Despite the enormous differences between the two situations, two worlds and two people, Rasputin under Nicholas is somehow elusively similar to Ramzan Kadyrov under Putin. The coming years will inevitably be filled with allusions to events of a century ago. The 1917 revolution has not yet become history in Russia, and Vladimir Putin's recent statements criticizing Vladimir Lenin and the controversy that arose over them only prove this.

January 26, 2016, 23:26 / Finance The Chinese stock market has become infected with pessimism It has lost all its growth in 2015 and will continue to fall, analysts say Tatyana Bochkareva We shouldn’t expect the decline of the Chinese market to end soon / Andy Wong / AP The Shanghai Composite index fell by 6.4% yesterday, the Shenzhen Composite index fell by 7.1%, and the ChiNext high-tech index fell by 7.8%. The Shanghai Composite closed at 2,749.79, down to its December 2014 level.

According to the latest data, Stroytransgaz was owned by the Cypriot Stroytransgaz Holding (STG Holding). In turn, Volga Group owned 63% of STG Holding, Mikhail Kenin - 17%, Gazprombank - 20%. Businessman Gennady Timchenko transferred his shares in the construction contractor OJSC Stroytransgaz to Russian jurisdiction.

The Moscow City Court has ruled that Mikhail Khodorkovsky's arrest in absentia is lawful. "The ruling of the Basmanny Court is to be left unchanged, and the appeal of [Khodorkovsky's] lawyer Irina Bykhanova is to be dismissed," Interfax quotes the city court ruling as saying. The businessman is accused of organizing the murder and attempted murder of two or more people.

Oil companies, during their annual meeting with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, asked not to touch the industry, Bashneft President Alexander Korsik told reporters. “The main thing for us is stability, so that the load does not increase. Just don’t touch it, we can handle everything,” he said (quoted by TASS). According to his forecasts, oil production in Russia in 2016 will remain at the 2015 level if the situation on the oil market does not change, Interfax reports.

The Science Council under the Ministry of Education and Science has spoken out against the adoption of the concept of the "Strategy for the Development of Convergent Technologies", prepared on an initiative basis by the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute". The authors of the concept mean by convergent technologies (CT) a combination of two or more from the list of "bio-, nano-, info-, cogno- and socio-humanitarian" technologies (NBICS).

January 27, 2016, 19:42 / Business VTB filed a claim for 1 billion rubles against the Moscow duty free operator The Aerofirst company does not fulfill its obligations under loan agreements, the bank believes Anastasia Demidova Alexander Vorobyov VTB has paid 1 billion rubles.

January 27, 2016, 12:02 / Business American athletes called on WADA and the IOC to test all sports in Russia for doping Vedomosti American Olympic athletes have sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) demanding an investigation into cases of doping by Russian athletes not only in athletics, but in all sports. This was reported by the Associated Press (AP), which obtained the text of the letter.

At the opening of trading on Wednesday, the ruble exchange rate fell against the dollar and the euro due to the wait-and-see mood of market participants ahead of the Bank of Russia meeting, reports Interfax . Trading in the dollar began on Wednesday with transactions in the range of 78.33-78.87 rubles, on average in one and a half minutes the rate was 78.5 rubles. (+20 kopecks to the previous closing mark). The euro averaged RUB 85.19 at the beginning of trading. (+14 kopecks).

January 27, 2016, 00:40 / Economics / Video We were not ready to work on ourselves What prevents the Russian economy from being efficient, argues Evgeniy Nadorshin , chief economist at PF Capital Vedomosti

The Bank of Russia reduced the official exchange rates of the euro and dollar as of January 28 by almost three rubles. The dollar exchange rate was reduced by 2.84 rubles. up to 78.9969 rubles, the euro exchange rate - by 3.04 rubles. up to 85.8459 rub. The amplitude of fluctuations in the dollar exchange rate at trading on the Moscow Exchange on Wednesday was relatively small - within 1.5 rubles. - when Brent oil prices decrease from $31.7 to $31.0.

Former Sakhalin Region Governor Alexander Khoroshavin is suspected of receiving bribes from candidates for the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Duma during the 2014 elections, Kommersant writes . The investigation believes that the sum involved at least 27 million rubles from four candidates who made it into the Duma. Two of them, who decided to save money, never became deputies.

Canada will always be on Ukraine's side, but the time has come to cooperate with Russia in areas where Moscow and Ottawa have mutual interests, said Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion. He was quoted by CBC News.

January 27, 2016, 00:19 / Finance NSPK has learned to accept Visa cards in Crimea Genbank, which fell under sanctions, has established servicing of her cards Anna Eremina The fact that Visa started working in Crimea only now is due to the fact that its traffic was not fully localized / E.

Education and Science Minister Dmitry Livanov linked the proposal of the "A Just Russia" faction in the State Duma to dismiss him with the proximity of elections to the lower house. "I link this to the aggravation of some ailments caused by the pre-election situation," Livanov told journalists after "government hour" in the State Duma. According to the minister, the department works fruitfully with all factions in the State Duma, except one.