The French company Danone appealed in court the results of an inspection by Rosselkhoznadzor, which in December 2017 found antibiotics in Prostokvashino milk. The claim was registered on February 16 by the Arbitration Court of the Volgograd Region. was the first to draw attention to it RBC . Danone asks to invalidate the results of the Rosselkhoznadzor inspection due to gross violations, a representative of the company’s Russian office told the publication.

Police officers detained 15 people at a convention of defrauded equity holders at the Moscow Cinema House, the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. The organizers of the event contacted the police. They reported citizens violating order at the convention. "At the entrance to the building where the congress was held, police detained 15 people for violating the rules for holding public events.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has spoken out in favor of easing sanctions against Russia after the ceasefire in Donbass with the help of UN peacekeepers. According to Gabriel, full implementation of the Minsk agreements is impossible without a partial lifting of anti-Russian sanctions.

Dialogue between Kyiv and Moscow will be possible only after the restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity, said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, speaking on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. “The day after the Russians take their soldiers from my land, from Ukrainian territory, the day after we restore the territorial integrity of my country, including Crimea, we will be ready to begin negotiations on various other issues,” Interfax quotes Poroshenko as saying.

February 17, 2018, 18:47 / Business Rosselkhoznadzor saw in Danone's lawsuit a desire to promote itself undefined Vedomosti The attempt of the French company Danone to appeal the results of the Rosselkhoznadzor inspection is not something extraordinary, said official representative of the agency Yulia Melano. “Recently, foreign companies too often sue Russian government agencies, including Rosselkhoznadzor, and regularly lose,” she told RBC .

The Russian national hockey team beat the US national team at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. The match ended with a score of 4:0 (1:0, 2:0, 1:0). The goals were scored by Nikolai Prokhorkin (2) and Ilya Kovalchuk (2). At the same time, forward Ilya Kovalchuk broke Pavel Bure's record for the number of goals scored for the national team at the Olympics. For Kovalchuk, the Games in Pyeongchang are the fifth in his career. This was the third match for Russian hockey players at the 2018 Olympics.

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will become the main corridor for gas supplies from Russia to Europe, Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller is confident. The central transport corridor (through Ukraine) is losing its significant role, he believes. Read on vedomosti.ru “Gas supplies to Europe through the northern corridor, through the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, is the shortest route for Russian gas supplies, the most efficient and the cheapest,” Miller said on the Russia 1 TV channel .

Rossotrudnichestvo may be subject to another attack on Sunday, February 18, the Russian Foreign Ministry claims / Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters Moscow is outraged by the attack by Ukrainian radicals on the Rossotrudnichestvo building in Kiev, according to a comment by Russia's representative to the OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich, which was published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Alexey German Jr. spoke in defense of director Kirill Serebrennikov at the Berlin Film Festival and denied the existence of "total censorship" in Russia. At the Berlinale, German Jr. presented his film "Dovlatov". "There is a perception that Russia is North Korea, but it is not so. <…> Yes, there are certain problems that worry me. For example, the fate of Kirill Serebrennikov, I am his guarantor, I believe he is innocent and have said so many times," Interfax quotes the director as saying.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has postponed the launch of test satellites for internet distribution to February 18. Time is needed for additional system checks, the company said on Twitter . The launch was scheduled for February 17. SpaceX is preparing to launch the first test satellites for its future communications network. With their help, it plans to provide internet access around the world. If the tests are successful, the network of 11,000 satellites could be completed by 2024.

Russian skiers won bronze in the ski relay at the Olympic Games in South Korea. The Russians were 43.3 seconds behind the gold-winning Norwegian team and 41.3 seconds behind the second-place Swedish team. The women's relay race for the Russian Olympic team was run by Natalia Nepryaeva, Yulia Belorukova, Anastasia Sedova and Anna Nechaevskaya. This is the seventh bronze medal for Russian athletes at the Olympics. After eight days of competition, Russia still has two silver medals and no gold.

The organizers of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, have replaced handshakes between hockey team captains with "fist bumps," the Russian Ice Hockey Federation (RIHF) reported. "This was done in connection with cases of norovirus. Caring about hygiene!" the RHF said in a statement on Twitter . Traditionally, hockey team captains shake hands before and after the game.

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture intends to increase the volume of exports of agricultural products to $50 billion by 2024, said Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev. “I think that we are capable of this task, we must work actively,” Tkachev said on the Rossiya 24 channel . In 2017, Russia exported $20.1 billion worth of agricultural products. Tkachev recalled that in 2000, the volume of exports of Russian agricultural products was only $1.5 billion.

February 17, 2018, 00:47 / Auto Renault achieved record revenue and profit undefined Vedomosti The French Renault achieved record financial results at the end of 2017. Revenue grew by 14.7% to 58.77 billion euros (by 9.4% excluding AvtoVAZ, the results of which the company began to consolidate in reporting from the beginning of 2017), the company reported. Sales rose 8.5% to 3.76 million vehicles. Operating profit rose to 3.81 billion euros (+15.9%), the operating margin was 6.6%.

Statements about Russia's interference in the internal political processes of other countries are erroneous stereotypes, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking at the Munich Security Conference. “The irrational myth of the ‘omnipotent Russian threat’ is currently in circulation, traces of which are being sought everywhere – from Brexit to the Catalan referendum,” Interfax quotes Lavrov as saying.