Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin managed to come up with a number of high -profile statements, after he was removed from the post of head of the Synodal Department for the interactions of the Church and Society at the end of December - including he criticized the Patriarch, accused the Russian Orthodox Church of excessive bureaucracy and began to collect signatures for the election of priests. Now, according to him , they are trying to deprive him of “almost all Russian media”.

Oil prices, the rise of which during today's trading exceeded 2%, began to decline immediately after the data of the US Department of Energy about the US energy stocks in the country over the past week, Bloomberg transfer. So, the price of Brent oil for February on February on the ICE Futures London Exchange by 18:36 in Moscow sank by $ 0.22 (0.71%) - up to $ 30.64 per barrel.

The 1998 script may be repeated in the Russian economy, ”said the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov at the Gaidar Forum in the RANEPA. If the federal budget is adapted to the current macroeconomic conditions, then all expenses, as it were in 1998, will fall on the population, the head of the department emphasized. The current task of the government is to adjust the budget to a new economic situation.

News Catholic store in St. Petersburg sells spiritual scrapers of 20 rubles apiece 13 January 2016 The AGNUS-Store Catholic store in St. Petersburg is engaged in the sale of "spiritual sea" worth 22 rubles. apiece. Scrapers are presented in two versions: Angels and Crosses. “Many have heard the expression“ spiritual scrapers ”, and the head of state Vladimir Putin even expressed concern in that we lack spiritual bastard. But few saw how they look.

News Kudrin called for combining the reserve funds of Russia 13 January 2016 Former Minister of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, called for uniting the Reserve Fund and the National Welfare Fund (FNB), RIA Novosti reports. Currently, the reserve fund is 3.93 trillion rubles, and the Federal Tax Service is 4.78 trillion rubles. “Today there is practically no difference, and secondly, we have already started the problems of the pension system in full growth.

Vorkutinsky Mining and Economic College burned books with the support of the Soros Foundation, said in the response of the Ministry of Education of Komi, which responded to the request of the 7 × 7 publication . In total, 53 copies of two different books were burned. As the head of the college library Elena Vasilieva said, one of the books was called the “worldview” and was “a little religious”. Vasilieva clarified that the book was not popular with students.

Dissernet found plagiarism in the dissertations of 49 deputies, 34 of them - among the chosen ones from United Russia, 8 - from the Communist Party, 5 from the LDPR, 2 - from Fair Russia. This was reported by the New Gazeta. In addition, Dissernet discovered 24 “phantom” dissertations among 24 deputies - the State Duma website states that these parliamentarians have academic degrees, but the names of the work are unknown and the “disserter” could not find them.

News FIFA fired the Secretary General of Zhroma Valka 13 January 2016 The International Football Federation dismissed the Secretary General of Zherom Valka, - Interfax reports with reference to the FIFA press service. Valka is suspected of involvement in the illegal sale of tickets for matches of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. He was exempted from fulfilling his duties on September 7, 2015, and from October 8 was removed from football activities for 90 days.

In 2015, Türkiye was taken by the second place (after Germany) in the purchase of Russian gas, said the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller. His words are given by Interfax. For the first time, Türkiye went around Italy in terms of procurement of Russian gas in far abroad markets in 2007 and has since remained in this position. Earlier, Miller noted the dynamics of supplies to Germany, Italy, France, Austria, and UK. He said about Turkey only two days later, without specifying the volume of supplies.

The repeated indexation of pensions in 2016 is unreal at the current level of oil prices, - this opinion was expressed by the former Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin. Repeated indexation of pensions in 2016 in excess of 4 percent of February 1 is provided for by the budget, but its terms and volume have not yet been determined. “Given what awaits us at an oil price of $ 35, about a trillion of lack of funds in the budget, I do not quite feel how to conduct (repeated) indexation.

Journalist Vasily Utkin was removed from work by a commentator on the TV channel Match TV for a disciplinary violation, ”a source familiar with the situation told Interfax. “The reason for the removal of the commentator is a disciplinary violation, namely the drunk condition in which Vasily Utkin was aired on December 9, 2015 during the Bayer -Barcelona Champions League game,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The journalist himself rejects these claims.

News FIFA presidential candidate threatened to take the 2018 World Cup from Russia 13 January 2016 Presidential candidate FIFA Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa expressed his readiness to revise the application campaigns of 2018 and 2022, if "a serious unlawful act is proved by the court." Sheikh's words quoted by the INSIDETHEGAMS portal. Sheikh said that if the president of the organization was elected as president, the results of voting in the elections of championships can be canceled.

Relatives of the Airbus A321 crash on the Sinai Peninsula will have to return insurance payments if the version of the attack is confirmed. This was announced at a meeting of the Basmanny court by their representative Igor Trunov. Families of the dead received previously 2 million rubles. “The attack is not included in the insured event.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that employers can read the personal correspondence of their employees in messengers, if it was conducted during working hours, BBC reports . According to the OFRR resolution, communication in chats during working hours is a violation of corporate rules, so the employer has the right to know what his employee was doing at work, as well as check the results of the activity.

The trade turnover between China and Russia last year decreased by 27.8% to 422.7 billion yuan ($ 64.2 billion). These are the data voiced by the official representative of the Chief Customs Administration of China Huan Sunpin. The export of Chinese goods to Russia fell in 2015 by 34.4%, to 216.2 billion yuan ($ 32.9 billion), and the import of Russian products to China decreased by 19.1%, to 206.5 billion southwest ($ 31.4 billion).