The initiators of the Big Port Zarubino project plan that a technological park will be created next to the port on 1,600 hectares, the administration of the Primorsky Territory announced following a meeting in Vladivostok with a delegation from the Chinese province of Jilin. The head of the Department of Technical and Economic Cooperation of Jilin Province, Wang Zhihou, emphasized that the largest of the projects he presented was the construction of the Zarubino Big Port in the Khasan region.

The construction of the airport complex and service and technical facilities at Yuzhny Airport near Rostov-on-Don should begin in May of this year. This was stated by the Minister of Transport of the region Vitaly Kushnarev, the government press service reports.

The license for Trebs and Titov will return to the company's joint venture with LUKOIL After Bashneft came under state control and its former owner Vladimir Yevtushenkov was released from arrest, the problems of the company and its partners began to be rapidly resolved. Yesterday, the court upheld the license for the Bashneft joint venture with LUKOIL to develop large fields named after Trebs and Titov, canceling the decisions of previous instances.

Conjuncture LUKOIL is going to begin negotiations with international investors regarding the placement of Eurobonds in the spring, company head Vagit Alekperov said yesterday. He explained that we are talking about traditional capital markets - American and European. The company was going to issue Eurobonds in March last year, but canceled the placement due to the Ukrainian crisis.

The head of the Higher Attestation Commission promises further reduction of dissertation councils Over the past two years in Russia, the number of defended dissertations has decreased by half. This was stated by the Chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) Vladimir Filippov. According to him, the reasons for the reduction in applicants for an academic degree were, in particular, increased requirements for the defense of dissertations and optimization of dissertation councils.

New deputy chairman of VVB Sberbank found in Kirov Alexey Kotlyachkov, the son of the deputy governor of the Kirov region, who headed the Kirov head office of the bank, was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Volgo-Vyatsky Bank of Sberbank of the Russian Federation for the corporate sector. He came to replace Nizhny Novgorod resident Timofey Pismerov, who left to manage the Vladimir branch of Sberbank.

The owner of a road construction company was killed in the yard of his house In Nizhny Novgorod, the president and owner of a large road construction company LLC Russian Business Concern - Rubicon, Yeghiazar Yeghiazaryan, was killed. He was found dead late Wednesday evening in the courtyard of his home in the city center.

The Central Bank recommended that banks restructure foreign currency mortgages at 39.4 rubles/$ The Bank of Russia published today a letter signed by the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, in which it recommended that banks restructure foreign currency mortgages at the rate as of October 1 last year - 39.4 rubles. for $1 and 49.98 rubles. for €1. According to bankers, such conditions are fraught with too large losses for them.

The new King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, appointed his son Prince Mohammed bin Salman as Minister of Defense, Al Arabiya TV channel reports. Also, 34-year-old Mohammed bin Salman has been appointed head of the Royal Court and special adviser.

DPR refuses negotiations with Kiev and goes on the offensive The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, said that he would no longer attempt to negotiate a truce with Kiev. In addition, he promised to “go to the border of the Donetsk region” and opposed new rounds of negotiations of the contact group (representatives of Kyiv and the militias, plus the Russian Federation and the OSCE) in the same composition.

And the deputies - about religion The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill at Christmas parliamentary meetings called on the State Duma deputies together with the Church to lead the country to the spiritual, moral revival, to strengthen the unity of Russians based on traditional values. The deputies expressed the hope that Orthodoxy will become the guardian of "Christian values", noting that the Europeans abandoned them.

On February 17, the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region will consider the application of the Volga-Vyatka State Administration of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to declare Professional Credit Bank LLC (PK-Bank) bankrupt. Interfax reports this, citing materials from the website of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. According to the report, the court accepted the application of the Volga-Vyatka State Central Bank and initiated proceedings in the case.

Yesterday, Perm's Amkar defeated the Kazakh club Ordabasy in a friendly match. The game took place in Belek (Türkiye) and ended with a score of 5:0 in favor of the Permians. According to the press service of the Perm club, the Amkar coaching staff gave the opportunity to almost all the players in the red-black camp to participate in the game, and also used two tactical schemes: with four, and after the break - with five defenders.

The country received a record number of visitors German authorities have released data on a record increase in the number of migrants entering the country. While many Germans see migrants as a threat to national unity, authorities fear a demographic catastrophe, forcing Berlin to attract a young working population from abroad. Photo: dpa/AP Over the past two years, a record number of migrants have entered Germany in the last 20 years.

The price of futures for American light oil WTI on the New York exchange NYMEX decreased by 1.53%, Bloomberg reports on January 23. Thus, its price was $45.6 per barrel.