The Chinese social network Weibo - an analogue of Twitter - was ahead of the market value of the American service of microblogists. This is announced on February 13 by Bloomberg. The current capitalization of Weibo reached $ 11.3 billion - $ 200 million more than that of Twitter. According to Financial Times, Twitter shares over the past few bidding are cheaper after the social network introduced a financial report for the fourth quarter of 2016.

It is not so important what exactly the European University in St. Petersburg will die-the best Russian University in the field of history, political sciences and anthropology. Options: from non-compliance with fire safety, the absence of a gym, the harmfulness of plastic windows for the appearance of Gagarinskaya Street SPb or from an insufficient number of “political scientists-practitioners”.

Ukraine applied to the World Trade Organization (WTO) with a lawsuit against Russia in connection with restrictions on transit introduced by Moscow in 2016. The fact that Kiev demanded to create an expert group in the WTO as part of this case was reported on February 13 by the Ministry of Economic Development of Ukraine.

The Baptist Donald Ossvard, fined by the “Yarovaya Law” for reading the Bible, left Russia to the United States. It is reported by Open Russia. The Ossevard became one of the first missionaries, whose activity fell under the "Spring Law". It was fined in August 2016 by 40 thousand rubles for violation of missionary rules (Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Atlantic Council - an influential American non -governmental analytical center - published a report “Breaking Aleppo”, dedicated primarily to Russia's actions in Syria. In the document on 70 pages, according to its authors, "the fall of Aleppo is shown in details." One of the main authors of the report is the Atlantic Council Eliot Higgins, the head of the Bellingcat group of investigators.

Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Health to check the possibility of changing the conditions of entry and residence in the country of foreigners with HIV, Kommersant writes with reference to the text of the order. According to the newspaper, Golodets also instructed to work out the issue of providing medical assistance to HIV-infected foreigners in Russia.

The Governor of the Novgorod Region Sergey Mitin announced the early addition of authority, Interfax reports. He also decided not to participate in the governor’s elections that will be held in the region in 2017. According to Mitin, he leaves his post of his own free will. The head of the region added that he had already asked the President of Russia about a new place of work. As the Interfax recalls, Mitin served as the Novgorod governor since 2007.

The ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorov placed 3.32% of Rusal shares on the Hong Kong Exchange for $ 240 million. One of the organizers of the transaction told Vedomosti. The discount to the price on the exchange amounted to 9%. The Prime source in banking circles added that 505 million securities sold $ 0.48 per share. Bidding will begin on February 14. ONEXIM opened a book of applications on the morning of February 13.

The Kremlin is considered a “strange” statement by oppositionist Alexei Navalny about his participation in the 2018 presidential election. The Financial Times (FT) said a senior official of the presidential administration.

About 50 million rubles will be spent on official events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution, Kommersant writes . We are talking about the projects engaged in the History of the Fatherland (it is headed by the ex-speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin), the Russian Fund for fundamental research (RFFI) and the Society of Knowledge. Money will be distributed among the winners of the competitions that these funds hold.

The State Duma will develop the laws of robotics. This was told by State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, Interfax reports. “According to forecasts, in 2022, laws will be adopted everywhere that will regulate the relationship of man and robot,” said Volodin. The chairman of the lower house of the parliament said that he intends to create a council under the chairman of the State Duma on the legislative support of the development of a digital environment.

For three years, the tax system in Russia should be configured so that since 2019 not to touch it for at least six years. This was in an interview with Gazeta.Ru by the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov. “The Ministry of Finance does not imply any radical changes in the existing tax system. It is quite efficient and does not need significant substantive changes, ”the minister emphasized.

In Missouri, on the shores of the river of the same name, they found the body of a local resident who called himself the “imperial master” of the local Co-Klux-Clan (KKK), writes The Washington Post (WP). As the police said, the Frank Frank family announced his disappearance on February 10. The authorities consider the circumstances of his death suspicious, adds Fox News, the exact cause of the death of Ancona will be called after opening.

Photo: Roy Scott / Getty images Depression is called an epidemic of the 21st century - according to experts, in Russia and the United States from it and other mental disorders, from 5% to 25% of the population suffers . In total, in the world, according to WHO for 2012, 350 million people were sick of depression. Along with many other serious diseases, depression can make a person’s life unbearable, but often people who suffer from it do not reach the doctor.

The Party "Another Russia" will file a lawsuit against the protection of the honor of dignity against Rosneft. One of the party leaders Alexander Averin wrote about this in his LiveJournal. He recalled that Rosneft accused the “other Russia” of “preparing a series of shares in order to discredit state power ordered and paid by the structures of Mikhail Khodorkovsky,” and emphasized that the party “rejects such fabrications”.