Member of the LDPR faction Andrei Lugovoy at a State Duma meeting refused to withdraw his signature on the bill on sovereign RuNet at the request of party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Interfax reports. Zhirinovsky said that the LDPR is removing Lugovoy’s name from the bill, since he is not the author. “The faction will not vote for this law,” the party leader added.

The previous model of financing housing construction - the equity participation model - ensured large scale construction and reasonable housing prices, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the public of Tatarstan on the national project “Housing and Urban Environment”. The transition to a financing system with escrow accounts in July 2019 “may lead to certain shifts in the market,” Putin noted.

On February 12, the State Duma adopted the bill on the “sovereign Internet” in the first reading. The document was supported by 334 deputies, 47 voted against, and there were no abstentions.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications supported the proposal of Rostelecom, Tele2 and the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (RTRS) to make them the only executors of the project to create a cellular network and broadband Internet access for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Guard, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and socially significant facilities, the reports Kommersant newspaper with reference to letter from Deputy Minister Yevgeny Kislyakov to the

Former Deputy General Director of Insurance VTB , former Deputy Minister of Finance Mikhail Motorin has been appointed acting General Director of the non-state pension fund (NPF) Otkritie. This decision was made by the fund’s board of directors on Tuesday, February 12, according to a press release from Otkritie NPF. Denis Rudomanenko, who has headed the fund since 2016, has been appointed Motorin’s deputy.

February 12, 2019, 20:53 / Business Saudi Aramco wants to produce oil and gas abroad The largest oil company will look up to ExxonMobil and Shell Anna Chervonnaya Aramco owns some foreign refineries and petrochemical companies, but does not engage in exploration and production abroad / Christopher Pike/Bloomberg/Getty Images For the first time, Saudi Arabia has announced plans to explore and produce hydrocarbons abroad.

The market is becoming automated / Andrey Makhonin / Vedomosti The largest Russian recruiter HeadHunter has become a co-owner of Skillaz, a service for automated personnel selection, a representative of the recruiter told Vedomosti. The companies did not disclose HeadHunter's share and how much it cost.

The heroes of The Golden Glove are all scum of society, but the director does not draw any conclusions about national characteristics from this / BOMBERO INTERNATIONAL The last Berlinale for director Dieter Kosslick, contrary to optimistic forecasts, risks being the most unsuccessful. There was no beautiful ending.

From June 1, 2019, Petter Ostbo will take over the position of executive director of Eurochem, the company announced. In March 2018, he was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Yara International, having previously served as vice president of operations. In 2003 – 2010 Ostbo worked at McKinsey & Co. Ostbo will replace Kuzma Marchuk, EuroChem's chief financial officer, who has been serving as acting chief executive since the departure of Dmitry Strashnov.

Automakers are asking to pay them an additional 2 billion rubles. subsidies to compensate for part of the transportation costs when exporting their products in 2018, two people familiar with managers of auto concerns told Vedomosti. The corresponding joint letters (from GAZ, Kamaz, AvtoVAZ, Renault Russia, Sollers) were sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, industry curator Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak and the Ministry of Industry and Trade, they know.

Amazon bought the developer of smart WiFi routers Eero, in which the Grishin Robotics fund of Dmitry Grishin , co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of Mail.ru Group, had previously invested . This is stated in company reports. “ Amazon and Eero today announce that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire Eero,” said in a statement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today announced that the authorities will discuss national projects with the public in the format of a series of discussions, and he himself opened the first such discussion in Kazan on the topic of the national project “Housing and the Urban Environment”. Representatives of public organizations ONF, “Opora Rossii”, “Business Russia” and others are participating in the discussion with the president.

February 12, 2019, 06:12 / Business Naftogaz called Russian conditions for maintaining gas transit unacceptable undefined Vedomosti The current transit contract between Naftogaz of Ukraine and Gazprom does not comply with the requirements of Ukrainian and European legislation, said on his Facebook executive director of the Ukrainian state-owned company Yuriy Vitrenko page.

The house and garage where Jeff Bezos founded online retailer Amazon is up for sale in Seattle. The listing for sale can be found on the website of your local real estate agency, John L Scott Real Estate. The house was built in 1954 and renovated in 2001. It has three bedrooms and a terrace with a jacuzzi. Total area – 1540 sq. feet (143 sq. m.), the ad says. The house is sold with all the household appliances installed in it, including a dishwasher, oven, refrigerator, etc.

After passengers fell from the ramp of a Ural Airlines plane at the Barnaul airport (Altai Territory), a criminal case was opened. This was reported on Twitter by the Investigative Committee. The case, as follows from the message, was initiated under Art. 238 of the Criminal Code (provision of services that do not meet safety requirements). According to investigators, when people were boarding the plane, the ladder basket strut broke.