January 17, 2018, 18:15 / Media Officials moved two foreign films to the box office to protect Russian cinema Russian producers say they did not ask to postpone “The Adventures of Paddington 2” and “The Maze Runner” Ksenia Boletskaya Still from the movie “The Adventures of Paddington 2” The Ministry of Culture moved the premiere of the film “The Adventures of Paddington 2” by two weeks so that the Russian films “Skif” and “Moving Up” would have fewer competitors at the box office, employees of

January 17, 2018, 15:07 / Finance Currency control will deal with illegal cryptocurrency miners in Russia Vedomosti Currency control authorities will identify illegal cryptocurrency miners in Russia, Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev said on the sidelines of the Gaidar Forum. “Currency control authorities, because settlements in the Russian Federation are carried out only in national currency.

Mortgage portfolio of Russian banks reached a record 5 trillion rubles by December 1, 2017 / Sergey Porter / Vedomosti The mortgage portfolio of Russian banks reached a record 5 trillion rubles by December 1, 2017, having increased by 13% since the beginning of last year, according to statistics from the Central Bank. In January-November 2017, banks issued 935,632 ruble mortgage loans worth more than 1.7 trillion rubles.

Drinking alcohol after an accident may be equated to cases where the driver was already drunk at the time of the accident / PHOTAS / PA / TASS The Ministry of Internal Affairs will clarify the concept of “person in a state of alcoholic intoxication.” As reported by the government information disclosure portal, the department is working on amendments to Article 264 of the Criminal Code, which provides for liability for violating traffic rules.

January 17, 2018, 21:53 / Finance Goldman Sachs posted its first quarterly loss in six years Vedomosti The American bank Goldman Sachs suffered a quarterly loss for the first time in six years. The loss was driven by one-time write-downs due to tax reform in the US, as well as weak results from trading bonds and commodities. This is stated in the reporting of the banking group. The net loss in the fourth quarter of 2017 amounted to $1.93 billion.

Alexei Navalny complained to the Constitutional Court about the usurpation of power, which took the form of the law on presidential elections / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti Politician Alexei Navalny filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court on Tuesday against the provisions of the law on presidential elections that prohibit citizens convicted of serious and especially serious crimes from running for office.

January 17, 2018, 08:23 / Finance The Ministry of Finance will limit the amount of penalties to the amount of tax debt Vedomosti The Ministry of Finance has prepared a bill limiting the maximum amount of penalties for overdue taxes to the amount of debt, reports . Kommersant According to the proposed amendments to Art. 75 part 1 of the Tax Code, the amount of penalties accrued for arrears should not exceed the amount of tax debt.

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko stated in Brussels that Ukrainian servicemen are developing measures to adopt Javelin anti-tank missile systems from the United States, UNIAN reports. "There is a corresponding procedure for obtaining them. It is not as fast as we would like," Muzhenko noted. According to him, it is necessary to obtain the opinion of the relevant experts on the issue of Ukraine's readiness to use such weapons.

January 17, 2018, 20:26 / Business Cyprus visited by a record number of tourists in 2017 The growth of tourist flow makes it possible to compensate for the thriftiness of visitors Alexey Nevelsky The number of Russian tourists increased by 5.5%, British - by 8.3% / Petros Karadjias / AP The number of tourists visiting Cyprus last year increased by 14.6% to 3,652,073, according to Cystat. This allowed us to break the record set in 2016.

January 17, 2018, 12:21 pm / Finance Gref compared the relationship between the state and startups with strict parenting Vedomosti Sberbank President German Gref compared the relationship between the state and startups with strict parenting. He stated this at the Gaidar Forum, TASS reports.

January 17, 2018, 11:36 am / Finance Gref called attempts to keep up with all trends pointless undefined Vedomosti At the Gaidar Forum, Sberbank President German Gref called attempts to keep up with all trends pointless, reports . TASS Gref noted that Sberbank does not always keep up with new trends. “We employ tens of thousands of highly skilled professionals, but I raised my hands with the understanding that we will not be able to keep up with all the trends,” he said.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the United States will deliver Javelin anti-tank missile systems to Kiev at its own expense. This was reported on the official website of the Ukrainian president. “As a result of the painstaking work of our team, today we have positive news that Javelin anti-tank systems will be supplied to us as defensive weapons using US funding,” Poroshenko’s words are quoted in the statement.

Richard Gates, a business partner of Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, has been released from house arrest, Reuters reports . Gates and Manafort, who became the first defendants in the "Russian case," had been under house arrest since October 2017. Manafort's pretrial detention has not been changed.

The price of Bitcoin has fallen by more than 25% over the past 24 hours, and prices of other cryptocurrencies have also dropped, according to data from trading platforms. The price of Bitcoin fell below $10,000 today. According to the aggregator Coindesk, the cryptocurrency was below this level for about three minutes — at its minimum, the price was $9,985. Then Bitcoin again exceeded $10,000. At the time of publication, it cost just under $10,411.

Arslan Ibragimov, an activist of the unregistered party "Other Russia", was detained by security officers at the Gaidar Forum. This was reported by the party's co-chairman Alexander Averin, Interfax reports. According to Averin, Ibragimov threw leaflets into the face of the chairman of the board of Rusnano , Anatoly Chubais, at the Gaidar Forum. In this way, the activist protested against the liberal reforms and privatization of the 1990s, Averin noted.