If oil drops up to $ 25 per barrel, the budget will be a deficiency at a dollar exchange rate of 210 rubles, RBC reports with reference to the calculations of Bank of America economists. In their opinion, for the execution of a budget with a shortage of 3%, approved at the end of last year, the dollar should cost 140 rubles.

Twitter shares during the tendering on January 19 fell to a record minimum, - reports Marketwatch , the cost of one share of the company fell 7.51% to $ 16.65. On January 8, Twitter shares during trading reached The minimum since 2013, when the company entered an IPO. The cost of one share fell by 1.7%, to $ 19.92. Today, in the work of Twitter on computers and mobile devices in Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East there was a large -scale failure.

Gazprom terminated the contract on the project of the South Stream gas pipeline, TASS reports . It is known that South Stream Transport BV agreed to release Gazprom from obligations under an agreement of October 2, 2013. Earlier in the media there was information that Russia is supposedly going to resume construction work on the project. According to the Bulgarian newspaper Standard, which reported the news, Bulgarian Boyko Borisov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, made such a statement.

Two-thirds of Russians are ready to refuse trips abroad for security reasons, these are the data of the survey conducted by the Levada Center, Interfax reports . Sociologists have found that 70% of respondents decided to refrain from foreign trips, while 45% explained this decision by considerations of security. 25% of respondents believe that it was time for residents of Russia to abandon relaxing abroad, and only 10% of Russians did not agree with this consideration.

Director of private zoos Oleg Zubkov to the court for the prosecutor of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya with a request to compensate him for moral damage of 1 million rubles for the distribution of false information about the menagerie belonging to him, RIA Novosti reports. “The amount of 1 million is such a beautiful figure, nothing more, let it be 10 kopecks, the matter is not in material damage, but moral,” Zubkov said.

In the Chechen Republic, the public sector employees are driven to the action in support of Ramzan Kadyrov: in the CE, who is subordinate to the Ministry of the Czech Republic of National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information, they received a mailing list with a demand to appear at the Grozny Center on January 22 at 8 in the morning. School teachers received SMS messages from school principals with the following text : “Attention to all employees !!!

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called not to escalate the situation around Kadyrov’s words about the unsystematic opposition and carefully read them. Commenting on the statement of the head of Chechnya about the unsystematic opposition, Peskov called for calm: “Here you don’t need, let’s say, bend, you just need to calmly read what has been said. Let's pay attention if you carefully read that it is about an unsystematic opposition. What is an unsystematic opposition?

The Corruption Fund will turn to the ECHR due to the refusal of Russian courts to accept claims against the Chaika Prosecutor General, the representative of the FBK Vyacheslav Gimadi wrote about this on Twitter. Such a decision was made after the Moscow City Court recognized as legitimate the refusal of the lower instance to consider the claim for the protection of the honor and dignity filed by Alexei Navalny to the Prosecutor General.

The Islamic State terrorist group confirmed the death of its “main executioner”, known as Jihadi John, BBC News reports. He died in November as a result of the US Air Force impact on the positions of IG militants. Pentagon spokeswoman Peter Cook previously said that air strikes were committed in the area of ​​the city of Rakki, which is actually considered the capital of militants. According to him, the terrorist was killed with the help of a drone.

News Currency borrowers chained themselves in the Deltacredit bank 20 January 2016 Currency mortgage borrowers chained themselves in the office of Deltakredit. According to RBC , the protesters demanded the restructuring of their debt at an affordable course. In an unauthorized action in the office of the bank at Mokhovaya Street, the house was attended by about 100-150 people. They stated that they would not leave until the bank management would come to them.

The dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange reached 80 rubles. By 12 o’clock in the US currency, 79.99 rubles were made. The exchange rate of the euro was fixed above 87.5 rubles. The exchange rate today shows the maximum values ​​for the ruble since December 2014. The March futures on Brent this morning fell 2.3% to $ 28.2 per barrel, and fell below $ 28 during the day. The cost of a barrel WTI fell below $ 29.