The government of Bashkortostan has approved a long-term target program for state regulation of tariffs for 2013–2018, according to the regional government website. The goal of the program is to ensure balance and long-term stability of regulated markets for goods (works, services) through the establishment of economically justified tariffs (prices), the report notes. The total amount of funding for the program will be 139.87 million rubles.

The acting head of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, appointed two new ministers - the heads of the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Construction, two new deputy prime ministers, and also demoted Oleg Lipatov, who previously worked as the first deputy chairman of the government, a representative of the head of the region told RIA Novosti on February 6.

Russia can resume dialogue with the United States in the “2+2” format with the participation of the heads of the foreign policy and defense departments of the two countries, if necessary to solve the missile defense problem, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti on February 6.

State banks exchange deposits for certificates Following Sberbank, other major players are ready to save on household deposits. Another state bank, part of the VTB Bank of Moscow group, is ready to use an alternative way to attract funds from the population - in savings certificates uninsured by the state. Other major players also have intentions to follow the example of the two state banks.

Tournaments The captain of one of the teams of the volleyball All-Star Game, Sergei Tetyukhin, chose Vadim Khamutskikh as the head coach, and Gennady Shipulin as the head coach, the official website of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) reports. The team captains of the All-Star Game, which will be held on February 23-24 in Moscow - finishing player Sergei Tetyukhin and diagonal Maxim Mikhailov - will select players for their teams.

Free Internet via WiFi will still appear in the Moscow metro in 2013, a representative of the capital’s Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development told RIA Novosti on February 6. Earlier, a source in the capital's government told the agency that the auction for the right to conclude an investment agreement to equip the Moscow metro lines with free Internet access via the WiFi network did not take place due to the fact that not a single application was submitted for it.

A report on the correctness of monetary policy has been published First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia Alexey Ulyukaev will present today a published report on the monetary policy of the Central Bank. The document does not contain significantly new data on the Central Bank’s policy, but Bank of Russia analysts in the document bring to a new level the discussion about the extent to which the regulator’s current macropolicy limited economic growth in 2011-2012.

The most likely reason for the unsuccessful launch of the Zenit-3SL launch vehicle with the American communications satellite Intelsat 27 from the naval cosmodrome in the Pacific Ocean on February 1, according to the preliminary conclusions of the telemetry analysis, is considered to be a failure of the on-board power source, the State Design Bureau told Interfax on February 6 Yuzhnoe" (KBYu, Dnepropetrovsk).

The bill on voluntary testing of schoolchildren and students of secondary and higher educational institutions for drug use, which was planned to be considered in the second reading at the plenary meeting of the Moscow City Duma on February 6, was removed from the agenda, Interfax reports.

The alleged killer of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan was under house arrest Representatives of the Directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office for the North Caucasus Federal District harshly criticized on Tuesday the work of the district directorate of the Investigative Committee for the North Caucasus Federal District for "sluggishness." According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the alleged perpetrator of the murder of the head of the Ministry of Internal

Saakashvili's supporters are ready to limit his powers in exchange for refusal to join the CIS The Georgian parliament held a debate on a constitutional amendment limiting the president's right to dismiss the government.

465 1 min. ... Dear readers! In “Kommersant” N17 (1720) dated February 5, in an interview with the chairman of the State Agency for Investments and Management of National Projects Vladislav Kaskiv, instead of “Gazprom” one should read “gas monopolist”. The agency refused to specify who exactly Mr. Kaskiv had in mind. The editors apologize.

The prosecutor's office of the Italian city of Civitavecchia, located in the Lazio region, suspects the national airline Alitalia of fraud, reports Corriere della Sera. The decision to open a case against the national carrier of Italy is due to the fact that the company sold tickets for flights that were allegedly operated directly by Alitalia, but at the same time some flights were served by a Romanian company.

The Voronezh department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has charged the former speaker of the city duma of the regional center, Alexander Shipulin, with abuse of power. He is charged with damages in the amount of 858.5 thousand rubles, which, according to the Investigative Committee, he illegally spent on a trip to Paris.

American students have come up with an unusual business model: they offer clients to first install a system of energy-saving equipment in their office, and only then take their percentage of the company’s total savings on electricity bills. This principle of operation could not help but attract the attention of investors, summarize Mikhail Khomich and Yuri Mitin. Mikhail Khomich, teacher of economics of innovation, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov: This story began in 2009.