German authorities have charged Formula 1 owner Bernie Ecclestone with bribing a German banker, writes . the Financial Times "I just spoke to the lawyers and they received the indictment. It is now being translated into English," Ecclestone confirmed to the publication. The Ecclestone case was previously separated from the proceedings against the former top manager of the German bank BayernLB Gerhard Gribkowski.

NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine is discussing with the Russian Gazprombank the issue of extending a loan of $2 billion for five years, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the board of Naftogaz, Evgeny Bakulin. “We plan to extend it for 5 years. Now we are carrying out this work,” Bakulin said. In 2012, Gazprombank provided NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine $2 billion at 8.5% per annum with repayment on June 24, 2013.

photo by Dmitry Ternovoy for Forbes How the Mercator studio makes money by publishing the customer’s problems for his own money “Are you crazy? Are you doing PR or something else?” — former vice president for public relations of Sberbank Yuri Rovensky retells the first reaction of the deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank Bella Zlatkis to a new five-minute corporate video.

The founder of the social network “VKontakte” Pavel Durov announced a new competition to create a mobile messenger on the Android operating system, this was reported on the page of the Durov’s Android Challenge group on the social network. The new messenger will have to work with the data transfer protocol developed by Durov’s brother Nikolai.

Violinist of the Bolshoi Theater orchestra Viktor Sedov died on Wednesday after falling into the orchestra pit on the new stage of the Bolshoi Theater, RIA Novosti reports citing Bolshoi Theater press secretary Katerina Novikova. “We had an accident yesterday. As a result of his injuries, our musician Viktor Sedov died today at the Sklifosovsky Institute,” Novikova said. She noted that Sedov was 65 years old.

The American payment system PayPal mistakenly charged the account of 56-year-old Pennsylvania resident Chris Reynolds the amount of $92,233,720,368,547,800 — or $92 quadrillion “with change,” CNN reports . Reynolds, who sells auto parts on eBay, discovered the amount Monday when he checked his PayPal account balance for June. When he went back to PayPal to double-check, his account balance was $0. “I don’t know, maybe someone decided to have fun,” he commented.

Roskomnadzor, in response to a complaint from MTS, refused to license the Skype service and regulate its operation in Russia, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a letter from Roskomnadzor deputy head Oleg Ivanov. Roskomnadzor explained this decision by saying that Skype is not a Russian company - the legal entity is registered in Luxembourg - and does not have branches or representative offices in Russia.

The governments of Russia and Ukraine, following negotiations between the prime ministers of the two countries - Dmitry Medvedev and Nikolai Azarov, held in Sochi last week, agreed to create a joint venture for the production of An-124 Ruslan aircraft, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuri announced this Boyko said on the air of the Ukrainian Channel 5. “A decision was made to create a joint venture to build the An-124 Ruslan, the largest aircraft in the world,” RBC-Ukraine quotes Boyko .

Novikov Max for Forbes The many years of deceit in the Ministry of Finance's budget forecasts have weaned officials and lobbyists from trusting them. But in vain: in 2013–2014, the federal budget may indeed be short of money 2013 is likely to be a record year for Russian budget statistics: for the first time since 1993, the discrepancy between expected and actual federal budget revenues may be no more than 1-2%.

Boris Rotenberg (No. 75 in the Russian Forbes ranking , net worth $1.4 billion) has become the new president of the Dynamo football club (Moscow), the R-Sport agency reported on Wednesday , citing the head of the club’s board of directors, Vasily Titov. “Boris Romanovich Rotenberg has been appointed president of the football club, he will take office from today by decision of the board of directors,” Titov said.

The number of subscribers to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s page on the popular photo service Instagram, which he launched in May 2012, has reached 200,000. “200,000 subscribers is great! Thank you for your interest!” Medvedev wrote under a new photo on Instagram. The photo shows him in a short-sleeved shirt on the river with a smartphone in his hands. At the time of publication, Medvedev's account had 200,694 subscribers. Medvedev himself does not follow anyone on Instagram.

The first official trailer for the film The Fifth Estate, based on the biography of the founder of WikiLeaks, whistleblower of American authorities Julian Assange, has appeared on the Internet. The film is based on the history of the relationship between Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who was also at the origins of the creation of WikiLeaks.

photo by Max Novikov for Forbes And about. the head of Ingushetia in an interview with Forbes - about the problems of the republican economy, relations with Mikhail Gutseriev and Ramzan Kadyrov, hijabs in schools and the fight against terrorism on the eve of Sochi 2014 Yunus-Bek Yevkurov resigned as head of Ingushetia in early July. Now in temporary status. O. the leader of the republic, he will participate in the elections. Forbes spoke with Yevkurov ahead of the single voting day.

The Moscow City Hall did not approve the request to hold a rally against the “anti-piracy” law on Triumfalnaya Square and suggested that the organizers move the rally to another location, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the acting head of the capital’s regional security department, Alexei Mayorov. “We will offer the organizers another place, because all the participants will not fit there, taking into account the work that is being carried out on Triumfalnaya Square.

The international rating agency Fitch has downgraded the long-term issuer default ratings of France's largest banks - Credit Agricole, Societe Generale, Groupe BPCE, Dexia and Dexia Credit Local - from "A+" to "A", the agency said in a press release. Similar short-term ratings of banks were also downgraded to “F1” from “F1+”.