Two US residents posted advertisements on eBay for the sale of fragments of a meteorite that fell in the Urals. Similar offers have also appeared on Russian online platforms, with prices reaching up to 400 thousand rubles. The likelihood that the debris will be fake is extremely high, experts warn. Fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite were put up on eBay.

The court saw no violations in the purchase of a tomograph for a Novosibirsk hospital In Novosibirsk, a court issued a verdict in a high-profile case regarding the purchase of high-tech medical equipment.

At the end of 2012, the total deposit portfolio exceeded the same indicators in 2011 by 42% and amounted to 8 billion rubles. The retail deposit portfolio grew by 25% to 5.1 billion rubles; time deposits showed the greatest dynamics, their volume in the portfolio is 60%. The bulk of the funds raised come from Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Samara, Penza, Orenburg, Ufa and Kazan. The deposit portfolio of the corporate block increased by 84%.

Nokia Siemens announced the departure of CFO Marco Schreiter. The company did not provide information regarding the reasons for Mr. Schreiter's departure, adding that the decision was related to the restructuring of the joint venture. Based on materials from Reuters

The prosecutor's office filed a claim against Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) for UAH 18.6 million, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office reports.

He called for stopping planning and starting to implement what was planned. The X Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum (KEF) has ended. The tone was set by the speech of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev: he confirmed that the country's GDP growth in the future should be at least 5% per year. To do this, the head of government invited officials and businessmen to stop planning and finally start implementing plans.

In the new verdict in the case of the murder of a deputy from Agidel, the court did not evaluate the actions of the security forces The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan yesterday handed down a new sentence to the perpetrators of the murder of Agidel City Council deputy Ildar Nafikov. He was burned in October 2005 in a country house because he refused to pay money to the criminal common fund. The court named the perpetrators of the arson as the perpetrators of the crime.

monitoring / trading According to a preliminary estimate by the European statistical agency Eurostat, exports from the euro area in 2012 exceeded imports by €81.8 billion (a year earlier there was a deficit of €15.7 billion). A slowdown in domestic consumption and an increase in supplies abroad also led to a reduction in the balance sheet deficit in the EU as a whole (from €162.7 billion to €104.6 billion, imports increased by 4% compared to 12% in 2011).

The "Party of the Ten Commandments" was created in Russia. One of the leaders of Russian Baptists, Sergei Mezentsev, became its head. Kommersant FM columnist Konstantin Eggert regrets that the new public association is unlikely to achieve immediate success.

The court ordered the mayor's office to pay the Federal Property Management Agency more than 46 million rubles. The Arbitration Court of the Perm Territory recovered more than 46 million rubles from the Perm administration. according to the claim of the territorial administration of the Federal Property Management Agency. According to the plaintiff, in 1993 the mayor's office illegally included two buildings of the Perm Medical Academy in the register of municipal property.

FIFA has decided to use electronic goal-keeping (GLT) at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, as well as at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The FIFA statement notes that the purpose of using the system is to support referees during matches. FIFA has announced a tender among companies presenting such systems, its results will be announced in early April 2013. Based on materials from the Ukrainian News Agency

The volume of industrial production in Ukraine in January fell by 3.2% compared to January 2012, which is better than the decline of 7.6% in December and 3.7% in November last year, the State Statistics Service reported. The department also clarified that in January 2013, compared to December 2012, industrial production decreased by 11.1%.

The Moscow City Court returned him to the prosecutor's office For the second time, the Moscow City Court returned to the Prosecutor General's Office the materials of a high-profile criminal case on illegal wiretapping of telephone conversations. Among the accused are former deputy head of the department of special technical measures (USTM) of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate Mikhail Yanykin and deputy head of the MUR Nikolai Orlov.

OJSC Novosibirsk Municipal Bank (NMB, part of the Nomos Bank group) published information about the latest changes in the composition of its affiliates. According to a message posted by the credit institution, the former general director, now chairman of the board of directors of NMB, Vladimir Zhenov, is no longer its shareholder. The date of the change—a reduction in its share from 2.01% to zero—was February 13.

The head of Lipetsk, Mikhail Gulevsky, signed an order to transfer his deputy Sergei Troshkin to OJSC LGEK, according to his personal statement and the request of the energy company, the mayor’s office reported. On February 14, Sergei Troshkin was appointed Deputy General Director for Energy Policy of the city energy company. He came to the Lipetsk administration in October 2007 from LGEK, where he worked as chief engineer. At the mayor’s office, Mr.