The failures of Russian football players and the successes of individual coaches, as well as the topic of doping, became decisive in forming the rating of mentions in the media of Russian athletes and coaches based on the results of 2016, according to data from the SCAN-Interfax system.

December 28, 2016, 11:36 am / Business Rosneft filed a claim against Transneft in the Moscow Arbitration Court Vedomosti Rosneft . filed a claim with the Moscow Arbitration Court against Transneft to secure property interests, TASS was told in court “The application of NK Rosneft was received on December 27. It has been registered, but has not yet been accepted for production,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

In essence, a significant mass of the online public is now not much different from TV viewers, and all of these people can be manipulated through long-established channels. Just a few years ago, the Internet was considered a breeding ground for the emergence and development of a new type of democracy based on network technologies. Unfortunately, the past years have increased skepticism: what can we talk about if no constructive public discussion is possible on the Russian Internet?

In the near future, the found fragments of the Tu-154 of the Ministry of Defense will be displayed in Sochi; a site is already being prepared for it. This was reported to TASS by sources in the security agencies. The collected fragments of the plane are currently in the seaport. According to one of the sources, the real outline of the Tu-154 will be outlined on the ground and the fragments will take their places in stages, as they are discovered.

The Bank of Russia did not accredit the rating agency Rus-Rating and the National Rating Agency (NRA), according to a message on the Central Bank website. Having accreditation from the Bank of Russia is a necessary condition for carrying out rating activities in Russia after the end of the transition period, which expires on January 13, 2017 for Russian legal entities and July 13, 2017 for foreign ones.

The words spoken by the acting director general of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Anna Antseliovich to a journalist from The New York Times were distorted and taken out of context. This is stated in a statement from RUSADA provided to TASS. "In response to the publication in The New York Times, RUSADA states that the words of Acting Director General Antseliovich were distorted and taken out of context," the statement reads.

December 27, 2016, 11:37 pm / Business Exclusively by subscription Rosneft won large fields in Western Siberia In the competition for one of them, Nazymskoye, she beat out the consortium of Gazprom Neft, RDIF, Mubadala Fund and Gazprombank Alina Fadeeva To develop the Nazym field, Rosneft will need a foreign partner / TASS / Interpress Rosneft has received licenses for two fields in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug: Nazymsky and Ai-Yaunsky areas (total C2 reserves are 86.6 million tons),

December 28, 2016, 20:44 Budget deficit in 2016 could be below 3% of GDP - Siluanov undefined Vedomosti The Russian federal budget deficit in 2016 will amount to 3.6-3.7% of GDP, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. The minister believes that the deficit could have been lower than 3% if the government had not allocated 800 billion rubles. to repay loans from defense enterprises.

China Wants to Become a Global Space Power / Ng Han Guan / AP China has unveiled plans to explore Jupiter and the far side of the moon with space probes, part of a program that is expected to make China one of the world's top three space powers by 2030.

The Bank of Russia set the official dollar exchange rate on December 29 at 60.6669 rubles, which is 19.18 kopecks. lower than the previous figure. The official euro exchange rate was reduced by 8.51 kopecks. up to 63.4879 rub. The cost of the bi-currency basket ($0.55 and 0.45 euros), calculated at official rates, decreased by 14.38 kopecks. up to 61.9364 rub.

Of the four turbines purchased from Siemens, Technopromexport (a subsidiary of Rostec) plans to sell two for the construction of a thermal power plant in Taman, and two more for a thermal power plant in Grozny. Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov spoke about this. Four combined cycle turbines with a capacity of 165 MW each were purchased in 2015 specifically for the thermal power plant in Taman.

Rescuers at the site of the Tu-154 crash near Sochi have found several fragments of the bodies of the victims. This was reported to Interfax on the morning of Wednesday, December 28, by a source in the operational headquarters at the site of the emergency. "The lifting of remains to the surface continues. Fragments of several dead people, four or five people, have been found," he noted.

December 27, 2016, 11:59 pm / Finance Exclusively by subscription Pension funds have questions about anti-money laundering legislation Developed for banks, it complicates the activities of NPFs Ilya Usov Pension funds receive a lot of criticism from the Central Bank due to the fact that the anti-money laundering law that they need to comply with was developed for banks / A.

Alexey Kudrin's Center for Strategic Research (CSR), whose experts are working on Russia's development strategy for 2018–2024, analyzed how previous major strategic documents were implemented: Strategy 2010, Strategy 2020, the May decrees, and priority national projects. The findings are disappointing but predictable: most of the proposals remained on paper. Some thematic areas were worked out better, some worse, but the further you go, the lower the percentage of implementation.

Since the law does not establish a list of gross violations, the courts are invited to decide independently whether the violation entails the suspension of the organization's activities or its prohibition / S. Porter / Vedomosti The activities of public and religious associations that are not legal entities may be prohibited on the grounds provided by law for the liquidation of legal entities, the Supreme Court explained.