The Chechen parliament proposed introducing liability for relatives of terrorists Deputy Chairman of the United Russia faction Franz Klintsevich supports increasing the responsibility of terrorists, including the confiscation of their property and funds to compensate the victims.

January 16, 2015, 00:51 / Business Pipemakers ask Gazprom to reconsider purchase prices for pipes Last year's collapse of the ruble forced pipe manufacturers to ask Gazprom to revise prices for their products Vitaly Petlevoy Mikhail Serov Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Since May 2012, Gazprom has been paying for pipes according to a price formula. But due to a sharp change in the market conditions, the system failed, four employees of different pipe companies told Vedomosti.

January 16, 2015, 20:53 / Finance Central Bank: Capital outflow from Russia in 2014 increased 2.5 times Taking into account currency repo, the fourth quarter accounted for more than half of the $151 billion outflow Vedomosti E. Razumny / Vedomosti The Bank of Russia estimated the net export of capital by banks and enterprises from Russia in 2014 at $151.5 billion, which is 2.5 times more than in 2013 ($61.0 billion), according to a message on the Central Bank website.

On Wednesday, January 14, the Ministry of Finance sold $38 million through the Bank of Russia, according to information on the Central Bank website. Earlier, the Central Bank reported that the Ministry of Finance sold $650 million through the Bank of Russia on January 13, and $154 million on January 12. Also, the Bank of Russia, from the funds of the Ministry of Finance, sold dollars with settlements on January 12 for $1.323 billion.

Rental prices for apartments in Moscow are falling against the backdrop of the weakening ruble; three-room economy-class apartments fell in price the most in December - by 6.5%, representatives of real estate companies surveyed by RIA Novosti said on Friday.

January 16, 2015, 16:57 / Finance Central Bank: Russia spent a quarter of international reserves in 2014 Vedomosti The volume of Russia's international reserves in 2014 decreased by almost a quarter - by $124.135 billion from $509.595 billion as of January 1, 2014, while in December alone reserves decreased by 8% to $33.42 billion, the Bank of Russia reported on its website.

As pressure on Moscow increases over the ongoing crisis in southeastern Ukraine, Europe is increasingly outlining the conditions for lifting sanctions. The Normandy format meeting scheduled for January 15 has been cancelled because, in the opinion of EU leaders, Russia is not taking steps to de-escalate. Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution outlining the expansion of sanctions in the event of non-fulfilment of the Minsk agreements. This is bad news for Russia.

The CIA has declassified 99 documents about its role in preparing for the publication of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago in 1958. The agency announced the decision on Twitter with a quote in Russian: "I wrote the novel so that it would be published and read, and this remains my only desire.

The Ministry of Defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic announced on January 16 that the militia had taken control of the Donetsk International Airport and its environs. According to the DPR, about ten Ukrainian soldiers remain in the new terminal, who have stopped resisting and "will soon leave the airport" through the provided corridor. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Donetsk News Agency. This information was denied in Kyiv.

2014 turned out to be the hottest year in the entire 134-year history of meteorological observations, according to reports from NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Thus, 2014 has overtaken 2010, which had previously held the lead in this indicator. The 10 hottest years in history have occurred since 1997. Scientists believe that this is a long-term trend.

January 16, 2015, 00:49 / Auto The Russian automobile market shrank by 10% in 2014, twice as much as a year earlier. Car sales in Russia decreased by 10% in 2014, AEB estimates, and in 2015 may decrease by another 24%. Dealers consider this forecast optimistic Vladimir Shtanov Yulia Gribtsova Andrey Makhonin / Vedomosti New passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) began to sell poorly in Russia in the spring of 2013, and over the year the market shrank by 5.5%.

The government does not support the bill by Communist MP Pavel Dorokhin on introducing criminal liability for foreign investors for illegally establishing control over Russian strategic enterprises.

"The Novaport holding, which already includes eight Russian airports, has closed a deal to purchase the Tyumen airport Roshchino. This was reported to Kommersant by the holding's co-owner Roman Trotsenko. Now Novaport owns 100% of the airport, all that remains is to complete the necessary legal procedures, said the holding's CEO Sergei Rudakov. According to him, the company bought the shares from structures close to the UTair airline.

Algeria's state oil and gas corporation Sonatrach is investing $70 billion in shale gas projects in the south of the country despite protests from the local population, the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds reported, citing a statement by the company's executive director Said Sahnoun. According to the official, Sonatrach "will invest at least $70 billion over 20 years" to reach the level of shale gas production of 20 billion cubic meters per year, while creating an additional 50,000 jobs.

M. Stulov / Vedomosti The construction company from Ulyanovsk Dars Development has entered the project of the National Aircraft Manufacturing Center (NAC) to develop the territory around the aviation cluster in Zhukovsky, said NCA President Tigran Aleksanyan and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dars Development Dmitry Ryabov. The decree on the creation of the NCA in Zhukovsky, on the basis of which a large aviation cluster should be created, was signed by President Vladimir Putin in 2008.