Honda Motor raised its full-year operating profit forecast by 4% on Friday as the company expects sales in Asia to rise while continuing to cut costs and as its outlook for the yen against the dollar worsened. Japan's third-largest automaker expects full-year operating profit of 775 billion yen ($7.06 billion), assuming the yen averages 110 yen against the dollar in the fiscal year ending in March, compared with 109 yen currently.

For most, YouTube is a place to quickly watch interesting videos. But as the resource gets older, it is increasingly gravitating towards media / Jenny Tobien Video hosting YouTube will mark content creators who receive government funding. First of all, this concerns official accounts of news TV channels. At first, the function will be available only in the USA. In the future, YouTube promises to improve and expand it.

A Russian Su-25 attack aircraft has been shot down in Syria, the pilot ejected, the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) activist investigative group reports . A video of the plane crash has appeared online. The video was posted by militants from the Jaysh al-Nasr group. It shows that the plane was shot down by a portable anti-aircraft missile system in Idlib province. The video shows that the pilot of the attack aircraft managed to eject. He is currently in captivity, CIT reports, citing rebels.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has proposed revising the mechanism for transferring children to foster families. The reason for this initiative was a new case of child abuse by guardians. Such cases, unfortunately, are not uncommon, noted the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Svetlana Petrenko.

A concert in support of the Olympic athletes, "Russia in My Heart," is taking place on Vasilievsky Spusk in Moscow. More than 60,000 people are taking part in the event, said Irina Volk, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. No serious violations were recorded during the event. Public order is being maintained by police officers, representatives of the Russian National Guard and the voluntary people's militia, Volk added.

ACMG President (publishes Forbes in Russia) Alexander Fedotov said that he is one of the sponsors of Ksenia Sobchak's election campaign. He declined to name a specific amount, Forbes writes. Fedotov said he has known Sobchak for years, as she is the editor-in-chief of L'Officiel magazine in Russia (also part of ACMG). "Ksenia is bold and daring, bright, young and smart, and I am sure that there is room in the country for a new type of politician," the ACMG president said.

According to Khodorkovsky, he is worried about the prospects of 2019, including the elections to the Moscow City Duma / Abaca Press / TASS The Open Russia movement will not be transformed into a political party, said the former head of YUKOS, the founder of Open Russia Mikhail Khodorkovsky during an online conversation with his Moscow supporters.

03 February 2018, 16:56 / Business The prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into flight delays in Moscow Vedomosti The Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office has begun an investigation in connection with delays and cancellations of flights at Moscow airports. Employees of the prosecutor's office monitor that the rights of passengers are respected and that they are provided with appropriate services while waiting for flights, the department said in a statement .

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has received a request from Russia to open four polling stations for the presidential elections in March, Interfax-Ukraine reports, citing a response from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. "The said appeal is currently being considered by the departments involved," the department's response said. Polling stations may be opened at the Russian embassy in Kyiv and in the buildings of the Russian consulates general in Odessa, Kharkov and Lvov.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed to Vedomosti that a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down near Syria's Idlib. According to the ministry, the pilot was killed. There are no other details yet. Earlier, resources close to the militants reported about the Russian attack aircraft shot down in Syria. They published photos of the plane's wreckage and documents in Russian. A video has also appeared online showing the moment the plane crashed.

The Formula 1 track in Sochi will be transferred free of charge to the ownership of the autonomous non-profit organization Rosgonki, which is headed by the son of a former VTB top manager . This was reported by RBC with reference to the current operator of the route - NJSC Omega Center, which belongs to the administration of the Krasnodar Territory.

Several dozen flights were delayed at Moscow airports due to the weather. According to the Yandex.Schedule service at 10.30 Moscow time, 11 flights were delayed at Vnukovo, eight were delayed and 15 canceled at Domodedovo, and 28 planes were delayed at Sheremetyevo. In addition, Aeroflot on Friday warned about changing the departure time of 14 flights from Sheremetyevo, which were scheduled to depart on the evening of February 3.

In the Italian province of Macerata, a man opened fire from a car on a crowd of migrants, the newspaper La Stampa reports. According to preliminary data, six people were wounded by gunshots, no one was killed. The victims are from Mali, Nigeria and Ghana. After the pistol was fired, the man got out of the car and "performed a fascist salute" and had an Italian flag draped over his shoulders, the newspaper writes, citing eyewitnesses. He did not resist when the police detained him.

Auto Mercedes-Benz made a “smartphone on wheels” The new serial A-class hatchback will respond to the familiar greeting “Hey, Mercedes!” 02/03/2018 The fourth generation of the Mercedes-Benz A-class hatchback continues to focus on young buyers, recruiting new supporters for the brand Daimler AG Mercedes-Benz presented the fourth generation of the A-class hatchback, the most compact... Daimler AG The model is aimed primarily at young people buyers from Western Europe...

The Russian Foreign Ministry is deeply disappointed with the content of the new US nuclear doctrine, which was made public on February 2. “Already upon first reading, the confrontational charge and anti-Russian orientation of this document are striking,” the Foreign Ministry’s official commentary says. The Pentagon released its nuclear doctrine on Friday, naming Russia, North Korea, Iran and China as potential threats.