January 11, 2017, 01:07 / Economics Exclusively by subscription Inflation at historic lows The weakest regions are the first to reach the Central Bank's goals Olga Kuvshinova The task of reducing inflation in 2017 will be more difficult / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The consumer price index in 2016 was 5.4%, Rosstat said, confirming its December estimate. This is the minimum annual inflation rate in the entire history of Russia; the previous record was in 2011 – 6.1%.

Russia's seizure of Crimea in 2014 was an "act of force", Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's nominee for US Secretary of State, told a Senate hearing. After delivering opening remarks in which he said "Russia is a threat" but "we need to have an open and honest dialogue with Russia about its ambitions", Tillerson began answering questions from senators.

"The only way that can happen is through a broader agreement that respects the interests of the Ukrainian people. Without that, we should never accept," Tillerson said.

Journalists Will Help Facebook Fight Fakes / Jeff Chiu / AP The Facebook Journalism Project is a new initiative launched today by the social network Facebook . It aims to “build a stronger connection between Facebook and the journalistic community,” the social network’s official blog says.

January 11, 2017, 09:14 / Finance Brent is trading at $53.7 per barrel Vedomosti By 9.08 Moscow time on January 11, March Brent futures on the London ICE Futures exchange were trading at $53.7 per barrel. At the same time, February futures for WTI at trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) cost $50.96 per barrel.

January 11, 2017, 20:36 / Finance The issuance of consumer loans in St. Petersburg returned to 2014 levels Banks expect increased competition for retail clients Valery Lebedev Vedomosti - St. Petersburg The average amount of a consumer loan has increased / E. Egorov / Vedomosti At the end of 2016, the North-West Bank of Sberbank issued 89,500 consumer loans in St. Petersburg in the amount of 21.6 billion rubles, which is 50% more in volume than a year earlier, the press service said.

In Moscow, housing becomes 3% more expensive near schools that give high results in the Unified State Exam (USE), Kommersant reports , citing a study by Dmitry Chugunov, an economist at the Higher School of Economics. The newspaper emphasizes that this is the first study of its kind in Russia. This is a candidate's dissertation entitled "The Impact of School Education Results on Price Formation in the Residential Real Estate Market in a Megalopolis." It was defended in October 2016.

January 11, 2017, 15:20 / Auto / News AvtoVAZ withdrew cars worth 1.3 billion rubles from collateral in Rosbank undefined Vedomosti " AvtoVAZ " withdrew cars worth 1.33 billion rubles from collateral with Rosbank, as follows from the data of the Unified Federal Register of Information on the Facts of the Activities of Legal Entities (Fedresurs).

The Russian National Library will transfer one of its buildings on the Obvodny Canal embankment to the St. Petersburg diocese by September 1. As Interfax reports , this was announced at a press conference on January 11 by the RNB's general director, Alexander Visly. "The building is being transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. Of course, this is not as acute an issue as with St. Isaac's Cathedral, because this building used to belong to the church," he noted.

AvtoVAZ has completed work on transferring the production of the three-door version of the Lada 4x4 SUV to the main assembly line of the enterprise, Artem Manyukhin, a representative of the AvtoVAZ press center, told TASS. “Production of the three-door Lada 4x4 has been moved to the third line of the main conveyor. The work was carried out in accordance with the schedule.

January 11, 2017, 00:10 / Finance The fate of audit compensation funds can be decided by the Ministry of Finance Auditors want to return fees, the commission for monitoring the audit services market proposes to transfer them to existing SROs Olga Adamchuk On Thursday, the Ministry of Finance will decide the fate of the compensation funds for auditors who have collected more than 80 million rubles. / A.

January 11, 2017, 00:07 / Finance Exclusively by subscription The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank have decided on the status of individual pension capital Departments classify it as savings, since their investment is more strictly regulated Ilya Usov Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov / E.

Othello (Marco Berti) humiliates Desdemona (Svetlana Aksenova) much to the delight of Iago (Claudio Sgura) / Hans JOrg Michel Verdi's masterpiece, based on Shakespeare's tragedy, has been commissioned to be staged by the 53-year-old Catalan director Calixto Bieito. He is seriously concerned that frustrations and obsessive-compulsive disorders are thriving in European society, and that Europe is therefore failing to meet the challenges of the new reality.

Several state media outlets were included in the government-approved list of federal state unitary enterprises (FSUEs) that are “essential for ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of citizens of the Russian Federation, the defense capability and security of the state.” According to Kommersant, it includes 64 FSUEs.

January 11, 2017, 22:01 / Business ConocoPhillips challenged in court the pledge of a Venezuelan asset in the United States against a loan from Rosneft Vedomosti ConocoPhillips filed a lawsuit in Delaware state court against Venezuela's state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), challenging the legality of the deal to transfer a 49.9% stake in the American Citgo Holding Inc. as security for obligations to Rosneft.