The Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow took into custody Moscow resident Alexander Velichko, who is suspected of murdering two executives of the Mon Company company in the south-west of Moscow. Interfax was informed about this in court. The court noted that the investigation's request was granted. On January 18, a former employee of a Moscow company who was engaged in landscaping came into the office and shot two employees several times with a hunting rifle.

According to him, the news about a refugee who froze to death on the Russian-Finnish border is puzzling President of Finland Sauli Niiniste (Photo: tpk.fi) Finnish President Sauli Niiniste commented on the news about a refugee who froze to death on the Russian-Finnish border.

Vladimir Putin believes that the collapse of the ruble opens up “new business opportunities.” The president announced this at a meeting with entrepreneurs, and at this time the dollar exchange rate at stock exchange trading reached a historical maximum Russian President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the entrepreneurial forum “Small business - a national idea?” (Photo: Artem Korotaev/TASS) Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that Russian business, including small ones,

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on the early termination of the powers of the country’s parliament - the Majilis, Tengrinews.kz reports. Early elections are scheduled for March 20, 2016. A week ago, Kazakh deputies - Majilismen - took the initiative to early terminate their powers and call new elections. This measure is necessary due to the “aggravated economic situation,” it was explained in parliament.

Rospotrebnadzor identified a number of prohibited Turkish products in Russian retail that were imported into Russia after January 1, 2016, after anti-Turkish sanctions came into force. reports this TASS with reference to the head of the department, Anna Popova. “We expected everyone to be so law-abiding that [the ban] would be fully respected. But they found violations in different regions of the Russian Federation,” she said.

Photo: Yuri Samolygo/ITAR-TASS On Tuesday, the Moscow City Court's decisions to permanently block the torrent tracker Rutor.org and 12 other resources came into force. For now, most sites are available to users, but within 24 hours providers will block them forever. 13 first The decision of the Moscow City Court on the claim of Bazelevs Distribution LLC for the protection of exclusive rights to audiovisual works has entered into legal force, the court said in a statement.

Photo: "RIA Novosti" Aram Gabrelyanov’s News Media holding will have a new head site - Life.ru. In the new concept of the pro-Kremlin holding, the main platform will be the Internet, not television. Everything on one site News Media CEO Aram Gabrelyanov told RBC about the launch of the new Life.ru website. According to him, the launch is scheduled for mid-February.

The German concern Volkswagen will provide discounts on new cars to owners of cars in which software that hides harmful emissions was installed, DPA reports. In order to get a car at a discount, the driver will have to return his old car with incorrectly working software. The offer is valid for owners of cars with 1.6-liter diesel engines and only within Germany (where 2.4 million cars with the software not working correctly were sold).

One hundred trucks carrying goods to Moldova are stuck on the Russian-Ukrainian border. They were blocked due to Kyiv’s ban on the import of a number of goods from Russia. In Chisinau they consider this a violation of transit rules Photo: Lori About a hundred trucks carrying Russian goods to Moldova have accumulated at the Russian-Ukrainian border checkpoint Troebortnoye-Bachevsk.

Caltech researchers have concluded that there may be a ninth planet in the solar system, with a mass ten times that of Earth. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology used computer modeling methods, the results of their work were published in the Astronomical Journal . Scientists have found that there may be another planet in the solar system, the mass of which is ten times greater than the mass of the Earth.

The American stock market fell by more than 2.5% at the opening on Wednesday. Indices are declining amid a sell-off in stocks around the world and falling oil prices US stock indices showed a decline at the opening of trading amid a sell-off in stocks around the world, falling oil prices and general skepticism about the prospects for the global economy, reports Bloomberg . The US Standard & Poor 500 index fell 2.7% to 1,830.27, hitting a record low since April 2014.

The dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange soared above 80 rubles, the euro exchange rate is approaching 88 rubles. Currencies rose in price after a new drop in oil prices below $28 per barrel Photo: Reuters/Pixstream The fall of the ruble accelerated on the Moscow Exchange. The dollar exchange rate exceeded 80 rubles for the first time in more than a year, reaching a maximum of 80.017 rubles, which is 1.456 rubles. higher than the closing level of previous trading.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev promised that the government will continue to implement the anti-crisis plan, taking into account the development of the situation in recent weeks. He made this statement at a meeting with members of the government’s expert council, Interfax reports .

The presidential administration forwarded to the Federal Tax Service a complaint from ONF activist Alexander Kulakov about Gazprom’s tax evasion. According to Kulakov, the company underpaid almost 130 billion rubles to the budget. As Kulakov himself told RBC, the presidential administration’s board for handling appeals from citizens and organizations notified him that the appeal regarding possible tax evasion by Gazprom had been submitted to the Federal Tax Service.

The head of LUKOIL, Vagit Alekperov, led the oil industry when oil cost $9 per barrel. Stability in the tax system will now help the industry, and with it the whole country, to survive, he is sure Head of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) — A year ago in Davos, we discussed the fall in oil prices, but we did not yet know what awaited us ahead. Now oil costs less than $30 per barrel, and this is not a fall, but a collapse. When will he stop?