March 07, 2017, 15:20 / Lifestyle / News The Ministry of Culture has nothing to do with the search at the Roerich Center undefined Vedomosti Investigative actions at the International Center of the Roerichs (ICR) in Moscow, where 200 paintings were confiscated, have nothing to do with the Ministry of Culture. This was told to Interfax by the press service of the department and reminded that the searches were being carried out in connection with the Master Bank bankruptcy case.

March 07, 2017, 20:53 / Business / News The US Department of Energy raised its oil production forecast for 2017 and 2018 undefined Vedomosti The Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US Department of Energy raised its forecast for the country's oil production for 2017 from 8.98 million barrels per day (b/d) to 9.21 million b/d. The EIA's 2018 forecast was raised from 9.53 million b/d to 9.73 million b/d. The EIA also improved its oil price forecast for the current year.

07 March 2017, 20:27 / Politics WikiLeaks begins publishing CIA hacker archive US intelligence agencies spy using turned off TVs, phones, network devices and antiviruses, follows from the leak Sergei Smirnov WikiLeaks began publishing the CIA “hacker archive” / Sergey Konkov / TASS WikiLeaks has begun publishing leaks from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under the code Vault 7, which will become the largest series of confidential documents about the CIA.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has managed to establish the identity of the commander of the Ukrainian unit who gave the order to use Tochka-U in the village of Rovenki in Donbass on August 22, 2014. This was reported on the ICR website. According to the investigation, it was Colonel Fedor Yaroshevich, commander of the 19th separate missile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As a result of the strike, three people were killed, including a child born in 2008, the ICR recalls.

The Russian Energy Ministry expects oil prices to be in the range of $55–60 per barrel in 2017, the head of the department, Alexander Novak, said on Monday during a press briefing at the CERAWeek energy conference. “From the point of view of market rebalancing... we roughly predict that the price will be in the range of $55 to $60 (per barrel). Whether this is a good price or a bad price is what the market will judge first and foremost,” Prime reports him as saying.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has opened a case against Rostelecom based on a complaint from Megafon about the imposition of conditions that limit traffic transmission. This was reported on the FAS website. The case was opened on the grounds of violation of paragraph 3 of part 1 of article 10 of the federal law "On Protection of Competition".

The Federal Budget Law provides for direct funding of RUSADA for anti-doping support of national sports teams. The budget for 2017–2019 provides for the allocation of 556.7 million rubles annually for these purposes, or a total of 1 billion 670.1 million rubles. The new resolution approves the rules for financing RUSADA, namely the goals, procedure, and conditions for providing subsidies from the budget.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld the complaint of six applicants - Elvira Polyakova, Natalia Kibalo, Ivan Eliashvili, Vladimir Povilov and others - against Russia, ordering them to pay 27,672 euros. The court found that Russia had violated Article 8 (right to private and family life) and Article 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The convicts were sent to colonies too far from their families' places of residence, the ECHR noted.

For the opening of the Milan furniture exhibition Salone del Mobile 2017, Marni is organizing a playground in Milan – a space made of sand, where furniture and exhibits will be placed: toys, storage containers suitable for playing basketball, colorful cones for throwing rings and baskets. The new limited series of Marni home accessories will also be on display there.

To improve the efficiency of the agro-industrial sector, it is necessary to ensure the transfer and processing of data to agricultural lands / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The working group, which included, in particular, representatives of the expert council under the government and the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF), prepared a draft roadmap for the development of the Internet of Things in the agro-industrial complex.

March 07, 2017, 21:53 / Business OPEC will refuse to cut production if the agreements are poorly implemented Vedomosti The agreement to reduce oil production within OPEC and non-OPEC countries will not be extended in May if its participants poorly implement the agreements. This was announced on Tuesday, March 7, by Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khaled al-Faleh.

The St. Petersburg Transport Committee recovered 123.7 million rubles from Vagonmash LLC (owned 51% by Skoda Transportation and 49% by the Kirov Plant). for the supply of metro cars for the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya metro line, follows from documents on the government procurement website. For the failure of deliveries of the first team, the committee withheld 70.5 million rubles, the second - 28.4 million rubles, and the third - 24.8 million rubles.

Politics The administration of US President Donald Trump, just weeks after his inauguration, began to take a tougher stance towards Russia amid attention to contacts between Trump advisers and Russian officials. This turn pleases Europe and worries Moscow read on WSJ.com Trump signed a watered-down version of the immigration order.

On the morning of March 7, the airports of the Moscow air hub operate according to the actual weather, due to the freezing rain the city is very slippery, the Ministry of Emergency Situations took control of dangerous sections of roads, airports and railway infrastructure, and the Hydrometeorological Center announced a “yellow” danger level also due to strong winds. about disruptions in airport schedules reports The Moscow agency with reference to the Yandex.Schedule service .

Rostelecom (a joint venture with Tele2), but this is not a priority issue, said the new president of Rostelecom, Mikhail Oseevsky, the main thing is to increase the efficiency of investments is considering the possibility of taking control of T2 RTK Holding and there are many tools to solve this problem. “If we understand that direct control of Tele2 is necessary for this, we will think about the acquisition,” Oseevsky said.