The Prosecutor General's Office has refused to conduct an inspection of the Central Bank regarding the mega-regulator's improper performance of its function to ensure the stability of the ruble. The corresponding request to the supervisory agency was sent by State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, including Valery Rashkin and Sergei Obukhov. "The issues of regulating monetary policy that you have outlined relate to the economic activity of the state.

Grigory Karasin "We will help the integration start, but relations will develop in each specific sphere, we will not spare our efforts for this." The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia assured that there is no talk of Abkhazia and South Ossetia joining the Russian Federation.

Canada intends to provide Ukraine with an additional $54 million to support a number of projects, Canadian International Trade Minister Ed Fast said. "Today I announced that Canada will provide an additional $54 million to meet Ukraine's technical needs for various projects," he said at a joint briefing with Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Aivaras Abromavicius on Monday in Kyiv.

January 26, 2015, 01:16 / Opinions From the editor: What has changed after the shelling of Mariupol Vedomosti The shelling of Mariupol could become a turning point in the development of the situation in southeast Ukraine. Russia continues to be called upon to stop supporting the separatists. But the Western world stops believing her words. In the eyes of the world community, Russia risks becoming one of the main sponsors of terrorism.

Hackers stole and put up for sale the personal data of 20 million visitors to a dating site registered in Russia, Bloomberg reports . Daniel Ingevaldsson, chief technology officer of Easy Solutions, a security software maker, reported the hack. The agency is not naming the site that was hacked. It is known that it is based in St. Petersburg. The names of users and their email addresses are up for sale, the seller called himself Mastremind, the ad was posted on a site used by cybercriminals.

Amendments to the first part of the Tax Code came into force on January 1, introducing a fundamentally new form of tax control. This is tax monitoring, which is carried out by decision of the tax authority based on the taxpayer's application. The concept of the bill was developed for two years, during which time pilot projects were in effect with five large taxpayers, and they, like the Federal Tax Service, recognized the experiment as successful.

A. Makhonin / Vedomosti Roskomnadzor has issued a warning to the RBC newspaper and five other publications for publications that, in the agency's opinion, offend the religious feelings of Muslims, Roskomnadzor representative Vadim Ampelonsky told Vedomosti. "The editorial board of the RBC Daily Business Newspaper illustrated the article with an image (drawing)" that offends the religious feelings of Muslims and incites religious hatred, the agency said in a statement .

January 26, 2015, 03:03 / Politics The founder of Children-404 was found guilty of promoting non-traditional sexual relations Young United Russia members ask the Prosecutor General's Office to block the network community “Children-404” for promoting homosexuality among minors Elena Mukhametshina Olga Churakova Dmitry Lovetsky / AP The Young Guard of United Russia (MGER) will send a request to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to block the online community “Children-404”, which helps

January 26, 2015, 10:09 am / Finance The dollar exchange rate exceeded 65 rubles Anastasia Agamalova The dollar exchange rate for “tomorrow” settlements at the beginning of trading on the Moscow Exchange increased by 86 kopecks. and amounted to 65.1 rubles. The euro rose by 93 kopecks. against the Russian currency and amounted to 73.02 rubles. (data as of 10.01 Moscow time). By 10.53 Moscow time, the ruble accelerated its fall, the dollar rose by 1.56 rubles.

30% of Russians believe that the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine was provoked by the journalists themselves, who insulted the religious values ​​of Muslims, Kommersant writes , citing the results of a VTsIOM poll. 74% of respondents were aware of the terrorist attack, 23% saw the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the VTsIOM website reports .

January 26, 2015, 22:02 / Business API proposed three independent candidates for the board of directors of Bashneft Peter Tretyakov 71.4% of Bashneft shares became state property from AFK Sistema in early December after a corresponding court decision. The “system” did not challenge him. The Association for the Protection of Investor Rights (API) proposed three independent directors to the Bashneft board of directors, TASS writes, citing a representative of the association.

Levit LLC increased its share in GES-2 LLC from 50 to 100%, according to the SPARK-Interfax database. The main owners of Levit are Novatek shareholders Leonid Mikhelson (78.29%) and Leonid Simanovsky (21.71%). OOO GES-2 owns the historic power plant located on Bolotnaya Embankment in central Moscow. Half of the GES-2 stake was purchased by Levit in October last year during an auction held by Mosenergo for approximately 900 million rubles.

Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti A group of United Russia members headed by the chairman of the constitutional committee Vladimir Pligin and his deputy Dmitry Vyatkin submitted to the State Duma a draft amendment to the Housing Code, clarifying the requirements for a general meeting of owners of premises. If the bill is approved, then the method of managing an apartment building can only be chosen by a majority of votes (more than 50%) of the total number of apartment owners.

Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has the ability to clearly and loyally formulate what Russian policy looks like at the moment. That's why we send him to international forums. In Davos on Friday, he again made several important statements. The main points are as follows. The crisis is the best chance for economic reforms, although in 2008-2009 the modernization agenda was blurred, but now the situation is even worse, so Russia has a new chance.

Dmitry Rogulin / TASS The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing has suspended the import of table salt from the Ukrainian manufacturer State Enterprise Artemsol (HS code 2501 00 91) to Russia since January 26, 2015, the agency's website reports .