The government, at a meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday, generally approved a new pension formula aimed at stimulating an increase in the work experience of Russians, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets told reporters on Wednesday. “We had a government meeting, and indeed, the formula was approved,” RIA Novosti quotes Golodets .

The head of the state company Rosneft, Igor Sechin, arrived in Belarus on Wednesday and met with the President of the Republic, Alexander Lukashenko, the Belta agency reports , citing the press service of the Belarusian president. According to the agency, Sechin and Lukashenko are discussing Russian oil supplies to Belarus.

Chairman of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina appointed Ksenia Yudaeva as her first deputy, reported on Wednesday. the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank At the Central Bank of Russia, Yudaeva will oversee monetary policy issues. She will take up the post of first deputy chairman of the bank on September 11. Previously, these issues were dealt with at the Central Bank by Alexey Ulyukaev, currently the head of the Ministry of Economic Development.

How random flea market purchases made fortunes In September, a necklace by Alexander Calder, an American sculptor of world renown, will be auctioned at Christie's First Open Sale. Eight years ago, American Norma Ifill bought this jewelry at a flea market for $15, without even realizing that she was purchasing a piece of jewelry. Later she came across an article about an exhibition of Calder's work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Verizon Communications Inc. on Wednesday will hold a record placement of corporate debt for the global market in the amount of $49 billion, Reuters reported . Verizon needs these funds to finance its acquisition of a 45% stake in the Verizon Wireless joint venture from Vodafone Group. Transaction amount: $130 billion. Verizon's bond issue will be the largest in history and will exceed Apple's $17 billion corporate bond issue in April 2013.

The Ministry of Health will not cancel the tender for the creation of a new official website of the department for 25 million rubles; this cost is determined in accordance with the law, press secretary of the Minister of Health Oleg Salagai said on Wednesday. However, he did not rule out that the cost could be significantly reduced during the auction, ITAR-TASS reports .

photo by Vasily Shaposhnikov/Kommersant Prosecutors say that money stolen from the Russian budget was used to purchase luxury apartments in Manhattan. Manhattan prosecutor Preet Bharara on Tuesday filed a lawsuit demanding the seizure of expensive real estate and other property, which, according to him, was used to launder $230 million stolen from the Russian budget, the theft of which was revealed by lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, reports Reuters .

Most loans are taken outside the Urals, less in Ingushetia, Dagestan and Chechnya Russians owe banks almost 9 trillion rubles. Excluding mortgage and housing loans, the amount is slightly less - 6.2 trillion rubles. That is, every Russian, including old people and babies, owes 43,500 rubles. However, debts are distributed unevenly across regions.

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has prepared a bill that proposes to give the Federal Security Service (FSB) the right to conduct operational-search activities to identify the real owners (beneficiaries) of airports, railway stations, sea and river ports, ITAR-TASS reported . The bill on the disclosure of information on the beneficial owners of transport infrastructure facilities has been submitted for public discussion, which will last until September 26, 2013.

Sergei Sobyanin, elected mayor of Moscow, proposed making the head of the capital's Council of Veterans, the former secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, 88-year-old Vladimir Dolgikh, his representative in the Federation Council, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing sources close to the mayor's office and the administration of President Vladimir Putin.

The Moscow City Election Commission on Wednesday decided to allocate 16 million rubles remaining from the funds intended for the preparation and conduct of the Moscow mayoral elections to bonuses for members of territorial election commissions (TECs) and chairmen of precinct commissions (PECs), Interfax reported . A total of 15,997,000 rubles will be allocated for bonuses, the head of the Moscow City Election Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, said during the meeting.

reported on Wednesday Moldovan President Nikolai Timofti called the decision of Rospotrebnadzor to suspend supplies of all Moldovan wine products to Russia “an unfriendly, unChristian and unbrotherly gesture,” RIA Novosti . Timofti could not explain what was the reason for Moscow’s decision and whether it was really related to quality or simply coincided with the period when Moldova is preparing for the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius.

At a meeting on Wednesday, September 11, the Moscow City Election Commission officially registered the acting mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, who, according to official data, received 51.37% of the votes in the elections on September 8, as elected mayor of Moscow, Interfax reports . The decision was made almost unanimously. Only a member of the Moscow City Election Commission with the right of casting vote from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation voted “against”.

Photo by Reuters By refusing to seek a peaceful solution to the chemical weapons problem in Syria, the US President allowed Russia to seize the initiative and paint himself into a corner What Vladimir Putin did may turn out to be one of the most powerful moves since the days of the great Russian chess players - through his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, he presented two governments, Syrian and American, with a way out of a military confrontation that almost no one needs.

US President Barack Obama, in his address to the nation on Tuesday, September 10, asked Congress to postpone voting on a draft resolution he had previously initiated on the start of a military operation in Syria in order to try to resolve the situation diplomatically, Reuters reports .