POLITICS
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a Russian-US adoption agreement would remain in force until the year’s end
(Vedomosti, Kommersant)
The lower chamber of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, will consider a grassroots petition on Friday that gathered the 100,000 signatures on Thursday required to disband the Duma
(Vedomosti, Kommersant)
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Russian energy giant Gazprom and Russia’s largest independent gas producer Novatek signed a deal to jointly produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic
(Kommersant)
For the 19th consecutive time Hong Kong was named the freest economy over the last year
(Kommersant)
WORLD
US President Barack Obama nominated White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew on Thursday to be the next US Treasury Secretary, tapping a former Citigroup executive likely to be grilled in confirmation hearings over his time on Wall Street as the US economy careened toward disaster
(Vedomosti)
The Czech Republic holds direct presidential elections on Friday for the first time in its history
(Kommersant)
Over 90 people were killed in twin blasts at a billiards club in Pakistan
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
DEFENSE
Russia’s first Borey class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, was officially commissioned into the Russian Navy on Thursday
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
SOCIETY
Less than 50 percent of Russians regret the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, according to a survey conducted by a VTsIOM public opinion poll
(Kommersant)
Russian lawmakers proposed additions to a new anti-smoking bill, in particular banning the so-called smoking rooms at work places and prohibiting showing cigarettes on television and in films
(Izvestia)
A Russian priest proposed imposing taxes on childless families in order to persuade them to boost the country's population
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
CRIME
Law enforcers in Russia’s North Caucasus republics concealed over 5,000 committed crimes in 2012 , including more than 20 murders, Ivan Sydoruk, a deputy prosecutor general of the North Caucasus Federal District said
(Kommersant)
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office issued arrest warrants for over 1,800 Russians hiding in foreign countries
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
CULTURE
Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” has been nominated for 12 Oscars of the US Academy Awards this year
(Vedomosti, Kommersant)
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