At the initiative of the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court liquidated eight parties / M. Novikov / Vedomosti In January, the Supreme Court will consider two lawsuits at once from the Ministry of Justice, which demands the liquidation of the Russian Party of People's Management and the Sports Party of Russia "Healthy Forces", according to information in the court's card index.

January 14, 2019, 11:07 / Business / News Pochta Bank will start working in Pyaterochka undefined Vedomosti Pochta Bank began opening its service points in Pyaterochka stores , reports the press service of X5 Retail Group , which includes the chain of stores. In total, the bank will open more than 50 such points in the chain’s supermarkets throughout the country; the first three have already begun operating in St. Petersburg and Kaluga.

January 14, 2019, 16:50 / Business Transneft is creating a single grain operator in the south of Russia Vedomosti Transneft NCSP considers it a priority to create a single grain operator in the south of Russia on the basis of the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port ( ) and is already negotiating with banking and other interested structures, Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev said today.

Otkritie Holding excluded its founder and shareholder Vadim Belyaev from the list of affiliates. In June 2018, Belyaev ceased to be the general director of Otkritie Holding, recalls a company representative. But the holding did not exclude him from the list of affiliates, since he took part in corporate events to appoint a new general director, Sergei Shkondinsky. In December 2018 last year, the holding changed its director again: Shkondinsky’s place was taken by Andrey Konyaev.

The liquidation of the British company Telegram Messenger LLP will not affect the blocking of the messenger in Russia, head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov told reporters. His words are reported by Interfax. In June 2017, Roskomnadzor included this company in the register of information dissemination organizers. Zharov explained that a legal change in an organization does not affect the implementation or non-compliance of legislation by a specific organizer of information dissemination.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine suspects the country's former Defense Minister Dmitry Salamatin of high treason in favor of Russia, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko reported on his Facebook page .

Moscow and Tokyo maintain significant differences on the topic of a peace treaty, but the parties agreed to work on the basis of the Soviet-Japanese declaration of 1956, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today after negotiations with his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono. The parties agreed not to hold a joint press conference today, Lavrov noted.

The State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications today decided to postpone the discussion of bills on liability for the dissemination of fake news and insults to the authorities until the government is officially recalled. “The rules are too broad, and our task is to understand the prospects of these two bills. They will, of course, largely depend on the government’s position. We will wait for the government's position on these bills.

Russia and Japan could switch to a visa-free regime, starting with visa-free travel for residents of Sakhalin and Hokkaido, said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov following negotiations with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono . Lavrov’s words are quoted by Interfax.

January 15, 2019, 00:24 / Economics Exclusively by subscription The bill on the transfer of cultural objects may scare off investors It is better not to change the current regulation, advise lawyers Olga Adamchuk Cultural investments are under threat / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The Ministry of Culture’s bill, according to which historical and cultural monuments can be transferred under concession or PPP (planned for consideration in the first reading in January, Interfax reported), may complicate

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR), Alexander Bastrykin, to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the causes of the explosion in a nine-story residential building in the city of Shakhty, Rostov region. This was reported on the Kremlin website. The governor of the Rostov region, Vasily Golubev, told Putin by phone about the situation and the measures being taken, the report notes.

The state will allocate more than 4 billion rubles for the large-scale reconstruction of the State Duma buildings. Construction work will be completed approximately in 2020, writes the Kommersant newspaper . The changes made to the Federal Targeted Investment Program (FAIP) involve a fivefold increase (from 710 million rubles to 3.4 billion rubles) of previously planned costs and a two-year increase in the project implementation period. This year there will be about 1 billion more rubles.

January 14, 2019, 11:49 / Technology / News Yandex for the first time disclosed the number of orders in the Yandex.Food service undefined Vedomosti Users of the Yandex.Food service , launched in February last year, made about 1 million orders in December 2018, reports the Kommersant newspaper disclosed this figure , citing the company’s press service. Yandex for the first time.

Young candidates of science are the main engine of innovation and development, ensuring the country’s leading position in the international arena. However, in 2017, only 13% of Russian graduate school graduates defended their dissertation. This is 5 percentage points lower than in 2015 and 15 percentage points lower than in 2010. In 2017, 2,320 defenses took place, which is significantly lower than in the USA (55,000 defenses), Germany (29,000), Great Britain (26,000), Japan (16,000).

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has agreed to add the nerve agent Novichok to its list of banned substances, reports Reuters . The decision was supported by 41 members of the OPCW executive committee. Now OPCW member countries, including Russia, have 90 days to appeal the decision of the executive committee.