The Kiev City Council at the session held on Wednesday deprived the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC -MP) of a preferential real estate tax rate. This was announced by the deputy of the Kyiv City Council from the Nationalist Party "Freedom" Ruslan Andriyko. "From now on, Moscow churches (as the deputy calls the temples of the UOC -MP. - Note Newsru.com ) are exempted from the preferential property tax rate.

Forbes magazine has published the annual rating of “kings” of commercial real estate in Russia - businessmen who earn a record amount to rent their possessions. The ranking has only 30 points, below - the first ten. Note that the three leaders have not changed compared to last year. Zhiyev, and the year of Nisanov, has been led by a rating for the third year in a row, shifting in 2011 from the first line of Araz Agalarov, which is now closer to the end of the top of the top.

On Thursday, January 29, the site of the educational project Arzamas with free lecture courses on history, literature, art, anthropology and philosophy earned. The project was created by the former editor -in -chief of the magazine "Big City" Philip Dzyadko and the founder of "theories and practitioners" Danila Perushev, reports to Colta.ru . “We create a kind of university for you that will collect the best teachers and will be built right before your eyes,” the creators of the project write.

The day before, the Russian government published a plan for anti -crisis measures for 2015, which consists of 60 points. And the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said that “Russia is part of a full economic crisis,” recognizing the forecast expressed by the former Minister of Finance, now the head of the civil initiative committee Alexei Kudrin.

Russian-speaking writers and publishers living abroad launched a petition demanding Amazon to allow the sale in the Kindle Store of Electronic Books in Russian. According to TJ , the collection of signatures under the appeal to Amazon started in mid -January. For this, a separate site was launched, the creators of which were the writer-historian from Los Angeles Elvira Baryakina, the writer Maria Hinz, as well as the Canadian publisher and designer Alexander Mints, living in Germany.

The Government of the PRC intends to force foreign companies engaged in the sale of computer equipment to Chinese banks to transfer secret source codes, the material published by The New York Times says. The newspaper notes that the largest American companies, including Apple, may suffer from this.

The Saudi Arabia government made a proposal to hold the Olympic Games in which only men will perform, the British edition of The Telegraph informs. Prince Fahad Bin Jali Al-Saud said that his country is ready to take on competitions among men, and Bahrain can hold an Olympics for women. “Our society can be very conservative. It is difficult for us to accept the fact that women can compete in sports. We also have unacceptable women in public places for women.

The Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant "Dome" is negotiating with the Iranian side on the modernization of Tor-M1 low-range anti-a-raises set by Tehran, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the assistant to the Director General of Military-Technical Cooperation and State Orders Vyacheslav Kartashov. According to the Center for the Analysis of World Trade of Weapons (TsAMTO), Russia completely completed the supply of 29 Tor-M1 air defense systems to Iran Iran in January 2007.

“Russian media reality is scarce. It has no language and images, except for those left over from the Second World War. Any war for it is necessarily “patriotic”, any enemies are necessarily fascists. Any victory is an absolute ideal, after which triumph and prosperity will begin . Therefore, today Russia has plunged into mental 43rd.

The plane of the Utair subsidiary (KatEcavia), flying from St. Petersburg to Nhagang (Vietnam), landed in the Pakistani lahor for a planned refueling and is waiting for India permission to fly through its territory, RIA Novosti said a source in the aviation circles of the Russian Federation. A forced delay in Pakistan occurred due to a technical error in the paperwork, the Interfax agency was told in the press service of the Antex-Tour tour operator.

The Yaroslavl District Court granted the petition of the relatives of the Lokomotiv hockey players who died in the plane crash to the court of the only survivor after the crash of the aircraft of Bortinzhener Alexander Sizov. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" a representative of the Yaroslavl District Court. The day before, the victims asked to call Sizov to the meeting, the court postponed the consideration of this petition until Thursday.

The fragmented skull of a man who lived next to Neanderthals about 55 thousand years ago was found in a karst cave in the north of Israel. Excavations were carried out by specialists of Israeli universities, reports Newsru Israel . The find dates from time when Neanderthals lived in this territory. As noted, this is one of the most important discoveries in the study of human evolution.

The European Union decided to block the offshore scheme popular with Russian business, writes RBC . European countries will no longer be able to provide tax benefits to companies that do not conduct real economic activities in the EU countries. The scheme appeared after in 1990 the European Council accepted the directive about the general taxation system of dividends paid to subsidiaries and maternal companies.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with representatives of the contact group regarding the situation in the southeast of the country, after which it was announced that on January 30 the next round of negotiations of representatives of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the OSCE, as well as the Donetsk and Lugansk "People’s Republics" was planned.

In the Spanish province of Malag, the police are versed in the circumstances of the crash of the aircraft, on board which drug dealers transported the cargo. According to preliminary data, the helicopter hit the support of the power line, after which it collapsed to the ground. When examining the place of plane, two corpses of crew members and almost a ton of drugs were discovered, writes Malaga Hoy . The helicopter crashed on January 27 at about 5:00 near the Gausin town.