The Irish airline CityJet, which leased seven SSJ100 aircraft in 2016-2017, has abandoned their operation. According to Vedomosti , CityJet was the only European operator of the Russian aircraft. In total, about 180 SSJ100s have been produced since 2011. The vast majority flies in Russia. CityJet signed a contract for the supply of 16 SSJ100s with an option for another 15 at the end of 2015.

The Dutch authorities do not consider the incident with Novaya Gazeta correspondent Elena Milashina and an employee of the Memorial human rights center Milana Bakhaeva at Schiphol airport as a detention. This was reported to TASS at the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands. “Russian citizens were stopped to find out the purpose of their arrival in the Netherlands. After receiving the necessary information, they were released.

The approved text of the amendments to the EU gas directive assumes that consent to the withdrawal of the Nord Stream 2 project from the norms will have to be given not only by the European Commission, but also by a committee of representatives from all the countries of the Union. According to Kommersant , this will make the procedure lengthy, complex and difficult to predict. The approved amendments should become law already in May.

One picture of Michael Calvey in court surrounded by police hats does more to “support” investment in Russia than vlogs, instagrams and the media combined On Barring's money, Yandex and Vkusvill, Avito and STS, Vimpelcom and Tinkoff grew. Now answer the question why, after waking up in the morning in another country and reading this news, dozens of the smartest, most successful, most educated and enterprising people who left Russia should want to return?

The Kremlin's domestic political bloc has developed a new KPI system, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko said at a seminar for vice-governors on domestic policy. As RBC writes with reference to the meeting participants, the KPI for the level of trust in the authorities, which was previously introduced for governors, is now being introduced for their deputies for domestic policy. Separately, KPI for elections will begin to operate.

A special cross-party commission of the lower house of the British Parliament concluded that "the era of inadequate self-regulation must end." According to the Financial Times, commission head Damian Collins said a "radical shift in the balance of power between platforms and people" is needed. media regulator Ofcom as soon as possible The deputies call for the creation of an independent social media regulator and a "code of ethics" similar to the rules of the British .

Former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned in Salisbury in March last year, began to feel worse. According to The Sunday Times , his health has deteriorated, doctors are helping him. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the British newspaper's report an example of a "managed leak". “Another example of a “managed leak”. Another proof of a direct connection between the British intelligence services and the media,” she wrote on Facebook.

In the case of embezzlement, the court arrested Ivan Blagodyr, deputy chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for two months. He is involved in the case together with the executive director of the Far Eastern Energy Company, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Primorye Viktor Milush, who was previously imprisoned, Interfax reports . The criminal case was initiated on 28 January. With regard to Milush - under part 4 of Art.

Senior partner of the fund Elena Ivashentseva and co-founder Alexei Kalinin will act as the head of the investment fund Baring Vostok Capital Partners. reports The powers of senior partner and founder of the fund Michael Calvey, partners Vagan Abgaryan and Philippe Delpal, as well as investment director Ivan Zyuzin, who became defendants in the fraud case, have been temporarily suspended, the company said, RBC . Earlier, six defendants in the criminal case were arrested.

Three-day Russian-Belarusian talks ended in favor of Minsk: Moscow will continue to provide economic assistance and no longer requires rapid integration The series of negotiations between Lukashenka and Putin, which lasted from September last year, finally ended with a “three-day sitting” in Sochi. Judging by the first statements after the meeting, the dispute ended traditionally: the model of sluggish integration was preserved, while maintaining economic support from Russia.

Updated: Novaya Gazeta correspondent Yelena Milashina and Memorial employee Milana Bakhaeva, who were earlier detained at the Amsterdam airport The Dutch police released . At the Amsterdam airport, police detained Novaya Gazeta correspondent Elena Milashina and Milana Bakhaeva, an employee of the Memorial human rights center. They flew to Amsterdam to meet with human rights activists who are investigating the problem of Syrian refugees, Novaya writes .

Sherzod Yusupov, a member of the board of directors and shareholder of Vostochny Bank, who wrote a statement to law enforcement agencies, as a result of which the founder of the Baring Vostok investment fund Michael Calvey and five other people were arrested, explained his actions for the first time.

A rally in memory of Boris Nemtsov in St. Petersburg was agreed upon, said the chairman of Open Russia, Andrey Pivovarov. “The action in memory of Boris Nemtsov will be held in St. Petersburg on 24.02 on the square. Lenin. Smolny has just agreed to the terms we proposed. Action approved,” he wrote on Twitter. Earlier, Pivovarov reported that the authorities of St. Petersburg did not agree on a march in memory of Boris Nemtsov.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has notified the family of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya that the term of the preliminary investigation in the criminal case of her murder (in terms of customers) has been extended by 150 months. These 150 months must be counted from the date of the murder on October 7, 2006 - that is, the period expires on April 7, 2019, Novaya writes .

The message-2019 will probably have numerous “positive signals” and gingerbread to the population. But it is already waiting for other words that Putin is not yet ready to utter, says Columnist Ntivan Davydov Ivan Davydov. The penultimate hall of the museum in the Yekaterinburg Yeltsin Center reproduces the atmosphere of the Kremlin cabinet of Boris Yeltsin.