Sberbank of Russia is carrying out planned technical work on Thursday and warned clients about a possible suspension of services on the evening of October 31. Due to scheduled work in the period from 21:00 to 23:30 Moscow time on October 31, 2013, there may be a short-term unavailability of the bank's services, the bank said in a statement. Sberbank of Russia apologized to customers for possible inconvenience.

The Ministry of Health wants to oblige drivers to carry medical certificates with them at all times, and if a disease is detected that is incompatible with driving, to suspend their licenses for the duration of treatment, the reported Kommersant newspaper on Thursday. The State Duma may consider the relevant amendments in mid-November.

The price of global depository receipts (GDR) of TKS Bank, whose main shareholder is Oleg Tinkov ( No. 151 in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia, worth $0.7 billion) , on Thursday dropped below the placement price and amounted to $17.04 per security. GDR trading volumes on the London Stock Exchange almost doubled.

The Russian government has decided to freeze Transneft tariffs for 2014, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich announced on Thursday. “Yes,” Interfax quotes Dvorkovich’s answer to a corresponding question from journalists on the sidelines of the Open Innovations forum. Information that the government intends not to index Transneft tariffs in 2014 appeared in the Vedomosti newspaper in September 2013.

VKontakte is the only one of the largest RuNet resources that does not deny the employment of former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden. This is evidenced by a survey of companies conducted by the Digit.ru portal . The portal reported that it interviewed several of Russia's largest Internet companies where Snowden could theoretically get a job. Only the VKontakte network did not unequivocally deny the possibility of hiring Edward Snowden.

Photo by RIA Novosti The authorities will most likely not be able to maintain a one-party parliament in the capital Following the results of the elections on September 8 and on the eve of new regional elections on October 25, the State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill allowing the regions to reduce the share of deputies elected by party lists to 25%, and Moscow and St. Petersburg to completely abolish the lists.

photo East News/AFP Finnish media holding Sanoma has put its Russian business up for sale. Possible buyers include the founder of Independent Media, Hearst and Bauer. Thus, the Finns are correcting the mistake made in 2011 On October 31, during a conference call with the management of the Finnish publishing holding, CEO Harri-Pekka Kaukonen announced that the company was ready to sell its Russian assets.

More than 300 heavy-duty trucks have accumulated in traffic jams on the border of Russia and Ukraine at checkpoints leading to the territory of the Rostov region, RIA Novosti reported , citing a representative of the Southern Customs Administration (YUT) of the Russian Federal Customs Service (FCS). He explained the congestion by saying that some carriers were not ready for the new border crossing rules.

Stagnation in the advertising market and large debts have forced one of the world's largest media holdings, Sanoma, to think about selling its assets in Russia, including the Vedomosti newspaper, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and Men's Health magazines, the Vedomosti newspaper wrote on Thursday. As the newspaper reports, citing sources, Sanoma is already discussing with potential buyers the possibility of selling Russian assets.

51% of Americans refuse to support the policies pursued by US President Barack Obama, according to a public opinion poll conducted by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal Survey. This is the lowest level of support for the activities of an American president in the history of such polls. Only 42% of respondents approve of Barack Obama's policies. This is 5% lower than at the beginning of the month.

Famous photographer Valery Levitin, who worked for Kommersant for ten years, has died. Famous photographer Valery Levitin died at the age of 52. Today he was supposed to open a personal exhibition in Omsk - it contains photographs taken by Valery Levitin for the "Gossip Chronicle" column of the Kommersant newspaper, where he worked from 2001 to 2011. The heroes of Levitin's photo reports were politicians, businessmen, singers and actors.

photo by Max Novikov for Forbes President of A-Group Evgeniy Andrachnikov about clients, airports and hockey According to Bombardier's optimistic forecasts, demand for business jets, which has begun to grow again, will reach pre-crisis levels by 2016. The most desirable clients for manufacturers and operators in business aviation are Arabs, Chinese and Russians: they are rich and generous, savings are considered mauvais ton. Particular hopes are placed on Moscow.

photo by Ksenia Kolesnikova 30-year-old entrepreneur Nina Gudkova cooks herself, sells desserts at high prices and is not afraid of failure. Nina Gudkova, co-owner of the Friends Forever Co cafe chain, is an extremely principled person. To the visitor’s question: “What, don’t you have eclairs?” - She raises her eyebrows in surprise: “Volkonsky” and “Coffee House” are around the corner. I won’t make eclairs.” Gudkova actually cooks herself, spending her days at the kitchen counter.

Grigory Leps (No. 2 in the ranking of the 50 most influential stars in Russia according to Forbes, income for last year - $15 million) and two other Russians are included in the sanctions list of the US Treasury for alleged connections with the Eastern European international criminal organization Brothers' Circle, it became known from the message , published on Wednesday on the ministry’s website.

The defendant in the Oboronservis case, Maxim Zakutailo, who was previously the general director of the District Material Warehouse of the Moscow Air Force District, was released on Thursday from a pre-trial detention center, where he had been held for a year on charges of theft, the RAPSI agency reported . The decision to release the person involved in the high-profile case was caused by the expiration of the maximum period of detention under the charge against him.