Türkiye is considering introducing a special price for tours for tourists from Russia. This was reported to TASS by the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR), Maya Lomidze. “Currently this issue is being worked out. Representatives of the Russian tourism industry made a proposal to introduce special prices,” Lomidze explained. According to her, due to the current economic situation, tourists began to save on vacation.

Photo: TASS President Vladimir Putin ordered the restoration of all electric trains in the regions. Now the federal authorities need to find more than 15 billion rubles. to compensate for losses of suburban Russian Railways companies. On Wednesday, at a meeting with members of the government, President Vladimir Putin demanded the immediate restoration of suburban services throughout the country. “The trains stopped running to the regions, are you crazy? – Vladimir Putin asked the ministers.

The Norwegian Competition Authority has approved TeliaSonera's acquisition of the Norwegian division of Tele2. Earlier, in December, the department vetoed this deal Photo: Getty Images The transaction was approved subject to compliance with antitrust measures. TeliaSonera has signed an agreement with mobile operator ICE to sell part of its subscriber base to the company and provide ICE with on-net roaming.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a case into the death of an 81-year-old pensioner suspected of stealing butter in the St. Petersburg police department. The Investigative Committee classified the incident as causing death by negligence Photo: Lori Investigators will have to find out whether employees of the Magnit store legitimately suspected blockade survivor Rauza Galimova of theft and called the police.

At a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, a decision was made to double the rapid reaction force to 30 thousand people. The issue of financing has been postponed until the next meeting, which will be held in Warsaw NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels (Photo: Getty Images) NATO defense ministers approved the idea of ​​expanding the rapid reaction force to 30 thousand people.

Former Defense Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Igor Strelkov (Girkin) said that Russian President Vladimir Putin became a “hostage” of the Ukrainian conflict because he refused to annex Donbass to Russia. Igor Strelkov (Girkin) Putin made a mistake by deciding to stop at annexing Crimea and not sending troops to Donetsk and Lugansk, one of the militia leaders said in an interview with Bloomberg .

The number of NATO rapid reaction forces, which are being created in response to “Russian aggression” against Ukraine and the threat from Islamists, will be more than doubled, said the organization’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (center) (Photo: AP) Ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers scheduled for February 5, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for doubling the response force. “Currently their number is 13 thousand.

Yandex has reached an agreement with the Moscow government and released a mobile application for paying for parking, the company’s press service reports. Photo: Anton Berkasov for RBC You can pay for parking through the Yandex application directly from it with a bank card, or through Yandex.Money, or from a mobile phone account or from a city parking account.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs will check all security guards at commercial enterprises in St. Petersburg after the death of a woman who lived in the siege, a representative of the department’s press center told Interfax. Photo: Russian Look He clarified that security officers had previously received complaints about abuse of power when conflicts arose with citizens. Let us remind you that the story happened last Tuesday.

The board of directors of the Novorossiysk commercial seaport approved candidates for election to the company’s board of directors, the statement said . From the state, the head of the department of property relations and privatization of the largest organizations of the Federal Property Management Agency, Vitaly Sergeychuk, as well as the head of the department of the Ministry of Transport, Alexander Tikhonov, were nominated to the board of directors.

Chairman of the relevant State Duma committee Leonid Levin spoke in favor of pre-trial blocking of Internet anonymizers. He also called for expanding the powers and funding of Roskomnadzor Photo: Lori Levin noted that the system of powers for judicial and pre-trial blocking of sites has become “one of the factors in the formation of the Internet environment” in Russia, Interfax reports .

Russian banks were unable to make money from the devaluation of the ruble in 2014. This opinion was expressed by Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Mikhail Sukhov. “Banks made money from the devaluation in 2008. This time they did not profit from the devaluation. In this sense, they did not withdraw any resource from the economy and did not receive this profit from the fall in the ruble exchange rate,” RIA Novosti quotes Sukhov .

Japanese McDonald's for the first time in 11 years suffered a loss for the year due to food safety problems, writes The Wall Street Journal. The reason for the sharp drop in sales was scandals with expired Chinese chicken meat and a number of incidents when foreign objects were found in the chain’s products. McDonald's Holdings Co. registered a net loss of $186.2 million at the end of 2014 compared to a profit of $43.78 million at the end of 2013.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the conscription of Russian citizens in the reserves to military training in 2015. The corresponding document was published on the official legal information portal. Military training for up to two months will be held in the Russian Armed Forces, internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, state security agencies and the Federal Security Service.

The Moscow Metro has denied information about a faulty switch at the Oktyabrskaya station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line. As told RIA Novosti , nothing at the station is broken and is working properly. subway press secretary Andrei Kruzhalin Earlier on Thursday, LifeNews reported that a switch broke at the Oktyabrskaya station, which led to trains running at increased intervals.