Today, the Central Bank decided to reduce the key rate from 17% to 15% per annum. This decision cannot be called unexpected and sharp. In December 2014, increasing the rates from 10.5 to 17% caused an accelerated drop in the ruble. The country screamed: Reduce! But the rate was reduced - and during the trading time on the Moscow Exchange, the ruble was again cheaper to the dollar.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine does not intend to eliminate the Aidar battalion, the military unit will be re-registered due to the fact that the seal and documents of the battalion are lost. This was reported to the Interfax-Ukraine agency by the representative of the military department Victoria Kushnir. “The seal and documents of the unit was lost. Now there is a re -registration of the new number of the military unit to prevent abuses. These changes will not affect the personnel.

Direct foreign investments (PIIs) in the Russian economy fell 70% in 2014 and amounted to $ 19 billion, the UN Trading and Development Conference report (UNCTAD). The sanctions of Western countries against Russia, the conflict in Ukraine and poor forecasts for GDP growth scared investors from transition economies, which include former Soviet republics, the authors of the text noted.

Investors in American oil and gas companies have lost $ 393 billion since raw materials went down, reports Bloomberg . The prices of the reference American oil brand WTI fell from $ 105 per barrel in mid-2014 to about $ 45 by the end of January 2015. Since then, the shares of 76 oil reconnaissance and mining companies from the corresponding Bloomberg index have lost $ 353 billion.

January brought a further decrease in oil prices. The accession to the throne of the new king of Saudi Arabia Salman Ben Abdel Aziz only strengthened the speculation: how will the change of the monarch affect the export of the kingdom and the decision of the OPEC? From the statements of representatives of the Saudi elite, it follows that they began to prepare for a protracted "bear market".

In January 2016, in Russia, due to a sharp fall in the ruble exchange rate, the problem of mortgage currency loans was aggravated. Currency borrowers held a number of shares in several banks (including Raiffeisenbank and VTB 24), achieving the restructuring of their loans. Meanwhile, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov admitted that the country's authorities do not have ready-made recipes for solving the problem of currency borrowers.

US Secretary of State John Kerry may fly to Moscow on February 4-5 for negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Kommersant said on January 29 with reference to unnamed sources. For several days, the parties have been coordinating the visit, notes the publication. Information about the possible visit by John Kerry to Moscow confirmed TASS by a Russian diplomat in Washington, adding that he can take place at the request of the American side.

Training of the Aydar special battalion near Lugansk. Photo: sergii kharchenko / zuma The Aidar volunteer battalion was disbanded by order of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The commander of the battalion, People's Deputy Sergei Melnichuk told about this to the Apostrophe. “The battalion has already been disbanded three days ago. According to the documents, it no longer exists.

In the anti -crisis plan of the Russian government, structural reforms are lacking, without which it is impossible to overcome stagnation in the economy, the former Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin wrote on his Twitter .

The Ministry of Defense will focus on improving the qualitative state of strategic nuclear forces, building the combat composition of the army and navy and creating an aerospace forces, said the head of the military department Sergey Shoigu, Interfax reports .

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The number of registered unemployed in Moscow as of January 29, 2015 increased to 28.706 thousand people, increasing by 786 people from 22 to 29 of January 22 to 29. This is evidenced by the data of the capital's employment service. The level of registered unemployment in Moscow as a result rose to 0.4%. According to Interfax, at this level the indicator was in January 2008 before the start of the economic crisis of 2008-2009.

Currencies grew to the ruble on the eve of the announcement of the decision at the key rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation The dollar went up to the level of above 70 rubles on the Moscow Exchange following the decrease in the key rate by the Bank of Russia from 17% to 15%. The last time the American currency overcame the mark of 70 rubles on December 17, 2014.

A fifth of Moscow stalls create road congestion. This was in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda by the head of the capital's department of trade and services Alexei Nemeryuk. The official, referring to the data of the Department of Transport, said that "about two thousand kiosks" create traffic jams on Moscow roads, "especially near public transport and metro stops." Nemery did not explain how specific these stalls affect the situation on the roadway.

A resident of Vyazma Svetlana Davydova, accused of treason, is the mother of four children, and not seven as previously reported. About this RIA Novosti was told in the administration of the Vyazemsky district of the Smolensk region. At the same time, Davydova brings up three children of her husband from a previous marriage. “We did not have any complaints about Mom to Davydova and do not. That is, she takes care of children properly, everything is fine in the family.