The international rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of Russian companies, including Gazprom, Rosneft and Russian Railways. This is stated on the website of the agency. long-term foreign currency ratings The agency downgraded for Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Transneft, Rosneft, Russian Railways and NOVATEK from BBB- with a negative outlook to BB+.

In Kiev, a high-ranking official of the General Staff of Ukraine and his “separatist accomplice” were detained, who, according to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), “prepared sabotage in order to destabilize the situation” in Ukraine and allegedly “incited anti-Ukrainian actions.” This was reported by the press service of the SBU with reference to the head of the department Valentin Nalyvaichenko.

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation accused the Ministry of Transport and the Russian Railways company of disrupting the timing of the reform of suburban rail traffic, according to the website of the chamber. According to the report on the inspection of the work of Russian Railways, the Ministry of Transport and the railway monopoly dragged out the reform for 7 years and completed it only in 2012.

Monopoly or market? The head of the Department of the Media and Advertising of the Moscow City Hall believes that the retail reform will not make the businessmen and distributors in unprofitable, and the press is less accessible to readers Monopoly or market?

The Chinese are replacing the Russians The Chinese are replacing the Russians Exodus According to the Association of Travel Companies of Thailand, in 2014 the number of Russian tourists who visited the most popular resort among Russians in Thailand, Pattaya, decreased by 20% - to 857.5 thousand people.

The Sakharov Center (SC) filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in connection with a departmental audit, as a result of which the center was recognized as a "foreign agent" and entered into the appropriate register of non-profit organizations. This was reported to Interfax by the executive director of the Sakharov Center Sergei Lukashevsky.

In Makhachkala, unidentified persons beat an employee of the Memorial human rights center and lawyer Murad Magomedov in Makhachkala, according to the center's website. The attack took place not far from the building of the Supreme Court of the Republic, where Magomedov acted as a defender of the accused in a case he is working on outside Memorial. According to human rights activists, at the exit from the court building, five unidentified men beat the lawyer.

The Association "Center for Research on Economic and Socio-Cultural Development of the CIS Countries, Central and Eastern Europe" has put forward an initiative to publish an appeal to political and public figures of the West and Russia with a call to prevent the spread of the Cold War between Russia and the West and the escalation of tension in Europe The Association "Center for Research on Economic and Socio-Cultural Development of the CIS Countries, Central and Eastern Europe" has put forward

Movement along the anti -European path, in historically the reverse side will no longer lead to a crisis, but to collapse Movement along the anti -European path, in historically the reverse side will no longer lead to a crisis, but to collapse Anna Artemyeva - "New" The position of the Yabloko party and its leader Grigory Yavlinsky has always been uncompromising and pacifist. But today, the question of the attitude to the war has gone far beyond the scope of ethics and even politics itself.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on the procedure for excluding non-profit organizations from the register of "foreign agents". Information about this is placed in the database of the State Duma. According to the text of the draft law, in the event that an NPO ceases to perform the functions of a “foreign agent”, the organization has the right to apply for deletion from the register.

The Russian Railways company will return suburban electric trains in the regions as soon as possible, TASS reports citing a Russian Railways representative. The source of the agency said that the company is developing a plan to restore commuter rail links. “We will return in the shortest possible technological time,” the source said. Earlier today, Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the government and Russian Railways for the abolition of commuter trains in a number of regions.

The St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly sent a proposal to the State Duma to introduce criminal liability for dog hunters, TASS reports .

The cost of building a bridge across the Kerch Strait has been reduced by 19 billion rubles, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said during a meeting of government members with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the marginal cost of the project was reduced "due to the optimization of technological solutions" and "as a result of competitive negotiations," TASS reports .

The Health of the Department of History of "Novaya Gazeta" The Health of the Department of History of "Novaya Gazeta" On Wednesday, January 28, at 19-00, as part of the Department of History of Novaya Gazeta, a lecture of the Doctor of Historical Sciences, the responsible editor of the book “History of Russia, was held. The twentieth century ”, Andrei Borisovich Zubov on the topic:“ The serfdom in imperial Russia and his lessons today. ”

Samara municipal authorities were preoccupied with corruption in the field of ritual services Samara municipal authorities were preoccupied with corruption in the field of ritual services RIA Novosti The municipal authorities did this not just like that, but on the advice of the governor, who discussed for several minutes of the traditional New Year's Episten about funeral corruption, and even shifted the director of one ritual agency from the post of a war of the hero two hundred thousand