Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will hold a telephone conversation this weekend, NBC correspondent Haley Jackson reported on her Twitter account, citing a source in the US administration. It is noted that this will be Trump's first telephone conversation since his inauguration. Three days earlier, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said there was no agreement yet on a telephone conversation between the leaders of the two countries.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court refused to consider a claim regarding the legality of the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Interfax reports. The court ruled that the order of the Property Relations Committee (PRC) to transfer the cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church is not a decision on the transfer.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a government decree on the establishment of the Russian Information Technology Fund. The decree, dated January 24, was published on the Cabinet website on January 27. It was prepared by the Ministry of Communications and Telecommunications in pursuance of the government's action plan aimed at ensuring stable socio-economic development of Russia in 2016.

January 27, 2017, 15:19 / Finance Ex-trader of Otkrytie was sentenced in London to 12 years in prison George Urumov and his accomplice are guilty of stealing more than 141 million pounds from Otkritie Ilya Usov Natalya Raibman Urumov deceived his employer regarding transactions with Argentine warrants, claiming that they were traded in dollars, when in fact they were traded in Argentine pesos / M.

US President Donald Trump's strategic advisor Steve Bannon called the media an opposition party and advised them to shut up. He said this in an interview with The New York Times. Before that, Trump himself complained that he had to deal with incredibly lying media, so he was forced to communicate with the population directly via Twitter, although he did not like it, because that is not how things work.

January 27, 2017, 12:44 / Business / News Türkiye has issued all permits to begin work on the Turkish Stream undefined Vedomosti All necessary permits to begin work on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project have been received, Russian Deputy Minister of Energy Anatoly Yanovsky said on Friday, January 27.

Ruslan Temirbulatov, a native of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov's team, has become Abkhazia's new curator in the presidential administration for interaction with the CIS countries, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. This was reported by RBC , citing a source close to the administration of the Abkhazian president and a person close to the Kremlin. This Kremlin department is supervised by presidential aide Vladislav Surkov.

Former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Denis Voronenkov, the husband of former deputy Maria Maksakova, gave evidence to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine in the case of high treason against former President Viktor Yanukovych, Kommersant writes . He "himself took the initiative, contacted the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko and gave evidence in the Yanukovych case," a source close to the GPU told the newspaper.

Facebook's virtual reality division will be headed by Google alumnus Hugo Barra, who until recently worked at Xiaomi / Wikimedia Hugo Barra, most recently vice president of China's Xiaomi, is moving to Facebook to lead its virtual reality division, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday. "Hugo and I are convinced that virtual and augmented reality systems will become the next big platform in the tech industry," Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post.

The population of Germany increased by approximately 600,000 people in 2016 compared to the previous year due to high migration growth, Interfax reports, citing local media. According to the results of 2016, 82.8 million people live in Germany. These figures break the record of 2002, when the country's population approached the 82.5 million mark. According to preliminary estimates, the number of migrants who arrived in Germany in 2016 was 750,000, down from the record 1.1 million in 2015.

AvtoVAZ offered an additional discount when purchasing cars produced in 2016, as follows from the information on the manufacturer’s website. The discount applies to all models and most trim levels. For example, when buying a Granta, the most popular Lada model in Russia, you can save 6,000–16,600 rubles. (discounts on the sports version reach RUB 17,900). For comparison: a sedan of this family, excluding shares, costs RUB 389,900–572,400.

January 27, 2017, 00:12 / Finance Exclusively by subscription The subsidiary of the Ukrainian collection group Vostok Finance left Russia The group, one of the five largest, was unable to work under the conditions of the law restricting the work of debt collectors Olga Adamchuk Ukrainian Vostok Finance is leaving the Russian market / Yevgeny Volokin / Reuters The law restricting the activities of debt collectors has forced some market participants to reconsider their business plans.

January 27, 2017, 11:52 am / Economics One-time payment of 5,000 rubles to pensioners is 97% complete Vedomosti Payments of 5,000 rubles. for Russian pensioners are almost complete, stated Russian Labor Minister Maxim Topilin. “According to our data, almost 95-97% of (one-time) pension payments are completed. Tomorrow will be formally the last day of delivery.

Sheremetyevo's debt to VEB of more than $500 million was restructured in December 2016, writes Kommersant . The parties confirmed to the publication that the deal was closed. We are talking about a loan that was transferred to the airport in April 2012, when Terminal OJSC was merged with it. It took out loans for the construction of terminal D. Then it borrowed about $1.1 billion from banks, VEB's share accounted for $947 million.

January 27, 2017, 16:44 / Business The court closed the Ashana store in Biryulevo for a month Vedomosti In Moscow, the Nagatinsky court closed the Ashana store in the Biryulyovo Vostochny district for 30 days, the Moscow agency reports , citing the press service of the city administration of Rospotrebnadzor. An inspection carried out there revealed numerous violations of sanitary standards, the department says.