Published by Little, Brown and Co. announced the release of Joanna Rowling's new book about Harry Potter. It will be released at the end of July and will be the text of the play, which the writer announced in October Photo: Global Look Press JK Rowling's new Harry Potter book will be released at the end of July. Book publisher Little, Brown and Co. published a message about this on her Twitter , which was reposted by the author of the series, JK Rowling .

Germany, which is a mediator in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, is calling on Kyiv to find a compromise in a dispute with Moscow over a $3 billion debt, Bloomberg has learned.

At least 500 people have been killed since the Syrian army launched an offensive in Aleppo province in the north of the country. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the UK-based Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Center. It is noted that the losses of all warring parties are taken into account. According to the organization, at least 100 civilians were among those killed. Reuters was unable to confirm this figure. The Syrian army's offensive in Aleppo province began in early February.

Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBC RBC learned the reaction of entrepreneurs who lost their business due to the dismantling of retail facilities. Most of them say they have not seen any documents authorizing the demolition. “Before demolition, the facilities were not even disconnected from electricity” Entrepreneur: Yulia Lukyanenko, General Director of LUMA LTD LLC Venue: Leningradsky Prospekt, 58, 60 Area of ​​objects: 69 sq. m Number of employees: 90 people Tax payments (2015): n.a.

Japan's largest brewing company, Asahi Group Holdings, has agreed to purchase two brands owned by the brewing giant SABMiller - Italian Peroni and Dutch Grolsch, reports . Nikkei According to the publication, Asahi could pay more than 400 billion yen (about $3.5 billion) for the assets. The decision to buy Peroni and Grolsch was made at a meeting between Asahi and SABMiller on Tuesday.

The President of Ukraine intends to dismiss Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Ukrainskaya Pravda about this . told A source in the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction “He [Poroshenko] is no longer thinking about whether to remove Yatsenyuk. He is now thinking about who will come after him. As soon as he finds a candidate with votes, his resignation will take place,” the publication’s interlocutor said.

LifeNews published a video of an attack on politician Mikhail Kasyanov. It is posted on the portal website Parnas party leader Mikhail Kasyanov (Photo: Ruslan Shamukov/TASS) The recording shows how two people - one with a cake in his hands, the other with a phone - approach the chairman of the PARNAS party, who is sitting in a restaurant. One, approaching the politician, throws a cake in his face, and the second films what is happening on his phone. The attack took place the night before .

During his trip to Cuba, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will meet with Head of State Raul Castro, the press service of the Cuban Foreign Ministry reports . The statement indicates that Kirill is due to come to the island on February 11 on an official visit and meet with Castro, who heads the Cuban State Council, the government, as well as the local Communist Party.

On highways near Moscow, drivers began to be fined for exceeding the average speed. Photo and video control is now carried out at 50 sites. This was reported on the official website of the Moscow Region Road Safety Center (CBDDMO). The photo and video control system operates on sections of the federal highways M5 "Ural", M3 "Ukraine", M7 "Volga", M4 "Don", M11 "Moscow - St. Petersburg" and M8 "Kholmogory".

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that during the offensive in northern Syria, the army of Bashar al-Assad, with the support of Russia, is carrying out ethnic cleansing. “Syrian forces, supported by Russia, are apparently carrying out ethnic cleansing in the Aleppo region in order to leave only those who support the regime of Bashar al-Assad in the occupied territories,” Reuters quoted Davutoğlu as saying .

In December, Vladimir Putin instructed the government to create a platform for promoting everything Russian on the Internet. Ruslan Baysarov, a businessman far from the Internet, unexpectedly took on the task. RBC found out from him how Businessman Ruslan Baisarov (Photo: Vladislav Shatilo/RBK) Ruslan Baysarov is one of the most famous businessmen from Chechnya; the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, calls him his friend.

Borrowers must work with banks to develop acceptable options for solving the problem of foreign currency mortgages. This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, RIA Novosti reports . “Unfortunately, there is nothing new to say in this regard. We know that some credit and financial institutions, simply put banks, offer various options for getting out of this crisis situation.

Photo: Depositphotos In January, the most profitable mutual funds were mutual funds investing in gold. How are these funds structured and is it worth investing in them? At the end of January, 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.

Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBC The government expects to attract about 1 trillion rubles to the budget. through “big privatization”. For this purpose, shares in the largest companies can be offered to management and non-state pension funds.

The head of the board of directors of Severstal, Alexey Mordashov, believes that the collapse of commodity markets could lead to a wave of bankruptcies of unprofitable iron ore and steel producers Co-owner of Severstal Alexey Mordashov (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) Alexey MordashovCo-owner of Severstal and billionaire Alexey Mordashov (5th place on the Forbes list with a fortune of $13 billion) believes that the collapse of the commodity markets may be prolonged and result in a wave of