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The Naftogaz of Ukraine company has agreed to extend a loan from the Russian Gazprombank for $2 billion, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Andrey Bondarenko.

Russia's VTB plans to sell a significant stake in the mobile operator Tele2 Russia within the next few weeks to a group of three to four investors, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing the bank's first deputy chairman of the board, Yuri Solovyov. “I think you have reason to believe what he said.

On September 30, the Bank of Russia shifted up by 5 kopecks the boundaries of the floating corridor of the bi-currency basket ($0.55 and €0.45) - to 32.30-39.30 rubles, the Prime agency reported on Tuesday, citing materials from the Central Bank. A representative of the bank explained to the agency that now the regulator, in the event of a shift in the boundaries of the currency corridor, will publish these data on the next business day (as of the morning).

The head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov, said on Tuesday that in a year the investment of citizens' pension savings in Russia will become absolutely reliable, the Prime agency reports . As the head of the Ministry of Finance stated at the VTB Capital forum “Russia is calling!”, the new goal for the Ministry of Finance is to ensure the reliability of investments.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is initiating extradition proceedings for businessman Sergei Polonsky, accused in absentia of stealing 5.7 billion rubles from shareholders of the Kutuzovskaya Mile residential complex, at the request of his former business partner, Interfax reported , citing an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs press center on Tuesday.

The Board of Directors of the Russian Economic School (NES) has approved former Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria Simeon Dyankov as rector, reported on Tuesday. the university’s press service The report states that on October 1, the 42nd meeting of the NES Board of Directors was held, at which the main issue on the agenda was the approval of a new rector. As a result, the Board of Directors decided to appoint Simeon Dyankov to the post.

The US economy will lose at least $300 million a day due to the partial suspension of US government agencies, which the White House had to undertake due to the lack of a budget for the 2014 fiscal year, Bloomberg reports , citing data from the analytical agency IHS Inc. . Analysts estimated the losses of the American economy due to lost production volumes that will occur due to the suspension of the work of institutions.

Former general director of OJSC Kabardino-Balkarian Fuel Company (KBTK) Valery Kardanov is suspected of theft of a recreation center in the Elbrus protected area, owned by the parent company, Rosneft, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Tuesday, October 1.

Photo by Getty Images In response, the founder of the social network calls the current shareholder structure “unviable” and speaks of the need to change it The UCP Foundation, which owns 48% of the social network VKontakte, is dissatisfied with the figure of Pavel Durov at the head of the company and admits the possibility of replacing him. “Maybe he [Durov - Forbes] himself doesn’t know what he wants.

photo Kommersant The cartel in the potash market may be revived after the change of ownership of the Russian company. This will be beneficial to all parties: producers, traders and authorities The potash war, which broke out in the summer of 2013, is shaping up to be the most serious business conflict of the year. The Uralkali company was at the center of the scandal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has increased the salaries of almost all high-ranking Russian officials since September 2013, while their salaries will increase in another year, according to a document posted on the Kremlin's official website on Tuesday. According to the document, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov will receive 61,998 rubles. The salary of the head of the government apparatus and deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko will be 57,378 rubles.

Vladimir Putin issued a decree allowing the Accounts Chamber of Russia to use a car with a flashing light, according to the legal information portal. The decree on including the Accounts Chamber in the list of departments whose employees are allowed to use “flashing lights” was signed after Tatyana Golikova replaced Sergei Stepashin as the Accounts Chamber. Previously, since May 2012, Golikova held the position of assistant to the president.

The working group of the Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC) considers the hunger strike of convicted member of the punk group Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, which she announced on September 23, to be pre-planned and coordinated outside the walls of the colony, according to a report by working group members Elena Masyuk, Evgeniy Myslovsky and Maria Kannabikh , published on the HRC website on Tuesday.

of the mandatory pension system for a year The Russian government may abandon the idea of ​​suspending the funded component and direct all pension savings for 2014 to the distribution system, the Prime agency reported on Tuesday, citing the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev. A similar idea is contained in the draft federal budget for 2014-2016, submitted by the Russian government to the State Duma on Monday.