January 15, 2015, 12:36 pm / Business Gas exports from Russia decreased by 6.7% in 2014 Anastasia Agamalova Gas exports from Russia to near and far abroad countries in 2014 decreased by 6.7% to 183.3 billion cubic meters. m, a representative of the Ministry of Energy told reporters. Gas production in Russia in 2014 amounted to 641 billion cubic meters, Interfax reports.

January 15, 2015, 01:06 / Finance What will happen to the budget rule if oil is cheap? The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development are arguing over how the budget rule should work when oil is cheap.

No, it is not surprising that in the 2010s a novel was written about a steel mill and a workers' dynasty, about a mad love for pouring steel, "eternally alive, eternally new, like blood," and for the native plant. And it is not surprising how the 34-year-old author, a graduate of the Literary Institute, from the perspective of literary eternity - a boy, managed to live through all this and present in words - the pride, hope, resentment of the Soviet worker.

January 15, 2015, 03:21 / Business “The Secret of the Firm” will join the list of publications that have abandoned the paper version Having purchased “The Secret of the Firm” from Kommersant, Rambler & Co is radically reformatting it. Now it will be an exclusively online publication, produced by people from Hopes & Fears and The Village Ekaterina Bryzgalova Elena Morozova Rambler continues to experiment with online media / M.

January 15, 2015, 10:15 / Finance The ruble strengthened against the dollar and euro at the beginning of trading undefined Vedomosti The Russian currency strengthened against the dollar and the euro at the beginning of trading on Thursday, continuing to win back the corrective increase in world oil prices.

The net profit of the American bank Citigroup Inc. fell in the fourth quarter of 2014 to $350 million compared to $2.7 billion for the same period a year earlier amid high legal costs, according to a press release from the financial organization. Quarterly earnings per share fell 13-fold to 9 cents from 77 cents in October-December 2013. Analysts polled by Bloomberg had expected a figure of 9 cents per share.

The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) has given the world a new term, "patriotic internet", which is very symbolically rich. In an open statement signed by Vladimir Medinsky, Dmitry Rogozin and a number of politicians, scientists and cultural figures, RMHS diagnoses that a war for minds is being waged against Russia: "A new blitzkrieg has begun against us - and therefore against the truth." In these conditions, "we need a patriotic trend in public consciousness.

On New Year's Eve, citizens, as usual, drank, ate and went for a walk. According to administrative legislation, being intoxicated in public places is punishable by a fine or administrative arrest, and the number of such detected and registered offenses is one of the police reporting indicators.

Apple has filed a lawsuit against Ericsson to challenge the royalties the Swedish company is demanding for the use of its patents on LTE technology, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. In a complaint filed in a Northern California court, Apple claims that Ericsson is asking for excessive royalties because it believes its patents are unique to the high-speed wireless technology industry. Apple says they are not and therefore should be priced lower than the Swedish company is asking.

The Russian Ministry of Finance intends to abandon the use of ratings when calculating the limits for the placement of insurance contributions for the funded pension of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR), limiting itself to linking it to the bank’s own capital. This follows from the draft order of the ministry, published on the unified information disclosure portal.

January 15, 2015, 04:37 / Politics Alexey Navalny challenged the blocking of his blog on LiveJournal at the ECHR Alexey Navalny appealed the blocking of his blog on LiveJournal in the Strasbourg court. The blog was blocked for two posts calling for people to gather near the court Elena Mukhametshina A.

Cherkizovo put pigs under the knife / D. Abramov / Vedomosti Cherkizovo Group OJSC An agro-industrial holding. Shareholders: founder Igor Babaev and his family members (63.7%). Capitalization: $534.2 million (LSE). Financial indicators (US GAAP, 9 months of 2014): revenue: $1.37 billion, profit: $228.1 million. Cherkizovo includes 8 poultry and 14 pig farms, 6 meat processing and 6 feed mills, elevators, and controls 140,000 hectares of agricultural land.

January 15, 2015, 15:33 / Finance OPEC raised its overall forecast for oil demand, lowered its forecast for OPEC oil Vedomosti The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has improved its estimate of global oil demand in 2015 by 40,000 barrels per day to a level of 92.3 million barrels per day. This is 1.15 million barrels higher than in 2014, according to the organization’s January report.

AP Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, "the world once again faces the risk of major conflict between states," said Margareta Drzeniek-Hanuz, chief economist at the World Economic Forum ( WEF ). In terms of their impact on the economy, financial and economic problems are still relevant, says Vladimir Tikhomirov, chief economist at BCS . But over the past year, geopolitical conflicts have begun to have the greatest impact on the global financial and economic system, he admits.

January 15, 2015, 08:11 / Finance Russia - the country of signals Gaidar Forum: cognitive dissonance of a deputy, 1.5 meaningless trillion and the collapse of capitalism Olga Kuvshinova Dmitry Donskoy / RIA Novosti “Should we carry out sequestration? And if you shorten it, then how exactly?” - the moderator, in his words, of the “budget section”, Rector of the Academy of Foreign Trade, Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev, set the agenda for the discussion participants at the RANEPA Gaidar Forum.