The private security officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs lacked qualifications, and their services were expensive. This is how the judiciary explained why Moscow district courts are now guarded by Cossacks Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC The press service of the Moscow City Court issued a statement explaining why the capital's district courts are now guarded by employees of the private security organization "Cossack Guard".

In January of this year, the most profitable were mutual funds investing in gold. How are these funds structured and is it worth investing in them? Photo: Reuters/Pixstream At the end of January 2016, mutual funds whose portfolio includes investments in precious metals showed the highest income - the top ten mutual funds in terms of profitability consist exclusively of them, according to investfunds.ru.

Photo: flickr.com/ukinitaly Cheap oil is beneficial for European countries and destructive for exporting countries - economic crises sooner or later move to the political plane. Who will be affected by this threat first? Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since June 2014 have hurt some nations and benefited others. A 70% decline in the price of a barrel of oil is essentially a transfer of $3 trillion in annual revenues from oil producers to consumers.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, founder of news agency Bloomberg and former mayor of New York, said for the first time that he is considering a run for the US presidency. He said this in an interview with The Financial Times. Bloomberg complained about the quality of presidential debates. “I find the level of reasoning and discussion to be depressingly trivial and outrageous and offensive to voters,” he said. American society deserves “much better,” he said.

Photo: RIA Novosti 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. He plans to return her lost primacy in the market.

The ruble exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange went down following the decline in oil prices. In the afternoon, the value of the euro rose above 89 rubles, the dollar exchange rate - above 79 rubles. Photo: Nikita Popov/RBC The depreciation of the ruble exchange rate, which resumed after lunch, accelerated on the Moscow Exchange. The euro exchange rate rose above 89 rubles for the first time in two weeks, reaching a maximum of 89.188 rubles, which is 1.283 rubles.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted on terrorism charges, has been transferred to Yakutia, said lawyer Mark Feigin. Earlier, Oleg Sentsov’s sister Natalya Kaplan said that her brother and Ukrainian activist Alexander Kolchenko were being sent to a colony in the Irkutsk region. “They report that Sentsov was sent not to Irkutsk, but further to Yakutia. This is revenge, definitely revenge for disobedience,” wrote on Twitter.

According to preliminary data, the cause of the Mi-8 helicopter crash in the Pskov region was a failure in the control system, told Interfax . a source close to the commission investigating the incident “It will be possible to name the exact cause of the disaster only after a detailed study of materials from objective control means.

Scene: Cleaning up Moscow Plot: Cleansing the capital On Tuesday night in Moscow, demolition of shopping pavilions began, which in December last year the capital authorities recognized as unauthorized construction. In total, more than 100 properties were blacklisted by the mayor's office, 97 of them, according to the mayor's office, have already been destroyed, despite the resistance of owners and tenants.

A representative office of Syrian Kurdistan is opening in Russia. The ceremony will be attended by representatives of the unrecognized republics supported by Moscow: the Union of Donbass Volunteers, the authorities of Abkhazia and South Ossetia The flag of Kurdistan, banned in Syria, is actively used during the civil war (Photo: AP) On Wednesday, a representative office of Syrian Kurdistan will open in the Moscow Tekstilshchiki district.

One of the world's largest investment banks, Morgan Stanley, has worsened its forecast for the decline in Russia's GDP, explaining its decision by the previously predicted decline in oil prices, Interfax reports , citing the bank's review. According to the new version of the forecast, in 2016 Russia's GDP will decrease by 2.1% against the previously predicted decrease of 0.8%. In 2017, the Russian economy is expected to grow, but by only 0.9% rather than 1.7%.

Following a flight over the water area, the An-74 aircraft of the Ministry of Emergency Situations was unable to detect the missing ships in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, told TASS . a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kamchatka Territory “Today, during aerial reconnaissance, neither ships nor their traces were found. The search operation will continue tomorrow,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The rescue ship Sibirsky is expected to join the search.

In 2015, Vnesheconombank earned 13.15% per annum for future pensioners. This is VEB’s record result for the year since the start of managing the pension savings of “silent people” Photo: "RIA Novosti" The profitability of the expanded portfolio of pension savings, which contains 1.99 trillion rubles, at the end of 2015 amounted to 13.15% per annum. The yield on the government securities portfolio (22.7 billion rubles) amounted to 15.31% per annum.

The head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said that Russia’s military operation in Syria only worsens the situation in the region, Reuters reports . “Russia’s actions in Syria are making an already very bad situation even worse,” he said. “As a direct consequence of the Russian military campaign, Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime is gaining momentum, the moderate Syrian opposition is losing territory and thousands more refugees are fleeing towards Turkey and Europe,” he added.

St. Petersburg dealers report increased interest in purchasing both new and used cars from residents of European countries and the Customs Union. As car market participants surveyed by RBC St. Petersburg note, demand is due to exchange rate differences. Demand At the end of January 2016, the Avto.ru portal recorded a sharp increase in interest from foreigners in used cars offered for sale in Russia.