Hackers hacked several dozen mailboxes of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most likely, attacks were taken from abroad. This was announced by the head of the Czech Foreign Ministry Lubomir Oboraklek, reports Reuters . Blacks, whose account was also hacked, added that these attacks were similar to those who were taken against the US Democratic Party. What kind of country or countries can be involved in hacking of the Czech Foreign Ministry accounts, the head of the ministry did not specify.

The threats that are most concerned about the leaders of Russian companies, include the volatility of the exchange rate, excessive regulation and geopolitical instability. This is evidenced by the results of a survey of representatives of Russian business conducted by the PWC International Consulting Company.

The Nielsen consumer confidence index in Russia in the fourth quarter of 2016 amounted to 63 points. This was reported in the NIELSEN press release, which was received by Republic on January 31. As a result, the index returned to the value of the first quarter of last year and was at a minimum for all 12 years of observation. In addition, the indicator interrupted the tendency to growth in the second and third quarters.

Deutsche Bank agreed to pay the regulator in New York a fine of $ 425 million per “mirror transactions”, which helped withdraw Russian money abroad. It is reported by Reuters . The total amount of “suspicious” transactions is estimated at $ 10 billion, of which about $ 6 billion are “mirror”, made by customers of the bank with shares in the Russian market from 2011 until the beginning of 2015.

Russia switches to a new stage in the development of a market economy. The discharge point is January 25, 2017-the day when the Ministry of Finance issued a press release “On operations in the domestic foreign exchange market” .

The international human rights organization Freedom House has classified Russia as a category of non -free countries. Such conclusions are contained in the study on the level of freedom in the world published by human rights activists in 2017. The organization’s report notes that Russia, in addition to internal repression, also intervened in the policy of developed democratic states.

The number of mortgage loans overdue by more than 90 days in 2016 increased by 20%. This conclusion was reached in the United Credit Bureau (OKB), the data is given by Kommersant. The total amount of expired loans reached 160 billion rubles, in the Central Bank this figure was estimated at 126 billion rubles on December 1, 2016. In banks from the top 10 did not disclose information about mortgage payments.

The world's largest producer of alcoholic beverages, the British Diageo, again entered the Irish whiskey market. According to Diageo press release, the company will launch in Dublin production of whiskey called Roe & Co. In the next three years, Diageo investments in the development of production in Ireland will be € 25 million (almost $ 27 million). It is expected that the release of the drink will begin in the first half of 2019.

A fired residential building in Avdeevka, Donetsk region, January 28, 2016. Photo: Friedemann Kohler / DPA / TASS In eastern Ukraine, for the first time in a long time, military operations were activated. The battles are in the area of ​​Avdeevka - a small city in the vicinity of Donetsk, controlled by the Ukrainian army. Armored vehicles and artillery are used.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, two Russian pilots were killed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. As the Army General of the DRC Leon Mushala said, two Mi-24 crashed on January 27 in one of the mountainous regions of the country due to complex weather conditions. During the searches, the bodies of the officer of the DRC army and two Russian pilots were discovered.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) revealed a cartel conspiracy of two companies during public procurement of drugs, the department’s website says . As follows from the message, BSS LLC and LLC AMT during the auction “acted in the interests of each other”, which allowed companies to win 107 auctions in total over 410 million rubles. It is noted that the price according to the results of auctions was mainly reduced by 0% - 1%, and after some auctions - by 3% - 5%.

US President Donald Trump will dismiss the acting Prosecutor General Sally Yates after she criticized the decree on the tightening of migration policy. This was written on Twitter by Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer. On this post, the American leader appointed the prosecutor of the Eastern District of Virginia Dan Boente.

Ukrainian volunteer battalions, with the support of artillery, attacked the positions of fighters of the self -proclaimed DPR. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. “There are reliable data that indicate that yesterday an attempt was made to attack the territory controlled by the Republics of Donbass from the side of independent detachments,” Peskov noted.

The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika did not help his sons Igor and Artem conduct business. The head of the supervisory authority said this in an interview with TASS. “I did not add them anywhere, both created their own business. From scratch! Both the youngest and the eldest, ”said Chaika, answering the question of whether he seems to him“ sensitive ”the situation when his father holds a high state position, and his children conduct a successful business.

The “Boyscauts of America” will accept children in the organization, based on what gender they will indicate in the questionnaires, CNN reports . Earlier, in the organization, when deciding on participation in programs focused only on a particular floor, they took into account the birth certificate. Now the Boyscauts are considered “insufficient” this approach.