On February 9, the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia at a meeting on monetary policy decided to reduce the key rate from 7.75% to 7.5%, RBC reports. At the same time, the Central Bank said that he would continue to reduce the key rate and allow the completion of the transition from moderately strict to neutral monetary policy in 2018.

The photoeal one, installed in the Land of the Leopard National Park in Primorye, first recorded one of the most unusual inhabitants of the reserve - Kabargu. This is a miniature deer -like animal that has no horns, but instead there are long curved fangs (for males). Because of this, it is sometimes called a saber-sized deer or a “deer-vampir”, the park’s website reports. It is noted that the wounds received by males from these processes during the rut can cause them serious harm.

Employees of the Main Directorate of the Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow, the 2nd special battalion of the traffic police of the traffic police on the special vehicle and the fighters of the Rings of the Russian Guard detained the leader of the ethnic criminal group, which had been hiding from law enforcement agencies for two decades.

Arkady Dubnov “If it seems to someone that, having declared an inevitable return of Azerbaijan to him in the past of Yerevan and other Armenian lands, the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made a sensation, then this is an sighted impression,” the journalist writes on his Facebook page.

The Italian Fiat decided to return the Doblo model to the Russian market after a two -year break. The updated commercial car will appear on sale in Russia from February 23, Kommersant reports with reference to the automaker. The novelty will be proposed in two versions - the Doblo Cargo freight at a price of 1 million rubles and the passenger Doblo Combi worth 1.1 million.

In the light of the adoption of discriminatory decisions regarding domestic athletes, Russia after the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang will require the resignation of the leadership of the International Olympic Committee. This was announced on Friday by the head of the State Duma Committee on Physical Education and Sports Mikhail Degtyarev.

The visiting panel of the sports arbitration court (CAS) decided to reject the appeals of 47 Russian athletes to disable the Olympic Games in South Korean Pyeongchang, the CAS press service reports on Friday. "Applications submitted by 32 Russian athletes on February 6, as well as filed on February 7, another 15 athletes and coaches for participation in the Olympics, rejected the CAS exit panel," the report said.

The International Journal of Archdaily Architecture and Design announced the winners of the reader voting for the best implemented project of 2017. About 100 thousand people took part in the assessment of nominees for the prize. Of the several thousand projects, they selected the 15 best. The Zaryadye Moscow Park won the public architecture nomination, gaining more votes than projects from South Korea, Denmark and Spain.

World oil prices on Friday continue to decline after Iran’s statement about the intention to increase production. In addition, oil quotes play the released data on the growth of oil production in the United States over the past week. This news has strengthened fears regarding the increase in the supply of hydrocarbon raw materials in the world market, which pushes prices for it down, notes the Prime IA .

In early February, the organizers of the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang announced that competition participants would receive a special “Olympic” version of the flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note 8 as a gift. It was assumed that in total the company, which has been a sponsor of the Olympics for many years, would give the athletes almost four thousand devices.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs proposed to edit the "old Soviet joke" about the collective farm and the tractor driver. In a joke, one of the collective farm members offers to rape the tractor driver, however, according to Putin, there should be a milkmaid on the site of the driver of the tractor.

Most Russians during Shrovetide will only eat pancakes (88%), 83%intend to ask for forgiveness on forgiven Sunday, and only 11%are ready to observe a great post after Shrovetide. Such data published on his website the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) by the beginning of the Shrovetide Week and the upcoming great post.

The work of the federal government of the United States was again partially blocked due to the failure of the draft law on the budget, reports Reuters. The term of the previous agreement expired at midnight on February 8. On the eve of February 7, the leaders of the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate announced that they managed to agree on the federal budget parameters for the next two years.

The journalist of Novaya Gazeta, Vecherdi Nurmatov (Ali Feruz), who was fined for the implementation of illegal work in the Russian Federation, can leave for a third country, the newspaper writes. On Friday, February 9, the judge of the Basmanny Court Elena Lenskaya said that Ali Feruz has the right to file an application to the bailiffs with a request to leave Russia to the third country upon presentation of the relevant documents.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who in the United States is considered the chief lender of the former head of the US President Paul Manafort, whom he secretly worked in order to promote the interests of the Russian Federation in the United States, intends to sue again. But now we are not talking about investments and financial losses, but about the loss of reputation.