Expert Alexey Peshkov on the bill against the dissemination of false information about banks The State Duma approved a bill allowing the blocking of sites with false information about banks. Russian laws already have tools to combat libel, experts remind, and note that the ban itself can harm the market more than the dissemination of false data. Photo: Mikhail Sokolov, Kommersant Deputies decided to protect Russian banks from criticism.

Incidents During scheduled night flights on Wednesday night at the Central Corner airfield in the Primorsky Territory, a Su-27 military fighter was forced to land during landing, the press service of the Eastern Military District reports. The aviation incident is associated with a failure of the hydraulic system of the front landing gear of the Su-27 aircraft, the press service notes. “The pilot decided to make an emergency landing on two main landing gear,” the message says.

The Investigative Committee is conducting an investigation into the death of people from carbon monoxide in the center of Saratov The Investigative Committee is conducting an investigation into the death of people from gas poisoning on Chelyuskintsev Street. Investigators established that a man born in 1962 and his partner, born in 1981, lived in the rented apartment. There was also an acquaintance of the cohabitants in the apartment, whose identity is currently being established.

In Moscow, an investigator from the Ministry of Internal Affairs was detained while receiving 620 thousand rubles for refusing to initiate a criminal case regarding an accident. The Interfax agency was informed about this on Thursday by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow.

Kalmykia approved a program for relocation from dilapidated housing until 2017 The government of Kalmykia has approved a republican program for the resettlement of citizens from dilapidated housing, designed for a period until September 1, 2017.

But this will not affect the International Space Station yet The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has suspended cooperation with the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on a number of joint projects, leaving only work on the ISS untouched. This is how the American space agency responded to the entry of Crimea into Russia. No retaliatory sanctions have been announced yet.

U1 is not ready to buy a mine in Tanzania Uranium One (U1, controls the foreign uranium assets of Rosatom) refused to purchase the Australian Mantra Resources, which owns the Mkuju River mine in Tanzania, from its parent ARMZ (also part of Rosatom). Full consolidation of the uranium mining company was provided for in the option agreement between ARMZ and U1, but the latter decided to terminate it. With low global uranium prices, investment in a new mine is not feasible.

The government was headed by a graduate of St. Petersburg State University The Kyrgyz parliament elected Djoomart Otorbaev to the post of Prime Minister on Thursday. He became the only candidate nominated by the new majority coalition, which included three factions: the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK), the Ata-Meken and Ar-Namys parties. Most ministers retained their posts. Photo: Photo ITAR-TASS Voting was open for the entire list of government members.

Ekaterinburg speed skater Yulia Skokova won the Russian championship in the classical all-around, setting a record for the Chelyabinsk Ural Lightning skating rink in terms of total points scored (165.819 points). According to the press service of the Yekaterinburg administration, the athlete, who is a bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in Sochi, won all distances at the tournament. Kommersant-Online

General Director of Gazprom-Media Holding Mikhail Lesin was elected to the board of directors of Rostelecom at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders. Also, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (together with Deutsche Bank owns 2.7% of the voting shares of Rostelecom) Kirill Dmitriev was elected to the operator’s board.

ZAO Tander, which is developing the Magnit retail chain, commented on the situation with the construction of a distribution center on the Nestyukovsky tract (Perm region). As the company told Kommersant, all permits for construction were received at the beginning of the year. “The construction of the facility is going according to plan, the opening of the distribution center planned for the second half of 2014,” reported the Magnit network.

The agenda for the third round of inter-Syrian negotiations has already been agreed upon.

The production of gelatin and collagen will be launched in the St. Petersburg SEZ By 2015, the Nord Place company will build a gelatin and collagen production facility for the pharmaceutical and food industries in the special economic zone in St. Petersburg. Investments in the project are estimated at 800 million rubles. The project should contribute to import substitution, since there are no similar production facilities in Russia.

The future of agriculture was discussed in Brussels The Forum on the Future of Agriculture, held in Brussels, documented a new balance of power in EU agricultural policy. Local officials insist on increasing the efficiency of agricultural production through “sustainable development” and cost reduction. But against the backdrop of declining government support for the European agro-industrial complex, producers are beginning to oppose excessive government regulation of the industry.

The international consulting company Knight Frank presented the results of the Global House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2013. Based on a comparison of indicators of the dynamics of real estate prices in 56 countries of the world, the following conclusions were made: Russia took 22nd place in the annual dynamics of growth in prices for residential real estate as of the fourth quarter of 2013, prices on average across the country increased by 4.2% over year.