The official euro to ruble exchange rate set by the Central Bank for the weekend and Monday fell by 45.43 kopecks to 47.64 rubles. The official dollar exchange rate fell by 6.48 kopecks to 35.18 rubles. Since the beginning of the year, the ruble has already lost 6.3% against the dollar and 5.9% against the euro.

Rosgosstrakh (RGS) is starting operations in the funeral insurance market this year, the insurer's press release reported, citing the president of the RGS group of companies, Danil Khachaturov, who visited the Nizhny Novgorod region on a working visit this week.

Russian Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukayev believes that the country's economy passed its lowest point in the third quarter of 2013, and now there are encouraging signs. "It seems to me that we passed the lowest point somewhere around the third quarter of 2013. There are encouraging signs of a gradual improvement in the situation - this also concerns the situation in industry, which demonstrated positive dynamics in the fourth quarter of last year.

Russian Railways has launched free Wi-Fi at all stations in the Winter Olympic Games area, the company announced. “A free broadband Internet access service using Wi-Fi technology has been launched at the railway station complexes: Air Terminal, Krasnaya Polyana, Olympic Park, Khosta, Esto-Sadok,” Russian Railways said in a statement. Previously, the service was provided at Sochi and Adler stations. Initially, the access speed was 1 Mbit/s.

D.Grishkin / Vedomosti Rosalkogolregulirovanie (RAR) has prepared amendments to the law on regulation of the alcohol market (171-FZ) and sent them to relevant ministries and departments for approval. RAR proposes to introduce a special license for the sale of alcohol in catering establishments (currently, stores and catering establishments receive the same license).

LVMH increased profits by 2% in 2013 and revenue by 4% The French LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, the world's largest manufacturer of luxury goods, improved its financial performance at the end of 2013. News , 31.01.2014 What to do with the ruble Reckless purchases of foreign currency for rubles can already lead to losses in the long term, agrees Konstantin Bushuev, head of the market analysis department of the Otkritie database.

Denis Abramov / Vedomosti The sharp fall of the ruble rate worries everyone. Many are used to thinking that some financial crisis is connected with the devaluation. Even without a crisis, about a third of the consumer basket consists of imported goods, so life will become more expensive for the population. The current devaluation, although not as "smooth" as in 2012, is an objective process and corresponds to the weak state of the Russian economy.

Retail sales in Germany fell 2.5% in December 2013 compared to the previous month, according to data from the country's Federal Statistical Office. This was the largest drop since March 2011. Year-on-year, sales fell 2.4%. Analysts polled by Bloomberg had on average forecast an increase of 0.2% in the first indicator and 1.9% in the second. According to revised data, retail sales in Germany increased by 0.9% in November compared to the previous month and by 1.1% year-on-year.

The inflation rate in Russia in 2014 could be 5.2%, but will depend on the level at which the ruble exchange rate stabilizes, said Minister of Economic Development Andrei Klepach. "I think that we will not go beyond 5.5% (the upper limit of the range). We need to fully understand where the rate will stabilize; apparently, this will shift the probable inflation level somewhat higher: 5.2% December to December," Klepach said at a briefing on Friday.

In December 2013, the growth of the Russian economy slowed in annual terms to 1% after 1.8% in November, according to the Ministry of Economic Development. Deputy Minister Andrei Klepach told journalists about this. Taking into account the exclusion of seasonal and calendar factors, GDP in December showed zero growth compared to November.

Varvara Grankova Dossier: 1972 Born in Samara. 1999-2002 Chairman of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Inter-Industry Trade Union of Small and Medium-Sized Business Workers. 2003 Became Chairman of the International Public Organization "Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights "Public Control". 2005-2010 Three books and a number of scientific publications on consumer rights. There's a total attack on online trade. On all fronts.

In one day, on January 29, Dozhd was deprived of access to more than half of its subscribers. The channel was disconnected from broadcasting by the operators Akado, Er-Telecom, NTV-Plus and, at the last moment, the state-owned Rostelecom . The reason for the severance of relations was a poll about the siege of Leningrad, which the channel conducted a couple of days earlier. "Was it necessary to surrender Leningrad to save hundreds of thousands of lives?" Dozhd asked its viewers.

January 31, 2014, 10:54 am / Finance The Central Bank raised the boundaries of the bi-currency corridor by another 25 kopecks per day The dollar exchange rate again exceeded the mark of 35 rubles Anastasia Agamalova For the second day in a row, the Bank of Russia increases the boundaries of the floating currency corridor of the bi-currency basket ($0.55 and 0.45 euros) by 25 kopecks at once. - up to 34.2-41.2 rubles, follows from the Central Bank data.

Arthur Parfenchikov "There is also such a procedure as termination of the act due to the impossibility of collection, the path to such a legal solution is also not closed. We will not rush." ​​The chief bailiff did not rule out taking tough measures to collect a debt of 17 billion rubles from Platon Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The bill on criminal liability for the rehabilitation of Nazism will be submitted to the State Duma after five years of revision, the author of the document, the chair of the Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Irina Yarovaya, announced on Friday. She did not name the deadline for submitting the bill.