A Belgian court sentenced the head of the radical Islamist Salafi organization Sharia4Belgium (“Sharia for Belgium”) Fuad Belkacem to 12 years in prison, reports Reuters . The Islamist group, led by Belkacem, was engaged in promoting young people to join the ranks of militants in the Middle East. The prosecutor asked for 15 years in prison for Belkacem, but the judge sentenced the Islamist to a lesser term, since he himself was not a participant in the fighting in Syria.

Soaring rates on bank loans are forcing them to look for alternative financing options even for those borrowers to whom, until recently, any banker would have willingly lent Sergei Galitsky, founder of the Russian retail chain Magnit (Photo: Bloomberg) Material from RBC magazine No.

The heads of the Normandy Four, who are discussing the Ukrainian crisis, were joined by the heads of the Foreign Ministry.

Photo: TASS The economic crisis may spur the development of our technology business. Russian specialists have now become one of the cheapest in the world. Which companies will benefit from this? What do integrators win? Over the past few years, a global trend has been developing in Russia: international corporations like IBM, Oracle, HP began to work directly in the Russian Federation, abandoning system integrators as unnecessary intermediaries.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has begun forming the fourteenth humanitarian column for the residents of Donbass. Cargo for the convoy is being delivered to the Rostov region, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. On Wednesday, the aviation of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver a cargo of humanitarian aid with a total weight of over 70 tons from the Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow to Rostov-on-Don.

Photo: TASS The share of Russian films in the total box office is not as small as officials say. According to this indicator, Russia, with 18.9%, ranks 15th in Europe, ahead of countries such as Austria, Belgium or Portugal. In the middle of the ranking The European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) has published a report summarizing the 2014 cinema year for 35 countries.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that he will go to Minsk, where negotiations between the leaders of the Normandy Four countries are scheduled to take place on February 11 in order to cease fire without any conditions and begin dialogue. This is stated in a message published on the website of the head of state. “We demand peace without any conditions. We demand to stop the fire, withdraw foreign troops, close the border,” the message says.

The state may allow online sales of alcohol in Russia and change the distribution of excise taxes between Moscow and the regions.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe reported that a rocket fell on Tuesday 30 meters from the positions of observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in the Donetsk city of Kramatorsk (95 km north of Donetsk). “The SMM saw the rocket land 30 meters from their positions. The missile landed in the courtyard behind the building without exploding,” a statement on the OSCE website said .

The Normandy Four negotiations, as the Kremlin expects, may culminate in the signing of a new peace agreement.

Smolny is trying to speed up the procedure for demolishing illegal stalls and shopping pavilions in St. Petersburg. Photo: TASS writes As the Kommersant newspaper with reference to the chairman of the Committee for the Development of Entrepreneurship and the Consumer Market (KRPPR) Elgiz Kachaev, the state institution “Center for Improving the Efficiency of Use of State Property” (CPEIG) is too slow in doing this work.

The devaluation of the ruble hit foreign currency borrowers the hardest. Their loan payments almost doubled. Banks do not have a unified approach to solving this problem, and they offer individual conditions to each client Photo: TASS The situation with foreign currency loans from Russians began to worsen from the beginning of 2014. By March, when the Federation Council approved the possible use of Russian armed forces in Ukraine, the dollar rose from 32.7 to 36.6 rubles.

The Boulevard Ring company, which in 2011 became the advertising operator of all public ground transport in the capital, owes the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans almost 470 million rubles. He is trying to recover this amount through court Advertising on a Moscow bus (Photo: RIA Novosti) State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans filed a claim against Boulevard Ring LLC on February 9 in the Moscow Arbitration Court.

The corresponding conclusion is contained in the definition published today on the website of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Photo: RBC The reason for considering the case was complaints about the article on fraud in the field of business activity (Part 3 of Article 159.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The article was accepted in 2012. Among the applicants are two residents of the Altai Territory and six residents of Ufa.

Such an action as was carried out by Greenpeace on the Prirazlomnaya platform would be beyond the means of environmental defenders. The State Duma intends to introduce multimillion-dollar fines for blocking ships and drilling platforms Greenpeace activists head to the Prirazlomnaya oil production platform in the Barents Sea.