The Bank of Russia reported that the trade balance surplus of the Russian Federation in 2014 increased by 2%, to $185.6 billion. Net capital outflow in 2014 amounted to $151.5 billion. Capital outflows in 2014 amounted to $19.8 billion of a temporary nature. The Russian current account surplus for 2014 increased by 67%, to $56.7 billion.

Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Roman Rubanov reported searches in the organization’s office. “There is a search at FBK,” Mr. Rubanov writes on his Twitter blog. Earlier it was reported that oppositionist Alexei Navalny was presented with a decree to bring him to the Investigative Committee of Russia. On January 15, Mr. Navalny was already summoned to the Investigative Committee.

Municipal housing and communal services facilities in the Samara region will be transferred to private hands Municipalities of the Samara region will transfer housing and communal services facilities that are ineffectively managed into private hands, the regional Ministry of Energy reports. By decision of municipal administrations, ineffective municipal unitary enterprises must transfer water supply, heat supply and sanitation facilities.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced actor Alexei Panin, who was detained for petty hooliganism, to administrative arrest for a period of ten days. In court, administrative charges were brought against Mr. Panin under Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code (“Petty hooliganism”). According to a police representative, Mr. Panin interfered with the passage of citizens near the police department, used rude and obscene language and did not react to the words of the police.

Sberbank is trying to get a criminal case initiated for falsification of documents by KuibyshevAzot The dispute between KuibyshevAzot (KuAZ) and Sberbank over an amount exceeding 1 billion rubles could result in a new criminal case. Previously, cases had already been initiated against the head of the Avtozavodsk branch of Sberbank, Svetlana Lisitsyna, and the head of the financial and economic department of the plant, Larisa Smoleva.

Andrey Bronts, who holds the position of director of the regional department of agriculture and food, is moving to the position of head of the State Food Agency of the Primorsky Territory, the regional administration reported. From January 16, the department will be headed by his deputy Denis Bochkarev.

Gas industry In 2014, Gazprom reduced gas production by almost 9%, to 443.9 billion cubic meters, according to company data. This is the lowest level of production in its entire history. Gas exports fell by 14.7%, to 189.3 billion cubic meters. In particular, supplies to neighboring countries decreased by 29% - to 42.1 billion cubic meters. Such a sharp reduction is associated with a 1.8-fold decrease in supplies to Ukraine.

The construction of the Hilton in the center of Omsk has been postponed during the crisis As Kommersant learned, the construction of a multifunctional complex with the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in the historical center of Omsk has been postponed until the ruble exchange rate “stabilizes.” Igor Antropenko, co-founder of Luch LLC, which is implementing the project, explains this decision by the increased cost of credit resources, with which it was planned to build the hotel.

The mortgage market in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO) may decline in 2015 due to an increase in rates up to 5 times. “Given the increase in the key rate of the Central Bank and the rise in the cost of borrowed funds, developers are plunging deeper into a liquidity shortage. Some experts suggest that the mortgage lending market in the district alone could shrink up to 5 times in 2015 due to rising rates,” Interfax-Ural quotes district governor Natalya Komarova.

The Contact Group for resolving the situation in Ukraine held a preparatory meeting in Kyiv on January 15 and is awaiting confirmation from all parties to the negotiation process about participation in the next round of negotiations in Minsk. This is stated in the group’s statement released by the OSCE, TASS reports.

15 people were detained as a result of a conflict between supporters of the Anti-Maidan movement and their opponents in a cafe in the center of Moscow, Interfax reports a message from the press service of the Moscow police. “On Friday evening, in a cafe located in the central part of the city, a conflict occurred between supporters of the Anti-Maidan movement and their opponents,” said a representative of the press service.

On declaring the expenses of government officials: “We collectively signed for the ratification of Article 20 of the Constitution, various kinds of amendments were made so that all expenses of officials were declared, and in this too the position of at least part of the parliament is consistent.

The head of Bashkortostan, Rustem Khamitov, at a meeting with representatives of big business today revealed the structure of expenditures of the republican budget. According to him, out of 100 billion rubles. projected budget revenues 60 billion rubles. should be used to pay salaries to state employees, 10 billion rubles. for social benefits for the poor and disabled, another 10 billion rubles. should be sent to the road fund. Expenditures on housing and communal services, Mr.

Atlético knocked Real out of the Copa del Rey Atletico Madrid forward Fernando Torres ruined the holiday for the best football player in the world in 2014, Cristiano Ronaldo. Torres' two goals against Real Madrid left the royal club out of the Spanish Cup. And they deprived fans around the world of the opportunity to see two classicos at once this year. After all, the winner of the confrontation between the Madrid teams in the quarterfinals went to Barcelona.

910 million rubles from fuel excise taxes will be allocated for Saratov roads A meeting of the tripartite commission on interbudgetary relations under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow. At the meeting, they discussed the preparation of a number of normative acts - decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation.