The average amount of a bribe in Moscow has doubled, to 654 thousand rubles, said Anatoly Yakunin, head of the capital’s main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is almost four times more than in Russia as a whole. Bribes grow following the exchange rate of the dollar and euro Photo: Lori The average bribe amount in Moscow has doubled.

The government may resort to “difficult decisions” with a further decline in oil prices, said First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Energy Alexey Teksler.

Alexey Kovalev said that he would prepare an appeal to the vice-governor for housing and communal services regarding poor street cleaning Photo: facebook.com/ComBlagoSpb The Commission on Municipal Economy, Urban Planning and Land Issues of the St. Petersburg Parliament will prepare an appeal to the Vice-Governor for Housing and Communal Services Nikolai Bondarenko regarding unsatisfactory street cleaning. The initiator of the appeal, deputy Alexey Kovalev, told an RBC St.

North Korea may be preparing to launch a long-range missile. This was reported by the Japanese agency Kyodo News, citing a source in the Japanese government. According to him, the DPRK’s possible preparation for launching a missile is evidenced by data obtained from the analysis of satellite images. In early January, the Yonhap agency, citing an official representative of the South Korean armed forces, reported that the DPRK test-launched a ballistic missile from a submarine in December 2015.

The new iPad tablet model could be introduced as early as mid-March, industry publication 9to5Mac reports , citing its sources. We are most likely talking about the iPad Air line, and the new model will be called iPad Air 3, the portal’s interlocutors say. The screen diagonal will be 9.7 inches. The sources also added that Apple has begun testing a tablet screen compatible with the Apple Pencil stylus.

The revenue of the American company Facebook in the first quarter of the current financial year amounted to $5.84 billion. The improvement in financial performance occurred against the backdrop of growing mobile advertising sales Facebook's revenue for the past quarter grew from $3.85 billion to $5.84 billion, an increase of 52%, reports The Wall Street Journal . Profit amounted to $1.5 billion (last year - $700 million).

Amount paid for failure to deliver the ship on time Photo: Yantar plant website The Kaliningrad shipyard "Yantar" paid almost 400 million rubles in penalties for missing the deadline for delivering a ship to the Ministry of Defense. According to the press service of the Office of the Federal Bailiff Service, the amount was paid based on the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court. Shortly before this, the shipbuilders were given a resolution to initiate enforcement proceedings.

The Prosecutor General's Office will check the legality of the actions of the Russian Taxpayers Party. This is stated in the department’s response to a request from State Duma deputy Anatoly Vyborny; a copy of the document is available to TASS . “The General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation has organized an inspection based on your request to inspect the activities of the political party “Party of Taxpayers of Russia,” the department said.

In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a criminal case has been opened into the death of three children as a result of falling into a ditch with hot water. This is stated in a message from the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR), which was received by RBC. The bodies of three 8-year-old schoolchildren were found in a ditch with hot water located near a heating main near school No. 1 on Pogranichnaya Street in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

“Interlocutor” reported the disappearance of part of the personal data of the ex-wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lyudmila, from the Rosreestr extract for the St. Petersburg apartment, which belonged to the Putin family. The extract, which the publication received on January 25, 2016, contains only the name of the owner of the right to real estate, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya (the name and patronymic coincide with the data of the president’s ex-wife).

The Finnish authorities may transfer the military to the eastern border due to the influx of migrants, Kainuun Sanomat reports , citing the publication of Lännen Media. Currently, the border with Russia is officially guarded by 1,500 border guards—about one per kilometer. However, in reality, only a fraction of the staff is on duty there, said Pasi Kostamovaara, head of the land and sea border department of the border guard.

Four OPEC delegates told Bloomberg that there are no plans to hold talks on a possible reduction in oil production with Russia's participation. Earlier, the head of the Russian Ministry of Energy spoke about the preparation of such a meeting. Four delegates from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) told Bloomberg that they had not heard of plans to hold talks with Russia to discuss a possible reduction in oil production.

Employees of the Fedex courier service found dummies of explosive devices while inspecting boxes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. TV channel reports this France24 . While inspecting cargo sent from the United States to Tunisia, employees came across suspicious torn bags of pots filled with bolts and screws. Some of the pots had what appeared to be detonators attached to them, the report said.

Entrepreneur Danila Shaposhnikov says he undertook to bring the product to market from the laboratory. The startup AT Energy makes hydrogen fuel cells that will allow drones to fly many times longer than they currently can.

Foreign currency borrowers held a picket outside the Moscow restaurant “Yar” on Leningradsky Prospekt, where a meeting of the National Banking Club of the Association of Russian Banks is being held, RIA Novosti reports . The action was authorized, it was agreed upon from 18:30 to 20:30 Moscow time, its organizer Yulia Butyrskaya told the agency. This information was confirmed by the prefecture of the Northern Administrative District.