During a telephone conversation, US President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peni Nieto decided not to publicly discuss the issue of paying for the construction of the wall on the border of countries. Reuters writes about this. The parties agreed to resolve all disagreements through the "discussions". Trump and stumps also discussed a trade deficit between countries and the flow of illegal weapons and drugs across the border.

According to the results of 2016, the American GDP, according to preliminary estimates, increased by 1.6%. This was reported in a press release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the US Department of Trade of January 27. As a result, the country's GDP growth rate has been minimal since the beginning of 2010, writes The Washington Post. Since the end of the latest recession in mid -2009, the US economy has grown an average of 2.1% annually.

US President Donald Trump signed a decree on the "extremal selection" of migrants entering the country, CNN reports . The decree is needed in order to keep radical Islamic terrorists outside the United States, Trump said. “We don't need them here. We must be sure that we do not let the threats with which our soldiers are fighting abroad, ”he said.

The investigating circumstances of the December Catastrophe of the Tu-154 in the Black Sea experts excluded the variant of the technical malfunction of the aircraft and consider the crew error the cause of the tragedy. It is reported by Kommersant with reference to a source close to the situation.

The transition from a planned economy to a market in a number of central and eastern European countries was strengthened by the inequality in the incomes of the population. This was told by the chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Sergey Guriev, citing the results of the study of the EBRD "Life in the transition period".

Analysts at the Nomura International Investbank predicted by 1.1% GDP growth - 1.3% with the economic strategy of US President Donald Trump. This is stated in their review, which RBC got acquainted with.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court refused to consider the laws on the legality of the transfer of the St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church). This is stated in the case card on the court website. For what reason the court decided not to accept the statement of claim on January 27, it is not specified. At the same time, the lawsuit was registered the day before.

Google, Apple and Microsoft were registered with the Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) of Russia to pay VAT on sales of electronic services and content (“Google tax”). This was announced by the head of the Federal Tax Service Mikhail Mishustin, Interfax reports. The Federal Tax Service was also registered by Samsung, the Chelsea football club, Nintendo, Wargaming, Netflix and several more companies.

The employee of the Information Security Center (QIB) of the FSB of Russia Dmitry Dokuchaev-one of their hackers of the Shaltai-Boltai group, arrested in the case of Gosizmen, found out the New Gazeta.

At negotiations in Astana at the beginning of the week, the Russian delegation handed over to representatives of the Armed Syrian opposition a project of the new Constitution of Syria. And if this document really corresponds to the presentation of journalists , then this is rather good news, even if it has little chance of adoption in this form (while the draft constitution has not received support among representatives of the opposition).

Saudi Arabia is one of the world leaders to limit women's rights. In the rating of the gender gap, which is the World Economic Forum, it takes 141st out of 144. This is the only country in the world where women are forbidden to drive a car. The restrictions for women in the country relate to freedom of movement, access to public services, performances in court and much more.

Funds for building a wall on the US border and Mexico will be raised by introducing a 20%tax on the import of Mexican goods. This was announced by the press secretary of the White House Sean Spicer, writes The Washington Post. “Having accepted this measure, we will receive $ 10 billion per year and easily pay for the wall only with the help of this mechanism. We really intend to use such a financing scheme, ”the press secretary said.

The project of the Syrian constitution proposed by Russia consists of preamble and 85 articles, divided into five chapters. This was written by Kommersant, who got acquainted with the text of the document.

The State Duma in the first reading approved a bill, which introduces an article on dangerous driving into the Administrative Code. The broadcast of the meeting was conducted on the website of the lower house of parliament. The bill proposes to introduce a fine of 5 thousand rubles for dangerous driving.

Denmark will send the first DJITAL-SUMS in the world in Google, IBM, Apple and Microsoft. About this, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Denmark Anders Samuelsen told Politiken. “These companies have become comparable to the peoples, and we must cooperate with them. They affect Denmark in the same way as all countries, ”Samuelsen said.