The Central Bank of Ukraine is ready to refuse to support the hryvnia in order to maintain its currency reserves exhausted by debt payments, reports The Financial Times . Since the devaluation of 2009, the Ukrainian authorities managed to keep hryvnias in relation to the dollar stable.

The premiere of the last film by Alexei German Sr. "It is difficult to be a god" will take place on Tuesday in the Gogol Center, reports Interfax . The picture of the Moscow audience will be presented with the widow of director Svetlana Karmalit, his son Alexei German Jr., the leading actor Leonid Yarmolnik, the producers of the film Viktor Izvekov and Rushan Nasibulin, the operator Yuri Klimenko and the Gogol-Kino curator Stas Tyrkin.

The former rector of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts died - GITIS - Marina Khmelnitskaya. This was reported on her page on the social network Facebook critic Marina Timasheva, who studied with Khmelnitskaya. "Marina Yulievna Khmelnitskaya died, the most beautiful woman in the whole world. My beloved teacher, my teacher. Not only mine, of course.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited the largest in Russia biogas station "Luchki" in the Prokhorovsky district of the Belgorod region. Employees of the enterprise found him a lesson there. In appearance, the station resembles a certain futuristic architectural An object with many domed buildings. In fact, as the general director of the enterprise Viktor Filatov told Medvedev, these are enzymatic and recupertiers - a capacity of 3.5 thousand cubic meters.

President Vladimir Putin in Sochi opened the 126th session of the International Olympic Committee, which will continue until the start of the 2014 Olympics. “We are grateful to the International Olympic Committee for the opportunity to adopt the“ White Olympics. ”We understand how it was not easy to provide the right to play the city, where at that time there were only 10 - a maximum of 15% of the necessary infrastructure,” the President’s press service quoted the Presidential Property.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych is ready for early parliamentary and presidential elections, if politicians cannot reach a general decision in the current negotiation process and fulfill it. Then the early elections will remain the only democratic way to resolve the political crisis in the country, Yanukovych reported the words in the Verkhovna Rada Yuri Miroshnichenko (today, as Newsru.ua notes, the opening of the fourth session of Rada will be held).

On his page on the social network, Mark Zuckerberg congratulated users on the first anniversary of Facebook and said that in the next decade, social networks will help to find answers to questions and solve complex problems. "We spent the first 10 years fine-tuning the network. We now have enough resources to help people around the world solve problems that matter to them. Currently, approximately a third of the world's population has access to the Internet.

The head of the Russian sports delegation at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Alexander Kravtsov, emphasized that hockey players will be the last representatives of the Russian team, which will be settled in the Olympic village. - Newsru.com survey: viewing broadcasts of the Winter Olympiad “Today, in full force, the women's hockey team, a short track and skates were settled in our village from the Russian delegation, ” R -Sport quotes the words of Kravtsov.

The radical fans of the St. Petersburg Zenit are going to arrange a protest against the acquisition by the club from the Kazan Rubin, a black Venezuelan striker Salomon Rondon. According to Piter.tv , about twenty fans of Zenit are going to demolish their seasonal subscriptions already during the next team match. Perhaps this will happen tomorrow, February 5, in Israel at the Zenit match with the Kharkov Metalist within the United Super Cup, in which the teams of Russia and Ukraine participate.

In India, a preliminary show of the new Ford concept took place, it turned out to be a sedan based on the next generation KA hatchback . The prototype of the five -door was presented in November last year in Brazil under the name Escort. The sedan was shown to Indian journalists under the name Figo - under the same name in India, the old, slightly turned on Fiesta, notes, notes the Avtozale website.

According to the published data of Rosstat on the housing market for 2013, the volume of housing commissioned increased by 5.6% compared to 2012 and amounted to 69.4 million square meters. meters. The same growth rates were recorded in 2012 - but the tendency to slow down growth probably begins to affect this sector. In the leaders of the fall of housing input in the Russian Federation, the largest regions - Krasnodar and Stavropol Territory, Volgograd and Sverdlovsk regions, Kommersant writes.

“Sberbank” on its website announced the upcoming commission of the commission on March 1 for conducting a conversion on cross -border operations on VISA cards. An increase in tariffs will affect the Visa already issued and future cards and will amount to 0.75-1.5% of the amount of the operation depending on the type of card: the higher the status of the card, the lower the tariff. Until now, this commission was 0.65%, regardless of the type of card.

The metropolitan doctors hospitalized the student of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), who received gunshot wounds in the attack of the unknown. The victim was a 24-year-old native of one of the Caucasian republics, a fifth year student. The young man diagnosed a gunshot wound to the abdominal cavity and the wound of the left hand, Interfax reports.

The ex-champion of the world in heavyweight according to WBA Russian Alexander Povetkin can conduct the nearest battle in May with American Travis Kauffman, ITAR-TASS reports. It is assumed that the winner of the match will lead the rating of the World Boxing Association (WBA), the first line of which is still vacant. In the WBA ranking, Povetkin is in third place.

Apple decided to celebrate the thirty -year anniversary of the first Makintosh computer, having removed the company's contribution to the development of technology, reports The Huffington Post . The publication notes that, contrary to expectations, this advertisement was not shown during the Sunday Super Bowl , unlike the famous thirty years ago . One and a half dozen teams went around the world to capture how Apple products helps people of different professions.