The head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, during a meeting with the delegation of the Malaysian Corporation of Foreign Trade Development (Matrade), said that over the past few years, more than $ 160 million have been attracted to the republic’s market.

The Volvo plant in Kaluga from today temporarily suspended the production of trucks. In addition, about 30 percent of employees (more than 200 people) were reduced at the enterprise, the representative of the Volvo Group company told TASS. From what date the plant will resume the assembly, he did not specify.

The work "Abstracts Bild" (599, 1986) Gerhard Richter became the most expensive picture of the auction of the modern art of Sotheby's, which was held in the British capital on Tuesday. The canvas cost its new owner 30.4 million pounds ($ 46.3 million, taking into account the commission), TASS reports. The abstraction of Richter written by oil on canvas is called a model of the peak of his work.

“The Saigon bedroom is very different from our usual neighborhoods, filled with gray panel dull high-rise buildings. No, this does not mean that there is no dullness and despondency here. Rather, there are very few high-rise buildings here. And these areas are the real quintessence of Vietnamese bustle.

The Tiraui Taufik, the head of the Death Commission of the Leader of the Palestinian Autonomy of Yasir Arafat, who died in 2004, said that Israel was behind his death. He said that the suspect has already been established, but refused to report his name, reports Maan . "Israel is responsible for the death of the Arafat. The commission determined the killer who put the poison to him, but we still need time to make sure that we collected the data we collected," the agency quotes his quoted.

Lawkoster "Victory" reduced the minimum tariff to 99 rubles, in the official statement of the carrier this step is called unprecedented. Tickets will be available for flights to Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Nizhnevartovsk, Perm, Tyumen, Ufa and Volgograd from February 17 to March 28. Together with tariffs and fees, the price of a one -way ticket will be from 544 to 611 rubles, depending on the direction.

In the Donbass in the area of ​​the city of Debaltseve, Donetsk region, the acute military confrontation of the Ukrainian army and separatists continues. As the Wednesday was reported in Kyiv, over the past day near the mound, an acute grave, located near Debaltseve, killed 19 Ukrainian troops. The losses of separatists, according to Kiev, amounted to 87 people, Interfax reports. The Ministry of Defense of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has other data on losses.

“Just comparing the experience of the collapsed USSR with bureaucratic innovations is enough to understand the scale of stupidity into which some of the Russian authorities have fallen. This comparison alone would be enough for sober leaders to abandon the idea. “Even in the USSR this did not happen.” And dot. The point, however, is something else - the forcible pushing of “patriotism” into schoolchildren.

The largest Ural information agency URA.RU announced the suspension of work and searching for a new format. According to the head of the media project, Mikhail Vyugin, this is "so far" - the future of the publication has not been determined.

The Russian manufacturer of Yota Devices's smartphones has concluded a contract for the sale of Yotaphone 2 smartphones with one of the largest Potevio distributors in China, Kommersant writes with reference to the Russian company. A source close to Yota Devices said that in China they expect to sell 1 million Yotaphone 2 for the "life cycle of goods" - a year and a half.

The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has several times increased the amount of damage in the case of the theft of funds from the Bank of Moscow, which is the defendants of which are the ex-president of the credit organization Andrei Borodin and his former first deputy Dmitry Akulinin. Previously, the amount of damage in the case was estimated at 13 billion rubles, now it has grown to 62 billion rubles.

The annual inflation in Russia against the background of the fall of the ruble and oil prices exceeded 15%: in less than a month and a half that have passed since the beginning of 2015, consumer prices in Russia rose by 4.8%, in the first nine days of February - by 0.9%, the Rosstat website reported. Given the fact that by February 10, 2014, their growth amounted to only 0.3%, this means that annual inflation in Russia, which amounted to 15%at the end of January, grew to about 15.6%.

On Wednesday, February 11, information was allowed to publish that during the joint operation of the general security of Israel (Shabak) and military personnel of the Israeli Defense Army (DSAL), the Hamas representatives of the Hamas representatives used to produce rockets and explosive devices were prevented in January, reports Newsru ISRAEL .

A six -time paralympic champion Roman Petushkov is nominated for the title of "Athlete of the Year" among people with disabilities according to the version of the Laureus Academy, the organization’s official website reports. In addition to Petushkov, in this category, the nominees are: Canadian bike lodger Shelley Gate, American runner Tatyana McFadden, German ski -linen Anna Shaffelhuber, British bike lover Sarah Story and Bochchi player from Hong Kong Lan Vin Yuk, reports TASS.

In 2014, many small entrepreneurs actively turned their activities and tried to sell business. As evidenced by the data of the "supports of Russia", for 11 months of 2014, 417.5 thousand legal entities opened, and 483.6 thousand closed. The data that entrepreneurs leave the business indirectly confirms the study of the site of free ads avito.ru. The company has provided RBC statistics on the number of announcements of business sales in different regions of Russia posted on the website.