Domentiy Kulumbegov can head the government On Monday, South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov dismissed the government led by Rostik Khugaev. According to the decree signed by Mr. Tibilov, the current deputy chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of South Ossetia, Domenty Kulumbegov, was appointed acting head of government.

Growth in the coming year will be driven by private clients The last quarter of 2013 allowed the largest management companies to strengthen their position in the trust management market using funds from pension funds and closed mutual funds. However, starting this year, opportunities in these segments are significantly narrowing, and managers can only more actively attract retail clients.

Acting Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky held a meeting with the head of the Ural department of Rostechnadzor Alexander Polyakov. According to the press service of the head of the region, during the meeting the situation at the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant (ZMZ) was discussed, since Rostekhnadzor specialists recently conducted an inspection at the enterprise. Mr. Polyakov informed Boris Dubrovsky about its results.

President Viktor Yanukovych asks Ukrainians to “hear and support him in his efforts to stop the confrontation provoked by those who want to fight for power at the cost of human blood.” This is stated in Yanukovych’s address to the Ukrainian people. Mr. Yanukovych appeals to Ukrainians as conscientious citizens who are well aware of the threats internal conflicts, hostility and confrontation pose to Ukrainian society and the state.

King Harald V of Norway and Prime Minister Erna Solberg will come to the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. “Both the king and our prime minister will be present in Sochi,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Berge Brende said on Monday, starting a meeting in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “Now we are just on the eve of a big sporting event - the Olympic Games in Sochi. Norway will be represented by a very large delegation, it will be the third largest.

Genre On January 22, the 6th International Burns Night festival starts in Russia - a large Russian-Scottish holiday in honor of the birthday of the poet Robert Burns. The program includes concerts, whiskey tasting, poetry readings in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. It is clear why the Scots celebrate this holiday, but the Russians have their own reason. On January 25, on the same day as Burns, another famous bard, Vladimir Vysotsky, was born.

Dmitry Oreshkin - about what happened with faith in the leader Smart people say: a leader dies not when he is vehemently denied, but when his existence is forgotten. Are we destined to forget Lenin? Previous photo Next photo 1 / 2 On the cover of Ogonyok there is a portrait of the peasant A. Kalashnikov, who claims that he taught little Volodya Ulyanov, as well as his brother Sasha and sister Anya, to read and write. The first theatrical production about Lenin appeared in March.

The Right Sector association confirms its participation in the events near the Dynamo stadium in Kyiv. As the representative of the association Andrei said, “Right Sector” is the 23rd hundred of Maidan self-defense and its activists came to Grushevsky Street to protect people.

On January 18, a protest rally was held by residents of the Trans-Ural region, reports Uralinformburo. About 20 people came out to express their dissatisfaction with the cancellation of the Kurgan-Chelyabinsk electric train. As previously reported, the train disappeared from the line on January 14 by decision of the South Ural branch of the Federal Passenger Company. According to railway workers, losses from train running in 2013 amounted to more than 17 million rubles. Kommersant-Online

The National Coalition of Revolutionary and Opposition Forces of Syria suspends its participation in Geneva 2 after inviting Iran to Montreux, on January 20 ITAR-TASS quoted a report from the Al-Arabiya TV channel. Earlier this day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that Iran and nine other states had received additional invitations to the Geneva 2 conference on the Syrian settlement.

The regional election commission can be headed by Deputy Head of Administration Igor Vagin. This was reported on the New Companion website. An interlocutor surrounded by the governor confirmed this information to Kommersant. Let us remind you that according to the law, the candidacy of a new leader must be nominated by the central election commission. Members of the regional election commission must decide whether to accept or reject this decision.

The government of Bashkortostan has allocated more than 12 million rubles this year for professional retraining and advanced training of civil servants.

Employees of the Berkut unit and protesting opposition representatives remain on Grushevsky Street in Kiev, where clashes between representatives of security forces and protesters took place last night, Voice of the Capital 106FM reports on Twitter . News-LIVE also reports that the situation in the Ukrainian capital has “calmed down.” Photo: Vladislav Sodel, Kommersant / buy photo Read more about the events in Kiev in the Kommersant online text broadcast.

Up to 80% of box office receipts already go to the UAIS Despite the fact that out of approximately 7 thousand film exhibitors existing in Russia, only 2.3 thousand have connected to the state electronic film ticket system, its participants already provide approximately three-quarters of the country’s real box office receipts, as follows from the January distribution results.

As a result of Sunday's riots in Kyiv, about ten people were taken into custody. Demonstrators protesting the current government clashed with the police. Among the demands of dissatisfied Ukrainians are early presidential elections and the creation of an alternative parliament, Kommersant FM’s interlocutors say. Photo: Gleb Garanich, Reuters About a dozen riot participants were detained in Kyiv. Interfax reports this.