A boat carrying migrants sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, killing 22 people. about this . Reuters A representative of the Turkish coast guard told He said that the migrants were trying to reach the Turkish coast. Four more people were rescued, according to Hurriyet. According to the Dogan agency, another ship crashed in the province of Izmir, off the coast of the city of Dikili. As a result, 11 people died, three more managed to escape.

Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina/RBC Russia is preparing to return to the international borrowing market for the first time since September 2013. The Ministry of Finance sent applications to 25 foreign banks to place sovereign Eurobonds. Russia has sent applications to 25 foreign banks to organize a possible placement of Eurobonds in 2016. This is stated in documents of the Russian Ministry of Finance, published on the department’s website on February 5.

The FSB announced the detention in Yekaterinburg of seven members of the Islamic State who were preparing “resonant terrorist acts” using improvised explosive devices in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Sverdlovsk region Photo: "RIA Novosti" Employees of the Russian Federal Security Service detained seven members of the Islamic State (banned in Russia) in Yekaterinburg.

Retailer Lenta was the first of the federal grocery chains to open a hypermarket in Chechnya. The opening of a store in Grozny is stated in a company message received by RBC. The “standard” format store opened at the address: st. Khankalskaya, 151. Its area was 12.3 thousand square meters. m, including more than 7 thousand sq. m of retail space. The hypermarket, which is owned by Lenta, will operate around the clock.

Photo: Zuma\TASS A resolution on the abolition of the visa-free regime with Russia has been registered in the electronic database of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The document was introduced by a group of deputies. There is no text of the document on the site. One of the authors of the document was the former secretary of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and now a deputy, Andriy Parubiy.

The number of St. Petersburg residents hospitalized with the flu has decreased by more than a third Photo: zdrav.spb.ru Over the past week, the number of St. Petersburg residents hospitalized with influenza and acute respiratory infections decreased by more than a third compared to the week before. Such data is provided on the website of the Botkin Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital. Last week, 1 thousand 73 people were hospitalized in St.

Some trains passed through the Tulskaya station on the gray line of the Moscow metro without stopping. At the station, where one lobby will be closed until Monday evening, a crush of passengers has formed Photo: Sergey Karpov/TASS In Moscow, a crush of passengers formed at the Tulskaya station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya metro line, the metro said on Twitter . The northern vestibule of the station is currently closed.

Excise taxes on palm oil, soda and chips will lead to an increase in prices for them, industry experts told RBC. An increase in the cost of palm oil could lead to an increase in the price of confectionery products by 10–15% and margarine by 25% Refining workshop at the Moscow Margarine Plant (Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS) The decision to introduce excise taxes on palm oil will be the most critical, notes consultant of the NEO Center consulting group Andrey Zhikharev .

The Russian Orthodox Church called the RBC report about the arrest of a Russian plot of land in Paris, where a spiritual and cultural center is being built, a “duck”, and the Presidential Administration and the Russian Embassy in France did not confirm the information about the arrest Model of the spiritual and cultural Orthodox center (Photo: Reuters/Pixstream) The Synodal Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church denied information about the seizure of a Russian

Group-IB published a review in which it insists that fluctuations in the ruble exchange rate in February 2015 were caused by a hacker attack on Energobank.

The RFG film company plans to film an analogue of the famous American television series “Game of Thrones” about the story of the rise to the throne of the Romanov dynasty. The first of 12 seasons may air in early 2018 Russian Emperor Nicholas II Romanov with his family.

The president of the A1 investment company, Alexander Vinokurov, became the controlling shareholder of the SIA International company, one of the leaders in the distribution of medicines in Russia.

The US Olympic Committee has told US sports federations that athletes and personnel concerned about the Zika virus should avoid traveling to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The committee announced this during a telephone conference with leaders of American sports federations, Reuters reports , citing two people who took part in it.

Photo: Reuters The main target of criticism for United Russia in the Duma elections will be the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, whose rating is growing during the crisis. The election program of the “party of real affairs” will be developed under the leadership of Dmitry Medvedev. Vladimir Putin has already helped the party criticize the Communists.

The Bank of Russia asked banks that issued foreign currency mortgages for information about the state of this portfolio, as well as about the restructuring programs that bankers are ready to offer foreign currency borrowers Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBC Last week, bankers received requests from the Central Bank demanding information about the number of foreign currency borrowers, the volume of the mortgage portfolio and overdue payments.