February 10, 2019, 23:37 / Economics / Interview Exclusively by subscription Why the World Bank does not like the person who can become its president David Malpass criticized the World Bank a lot until he became a candidate for its president. Now he admitted that the bank is reforming and believes in its success Anton Osipov David Malpass /Bloomberg/Getti Images Donald Trump’s signature style is to appoint people from among their most ardent critics as heads of one or another structure.

Cinemas left over from Soviet times and newly opened in small towns are additional income for domestic producers / Maksim Stulov / Vedomosti In Russia, more than 350 movie theaters opened in 2018, and almost 60 more closed, as a result, their total number increased by 20% to 1,893, Nevafilm Research reported. But this growth was almost entirely provided by movie theaters reconstructed at the expense of the federal budget, Ksenia Leontyeva, a senior analyst at the company, confirmed to Vedomosti.

February 10, 2019, 22:47 / Economics VEB.RF has come up with new ways to attract investors to Russia You can guarantee not only loans, but also investments in capital, and even profitability Olga Adamchuk Chairman of VEB.RF Igor Shuvalov must attract significant investments to implement President Putin’s May decree / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Over six years, Russia will have to spend 20.8 trillion rubles on national projects.

According to the Amo.ru service, the cost of renting a space at Workki on Zubovsky Boulevard is 25,000 rubles per workstation per month / Workki Yandex.Market leased 3,900 sq. m for 600 workstations in the Workki coworking space on Zubovsky Boulevard, according to a message from the deal's consultant, JLL; this was confirmed by representatives of Yandex.Market and Workki. They did not disclose the terms of the deal.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised to continue negotiations with Russia aimed at signing a peace treaty following the Second World War. According to him, this problem should not be passed on to descendants. a corresponding statement The Japanese Prime Minister made at the congress of the country's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

The policies of US President Donald Trump have led to American schoolchildren eating fish fingers made from pollock, mainly caught in Russia, in cafeterias, reports CNN . By 2017, nearly half of the fish sticks in U.S. school cafeterias were made from Russian fish processed in China. The TV channel refers to the association of 14 American companies “Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers”.

An adequate forecast at the current stage looks like this: the chances of Trump and his still unknown opponent are approximately equal One of the most common arguments for keeping an incumbent in power is simply “there’s no one to replace him.” This argument is designed for situations when things are going poorly or even really badly.

An explosion occurred in a residential building in the south of Stockholm, killing one man. This was reported by the Aftonbladet newspaper with reference to the press service of the local police. According to police, the incident occurred around 15:00 local time (17:00 Moscow time) in the Varberg area. There is no official information about the causes of the explosions yet.

Politics Poland will spend more than $400 million to purchase missile launchers from the US 10.02.2019 Poland has decided to purchase the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS). This is stated in a message published on the website of the Polish Ministry of Defense. We are talking about 20 launchers along with weapons, on which Warsaw will spend $414 million.

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine completed the registration of presidential candidates on Friday. The March 31 election will feature a record 44 candidates on the ballot, nearly double the 23 in the previous presidential election in 2014.

The turbulent political life in Ukraine is one of the favorite topics of Russian TV channels. Our courageous correspondents, those who have not yet been expelled for their exceptional truthfulness, regularly tell us about the peculiarities of the national policy of the neighboring state in live broadcasts from the field. The ulcers of Ukrainian democracy are bravely, sometimes even not without a fight, exposed by participants in numerous talk shows.

Protesting against the government is the surest way to end up in a paddy wagon / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti From December 2011 to 2018, 17,635 people were detained during public events in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The record year in this regard was 2017, when 4,621 participants in various events ended up behind bars, according to the materials of long-term observations published on Monday by OVD-Info.

Developers generally support partial relaxation of the law / Andrey Gordeyev / Vedomosti Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to submit proposals by May 1, 2019, that would allow for the use of project financing (escrow accounts) for housing under construction, according to Medvedev's draft instructions following a meeting of the presidium of the presidential council for strategic development and national

Paper cups for drinking water on the planes of the low-cost Pobeda airline (part of the Aeroflot group ) will remain free, reports , citing Ekaterina Korotkova, a representative of the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office. RIA Novosti Korotkova clarified that the department conducted an inspection after reports of the airline’s plans. “As a result, it was established that Pobeda Airlines does not plan to introduce a fee for paper cups,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

February 10, 2019, 01:52 / Business Reuters: PDVSA transfers bank accounts of joint ventures to Gazprombank Vedomosti Venezuelan state-owned oil and gas company PDVSA is transferring the bank accounts of its joint ventures to Russia's Gazprombank , Reuters reports , citing sources and an internal document seen by the agency's journalists.