The authorities of Nizhny Novgorod have introduced a state of emergency due to heavy snowfalls in the city. This is stated in a message on the website of the Nizhny Novgorod administration. The authorities have not specified how long the state of emergency will remain in effect. According to authorities, the city received almost a month's worth of precipitation during the New Year holidays. In some places, the height of the snow cover reached 50 cm.

Photo: RIA Novosti Prices for apartments in rubles began to decline in 2015, and developers do not have much hope for a revival in demand. RBC asked developers about the main factors that will influence the market in 2016. Ruble prices for apartments in Russia went down for the first time in many years: according to Rosstat, this began in the second quarter of 2015. Average price of 1 sq.

In 2015, 22% of smartphone users in developed countries preferred traditional voice calls to communicating via instant messengers. about this The Financial Times writes with reference to a Deloitte study. Analysts predict that this year the number of such users will grow to 26%. Most often, young people aged 18–24 use the Internet instead of traditional mobile communications.

The Russian government plans to sequester the 2016 budget by 10%. This was reported by Reuters citing sources. At the beginning of 2015, the government was already reducing the expenses of ministries and departments by 10% House of the Government of Russia (Photo: Artem Geodakyan/TASS) The decision to cut budget expenditures set for 2016 by 10% was made at a meeting of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in December last year, Reuters reports, citing two officials who participated in the meeting.

In the urban village of Yasinya, Transcarpathian region of Ukraine, five people attacked two employees of a tourist base. This was reported on the website of the Main Investigation Department of the Police of Ukraine. The conflict occurred on the territory of the tourist center - unknown armed men in camouflage clothing started a fight with two guards.

During a New Year's party in one of the Kyiv clubs, the execution of a Russian Su-24 pilot shot down in Turkey was staged. A video of the performance is posted on YouTube . In the footage, one of the participants, dressed in an embroidered shirt, put another on his knees - supposedly a pilot with his hands tied. Then the first one holds the second one across the throat with a knife. “Every Russian will be punished. This will happen to every Rusak who comes to our land.

The price of a barrel of Brent oil during trading on January 11 fell below $32 for the first time since the beginning of 2004. The fall in oil prices occurs against the backdrop of an unstable situation in Chinese markets. Photo: Lori During trading on the London ICE exchange on Monday, January 11, the price of February futures for Brent oil dropped below $32 per barrel. According to trading data at 19:21 Moscow time, the cost of a barrel of Brent was $31.86.

On Monday, the first of the public retailers to disclose operating results for 2015 was the largest retailer in Russia, Magnit. The company showed the lowest revenue growth in the last ten years Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC Magnit's revenue in 2015 increased by 24.3% year-on-year to RUB 947.8 billion, the company reported operating results on Monday. This is the company's lowest revenue growth rate over the past ten years, when the retailer publicly discloses its performance (see chart).

In Voronezh, rescuers extinguished a fire in a multi-storey residential building. As a result of the fire, there were casualties, reported . the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Voronezh region Information about the fire was received at 21:29 Moscow time. The fire was extinguished at 22:40. As a result of the fire, several apartments on the 3rd and 4th floors were damaged by fire.

The Moscow office of Rosselkhoznadzor filed a lawsuit against the Auchan retail chain to suspend the production of minced meat. The claim was filed with the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, told the Moscow agency.

Photo: Mikhail Pochuev/TASS Russian politicians, who have been banned from entering Western countries, have continued to restrict the ability of civil servants and ordinary citizens to leave the country over the past year. “Categories not allowed to travel abroad” appeared. The tourist flow within Russia in 2015 increased by 20%, said the head of Rostourism Oleg Safonov in November. According to him, approximately 30% fewer Russians began to travel abroad than a year earlier.

Security services have freed hostages from a seized shopping center in Baghdad. The security forces managed to enter the building, neutralize the attackers and free the people, reports , citing a statement by the press secretary of the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs. the BBC Police sources said two of the attackers detonated suicide vests, killing several hostages. Two militants were shot and four more were arrested, the BBC notes.

Moscow Exchange indices continued to fall following Asian markets. At their lows, both major indexes were down more than 4%. Thus, the MICEX index fell below 1,700 points, the RTS - to almost 700 points Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS One of the two main indices of the Moscow Exchange, the MICEX index calculated in rubles, dropped below 1,700 points during morning trading. At the peak of the fall, it fell to 1695.06 points, which is 3.06% lower than the closing level of previous trading.

On January 11, Gazprom canceled several tenders for the construction of connections to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. We are talking about the pipeline on the line Ukhta - Torzhok-2 Photo: Egor Aleev/TASS According to the Interfax agency , we are talking about tenders for the construction of three sections of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with a total length of about 400 km. The total cost of the tenders was estimated at 13 billion rubles.

The “heart” of the heavy water nuclear reactor in the city of Arak has been dismantled in Iran, Fars news agency reports , citing a source familiar with the situation. The reactor core was removed on Monday, January 11. The place where it was was filled with cement.