Decisions made on financing infrastructure projects from the National Welfare Fund will be reviewed. This was stated by Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.

The St. Petersburg Writers' Union requests that the state publishing house Detgiz, the former Leningrad branch of the Soviet publishing house, be excluded from the privatization forecast plan for 2014–2016. Photo: detgiz.spb.ru The writers sent a corresponding letter to the Russian government, Izvestia writes.

Photo: Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant The anti-crisis plan has been generally approved by the government, Dmitry Medvedev said. The document will still be finalized until March. Until then, money to fight the crisis will be taken from the anti-crisis fund - there are 170 billion rubles left in it. Chronology of the plan On Monday, government officials made a second visit to the president with a draft plan to combat the 2015 crisis.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has closed the criminal case on evasion of the National Reserve Bank (NRB) from paying taxes on a particularly large scale, writes Kommersant . The accused in this case was the former chairman of the board of the NRB, Andrei Manoilo. According to investigators, the bank underpaid about 400 million rubles. income tax. However, in 2014, the NRB repaid the debt, and the criminal prosecution of the financier, who did not admit guilt, was completed.

The arrival of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to celebrate the anniversary of the Victory in Moscow was confirmed by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. He told Interfax that "the participation of the North Korean leader has been confirmed." “The Kremlin is preparing for his arrival,” Peskov said. According to the press secretary of the head of state, the leaders of other countries also confirmed their participation.

The prosecutor's office of the Central Military District is checking fraud with the land of the military department, in which the former governor of the Novosibirsk region Vasily Yurchenko and ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov may be involved, Izvestia writes , citing sources in law enforcement agencies.

Russia will cease its participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe until the end of 2015. This statement was made to journalists by the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexey Pushkov, who heads the Russian delegation to PACE. According to him, Russia will cease all contacts with the assembly until the end of this year, Interfax reports . At a meeting on January 28, PACE decided to deprive the Russian delegation of voting rights until April.

US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, during a speech at the Brookings Institution, proposed creating command posts in six European countries. She called Ukraine the front line of freedom US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (Photo: REUTERS 2015) “We all understand perfectly well that the fate of a free Europe depends on Ukraine. Their “freedom front line” also applies to us,” the Voice of America radio station quotes Nuland as saying.

The water level in Lake Baikal has dropped by one centimeter over the past 24 hours, reports the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations . There are still seven centimeters left to reach the critical level. “The water level in Lake Baikal is 456.07 meters, the livelihoods of the population and the production cycle of enterprises have not been disrupted,” the ministry reported. Earlier, the authorities of Buryatia announced a drop in the water level in the lake by 40 cm compared to 2013.

If PACE decides to deprive the Russian delegation of its powers, then it will not be able to put forward any demands to Russia regarding the imprisoned Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, said the head of the Russian delegation, Alexey Pushkov. “All the conversations and demands can make sense for PACE only in one case: if the Russian delegation remains part of PACE.

A UN peacekeeper was killed in southern Lebanon. this The Belfast Telegraph reports with reference to an official representative of the international organization. Earlier, the conflict escalated in the area bordering Israel. Lebanese Hezbollah said it fired a rocket at an Israeli military convoy, and the Israeli army fired dozens of artillery shells into Lebanese territory. Hezbollah said its fighters destroyed a number of vehicles carrying Israeli soldiers and officers.

New EU sanctions against Russia could include further restrictions on capital markets to make it more difficult for Russian companies to refinance. They may also affect Russian government bonds and access to oil and gas production technologies Photo: AP New economic sanctions against Russia will be approved by the leadership of the European Union no earlier than the end of March, Reuters reports , citing sources in EU structures.

Complaints from the owners of stalls and kiosks, which Moscow officials plan to dismantle this year, will reach the level of the president. The issue will be submitted to the State Council for Entrepreneurship Support in early March Photo: TASS As RBC previously reported , this year the Moscow authorities plan to dismantle all the sales tents that they insisted on purchasing three years ago.

The State Duma has found a way to respond to Western politicians accusing Russia of annexing Crimea.

FAS found violations of the trade law in the actions of the Lenta hypermarket chain. Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC As stated in the press service of the regional office of the FAS, a case was initiated against Lenta LLC under Part 2 of Art. 13 of the Trade Law. According to the FAS, the company forced its suppliers, in addition to regular contracts for the supply of goods, to enter into contracts for the provision of services aimed at promoting these goods.