A Kyiv policeman appeared before a Khimki court In the city court of Khimki near Moscow, a trial began in the case of the attempted kidnapping last spring of Andrei Portnov, adviser to ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. The deputy head of the Kyiv police security department, Yuri Spasskikh, is accused of this crime. He himself states that the abduction was initiated by the leader of the UDAR party, Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko.

On the morning of February 2, the first double-decker train arrived from St. Petersburg to Moscow. More spacious trains, the compartment cars of which are designed for 64 passengers, will now run daily. What the train looks like is in the Kommersant photo gallery.

The Azov City gambling zone will be closed until April 1. The tenants received a letter with such notification from the Minister of Strategic Development of the Krasnodar Territory Alexey Sheyan. The message states that the decision to close the zone was made in connection with amendments to the law “On Gambling Activities”, according to which in Kuban a gambling zone can only be located on sections of Olympic facilities of federal significance.

Regional authorities have approved a gasification program for the Omsk region for 2015-2018, the implementers and investors of which will be Gazprom OJSC and its subsidiaries, as well as gas distribution organizations. According to the ministry and the housing and communal services complex, the total projected amount of financing from extra-budgetary sources is 559.1 million rubles.

The investigative unit of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region has completed the investigation of a criminal case against suspects of committing a number of particularly serious crimes, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

The prosecutor's office of the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky approved an indictment in a criminal case against the director of Teploset Management Company LLC Alla Poltarakova under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (theft of someone else's property, committed using one's official position, on an especially large scale), who is accused misappropriation of more than 1.4 million rubles. The press service of the department reports this.

The first Islamic college opened in Perm. Registration data for this educational institution was published in Kartoteka.ru . As the director of the college, Ilham Bibarsov, told Kommersant, the college was organized on the basis of the existing Sunday courses at the Perm Cathedral Mosque. Classes at the college are scheduled to begin in March this year.

Abel Aganbegyan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Photo: Dmitry Lekai, Kommersant There is much that is correct and reasonable in the government’s anti-crisis plan. But there are three most important things missing. First, it is necessary to reduce the key interest rate of the Central Bank from 17% to at least 8%, to the level of expected inflation. And this must be done in the coming months. And in the 16th year both will be reduced to 5%.

At the Bogoslovskaya CHPP in Krasnoturinsk (Sverdlovsk region), a partial collapse of a reinforced concrete chimney occurred the day before. As reported by the press service of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the heat supply to the city residents has not been disrupted. There were no injuries during the incident.

The international research agency YouGov conducted a survey to find out which living people are loved the most. In the international rankings, Bill Gates took first place among men, and Angelina Jolie among women. Russians still most love the country's president, Vladimir Putin, who ranks only 11th in the world rankings. The ten most popular men and women in the world are in the Kommersant photo gallery.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets instructed a number of departments to prepare a draft strategy for state cultural policy by May 15. Until February 20, departments will have to submit proposals on the creation of the Russian Fund for Cultural Development and sources of its financing.

How consumer societies were created and strangled in Russia This year marks the 170th anniversary of consumer cooperation. As a rule, consumer cooperation is associated with boring regional distribution centers and procurement offices. In fact, the history of the cooperative movement is full of dramatic turns, sometimes even cleaner than in Hollywood detective stories.

According to a poll by VTsIOM, more than a quarter of Russians believe that the country is on the verge of war with Ukraine. Every tenth person is sure that war is already underway. The mood of society is influenced by both negative news from abroad and measures taken by the Russian government to combat the crisis, according to Kommersant FM interlocutors. Photo: Gennady Gulyaev, Kommersant / buy photo The share of Russians admitting the possibility of war with Ukraine has increased.

The director of the film "Territory" Alexander Melnik speaks On February 11, the Kremlin will host the premiere of the feature film “Territory,” which tells the story of the discovery of a gold deposit in northern Russia. The director of the film, Alexander Melnik, told Kommersant Publishing House special correspondent Olga Allenova why he doesn’t like “depressive” cinema and whether it is possible to create a new state ideology with the help of cinema.

Global warming, Russian exports and Chinese ambitions fuel global interest in the Northern Sea Route Global warming, publicized by environmentalists, the raw material orientation of Russian exports and the growing ambitions of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region are fueling world interest in the Northern Sea Route. “Vlast” found out what was preventing it from becoming an alternative to the Suez Canal.