The police detained two alleged scammers who extorted money from businessmen, imitating the voice of the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov reported this on Instagram. According to him, entrepreneur Zubair Zainadiev, living in Surgut, turned to the police. “He stated that someone calls him on my behalf and demands that he give his car and money to the regional public fund of the Hero of Russia Akhmat-Haji Kadyrov.

In December 2016, Russian banks began to more actively credit borrowers “from the street”. This is stated in the materials of the National Bureau of credit stories (NBBA), which receives information from 4 thousand creditors. So, according to NBKI, over the past month of last year, the number of consumer loans issued increased by 5.5%compared to December 2015.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia has started a case of violation of the law on competition to the Governor of the Samara Region, several Gazprom employees and employees of the Samara Ministry of Energy. This was reported on the FAS website. “The actions of the authorities of the Samara region could lead to the elimination of competition in the gas transportation market,” the antimonopoly service said.

The Smolninsky court of St. Petersburg has terminated the case against the teacher of yoga Dmitry Ugaya, who was accused of illegal missionary activities. This was reported by "Mediazona" from the courtroom. The case was terminated for the lack of corpus delicti, the publication clarifies. During the meeting, the court interrogated the policeman Arsen Magomedov, who said that he was delaying the UGA on the statement of the local resident NAYASIBULINA.

The Institute for the Development of the Internet (IRI), created on the initiative of the former deputy head of the presidential administration (AP) Vyacheslav Volodin, will dismiss most employees. About this “Vedomosti” was told by several people close to Iri. The reason for the abbreviations of the newspaper’s interlocutors call financing problems.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, has the right to drive by car with Migiga, as he is the responsible secretary of the Presidential Commission for FEC. This was told by the press secretary of the oil state company Mikhail Leontyev, reports BBC. “That is, at least he is a state official of a certain level, who has the right to“ flashing light ”and a special car,” Leontiev explained, not answering a direct question whether there is a special signal by car.

Sberbank and Chinese Alibaba Group plan to create a joint venture in the field of Internet trade in the first half of 2017, Kommersant sources report . According to the interlocutors of the publication, the company will be registered as a Russian legal entity, and Sberbank will belong to Sberbank there at least 50%. The main financial investments will go from Sberbank, which will also provide marketing and logistics technologies.

The reduction in middle -class income in Russia can be explained by the “blunt bubble”. This was in an interview with RNS by the rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy and the Presidential President (RANEPA) Vladimir Mau. “In Russia, for 10 years, the population’s incomes have grown significantly faster than GDP and performance.

The Communist Party will not nominate Gennady Zyuganov to the president of its leader. As expected, a younger candidate will go to the upcoming elections of the head of state from the party. This was reported by New Gazeta with reference to sources in the party. Among the possible candidates are the governor of the Irkutsk region Sergey Levchenko, the mayor of Novosibirsk Anatoly Lokot and deputy Yuri Afonin. The new candidate can subsequently become the leader of the party.

The surplus of the current account of the Russian Federation (the difference between the influx and the outflow of currency to the country and from it) at the end of 2016 amounted to $ 22.2 billion. The Central Bank published such an assessment on January 17. As a result of the receipt of the currency to Russia, according to the results of last year, they were minimal since 1998, Finanz points out .

KGB building, 1964. Photo: Nikolai Malyshev / Tass / AFP Foreign exploration agent of the KGB, a former art specialist Nikolai Khokhlov in 1954 became one of the first Soviet post -war defectors to the West. Khokhlov was instructed to kill one of the leaders of Russian emigration in Germany, but the agent, who was disappointed in the USSR, warned the victim and remained in the West. A few years later, the defector almost died from poisoning with radioactive tallium.

The Ministry of Finance decided not to spend additional oil and gas revenues on financing budget expenditures. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov, Prime reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the proposal to send these income to reduce the waste of reserves, Siluanov said.

In the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg there was a brawl between deputies due to the transfer of the Russian Orthodox Church of the St. Isaac's Cathedral. It is reported by Fontanka. According to the publication, the deputy from Yabloko Mikhail Amosov opposed the adoption of the corresponding resolution, which was prepared by United Russia and the LDPR. The parliamentarian wanted to make amendments to the document, but, writes Fontanka, speaker Vyacheslav Makarov “ignored it”.

The US Secret Service will pay $ 24 million more than 100 dark -skinned agents in the case of racial discrimination from 1995 to 2005, reports Washington Post with reference to the documents of the case. At the indicated time, black agents of the service tried to achieve an increase, but the organization chose less experienced, but white -skinned employees.

US Senator John McCain in an interview with MSNBC called Putin's priority “Restoration of the Russian Empire”. He said this, commenting on the statement of the chosen President of the United States Donald Trump about the readiness to cooperate with Russia against ISIS. According to the senator, Putin “shares countries like Georgia or Ukraine, while the United States has“ other priorities ”.