The Cyprus police have launched a new campaign against the use of mobile phones while driving. According to an official statement, it will last a week - from January 29 to February 4. As Cyprus Mail notes, during the previous campaign from January 15 to 21, more than 500 people were detained for talking on the phone while driving. The police emphasize that such careless behavior is one of the main causes of road accidents.

The actions of politician Alexei Navalny do not pose any threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. Journalists asked Peskov whether there was a political threat to Putin in the protests that took place on January 28. Peskov answered briefly: "No." On Sunday, Navalny initiated the "Voters' Strike" action in Russia. According to the opposition leader, the actions took place in 118 cities, and some were not approved by the authorities.

TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak said that before the elections she plans to visit the United States and meet with high-ranking American officials. According to her, she wants to discuss anti-Russian sanctions with them, RIA Novosti reports. As Sobchak explained, no exact decision has been made about the trip yet. "I'm 90% sure that the trip will take place. Before the elections," she noted in an interview with Vladimir Pozner on Channel One.

Apple is going to halve iPhone X production in the first quarter of 2018 - from approximately 40 million to 20 million units, Nikkei writes , citing a letter from the company to component suppliers for the iPhone X. As the company explains in a letter, the reason for the reduction lies in low sales of iPhone X in the European, American and Chinese markets during the New Year holidays.

Trade unions, employers' associations and government officials will discuss changes to the principle of calculating the minimum wage in Russia. "We agreed that we will consider the development of the dynamics of the minimum wage based on the minimum consumer budget," Mikhail Shmakov, head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions (FNPR), told journalists on Monday after signing a general agreement between trade unions, employers and the government in the presence of President Vladimir Putin.

This year even more caviar will be eaten than last year, Vladimir Mukhin is sure / Ikrafest Until last year, Russia had no world-class gastronomic festival, although the idea of ​​holding a modern and prestigious event was obviously in the air and grew stronger along with the development of new Russian cuisine and the international successes of Russian chefs.

January 29, 2018, 15:52 / Business VIM-avia offered to pay off salary debts with Aeroflot funds undefined Vedomosti The VIM-Avia airline offered to pay off salary debts to employees at the expense of Aeroflot. This is stated in the message of VIM-avia. At the end of September 2017, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich approved a directive granting Aeroflot PJSC the right to use its own funds to finance VIM-avia, the report said. The company can use no more than 1.8 billion rubles.

The renovation program will be self-sufficient due to the sale of housing on the market, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in an interview with Kommersant. He recalled that the city authorities have allocated 400 billion rubles for the project, which will last for 4-5 years. "Nevertheless, we must think about how this program will be implemented over 15 years.

January 29, 2018, 18:23 / Business / News EasyJet's new CEO has cut his own salary for gender equality undefined Vedomosti The new CEO of the British low-cost airline easyJet, Johan Lundgren, has decided to cut his own salary in order to equalize it with the remuneration of his predecessor in this post, Caroline McCall. Thus, Lundgren decided to speak out against the gender pay gap, reports Reuters .

Incumbent Finnish President Sauli Niinisto won the first round of the presidential election held on January 28. According to preliminary results, he received 62.7%, the Associated Press reports . His closest competitor, Pekka Haavisto of the Greens, received only 12.4%. Of the other six presidential contenders, none managed to get more than 7%. For 69-year-old Niinisto, this will be his second six-year term as president, without the right to re-election.

In 2018, high-quality business centers will continue to fill up / Andrey Makhonin / Vedomosti According to the results of 2017, 1.28 million square meters of office space were rented and purchased in Moscow, according to analysts from the consulting company JLL. This is the highest figure since 2013.

The song called "Putin" received the Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Technology of the United States for best arrangement. This is stated on the website of the Academy. The composer of the song is Randy Newman, for whom this is already the seventh Grammy Award. His music is featured in such movie hits as "Toy Story", "The Princess and the Frog", "Monsters, Inc.", "Meet the Parents".

Varvara Grankova Over the years of your career, you have probably had at least one boss whom you failed to win over and who also irritated you. You had the feeling that your boss did not trust you or simply did not like working with you. Even an impressive list of professional achievements does not help in such situations, because he is sure that you are a loser. To change his negative attitude, you need to act immediately, otherwise you will most likely never be able to fix the situation.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who was detained on January 28 at an unauthorized rally in support of the "voter strike" in Moscow, was released home. The politician reported this on his Twitter. "They released me before the trial. They didn't let me leave the police station myself - they took me to Avtozavodskaya (where Navalny rents an apartment - Ed.). A huge thank you to everyone who supported me and stood outside the police station. I heard your chanting, you're cool," he said.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) approved the requests of Novatek and the company Status LLC (a structure of Gazprombank) to purchase the gas assets of Alrosa. Interfax reports this with reference to the FAS press service. Alrosa . put up for auction 100% of the shares of Geotransgaz and the Urengoy Gas Company became interested in the proposal Novatek and the structure of Gazprombank LLC Status ; the companies sent applications to the FAS to participate in the auction.