Russian Railways reduced their own forecast for net profit in 2017 from 10 to 3 billion rubles. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to the financial plan of the company. The forecast of 10 billion rubles was calculated taking into account the maximum tariff decisions, the source of Vedomosti explained.

The creator of the Android operating system Andy Rubin is developing smartphones, tablets and accessories under the Essential brand, Bloomberg reports with reference to sources familiar with the situation. According to the publication, 40 people who worked in Apple and Google are registered in November 2016, Rubin, Rubin took the general director. The creators of the smartphone are developing a new connector, which will not only connect exercises, but also other modules.

US President Barack Obama extended sanctions against Russia for a year due to the situation in Ukraine, signing the corresponding presidential decree, this is stated in the document on the White House website. “The actions and politics that this decree is responsible for, continue to pose an extraordinary and extreme threat to national security and US foreign policy,” the disposal says.

The head of the FSB information security center Andrei Gerasimov will soon leave his post. This was written by Kommersant with reference to representatives of the IT industry and sources close to the department. Possible resignation is associated with the investigation of the FSB Office for one of the deputies of Gerasimov. His resignation is “already resolved issue,” the interlocutors of the publication noted.

Gazprom is going to file a lawsuit against private companies importing Russian gas to Turkey to the Arbitration Court. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to sources in both countries. The lawsuit can be filed with Stockholm arbitration, the publication notes. The cause of the dispute is the price of gas for 2017, which Gazprom considers underestimated. A trial regarding gas price is already being conducted with the BOTAS state company.

Photo: George Diebold / Getty images When the Swiss chemist Albert Hofman in 1938 first synthesized the diphylamide of lizerginic acid, neither he nor his colleagues suspected the hallucinogenic properties of this substance - they were discovered accidentally only after five years.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress voted for the beginning of the abolition of the health reform introduced by President Barack Obama. It is reported by Reuters . According to the agency, 227 members of the House of Representatives voted for the beginning of the cancellation procedure, and 198.

On Friday, the head of the Center for Strategic Development, Alexei Kudrin, first presented the public with a program of structural reforms for the next 20 years, developed by his team on behalf of Vladimir Putin. His half -hour report was opened by the second day of the Gaidar forum - 2017 and, it seems, became his main event. Kudrin announced a large reform of public administration, supervision of business and the judicial system.

There are too many state media in Russia in Russia, said the chairman of the Council of the Center for Strategic Development and the former head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin at the Gaidar forum, RNS reports . “I believe that we have too many state media, it is definitely,” he said.

The leaders of the Russian regions complain about the lack of powers and incentives for development, they write Vedomosti. The governors who performed at the Gaidar Forum said that the policy pursued by the Ministry of Finance deprives successful regions of motivation for further development. “To manage the territory, you must manage personnel and you must have money. If there is no tool, then the scheme does not work, ”said Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov.

The Ministry of Justice registered the Partyan Russia party, this was reported on the website of the department. The party was registered on December 23, 2016. She became the 77th official party in Russia. “Non -partisan Russia” has 29 regional branches, including in Chechnya and Dagestan. Within six months, the party will have to register branches at least half of the regions of Russia.

The press service of Rospotrebnadzor denied the statement of Rosselkhoznadzor about the falsification of a quarter of food in Russia, RIA Novosti reports . The department announced the absence of “serious complaints” to Russian products, and also led to Rosstat data, according to which from January to November 2016 the volume of meat and poultry did not exceed 6.6%, the amount of falsified fish amounted to 5.8%, and confectionery - 3.7%.

Vnesheconombank does not violate Russian labor legislation upon dismissal of employees. This was stated by the head of the state corporation Sergey Gorkov, reports Prime . “We are Russian legislation. We have a process of changing the structure, changes in the team, and so on. This is a normal process in the new organization. <...> Unfortunately, individual people, far from angels, use this situation and use it as a provocation. And let it be on their conscience, ”he emphasized.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev complained about a difficult life and lack of money. “Life is a difficult thing, there is no money. I know this, ”RIA Novosti quoted the head of government. Medvedev noted that in Russia the longest New Year holidays.

Researchers from the University of Michigan, having conducted a mathematical analysis of the results of the 2016 State Duma, came to the conclusion that falsification on them has been the most large -scale since 2000. On January 11 wrote The Washington Post, on January 13, the Russian -speaking publication Meduza paid attention. In their study, scientists also came to the conclusion that Russian falsifiers monitor scientific research on elections.