Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at the Gaidar Forum that the ministry could make money by selling part of its foreign exchange reserves on the market, since the ruble is undervalued. “If we sell part of our reserve fund, the foreign exchange reserve fund, convert it into foreign currency and place it on the market, we will also make very good money for the budget.

Dollar and euro exchange rates returned to December Another drop in oil prices (below $45 per barrel) led to a new round of ruble depreciation. At the end of the session, the dollar and euro exchange rates rose to 65.60 rubles/$ and 77.25 rubles/€, updating four-week highs. Additional pressure on the ruble comes from the risk of Russia's rating being downgraded to a speculative level.

World experts expect oil prices to fall to $35 per barrel. At the same time, the decline in quotations at auction continues, and the only hope for an increase in prices for “black gold” is political instability in Africa or the Middle East, analysts at Kommersant FM say. Photo: Roman Yarovitsyn, Kommersant Oil prices will fall to $35 per barrel. Bloomberg reports this with reference to analysts' forecasts.

Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexey Vedev said that according to the department’s macroeconomic forecast, with an oil price of $40 per barrel, the fall in Russia’s GDP will be 5%. At the same time, the average annual exchange rate of the ruble will be at the level of 60-70 rubles. for a dollar. “The scenario calculations include a decline in the economy of 3 to 5% with oil prices of 60 and 40 dollars per barrel, respectively,” TASS quotes Mr. Vedev as saying.

A Briton was very likely involved in hacking the Twitter microblock of the US Central Military Command (CMC), Interfax reported on the night of January 14 with links to official sources. Based on the results of the investigation, sources say the most likely "burglar" is Junaid Hussain, a British citizen who is a member of the CyberCaliphate group, part of the Islamic State (IS).

The ninth stage of the Dakar Rally in Chile, climbing Mount El Capitan in the USA, the farewell ceremony for opera singer Elena Obraztsova in Moscow. The brightest photographs of the passing day are in the Kommersant photo gallery. Previous photo Houston, USA. Corridor connecting the buildings of the city Museum of Fine Arts Photo: AP/Pat Sullivan Yosemite National Park, USA.

Inflation in the Orenburg region in December amounted to 2.5%, since the beginning of 2014 - 10.9%, Interfax reports with reference to Orenburgstat. Food products rose in price by 2.7% in the last month of the past year, and by 15.4% for the entire year. In particular, meat and poultry prices increased in December by 2.7%, fish products - by 4.4%, oil and fats - by 2.9%, cheese - by 2.2%, eggs - by 11.3% , sugar - by 14.2%, cereals and legumes - by 6.7%, fruits and vegetables - by 8.8%.

The head of the Kirov regional branch of the all-Russian public organization of small and medium-sized businesses "Support of Russia" Andrei Vavilov began work as a commissioner for the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs. Newsler reports this with reference to the press service of the government of the Kirov region.

The commission to investigate the causes of the tragedy in the Donetsk region of Ukraine will begin work on January 15, said the vice-speaker of the people's council of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin. The commission will include representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the DPR under the supervision of the OSCE. “Today a working meeting of the center was held to implement the points of the Minsk memorandum.

The largest bank in the Perm region, Ural FD, has scheduled an extraordinary meeting of shareholders for February 2. The main item on the agenda is the issue of issuing an additional issue of bank shares. The shares will be placed by private subscription. “The bank has planned an additional issue of shares taking into account the growth of assets and in connection with the requirements of the Central Bank for calculating capital adequacy,” explained Kommersant.

on the “patriotic” Internet, consumer market correspondent Roman Rozhkov is puzzled “We cannot oversleep the youth. We need the consolidation of the state and society based on the values ​​​​instilled by our history... We need films, books, exhibitions, modern video games, we need a patriotic Internet, patriotic radio and TV,” the Russian military said in a statement yesterday. Historical Society (RVIO).

According to Rosstat, inflation in Russia for the period from January 1 to January 12 amounted to 0.8%. According to department statistics, since the beginning of January 2015, granulated sugar has risen in price by 5.9%, rice - by 3.4%, beef, frozen fish, eggs, sunflower oil, margarine, cheeses, flour, pasta and tea - by 1 .5-2.0%. Earlier, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexey Vedev estimated the peak of inflation in 2015 in annual terms at 15-17% in March-April.

The Moscow City Court extended until April 15 the arrest of four defendants in the criminal case regarding the disaster in the Moscow metro in the summer of 2014.

The head of the Khabarovsk administration, Alexander Sokolov, told reporters on Tuesday that the new fiscal year “will be more difficult than ever,” as the local budget had to cut spending on capital construction. This was reported by the press service of the mayor's office. “The first priority in the new year is to complete all construction projects started in 2014 so that these facilities can go into operation.

Expenditures on the development of Russian tourism have been reduced by more than half The rapidly deteriorating economic situation is forcing the state to cut spending on federal programs that were recently called priorities. The amount of funding for the Federal Target Program "Development of Domestic and Inbound Tourism" for 2011-2018, which was supposed to raise the attractiveness of tourism in Russia to a fundamentally new level, was cut from 338.9 billion rubles.