Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin proposed to give Moscow and other regunes, where large customers are located, the right not to publish information about purchases on the Zakupki.gov.ru portal. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to Sobyanin's letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. As Sobyanin explains, in 2016 there were regular technical failures in the federal system, due to which socially significant contracts were broken.

Vnesheconombank will need the help of the state to serve external debt over the next five years. This is stated in the development strategy of the state corporation published on January 25. “Difficulties with refinancing external debt in the conditions of sanctions and undergoing interest income by non -working assets lead to the need for financial support from the state.

Designer Artemy Lebedev accused the politician Alexei Navalny of evading the debate. Lebedev stated this on his blog. Navalny proposed to transfer the debate to a later date due to daily sessions in the court in the Kirovles case. At the same time, the sessions are not held on weekends, which means that the opposition could take part in the debate, the designer noted.

The real disposable income of Russians in 2016 decreased by 5.9%. This was reported in the materials of Rosstat published on January 25. Earlier, the Ministry of Economic Development predicted that the incomes of the population of the Russian Federation should fall by 5.8%per year. For comparison, in 2015, the recession of income amounted to 3.2%, and in 2014 - 0.7%. In nominal expression, the income of Russians in 2016 increased by 1% of the previous year - to 30775 rubles per month.

From February this year, the Ministry of Finance will begin operations to buy and sell foreign currency in the domestic market. This was reported on the website of the department. Currency interventions will be held by the Bank of Russia in the interests of the Ministry of Finance. The volume of foreign exchange operations will depend on the size of the country's oil and gas revenues. Buying a currency will be carried out if the actual price of Urals oil will be above $ 40 per barrel.

Rosneft management, BP shareholders and members of the Russian government learned about the sale of the company's package after meeting its head Igor Sechin with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is reported by Reuters with reference to sources. According to the interlocutor of the agency, for these parties the deal became a “surprise”, since they were informed only a few hours after the recording of Sechin’s meeting with Putin for television.

On January twenty -fourth, The Wall Street Journal named the name of the main source of information for dossier with compromising on US President Donald Trump. According to the newspaper, it turned out to be a native of Belarus, Sergei Millin, the president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce (RATP) registered in his own apartment of a small New York organization.

The Moscow City Duma in the first reading approved the increase in the retirement age for Moscow officials. It is reported by Interfax . The bill proposes to annually increase the age of retirement by six months. The retirement age for men thus will rise in 10 years from 60 years to 65 years, and for women over 16 years from 55 to 63 years. It is also proposed to increase the maximum age to which the official can occupy his post up to 65 years.

The Bank of Russia did not put pressure on Yandex.Money in order to close the election account of the policy of Alexei Navalny. This is stated in the statement of the regulator published on Facebook. “No, the employees of the Central Bank did not make calls or in any other way those actions that are described in your posts, Alexei Anatolyevich [Navalny].

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, called on the security forces to shoot at the alleged terrorists without warning, the Caucasian Knot reports . “If there is a suspicion, we shoot without warning! Why take risks? " He said.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, refused to comment on the messages about the Miglake, which was allegedly installed by his car, and asked the journalists to "lag". His words are given by "rain." “Leave me, please, from me. Do you assume that I can use it on illegal grounds by some special equipment? Of course not, ”said Sechin. At the same time, he refused to answer where he had the right to a “flasher”. “But I can’t explain to you, and I will not, and I don’t have to do this,” he said.

The FBI staff listened to telephone conversations between the adviser to US President Donald Trump on National Security Michael Flinn and the Russian Ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak. This was written by NBC with reference to an anonymous source in the special services. As a result of the audit, the department did not find anything illegal in Flynn’s actions, the publication notes.

Russia took 131st place in the ranking of perception of corruption, thus worsening its positions compared to 2015. This follows from the list prepared by the International Organization of Transparency International. In 2015, the corruption perception index in Russia amounted to 29 out of 100 points. In 2016, the indicator did not change, but the country sank from 119th to 131st line in the ranking. The decline is associated with an increase in the number of assessed countries.

Photo: Lina Arvidsson / Getty Images Decree vacation still seems to many a female prerogative, but this stereotype is destroyed over time. In most countries included in the organization of economic cooperation and development (OECD), men have a minimum of a week of paid leave after the birth of a child.

The Moscow City Court decided to block the French video service Dailymotion in the claim of the Friday! TV channel, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the Gazprom Media press release. During the year, the Gazprom-Media holding, which owns the Friday! TV channel, sent several complaints against Dailymotion demanding to stop the illegal broadcast of the programs, Magazzino, Stsanka and others. However, there was no reaction from video hosting.