The size of the VTB 24 loan portfolio in the Irkutsk region at the end of last year amounted to 42 billion rubles. - this is 15 billion, or 56%, more than in 2013. The growth of loan portfolios occurred across all products, Vladimir Chernyshev, manager of VTB 24 in Irkutsk, noted at a press conference yesterday. Thus, mortgage lending showed the greatest positive dynamics, its volume amounted to 5.1 billion rubles.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case against officials of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and PJSC Ukrtransgaz on charges of causing damage to the state in the amount of 400 million hryvnia (1.673 billion rubles).

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) in the Altai Territory recognized four entrepreneurs providing milk collection services from rural residents as violators of antimonopoly legislation. As a result of the consideration of the case, the milk collectors were found to have violated Part 1 of Art. 11 of the Law “On Protection of Competition”.

The magazine “Business Quarter” in Yekaterinburg will be published once a month. As reported in the publication, the first monthly issue of the magazine will be published in April, in February and March it will be published twice a month. The circulation of the publication will be 6 thousand copies.

According to the press secretary of the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN, Alexei Zaitsev, the country has submitted to the UN Security Council a draft resolution on preventing terrorists from the Islamic State group from receiving income. “A resolution is being prepared aimed at cutting off IS from sources of funding. We hope that it will be adopted in the near future,” RIA Novosti quotes Mr. Zaitsev as saying.

The chairman of the international committee of the State Duma and the head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said that there were no negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Russia “on reducing Saudi oil production in exchange for Moscow’s refusal to support Assad.” “There were no negotiations “on reducing Saudi oil production in exchange for Moscow’s refusal to support Assad.” Duck,” he wrote on Twitter.

The Ministry of Construction of the Samara Region is again holding a competition to find a contractor to complete the construction of three unfinished problematic “shares” in the village of Petra-Dubrava, Samara Region, the head of the Volzhsky district, Alexander Balandin, said on Wednesday at the commission on solving the problems of defrauded shareholders.

On July 24, 2009, on a section of the M4 Don highway in the Rostov region , an Ikarus bus drove into the oncoming lane and collided with an oil truck. The accident killed 21 people and injured 8 more. On July 27, 2009, on a highway in the Nogai region of Dagestan , several VAZ cars collided due to the fault of the driver of a “nine” who was speeding. 11 people died in the accident, including two children.

An ATR 72 plane with 58 passengers on board crashed in a suburb of Taipei in Taiwan, the New York Post reports. According to preliminary data, two people were killed and 10 were injured. The circumstances of the incident are being clarified. The Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission for Economic and Cultural Cooperation told TASS that there were no Russian citizens on board. “We did not receive information that there could be Russian citizens on board.

Governor of the Perm Territory Viktor Basargin intends to speak at the February “plenary” of the legislative assembly and talk about priority measures to stabilize the economy and social sphere of the region. The head of Prikamye reported this in his personal blog. According to the governor, Prime Minister Gennady Tushnolobov has been instructed to preliminarily hold working meetings with the deputy corps so that all interested deputies are involved in the formation of the regional program.

Tolyatti deputies at a meeting of the City Duma adopted amendments to the charter, abolishing the direct election of the head of the city, who will be elected from among the deputies, Chairman of the Tolyatti Duma Dmitry Mikel told Kommersant on Wednesday. “We made strategic changes: we changed the system for electing the head of the city. The head of the city will now be elected from among the deputies and head the Duma.

The Russian telecommunications satellite Express-AM33, which was launched into orbit in 2008, experienced a malfunction. “Problems have been recorded in the operation of the Express-AM33Z spacecraft,” TASS quotes a source in the rocket and space industry as saying. According to the agency's interlocutor, specialists are now establishing the circumstances of the incident.

The prospects of green energy in Russia will deteriorate slightly The share of green energy in the Russian Federation can be up to a third in the production of electricity and up to half of the total volume of heat production, the authors of the study of the technological and economic potential for the development of renewments in the Russian Federation, prepared by the Higher School of Economics (HSE) by order of the Ministry of Energy.

The evening auction “The Art of Impressionism and Modernism” at the Sotheby’s auction house in London brought in £170.3 million, RIA Novosti reported on February 4. The top lot, as expected, was Claude Monet's painting "The Grand Canal in Venice", sold for £23.7 million. The estimated cost of the work, which depicts the most famous view of Venice, was £20-30 million.

Maria das Grasas Foster was involved in a corruption scandal On Tuesday it became known that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff accepted the resignation of the head of the Brazilian state energy company Petrobras, Maria das Grasas Foster. Ms Foster is likely to leave her post before the end of February. The reason for the resignation was a corruption scandal that broke out in March last year.