The federal budget deficit in 2013, according to preliminary estimates, amounted to 310.518 billion rubles, or 0.5% of GDP, reports Prime Agency with reference to the data of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. According to preliminary estimates, the income of the federal budget for 2013 amounted to 13.02 trillion rubles, or 100.9% to the total volume of federal budget revenues.

Evgeny Seryaev, Alexey Suvorov and Igor Bogolyubsky entered the final composition of the male team of the Russian national skating team at the Olympics in Sochi. This was announced by the President of the Union of Skategers of Russia Alexei Kravtsov agency "R-Sport" .

On January 20, on the first day of the joint plan of action, agreed on the negotiations between Iran and the international “six” (the Russian Federation, the USA, Great Britain, France, China and Germany) in Geneva, Tehran announced the termination of the enrichment of Uranus to the level of 20%.

Conductor Tugan Sokhiev, who is currently the musical director of the National Orchestra of the Capitol of Toulouse and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, became the musical director and chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theater, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of Gabta Gabta Director Vladimir Urin. Vasily Sinai, who held the post of music director and chief conductor Gabt since 2010, left the theater in early December 2013 of his own free will.

On Saturday, January 18, in the 84th year of life, a literary critic, literary critic and essayist Stanislav Lesnevsky died, reports Coleta.ru . Farewell will take place on Tuesday, January 21, from 10:30 to 12:00 in the central house of writers, the funeral service - from 13:00 in the temple of the descent of the Holy Spirit in the Danilovsky cemetery. Stanislav Stefanovich Lesnevsky was born in 1930, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History named after N.G.

Almost half of Russians (48%) believes that the state should be completely engaged in pensions, another 18% believe that the authorities should establish the "rules of the game", and citizens themselves will manage their savings. Finally, a quarter of the respondents (24%) are sure that Russians should be able to abandon their own discretion at all, according to a survey of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion.

The metropolitan police stopped a large -scale gathering of criminal authorities, in which dozens of people took part. Among the detainees was a thief in law nicknamed Kostya Scar. The meeting of representatives of criminal structures took place in one of the restaurants of the North-West Administrative District of Moscow, the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reports.

In the center of Kiev, the clashes of demonstrators with the fighters of the police special forces "Golden Eagle" and the internal troops, which had begun on Sunday on Sunday, continue. The total number of wounded on both sides has already exceeded a hundred (according to a number of local media, the total number of victims could already reach one and a half hundred people), four police buses and two trucks were burned.

“After the news about the “January 16 laws,” people were very tense, but in general the atmosphere was friendly, sunshine and all that. As a result, something in between the plan of Danilyuk and Yanevsky was announced: the formation of people’s polling stations, the election of the mayor of Kyiv (let me remind you , in Kyiv there has been no mayor for a long time, there are people appointed “from above”, as if fulfilling his role).

In the Perm Territory, a verdict was sentenced to a woman convicted of a double murder . The attacker burned the neighbor alive, whom she considered the mistress of her husband. Together with the victim, her two -year -old relative also died on fire. By a court decision, a resident of the village of Kukushtan of the Perm district will spend 12 years behind bars, the official website of the RF IC reports. In addition, the killer for a year limited freedom.

The Volkswagen Dune all-terrain conceptual hatchback, which debuted at the international motor show in Detroit, may enter the assembly line of one of the factories of Germany's largest automaker in the next few months. According to Worldcarfans , the “off-road” version of the Volkswagen Beetle will be released by the company in limited edition.

“First, he informed the astonished country and the world that the Olympics cost 214 billion rubles. At the rate of 33 rubles per dollar, this is a modest 6.5 billion dollars (the cost of the Olympics in Vancouver and significantly less than the costs of the APEC summit in Vladivostok and the Universiade in Kazan). Another stunning news from Putin is that, it turns out, there was no corruption during the preparation for the Olympics.

Members of the Foreign Polish Commission of the National Council (Parliament) of Switzerland criticized negotiations that may end in signing the Free Trade Treaty "with the Belarusian Dictator", writes Inopressa.ru with reference to the local publication Tagesanzeiger .

South Ossetia, Leonid Tibilov, on Monday, dismissed the government of the republic, headed by Prime Minister Rostik Khugaev. The reason for this decision was a complex socio-economic situation in the republic, as well as the inability of the current Cabinet of Ministers to execute the presidential instructions, the head of state said at a meeting with government members, reports REGNUM .

“I must say that the notorious “Dar” fund has already surfaced in the press in connection with the real estate of D.A. Medvedev. To save space, I will refer to an entry in my LiveJournal from a year and a half ago. The Dar Foundation bought an architectural monument in Plyos for Medvedev's dacha - the Gorbunov-Chernev estate "Milovka". “Dar” reconstructed the estate with its own money, and every resident of Plyos knows: D.A. lives in the estate. Medvedev with his family.