice-Governor Oleg Grachev, a close associate of Governor Mikhail Yurevich.

Its price reached four-month highs At today's trading, the price of American WTI oil rose to the levels of four months ago, to $97 per barrel. Optimistic expectations regarding the state of the German economy contributed to an increase in demand for black gold. In such a situation, ruble assets benefit: Russian indices rose by 0.5–0.7%, the dollar exchange rate dropped by 8 kopecks, to 30.1475 rubles. for $1.

Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week has started in Paris for the spring-summer 2013 season. Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week is an opportunity to see the most beautiful and expensive creations of designers, often more like works of art. Haute Couture Week in Paris traditionally marked the beginning of the main fashion shows of the coming season. Chanel, Dior, Valentino, Elie Saab, Jean Paul Gaultier and many others will demonstrate their collections as part of Paris Fashion Week.

The European Committee for Freedom of the Press proposes the creation of national regulators to control the media. The regulatory body will most likely be independent from the governments of European countries, experts say, and its main tool will be a system of fines for unscrupulous market players. The European Union proposes to tighten media regulation. The Financial Times newspaper writes about this.

In the skies over Kabul on January 22, an emergency almost occurred with a Russian passenger Boeing 767, which was flying from Bali to Yekaterinburg: a military aircraft came close to the liner, a source in aviation circles told Interfax on January 23. “On Tuesday at approximately 12:00 GMT, a dangerous approach between a Russian Boeing 767 of the Nordwind company and a military aircraft occurred in Afghan airspace near Kabul,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

23 1 min. ... Australian dollar** 843.9133 British pound** 1267.704 Belarusian ruble* 0.0093 Hungarian forint*** 36.1657 Danish krone** 142.6159 U.S. dollar** 799.3 Euro** 1064.428 Icelandic krona** 6.2338 Kazakh tenge** 5.3032 Canadian dollar** 803.8271 Norwegian krone** 143.0298 Polish zloty** 255.0322 Russian ruble* 2.6471 Turkish Lira** 451.1626 Czech crown** 41.5581 Swedish krona** 122.4761 Swiss frank** 859.588 Japanese yen** 90.0684 *For 10. **For 100. ***For 1000. According to the NBU

At a meeting on January 23, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on a simplified procedure for the seizure and provision of land plots in the territories annexed to Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. We are talking about sites in the so-called “New Moscow”, where a parliamentary center will be created, as well as infrastructure and social facilities. The bill was introduced in November 2012 by deputies of United Russia.

At the end of 2012, the Maria-Ra retail chain increased revenue by 32.7% to RUB 40.8 billion. (excluding VAT), the Barnaul retailer said in a statement. Comparable sales (like-for-like) of Maria-Ra stores increased over the year by 9.7%, the average check increased by 8.3%, and customer traffic by 1.1%. “The company’s plans for 2013 are to maintain the pace of network development and launch all lines of its own automated distribution center,” the retailer notes.

Australian dollar 31.8678 English pound 47.8712 Belarusian ruble** 34.8672 Danish krone* 54.0712 U.S. dollar 30.1950 Euro 40.3194 Indian Rupee*** 56.3497 Kazakh tenge*** 20.0345 Canadian dollar 30.4508 CNY* 48.5435 Norwegian krone* 54.1624 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 47.1488 Singapore dollar 24.6188 New Turkish lira 17.1611 Ukrainian hryvnia* 37.1516 Swedish krona* 46.5283 Swiss frank 32.4259 Japanese yen*** 33.8528 *For 10. **For 10000. ***For 100. According to Reuters.

164 1 min. ... The owner of the Ukrainian TMM Bank, which was sold last year, turned out to be one of the industrial groups of the Russian Federation. According to the general director of the development and construction company TMM Nikolai Tolmachev, the owner of the bank is the Moscow Industrial Group.

The anti-corruption campaign in China has forced over 10 thousand civil servants to emigrate from the country, media reports. At the same time, they are forced to get rid of expensive real estate and buy housing abroad, including in Russia. Most often, wealthy Chinese buy apartments in the Far East and Eastern Siberia, experts note. Chinese officials are buying up Russian real estate.