Chairman of the Board of VTB Andrei Kostin said that the dollar-ruble exchange rate is unlikely to ever return to 60 rubles. for a dollar.

The DIA suspended payments to Vneshprombank depositors due to the revocation of its license. Payments will resume on January 22 Photo: Reuters/Pixstream The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) suspended insurance payments to Vneshprombank depositors for one day. A source familiar with the situation at Vneshprombank told RBC about this and was confirmed by an interlocutor close to the Central Bank. The DIA later issued a press release stating that payments would continue from January 22.

The administration of Barack Obama gave the Pentagon permission to bomb ISIS positions in Afghanistan, The Washington Post writes, citing sources in the US Department of Defense.

Rostourism has restored 31 companies to the register of tour operators, including one of the Anex Tour companies. Earlier, the agency stated that the condition for returning to the register is that the companies do not have Turkish beneficiaries. Photo: TASS Rostourism included 31 companies in the unified federal register of tour operators, among them was one of the legal entities of the tour operator with Turkish roots, “Anex Tour,” which was previously excluded from the register.

Prices for compulsory motor liability insurance policies for persistent traffic rule violators can increase from 2 to 8 times.

Prices for iPhone 6 from Apple have decreased in retail chains. Depending on the amount of memory, the cost of devices has decreased by 10–15%. The price of the iPhone 6s has also dropped on the Svyaznoy network. Russian retail chains have reduced prices for the Apple iPhone 6, CNews notes. New prices have already been set, for example, by retailers M.Video, Svyaznoy and Eldorado.

A British High Court judge named Lugovoy and Kovtun as likely perpetrators of Litvinenko's murder. The operation was "likely to have been approved" by the Russian president, public inquiry report says State Duma Deputy Andrei Lugovoi (Photo: RIA Novosti) On Thursday, retired High Court judge Sir Robert Owen announced his findings following a public inquiry into the death of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

Photo: RIA Novosti The former co-owner of the European Bearing Corporation, the largest Russian bearing manufacturer, Artem Zuev, received control of the plant and 1.4 thousand hectares of vineyards near Sevastopol and presented them to his wife. Vineyards for the wife Tatler magazine reported that Zolotaya Balka, the sixth largest vineyard in Crimea (see table), was acquired by Moscow businessman Artem Zuev.

Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina said yesterday that the Bank of Russia will intervene in the situation on the foreign exchange market when it sees a threat to the country's financial stability. Is today's market panic such a threat? The depreciation of the ruble that has occurred since the New Year was primarily associated with oil prices. This reduction was indeed fundamentally justified. And the Central Bank had no reason to support the currency.

Both China and EU austerity measures are to blame for the slowdown in the global economy, says Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz.

Since the beginning of the week, the dollar has risen in price by more than 6.5 rubles. In addition to falling oil prices, the collapse was provoked by the conversion of dividends, the forced closure of positions and the onset of panic, economists and market participants say Photo: Nikita Popov/RBC On Thursday, January 21, the dollar rate soared to almost 86 rubles. This is the highest value since 1998. The previous record was 80.1 rubles.

The ruble has reached a new historical low - the dollar is already worth more than 82 rubles. RBC looked into how this would affect prices, income and the budget. The ruble hit a record low yesterday: the dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange exceeded 82 rubles by the evening. The previous record was recorded on December 16, 2014, when it reached 80.1 rubles.

The widow of Alexander Litvinenko, Marina Litvinenko, called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to introduce visa restrictions and personal economic sanctions against “all persons identified in the case, not excluding Nikolai Patrushev and Vladimir Putin.” As reported by The Guardian , she made such a statement to journalists in front of the London courthouse. The text of the statement from Litvinenko's widow was also published by BBC journalist Stephen Swann.

Not only Russia, but also its neighbors in the CIS are suffering from falling oil prices. RBC talked to experts and figured out through what channels oil affects their economies Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan (Photo: RIA Novosti) The decline in oil prices was felt not only by Russia, but also by its neighbors - Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, which also export hydrocarbons. Their currencies, the tenge and manat, fell the most in the world last year.

Kyiv has expanded the list of Russian products, the supply of which is prohibited. It included onions, sauces and ketchups, fish and a number of confectionery products. Ukraine introduced an embargo on a number of Russian goods from January 10, 2016 Onion harvest (Photo: Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS) On January 20, the Ukrainian government approved expanding the list of Russian products that were previously prohibited from import into Ukraine.