Russia is on the level On the article “Exchange rate fluctuations” (No. 6 of 16.01.2018, p. 15) Online learning is the fastest growing area of ​​education, which involves significant human resources and invests significant financial resources. Today, almost 70 million students worldwide have completed 8,000 online courses created by teachers at more than 750 universities worldwide. In Russia, online learning is developing not in pursuit of, but on par with, global trends.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its forecast for Russia's economic growth this year to 1.7%. In October, the IMF estimated it at 1.6%. These are the findings of the World Economic Outlook survey . The IMF expects Russia's GDP to be 1.5% in 2019. At the end of 2017, the IMF estimated the growth of the Russian economy at 1.8%. At the end of 2018, the Ministry of Economic Development expects the Russian economy to grow at 2.1%.

January 22, 2018, 12:19 / Business Sanofi will buy the American manufacturer of hemophilia drugs for $11.6 billion undefined Vedomosti French pharmaceutical manufacturer Sanofi will buy the American Bioverativ, specializing in drugs for the treatment of hemophilia, for $11.6 billion, according to a statement from the French company. Sanofi will buy all of the US biopharmaceutical company's outstanding shares for $105 per share, a 64% premium to Friday's closing share price, it said.

Train traffic on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line between the Shchyolkovskaya and Partizanskaya stations has been suspended, the Moscow metro's Telegram channel reported . There is no traffic on this section for technical reasons - due to a problem with the communication cable , the message explains. " We ask that you use ground transportation for travel," the Moscow metro reports.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called Russian President Vladimir Putin's words about returning military equipment located in Crimea to Kiev a "trick," writes Ukrainska Pravda . According to him, the Ukrainian authorities have not received an official request from Russia. "You all understand this trick of Russia perfectly well," he said. Klimkin believes that Russia wants to show the existence of some kind of dialogue with Ukraine on Crimea.

The volume of user data storage for the implementation of the Yarovaya Law will be calculated based on actual traffic, and not on the installed capacity of operator networks, as the Ministry of Communications previously insisted. Kommersant writes about this, citing a draft resolution revised by the ministry. It states that operators will have to store actually transmitted traffic, with the exception of voice, for 30 days. The volumes of stored information may be revised after December 1, 2022.

January 22 marks the end of Senator Suleiman Kerimov's return to France / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti Today, Monday, January 22, is the deadline for Senator Suleiman Kerimov to return to France, where he is accused of tax evasion and money laundering. "The deadline for him to return to Nice is Monday," Nice-Matin quotes Nice prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre as saying.

January 22, 2018, 08:23 / Economics Oman's Oil Minister admitted the possibility of changing the format of the OPEC+ deal Vedomosti Participants in the OPEC+ deal to limit oil production may come to a new type of agreement , Oman's Minister of Oil and Gas Mohammed Hamad al-Rumhi told reporters following a meeting of the monitoring committee on the implementation of agreements in Muscat. “By the end of this year, oil reserves will be less than today.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Russia's representative to NATO, Alexander Grushko. The decree was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. Now Grushko will take the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, follows from another decree of the president. The reasons for the reshuffle are not specified.

When asked whether the Kremlin considers direct contacts between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia necessary, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that “ any contacts are needed to achieve certain results.” “Now, when we see Kiev’s unwillingness to follow the path of implementing the Minsk agreements, and on the contrary, steps are being taken that cause significant damage to the prospects for implementing these agreements, of course, we express deep regret,” Peskov

Sobchak complains about illegal campaigning for Putin / Kirill Kukhmar / TASS The Central Election Commission's working group on information disputes will consider on Wednesday Gennady Zyuganov's complaints about the incorrect coverage of the campaign of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin and the appeals of the Golos movement and candidate Ksenia Sobchak (they will be considered as one complaint), CEC Secretary Maya Grishina told Vedomosti on

Not all the collected signatures will be transferred to the Central Election Commission – only the required 315,000, the co-chairman of Putin’s election headquarters clarified to Vedomosti / Andrei Gordeyev / Vedomosti The campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has announced the end of collecting signatures from voters in his support – five times more than necessary, more than 1.5 million, have already been collected, the co-chairman of the headquarters Sergei Kogogin

Both the KGI and Golos report inequality in the conditions for nomination for candidates from parties and independent candidates, and also call the restriction of passive electoral rights a serious problem / Andrey Gordeyev / Vedomosti Potential presidential candidates were extremely active in 2018 due to the reduction in the required number of signatures for registration, according to reports from the Civil Initiatives Committee (CIC) and the Golos movement.

January 22, 2018, 00:36 / Finance The Ananyev brothers lost control of Vozrozhdenie The largest package of votes is now with the Central Bank - through Promsvyazbank Daria Borisyak Alexandra Astapenko The order of the Central Bank (chairman Elvira Nabiullina in the photo) gave him the largest block of votes in another bank / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Vozrozhdenie actually has no shareholders left who can vote more than 10% of the shares, Vedomosti found out.

January 22, 2018, 09:21 / Business Kommersant learned about plans to build six runways at Domodedovo Vedomosti Domodedovo Airport proposes to expand the airfield from two existing runways to eight under a concession agreement. This was discussed during the discussion of its terms by officials of the Ministry of Transport with the management of airports at the end of 2017, writes Kommersant.