Marx was not wrong On the article “Condottieri of the 21st century” (No. 4 of 12.01.2017, p. 07) The article is excellent, it has not accidentally caused a lot of comments. However, one should not attack Hegel and Marx too much. After all, being determines consciousness. This is the first step to understanding the world, but then the reverse process begins, when consciousness begins to control behavior. Objectively, Russia is a multi-structured country, and also a multi-ethnic one.

The inter-Syrian meeting in Astana has begun, Interfax reports, citing a source close to the delegation of one of the countries that is the guarantor of the ceasefire. The agency's interlocutor could not clarify whether the negotiations between representatives of Damascus and the armed opposition are direct. According to Interfax, delegations from the guarantor countries: Russia, Turkey, Iran and the UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, are participating in the negotiations.

Flight tests of the newest Russian passenger aircraft MS-21 will take place in early spring, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. “At the beginning of spring, we will take the MC-21, our mainline aircraft, into the air. The work is going well. At the end of December, I visited TsAGI and saw how the strength tests of the aircraft were progressing.

Black and white footage. Three people in pointedly simple (but quite elegant) shirts are sitting at a table. Frenchman Jules, who collaborated with the Germans (Philippe Duquesne). Russian employee of Vogue magazine Olga, who, contrary to all orders of the occupation authorities, saved Jewish children in France (Yulia Vysotskaya). Fascist officer Helmut, who has a whole dump of rotting high romantic ideas in his head (Christian Clauss).

Femen as an organization has not existed since 2015. “Everyone dispersed like ships at sea,” activist and co-founder of the group Yana Zhdanova told the publication “Apostrophe.” “The team that existed before no longer exists.” According to her, Femen’s protest style was formed by “only five or six people, and all of them were Ukrainians.” For a while, girls from European countries joined the movement, but now they have left Femen.

Amendments to the Law on Communications have been prepared, which may give telecom operators the right to conclude contracts with subscribers using automated devices and in electronic form starting in 2019. Interfax has reviewed the text of the draft law.

The Presidential Administration (PA) hopes that a telephone conversation between Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump can be agreed upon and held in the near future. "There is no information about a meeting [between Putin and Trump] yet," presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. "A phone call is being agreed upon.

Shareholders of PJSC Megafon approved the deal to acquire a stake in Mail.ru Group at an extraordinary meeting on January 20, the operator said in a statement. MegaFon plans to buy out 63.8% of the voting shares (15.2% of the capital) of Mail.ru from the structures of its controlling shareholder, Alisher Usmanov’s USM Group and his partners. The deal is expected to be worth $740 million and was previously reported to be closed in Q1 2017.

The total investment volume of Rosneft in 2016 amounted to 750 billion rubles, in two years it will almost double, the company’s chief executive officer Igor Sechin said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. “They were mainly aimed at increasing production drilling in Western Siberia and for new projects.

January 23, 2017, 15:12 / Business Gazprom decided to sell a stake in the German gas pipeline network Gascade – Interfax Vedomosti Gazprom is thinking about selling a stake in the German gas pipeline network Gascade, an asset that it has created together with German partner BASF/Wintershall over the past two decades. Industry sources told Interfax that Gazprom's top management has already made a fundamental decision to sell. The deal is scheduled to be completed in 2017.

Dmitry Peskov "This is a decision that can be made by the immigration authorities or the president. I don't know, but he is not a toy to be handed over." The presidential press secretary recalled that former CIA employee Edward Snowden, who lives in Russia, faces the death penalty in the United States. (TASS) Vitaly Mutko "This is all nonsense.

January 23, 2017, 15:17 / Finance Nordea transfers clients to Sovcombank A subsidiary of the Scandinavian banking group has closed a deal to sell its retail portfolio Olga Adamchuk Sale of a retail loan portfolio is part of Nordea Bank’s strategy to build a corporate investment bank in Russia / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Nordea Bank sold its retail loan portfolio to Sovcombank.

January 23, 2017, 14:07 / Business / News Air traffic between Russia and Egypt may resume in March – TASS undefined Vedomosti Air traffic between Russia and Egypt may be resumed no earlier than March. An informed source in Cairo, close to inspection checks at Egyptian airports, stated this in a conversation with TASS.

The administration of the Krasnogorsk urban district of the Moscow region does not yet have official information about the appointment of the former deputy head of the presidential administration's internal policy department, Radiy Khabirov, as head of the urban district. This was reported to the Moskva agency by the administration's press service. "We ourselves came to work this morning, and this news is as much of a surprise to us as it is to all news agencies," the agency's source explained.

Russian and Turkish combat aircraft carried out another joint air operation against militants of the terrorist group ISIS (Islamic State, banned in Russia) in the area of ​​the settlement of Al-Bab in the Syrian province of Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday. "Three strike aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, as well as four aircraft of the Turkish Air Force, were involved in the air operation, agreed upon with the Syrian side.