Russian actor Mikhail Porechenkov, who was put on the wanted list by the Ukrainian authorities, was indifferent to this decision, the radio station “Moscow Speaks” reports . “Let them find out what to do. Well, they put him on the wanted list and announced him. Well, what should I do with this?! How can I somehow influence this? They already have such a policy, well, okay,” he said.

The British company BP is forced to freeze salaries for employees around the world due to falling oil prices. At an oil price of $50 per barrel. the company cannot afford to index wages, explained BP CEO Bob Dudley Photo: Getty Images The decision of BP management to cancel the indexation of employee salaries around the world was reported by the British newspaper The Guardian . We are talking about 84 thousand people. around the world, the publication notes.

The international payment system Visa, following MasterCard, has agreed to cooperate with the National Payment Card System (NSCP).

After shelling from Syria, the Israeli military decided to evacuate tourists from a ski resort in the Golan Heights. This was reported by Channel 9 Israel with reference to a message from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). According to the military, on January 27, two rockets were fired from Syria, one of which exploded near the tourist complex on Mount Hermon. There was no information about the wounded or dead; about 1 thousand people will be evacuated for safety reasons.

The Zvooq project, which tried to make money from subscriptions, has changed its monetization model: now the company will make money from subscriptions and advertising at the same time, as market leader Spotify does Photo: Getty Images Russian audio streaming service Zvooq has switched to a new monetization model : the listener gets free access to the entire catalog in the mobile application and on the website, but in return listens to advertising interruptions.

Declining oil prices create difficulties for Rosneft, but “there is nothing fatal” about them, said Viktor Ishaev, adviser to the company’s president for coordinating projects in the Far East with the rank of vice president. “The company will withstand a price per barrel of both $30 and $20 per barrel, but then problems will arise with the Russian budget,” he said, emphasizing that in 2014 Rosneft contributed 3.5 trillion rubles to the Russian budget.

SMP Bank's net profit for 2014, calculated according to Russian accounting standards (RAS), increased by 76% compared to 2013 and amounted to 3 billion rubles. “The growth in net profit is primarily due to an increase in net interest income by RUB 1.7 billion. up to 5.3 billion rubles,” the bank said in a statement. The bank's assets increased 2.3 times over the year and amounted to 348.4 billion rubles.

Alexey Navalny made public his proposals for a new protest. According to the politician, the “anti-crisis march” must take place with clear demands, primarily socio-economic, that will be shared by the majority of citizens.

Eight French and two Greek citizens were killed when a Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed at a NATO base near the city of Albacete in Spain. This was reported by Reuters with reference to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. The crash occurred shortly after the plane took off from the base. “The fighter lost thrust and fell into an aircraft parking lot, crashing into other aircraft that were parked there,” the Spanish Ministry of Defense said.

The relevant commission of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg opposed the construction of a waste incineration plant in the north of the city (Levashovo), said member of the St. Petersburg parliament Marina Shishkina. Photo: G. Poltavchenko/gov.spb.ru Vice-Governor Igor Albin, present at the commission meeting, supported the decision of the people's representatives and said that Governor Georgy Poltavchenko suspended the construction of the plant.

Photo: Transport Photo Images Billionaire Viktor Vekselberg completely transferred his company Airports of Regions to Russian jurisdiction. As it turned out, Vekselberg himself owns 90% of it, the rest belongs to his partners Vladimir Kremer and Evgeny Olkhovik. Since this year, the company that manages Renova's airport assets, Airports of the Regions, is fully owned by the Russian LLC Airports-Holding.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg recognized the legality of the Ministry of Justice’s inclusion of “Soldiers’ Mothers” in the list of foreign agents, RIA Novosti reports. Photo: REUTERS 2014 “The court decided to refuse the organization “Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg” to satisfy the application that the organization was illegally included in the register of NGOs performing the functions of foreign agents,” the judge said.

The air defense and missile defense forces of Moscow and the Central Industrial Region have passed a combat readiness test. This was announced by the representative of the press service of the Ministry of Defense for the Aerospace Defense Forces, Colonel Alexey Zolotukhin, reports TASS . During the inspection, about a dozen targets were discovered simulating a massive strike aircraft raid at low and extremely low altitudes, the role of which was played by MiG-31 and Su-27 fighters.

Ukraine can count on IMF assistance only if the political situation stabilizes. Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde explained the military-economic connection - not a single IMF partner can participate in the support program if 20% of Ukraine’s GDP is in question Ukraine can receive assistance from the International Monetary Fund only if the political situation stabilizes, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde.

Russians Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun will be invited to testify via video link during the British public inquiry into the “Litvinenko case”. Judge Robert Owen, presiding over the trial, announced this during the hearings that began today, TASS reports . “Lugovoy and Kovtun will be invited to testify via teleconference. I hope they will accept this invitation,” he said.