The general contractor asked Smolny for another half a billion rubles to complete the stadium Photo: fc-zenit.ru The general contractor for the construction of the Zenit Arena stadium, Inzhtransstroy-SPb, is asking to increase funding for the project by 435 million rubles. The company sent a corresponding request to the Smolny Construction Committee, a committee representative told RBC St. Petersburg.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged not to take seriously the accusations of inciting the civil war in Syria, which were previously voiced by the British Foreign Office. He called these statements illogical Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov (Photo: AP) According to presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Russia is helping the Syrians in the fight against international terrorists and accusations of inciting a civil war in Syria cannot be taken seriously.

At the end of 2015, BP suffered a loss of almost $6.5 billion. It did not suffer such losses even in 2010 after the disaster on the platform in the Gulf of Mexico Photo: AP BP's net loss at the end of 2015 (in the part attributable to the company's shareholders) amounted to $6.482 billion, according to the company's report . Moreover, in the fourth quarter of last year alone, the company suffered a loss of $3.307 billion. According to Reuters , .

Appointed acting Governor of the Tula region Alexey Dyumin served as Putin’s deputy head of security and still plays hockey with him.

The Federal Property Management Agency has submitted to the government a proposal for a possible increase in the maximum threshold for dividends from state-owned companies to 50%. This was stated by the head of the Federal Property Management Agency Olga Dergunova, Interfax reports . Currently the threshold is 25%. “This is our proposal, there are no decisions yet,” Dergunova clarified. “We proposed, in principle, to consider the issue of increase.

The number of users of the popular messenger WhatsApp has exceeded 1 billion people, announced the head of the owner company Mark Zuckerberg. He promised that the messenger's audience will continue to grow The number of registered users of the WhatsApp messenger, owned by the social network Facebook since 2014, has exceeded 1 billion. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced this on his page.

Moscow police are checking the circumstances of the incident, during which security guards at one of the capital's hypermarkets beat a visitor who was trying to steal a frying pan. this to RIA Novosti . A source in law enforcement agencies reported According to him, the incident occurred in a store in Rossoshansky Proezd in the south of Moscow.

The US State Department said that Washington intends to continue working with Russia to resolve important international problems, despite a number of disagreements, including on the Magnitsky case, RIA Novosti reports . “The US government has every opportunity and intention to work with Russia on a number of issues that are of common interest. We are doing this and intend to continue to do so,” the agency quotes the words of a senior State Department official as told to reporters.

The Bank of Russia blacklisted 4,742 bankers who violated business reputation requirements. This was announced by Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Mikhail Sukhov, TASS reports . He explained that their number is growing in proportion to the number of banks whose licenses have been revoked.

The Moscow Department of Transport is ready to ban Uber from operating in the capital if a cooperation agreement is not signed with the department in the near future. The company intends to sign the document in the near future, Uber says The Moscow Department of Transport intends to appeal to law enforcement and judicial authorities with a demand to ban the operation of the Uber mobile application in Moscow, department head Maxim Liksutov said in an interview with Gazeta.Ru .

The French TV channel Canal+ showed a film directed by Paul Moreiro, who blamed Ukrainian nationalists for the events at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa. Kyiv demanded to cancel the show Mass riots near the building of the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, 2014 (Photo: RIA Novosti) The French TV channel Canal+ aired a film about the Maidan “Masks of the Revolution”, despite the protests of official Kyiv. This is reported on the channel's website.

The Russian authorities must stabilize the ruble exchange rate at the current level. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and adviser to the President of Russia Sergei Glazyev stated this at the round table “Brainstorm: what to do with the Russian economy?”, Rambler News Service reports .

Sergei Mitrokhin demanded that a case be opened against Ramzan Kadyrov under articles about calls for extremist activities and organizing an extremist community.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, commented on the removal of the video with Mikhail Kasyanov “at gunpoint” from his Instagram. He saw this as a restriction of freedom of speech.

Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said that criticism of Vladimir Lenin is “undermining statehood.” At the end of January, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Lenin for the collapse of the USSR Head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov (Photo: RIA Novosti) Unconditional criticism of Vladimir Lenin is an undermining of statehood. The head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov said this in an interview with Interfax.