With the help of sanctions, the West wants to put pressure on Russia in order to achieve a change of government and president, said VTB Board Chairman Andrei Kostin, Vedomosti reports. “I think that they want to use sanctions to put a lot of pressure on Russia, so that the Russian Federation changes the government, the president, to someone more suitable for them. This is an economic war, this is not just a trade war where you just restrict imports or exports a little.

Due to the threat of sanctions, the Russian government has released state-owned companies from the obligation to publish information on purchases of financial services: banking, insurance, leasing and subleasing, loans and guarantees, Vedomosti writes. In the first half of 2017, state-owned companies purchased financial services worth 1 trillion rubles, which is 11% of their order, the newspaper notes. The order of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will be valid until July 1.

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin has passed away at the age of 88. She has been sick for the past few months, writes New York Times , referring to the words of the son of the writer Theo. Le Guin is an author of novels, poetry and children's books. She is best known as the author of novels and short stories in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She has received top science fiction and fantasy awards.

on January 15 attacked children and a teacher at Perm school No. 127 with an accomplice The Perm regional court dismissed the complaint of the mother of a 16-year-old schoolboy, who . In her complaint, she stated that her son was a minor, had good characteristics, and his state of health did not allow him to be in custody. Today, January 24, the teenager was discharged from the hospital, and during the investigation he was placed in an isolation cell at a juvenile colony.

The Russiangate portal dedicated to investigations has been closed by the decision of investors. This was announced on the air of Ekho Moskvy by the editor-in-chief of the project Aleksandrina Elagina, who specified that she had been fired from this post. According to Elagina, the claims of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, due to which the site was blocked by Roskomnadzor, are most likely related to the text that was released back in December 2017.

A teenager who attacked schoolchildren and a teacher with an ax and a Molotov cocktail in Ulan-Ude had accomplices, according to the Investigative Committee . “The attacker committed the crime in complicity with his classmates, one of whom is 15 years old, the second is 14 years old.

Ksenia Sobchak will go on a campaign trip to the United States. She is negotiating to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, which is to be attended by US President Donald Trump, BBC Russian Service reports . On February 6, Sobchak plans to participate in a discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on the subject of Russia's "post-authoritarian" future." On February 7, she will speak at Georgetown University on economic reform.

On January 24 at 16:30 Moscow time, the hearings of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Navalny v. Russia will begin. Alexei Navalny came to Strasbourg to personally address the judges. Hearings should be broadcast on the website of the ECtHR , head of the Agora human rights group, said , Pavel Chikov .

90 years ago, in January 1928, the first wave of a tough attack on the NEP began. The country entered in the critical period of its history In 1928, the coordinate system was set, the code of Stalin's history that lasted at least another twenty -five years - until the leader of the leader.

Update: The investigation has been removed from the Russiangate website. According to the editor-in-chief of the portal Alexandrina Elagina , the text was removed without her knowledge by the technical service by the decision of investors. The Russiangate website was blocked three hours after the publication of an investigation dedicated to the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov. The editors of the portal announced this in their telegram channel .

The prosecutor demanded to send the ex-governor to a maximum security colony Former governor of the Kirov region Nikita White photos: Google.images During the debate of the parties in the trial in the case of the former governor of the Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, the state prosecution requested ten years of a maximum security colony with a fine of 100 million rubles. The accusation charges white cases of corruption crimes when he was in the post of governor of the Kirov region.

If the media, recognized in Russia as foreign agents, spread calls to boycott the March 18 vote, they could be blocked. about this . told Izvestia Andrey Klimov, chairman of the Federation Council commission on protecting state sovereignty and preventing interference in internal affairs, “The American media called for a boycott of the presidential election. This is a violation of the Constitution.

reports on Wednesday, January 24, The Maly Theater will stage a play based on the novel by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky "The Wall", Interfax citing the artistic director of the theater Yuri Solomin. According to Solomin, the play is still being written.

The main intrigue of the 48th forum is a duel between Macron and Trump. The first personifies an open economy, the second - protectionism and nationalism. Russia in Davos was represented only by one discussion The only discussion in Russia took place in Davos on January 24.

For small-caliber cannibals, it is offensive that someone is trying to make the country's main cannibal funny The queue for newspapers informing about death Stalin Photo: Ap Photo On January 25, the comedy of the British director Armando Iannucci “Death of Stalin” was supposed to go to the Russian rental. But it will not work - at the numerous requests of the workers of the Cultural Front, the Ministry of Culture revoked a rental certificate from the film.