Moscow Pedagogical State University and Sholokhov Moscow State Humanitarian University proposed to Education Minister Dmitry Livanov to merge the two universities, according to a statement from the department’s press service received by RBC. was published on the website of Sholokhov Moscow State Humanitarian University An appeal from the academic council of the university and the administration addressed to the minister .

), where a major fire occurred, about 7 thousand out of 14.5 million documents were digitized , writes Kommersant In the library of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences ( INION . INION annually managed to scan about 1 thousand books of Russian authorship.

The government maintains plans to issue funds from the National Welfare Fund for infrastructure projects. The authorities will not spend the fund’s money on current anti-crisis measures, head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev assured after a meeting with Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin (center in the background) during a meeting on economic issues in Novo-Ogarevo (Photo: TASS) Funds from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) will not be spent on anti-crisis measures.

Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina/RBC After the start of the currency panic in the fall of 2014, the authorities did not skimp on forecasts, talking about the inevitable strengthening of the national currency. At the beginning of November 2014, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov argued that the ruble would soon begin to strengthen - then the dollar was 45 rubles. A week later, when the dollar rose to 47 rubles, the head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, assured that the ruble was undervalued.

Svetlana Davydova, accused of treason, left the Lefortovo SIZA and is going home. Her lawyer Ivan Pavlov told RBC about this. “We organized a car for her to take her home. Now she is on her way to the children,” the defender said. Earlier it became known that Davydova was released on her own recognizance. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on her release to RBC. Davydova was detained on January 21 by FSB officers.

The Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov sent a petition to the Moscow City Court to change the preventive measure for Svetlana Davydova, who is accused of treason and is now under arrest. this The Ombudsman himself announced on his Twitter. Previously, he spoke out against the confiscation of children by guardianship authorities from Davydova, who is a mother of many children. “These are excessive and baseless threats!

AvtoVAZ will lay off 1.1 thousand office workers in 2015; the working staff will not be cut. The president of the company, Bo Andersson, stated this on the Rossiya 24 TV channel. He said that in 2014 AvtoVAZ laid off 15 thousand people, including 10 thousand workers. This happened due to the fact that the company had accumulated 60 thousand finished cars.

Minor employees of closed restaurants turned to the Ombudsman for Children's Rights for help. Photo: carlsjr.ru Representative of the Interregional Trade Union Organization (IPRA) Maxim Kulaev told RBC St. Petersburg about this. Restaurant workers complained about a number of violations. Thus, the majority of minor workers, just like adults, remain in arrears in wages.

Expenditures on anti-crisis measures in the 1st quarter of 2015 will significantly exceed 22 billion rubles. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, TASS reports . He explained that the amount of 22 billion rubles. was proposed by the Ministry of Finance, but has not yet been approved by the government. “Yesterday at the Prime Minister’s meeting it was announced that, most likely, more allocations will be needed than 22 billion rubles. in the 1st quarter.

Yota Devices and PocketBook companies have settled a patent dispute over the use of a trademark – a two-screen smartphone. Now the sale of the CoverReader case from PocketBook will be carried out under a license from Yota Devices Double-sided smartphone YotaPhone 2 (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) The Russian Yota Devices and the international company PocketBook have settled a dispute over a trademark – a two-screen smartphone, representatives of both companies told RBC.

Photo: REUTERS Sales of new cars will decline by 30% in January and by 50% in February, dealers predict. The traditional revival in demand for cars in the spring will be offset by an increase in the cost of cars, according to sellers. In January, according to preliminary estimates from the Russian dealer Rolf, the group's sales decreased by 20% compared to the same month in 2014, said Vitaly Pavlovsky, the company's executive director.

Deputy Mikhail Degtyarev donated a suit from the Sartoria Reale atelier to the State Duma Museum, the owners of which promised to provide for all politicians not allowed to travel.

Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko does not rule out changes to the lustration law, according to which people's representatives, which include the president and deputies, will be tested. He made a corresponding statement on Channel Five. “If we talk about global changes, then we will talk about providing the possibility of applying the lustration procedure, including to electoral positions. This is the position of Ukrainian experts.

During trading on Tuesday, the price of a barrel of Brent rose by more than 4.4%. During trading on the ICE exchange, the price of futures rose to $57.17/barrel. Photo: Getty Images The price of Brent oil continues to rise and for the first time since the beginning of January 2015 rose above $57/barrel. During trading on the ICE exchange, the cost of futures for delivery in March on Tuesday rose to $57.17 per barrel, which is 4.4% higher than the closing level of yesterday's trading.

In January 2015, the volume of advertising on television channels fell by 28%, in print media by 35–40% (depending on the segment, the largest losses were in magazines), on radio by 30%, the Deputy Minister of Communications said in an interview with RBC TV channel and mass communications Alexey Volin. Outdoor advertising, according to his data, continues to fall since last summer. The overall media advertising market has fallen from $10 billion in 2013 to $5 billion, he said.