The Fitch rating agency confirmed the long-term rating of the Kirov region in foreign and national currencies at the level of “BB-” with a negative outlook.

The Moscow City Hall has agreed to hold a demonstration and rally of the Anti-Maidan movement on February 21, said the head of the capital’s department of regional security and anti-corruption, Alexey Mayorov. “They will march along Petrovka and enter Revolution Square with a rally,” RIA Novosti quotes Mr. Mayorov’s statement. He clarified that the number of participants in the rally was up to 10 thousand people. Photo: Anton Belitsky, Kommersant / buy photo

The court granted the investigation's request to put Boris Berezovsky's son-in-law Georgy Shuppe on the international wanted list on charges of organizing the murder of the founder of the Party chain of stores, Alexander Mineev, TASS reports.

IDGC is slow to implement agreements with the municipal JSC The municipal OJSC Omskelektro, which had begun to emerge from its pre-bankruptcy state, again encountered financial problems. The mayor's office explains that the company is being brought to a critical situation by the refusal of the main creditor, IDGC of Siberia OJSC, to fulfill previously reached agreements on taking over cable networks on the balance sheet to pay off most of the debt in the amount of 1 billion rubles.

Burmatov Vladimir Vladimirovich was born on August 18, 1981 in Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region. Graduated from Chelyabinsk State University with a degree in state and municipal management (2003). Worked in the field of education. In 2006–2008, he was the chief specialist in work with youth of the executive committee of the Chelyabinsk branch of United Russia, a member of the regional political council of the Young Guard of United Russia (MGER).

The health condition of Nadezhda Savchenko, who went on a hunger strike in a pre-trial detention center two months ago, is assessed by doctors as satisfactory; doctors are providing supportive therapy, the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia told RIA Novosti . “Now doctors are constantly monitoring her and using supportive therapy. Doctors assess her health as satisfactory,” the agency’s source said.

Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said that the response to the Ukrainian request for the arrest and extradition of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and his associates will be given in the prescribed manner and it will be negative. Photo: Vasily Deryugin, Kommersant / buy photo “We will definitely respond to the request of our colleagues from the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.

Last year, more than 450 thousand passengers were transported under programs to subsidize Far Eastern air travel; 3.4 billion rubles were allocated for these purposes. This was reported by the press service of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, Yuri Trutnev, with reference to the materials of the conference call.

The case of the ex-leader of Novosibirsk United Russia has been closed for a long time. In Novosibirsk, the court closed the criminal case of the former head of the regional branch of United Russia and famous entrepreneur Yuri Glazychev. He was accused of withdrawing the most liquid assets from OJSC TSUM Novosibirsk, which belonged to him, which violated the rights of minority shareholders.

Of the 31 routes, the mayor's office played out only 11 The ongoing competition for the distribution of bus routes in Perm is showing unexpected results. Of the 31 routes put up for auction, only a third turned out to be in demand by entrepreneurs. Market participants explain the low interest in competitive procedures by the fact that the proposed routes are uninteresting from an economic point of view.

OJSC MZhK Krasnodarsky, part of the Yug Rusi Group of Companies and producing vegetable oil under the Avedov brand, has begun production of five plant-based sauces, the company’s press service reports. The sauces are manufactured in accordance with the requirements of the GOST standard and are produced in a two-hundred-gram vacuum plastic bag with a shelf life of 6 months, as specified in the release.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov believes that plans to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation, as well as plans to supply weapons to Ukraine, can only lead to further destabilization of the situation in this country. Photo: Sergey Kiselev, Kommersant / buy photo “The Russian Federation is a country that is truly interested in resolving this crisis.

The over-the-counter CDS market acquires Russian standards The Russian over-the-counter market is taking another step towards increasing transparency and reducing risks. In the near future, standards for “insurance against default”—CDS (credit default swap) contracts—will be approved, which will allow centralized settlements with these instruments in the Russian legal framework.

The Russian military prosecutor's office will participate in the trial of the shooting of an Armenian family in Gyumri, said Russia's chief military prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky. “I think we will,” Interfax quotes Mr. Fridinsky as saying. On January 12, seven people, members of the same family, died in Gyumri. The Investigative Committee charged Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian base, with committing crimes under Art.

Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov may take part in today's meeting of the contact group on resolving the Ukrainian crisis. “There is information that he will fly to Minsk,” TASS quotes the Russian Ambassador to Belarus Alexander Surikov as saying. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus previously confirmed the holding of a meeting of the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in southeast Ukraine in Minsk today.