Any public control over the implementation of President Vladimir Putin’s May decrees is in demand. This was stated by the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, answering the question whether the Kremlin is happy that supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny will help monitor the implementation of the decrees, Interfax reports.

January 25, 2019, 1:47 pm / Society Member of the Central Election Commission and ex-State Duma deputy stripped of his academic degree Valery Galchenko himself filed an application to remove his scientific title: his dissertation contained abundant borrowings Elena Mukhametshina Anastasia Kornya Galchenko was a State Duma deputy of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth convocations / Artem Korotaev / TASS The Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) deprived Valery Galchenko, a member

Several approaches to protecting personal data have emerged around the world / David Gray / Reuters The fourth industrial revolution, the development of new technologies and their impact on our lives have been occupying the minds of the organizers and participants of the World Economic Forum ( WEF ) in Davos for several years now.

Only Sovcombank filed a petition to purchase the Asian-Pacific Bank (ATB) to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). about this Kommersant An official representative of the service told . According to him, the bank submitted an application the other day. According to the law, the FAS must consider the application within a month, but the service can extend the consideration period by two months. The potential buyer must also obtain approval from the Central Bank to participate in the auction.

January 25, 2019, 17:59 / Updated January 25, 2019, 19:46 / Finance Exclusively by subscription The foreign exchange market was not afraid of increased purchases by the Central Bank For three years he will spend 2.8 billion rubles a day to compensate for leaving the market in August 2018 Anna Tretyak Alexandra Astapenko The Central Bank has resumed regular currency purchases / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti From February 1, the Central Bank will begin to carry out deferred currency purchases

January 25, 2019, 09:52 / Finance / News Sberbank spoke about plans to bring the metro and MCC to the office next to Moscow City undefined Vedomosti Sberbank is negotiating with Russian Railways and the Moscow government to connect two stations to the new Sberbank City building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt - the metro and the Moscow Central Circle (MCC). Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov spoke about this in Davos, reports .

Gazprombank will attract a subordinated deposit of 90 billion rubles. from the structure of Gazprom - Gazprom Gas Distribution, the bank reported. It will be placed for at least five years and will not accrue interest. Gazprombank's strategy involves a planned increase in equity capital both from its own profits and from external sources, including funds from the main shareholder, says a bank representative.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to introduce systematic delays for flights arriving at New York's La Guardia Airport, Bloomberg reported. The reason for the decision is the lack of air traffic control personnel, including air traffic controllers, which arose due to the shutdown of the US federal authorities.

Varvara Grankova The job of a manager is to help a disorganized person get organized. But how do you make sure they remember appointments, calendar entries, and emails? Is it even possible to help an employee overcome their natural tendency toward disorder? Managing someone who’s disorganized can be frustrating and stressful. “You don’t have confidence that the person won’t make mistakes or meet deadlines,” says Elizabeth Grace Saunders, author of How to Invest Your Time Like Money.

The Greek Parliament has ratified a deal to rename the neighboring former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as North Macedonia. The vote on the Prespa Agreement was preceded by lengthy discussions in parliament and mass protests in front of the building. As a result, the vote passed with a slight margin - 153 votes in favor and 146 against, with one abstention, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported .

CEO Facebook Mark Zuckerberg plans to link WhatsApp, Instagram (owned by Facebook ) and Facebook Messenger so that users can exchange messages without switching between applications. This was reported by The New York Times (NYT) with reference to four participants in the project. WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger will continue to work as separate applications, but their users will have the opportunity to communicate with each other, the publication’s interlocutors clarified.

The number of real estate transactions in Moscow under equity participation agreements (PPA) with the attraction of credit funds in 2018 increased by 63%, the deputy head of the department for coordination and analysis of activities in the accounting and registration area of ​​the Rosreestr department said during the conference “Mortgage Lending in Russia”. Alexey Mochenov in Moscow, reports RIA Novosti.

January 25, 2019, 17:38 / Business Two new power plants in Crimea have been put into operation Vedomosti The first power units of two new thermal power plants (TPPs) in Crimea - Tavricheskaya in Simferopol and Balaklavskaya in Sevastopol - were put into operation on January 25, said a representative of the Rostec Group of Companies, which owns the power plants through a subsidiary. Each station consists of two blocks of 235 MW. From February 1, they will begin to receive payment for capacity.

The trust rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin fell by 0.6 percentage points (pp) to 32.8% in the week from January 14 to 20, dropping to a 13-year low, a survey by the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Research (VTsIOM) showed . The survey was conducted among Russians over the age of 18 through telephone interviews. The level of approval of the president's performance changed slightly, decreasing by 0.1 percentage points to 62%.

Real incomes of the Russian population decreased again in 2018 – by 0.2%. This is the fifth consecutive annual decline, according to Rosstat data. The last time the indicator grew was in 2013, when it grew by 4%. The dynamics of income were calculated taking into account a one-time payment to pensioners (5,000 rubles) in January 2017. Without taking it into account, real disposable cash income increased by 0.3%, the statistical agency indicates.