05 February 2016, 14:02 / Economics The Ministry of Agriculture supported excise taxes on palm oil and sparkling water Vedomosti The Ministry of Agriculture supports the proposal to introduce an excise tax on palm oil and sparkling water, Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev said at the United Russia party congress on Friday in Moscow. this .

Russian Su-35 fighters will be on duty around the clock at the Khmeimim airbase in Latakia, Syria, ready to take off at any minute, a representative of the Russian Aerospace Forces group in Syria said, TASS reports. "The aircraft will be on duty in pairs around the clock at the Khmeimim airbase, ready to take off within a minute. The principle of interaction with strike aircraft is as follows: the Su-35s will cover the aircraft in the air, increasing their field of view.

The collapse of the ruble did not lead to an increase in prices for housing in the capital in January / M. Stulov / Vedomosti January 2016 saw a new stage of the ruble's fall, which became a catalyst for a surge in purchasing activity in both the primary and secondary housing markets in Moscow. However, neither the revival of demand nor currency fluctuations provoked an increase in the cost of square meters of housing in the capital.

Sergey Menyailo "Are they going to exchange beads for gold from savages? <...> Russians perceive any pressure on Crimea as a personal insult." The Governor of Sevastopol is offended by the European Parliament resolution, which called the return of Crimea to Ukraine the main condition for lifting sanctions against Russia.

05 February 2016, 13:02 / Finance Sberbank increased its profit in January by 7.5 times The bank also coped with the seasonal outflow of customer funds - individuals withdrew only 2.9% of their money from it Anna Eremina Sberbank increased its profit in January by 7.5 times / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti The margin in January was 5.3% - this is a high figure, only slightly lower than the record in December (5.7%), says Gazprombank analyst Andrei Klapko.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the breakdown of inter-Syrian talks in Geneva was primarily due to Russia's reluctance to stop supporting Bashar al-Assad's ground operation near Aleppo, the Financial Times reports . "As soon as the meeting [in Geneva] was convened, the bombing and ground operation began near Aleppo," Ban Ki-moon told the FT in London.

The Kremlin believes that the opinion that the intra-Syrian negotiations have been disrupted due to Russian assistance to the government of Bashar al-Assad and its armed forces is incorrect. "We cannot agree with it," said the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. "Russia provides support to the legitimate leadership of the SAR in terms of fighting terrorism, terrorist groups, and at the same time makes efforts on the political and diplomatic track," Interfax quotes him as saying.

"Vladimirsky Passage" is one of the main assets of "Alice" / E. Egorov / Vedomosti At the end of January and the beginning of February, Investment Group Hotel LLC, Vladimirsky Passazh LLC, Betta LLC, Alfa LLC, Palmira LLC, Talisman LLC, and Hotel LLC notified of their intention to file for bankruptcy in court due to signs of bankruptcy, according to information on the website of the unified federal register of information on the facts of legal entities' activities.

The mention in NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's report of Russian military exercises with nuclear attacks against the alliance and Sweden is part of a propaganda campaign to prove the bloc's relevance, said Russia's Permanent Representative to NATO Alexander Grushko. "Apparently, the campaign to search for Russian submarines in Swedish waters has finally run out of steam - new stories are needed.

On Friday, searches were conducted at the TASS agency. The agency's representative Dmitry Pertsev confirmed this information to Vedomosti. He emphasized that the searches were not related to the agency's activities. "The searches were related to one of the hired employees and his previous place of work. The searches have nothing to do with the agency's activities," the agency's representative noted. Pertsev did not name the employee and his position.

04 February 2016, 23:42 / Business Inter RAO can sell 2% of shares to management for 2.6 billion rubles These are the preconditions for the third option program of the company Alina Fadeeva This is the third option program of Inter RAO / S. Porter / Vedomosti Inter RAO has developed a new option program for management, writes Renaissance Capital analyst Vladimir Sklyar in a review following a meeting with the company.

05 February 2016, 16:34 / Economy / News Russia's income from oil exports in 2015 decreased by 41.8% undefined Vedomosti Oil exports from Russia in value terms last year decreased by 41.8% compared to 2014 and amounted to $89.576 billion. This is stated in the materials of the Federal Customs Service. The physical volume of oil exports in 2015 increased by 9.4%, to 244.485 million tons compared to 223.415 million tons a year earlier. The bulk of oil exports went to non-CIS countries.

Politics Peace talks to resolve the conflict in Syria are officially “suspended,” but resuming them looks almost impossible due to the military advance of Bashar al-Assad’s forces towards Aleppo, backed by Russia read on FT.com read on WSJ.com Representatives of more than 60 U.N.

05 February 2016, 00:40 / Economics The government is going to introduce excise taxes on “harmful” products First in line is palm oil Philip Sterkin Anastasia Demidova Irina Skrynnik Russia will protect itself from palm oil with excise tax / MOHD RASFAN / AFP In order to increase federal budget revenues, the order to work out an expansion of the list of excisable goods, including palm oil and carbonated drinks, was given following a meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on January 18

There were no contacts between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and there are no plans to hold them, Interfax reports, citing a statement by the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. On January 30, Erdogan said he would like to talk to Putin about another incident involving a Russian plane.