Photo: Scanpix/Fotodom Swedish nobleman Gustav Douglas tried his hand at consulting, journalism and real estate trading, but only at the age of 50 did he realize his calling, having become rich by investing in security systems. Swedish entrepreneur of Scottish origin, Count Gustav Archibald Sigvart Douglas is one of the twenty richest people in Sweden.

State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Oleg Pakholkov proposes to completely ban the sale of oil abroad within five years. He sent a corresponding appeal to the Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev, PRIME reports with reference to the text of the request. “Today we need to take courage and declare the abolition of the priority of oil sales to world markets. We must begin to turn inward to the economy and its development.

The Kremlin said that there have been no recent contacts between Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan and are not planned. The leader of Turkey offered to meet with Putin after a new incident with a Russian plane Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: Mikhail Metzel/TASS) “No, there were no contacts between the presidents of Russia and Turkey. I don’t know that any contacts are being planned,” Peskov told reporters, Interfax reports .

The Pope will meet with Patriarch Kirill on February 12. This will be the first meeting of the heads of the two churches, and it will take place in Cuba. It is planned to sign a declaration on further relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill (Photo: Mikhail Metzel/TASS) The Pope will meet with Patriarch Kirill in Cuba.

Investigators say a suicide bomber boarding the flight in a wheelchair is responsible for the explosion on board the A321 plane in Somalia. The Wall Street Journal about this . told A Western diplomat briefed on the progress of the investigation According to the theory of the investigative team, thanks to the stroller, the man was able to avoid strict searches at the airport in Mogadishu (the capital of Somalia).

The use of any prohibited types of weapons by the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria is excluded. This is stated in a message from the Russian Foreign Ministry, quoted by TASS . “The materials published [in the Turkish media] categorically assert that the movements of refugees to the border with Turkey are a consequence of the actions of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation.

Metropolitan police officers detained a bank employee suspected of stealing 2.4 million rubles from a client. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . The department said that a 57-year-old native of the Sakhalin region contacted the police and said that 2.4 million rubles had disappeared from his account.

One person has died and two others are in critical condition as a result of a tower crane fall in lower Manhattan in New York, Reuters reports . According to a police spokesman, a construction crane fell at the intersection of Broadway and Worth Street. The fallen crane structure stretched for a block. The cause of the crane's fall has not been reported.

The organizer of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Abdelhamid Aboud, arrived in Europe under the guise of a refugee along with dozens of other Islamic State militants (banned in Russia). This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing the testimony of one of the key witnesses. According to the publication, a woman under the pseudonym Sonya visited Aboud with his cousin shortly after the attacks.

On February 5, the Bank of Russia revoked the banking licenses of the capital's Millennium Bank and Regnum Bank. The first, according to the Vedomosti newspaper, is connected with the business of the son of the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Chaika Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC The Bank of Russia revoked licenses for banking operations from two Moscow banks - Millennium Bank and Regnum Bank. This was announced on Friday, February 5, on the regulator’s website.

German police will check whether two men who were detained yesterday during an anti-terrorist raid in Berlin are connected with the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 last year. reports this Reuters with reference to German police spokesman Stefan Redlich. “We are investigating if there is a connection with the Paris attacks,” he said. The day before, German police and special forces carried out raids in Berlin, during which two men of Algerian origin were detained .

The latest Russian Su-35 fighters will be on duty in pairs around the clock at the Syrian Khmeimim airbase, where the Russian air group is stationed. A representative of the Aerospace Forces group told reporters about this, TASS reports . The planes will be ready for takeoff within minutes. He explained that the fighters will cover aircraft in the air and increase their field of view.

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, proposed exchanging banks' foreign currency surpluses for foreign currency-denominated bonds. Sberbank and VTB have the most “extra” currency Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC “Now banks are experiencing an excess of foreign currency liabilities, an oversupply of foreign currency, and it is even becoming difficult for them to place them.

The investigation has stopped criminal prosecution against businessman Alexei Semin, who was accused under a number of articles of the criminal code and was involved in the case of a fire in the Admiral shopping center in Kazan, which killed 19 people. A criminal case against Semin was initiated in March 2015.

American astronaut, member of the Apollo 14 expedition, Edgar Mitchell, has died. told the Palm Beach Post . His daughter Kimberly Mitchell According to her, the 85-year-old astronaut died in a West Palm Beach hospice. Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon. The astronaut was on the Apollo 14 expedition - it made the third landing of people on the natural satellite of the Earth in 1971 - as a lunar module pilot. Alan Shepard Jr. and Stuart Roosa were also members of the team.