State Duma deputies on Wednesday adopted in the second, main reading, an amendment to the Constitution on the creation of a unified Supreme Court (SC) by merging the existing Supreme Court and the Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC), ITAR-TASS reports . The bill was supported by 349 deputies, 93 parliamentarians voted against it, and one abstained. Previously, deputies rejected all three amendments submitted for the second reading of the document.

The charitable foundation “Fair Help” of Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, kept donations in the amount of more than 2 million rubles in accounts in Master Bank, which the Central Bank deprived of its license on November 20. “Where to keep the fund’s money is unknown. 2 million is a huge amount for us. Master Bank ate her,” Glinka wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. She later clarified that, as of October 17, the fund had 2.375 million rubles in the bank.

Ilyin-Tomich Alexander Author photo by Fotobank/Getty Images The head of Google's advertising business on work, children and what it's like to be the "first lady" of the search giant The 45-year-old sister of Sergei Brin’s ex-wife Anne Wojcicki, Susan, is called “the most important Googler,” because she earns money for the American corporation.

The Prosecutor General's Office, together with transport prosecutors, organized an unscheduled inspection of Tatarstan Airlines in connection with the crash of a Boeing passenger plane in Kazan on November 17, which killed 50 people, according to the department's website.

Experts have discovered a voice recorder recording conversations between the crew of a Boeing 737 that crashed in Kazan, official representative of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) Oleg Ermolov said on Wednesday. “The recorder was sent to Moscow to process the information on it,” ITAR-TASS quoted a representative of MAK as saying.

Gazprom Neft and Novatek, which own 51% of Severenergia through the Yamal Development JV, agreed with the Italian company Eni to buy out 60% of Artic Russia BV, which owns 49% of the authorized capital of Severenergia LLC. , the company said on Wednesday. The transaction amount will be $2.94 billion. As noted in the press release, Yamal Development LLC and Eni have entered into a binding agreement. The transaction is expected to be closed after receiving the necessary approvals.

The “hole” in the assets of Master Bank, which has been deprived of its license since November 20, is tentatively estimated at 2 billion rubles, Bank of Russia Chairman Elvira Nabiullina said at a plenary meeting of the State Duma on Wednesday. Master Bank was involved in servicing the shadow economy network, illegal trafficking, repeated violations of anti-money laundering legislation, and hid the real state of affairs by providing significantly unreliable reporting, Nabiullina said.

The revocation of Master Bank's license created problems for a number of small banks, which, not having their own sponsorship program with payment systems, issued and serviced cards through it. In particular, BFG Bank, Finam Bank and BCS Premier suffered from the processing stoppage, Forbes found out .

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the refusal of the writer Boris Akunin (No. 43 in the ranking of “50 Top Russian Celebrities” according to Forbes, income - $1.1 billion) from participating in the Russian Literary Meeting due to the presence of Vladimir Putin at it, called his behavior "public nihilism." He stated this in an interview with the Slon portal . “For the president, it is important, first of all, to invite.

The famous American folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger asked Vladimir Putin to release the captain of the Greenpeace-owned Arctic Sunrise vessel, American Peter Wilcox, who was arrested in Russia in connection with the penetration of the Prirazlomnaya oil platform. A photo of the appeal was posted on the social network Facebook.

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Forbes Editorial Forbes Editorial On November 19, 2013, Axel Springer Russia launched a new project - the financial portal finanz.ru , designed for private investors. The site, created in partnership with Finanzen.net, the largest financial information aggregator in Germany and Switzerland, makes it possible to monitor stock quotes on 90 stock exchanges around the world. The strategic partner of the project is the Moscow Exchange.

The environmental organization Greenpeace on Wednesday began transferring the necessary amounts for the defendants in the Arctic Sunrise case, who were released from arrest by St. Petersburg courts on bail, Interfax reports, citing the organization’s lawyer Anton Beneslavsky. “We managed to reach an agreement with the courts, we are transferring funds to their accounts. Technical formal measures are now being carried out,” said the Greenpeace lawyer.

At a plenary session on Wednesday, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a government bill that suspends the indexation of salaries of civil servants, assistants to State Duma deputies and senators, and military salaries for the period from January 1, 2014 to January 1, 2015, the Prime agency reported .

The Cyprus subsidiary of Sberbank - SIB Cyprus Limited - has reduced its share in the authorized capital of Uralkali from 10.53% to 0.14%, Interfax reports . The alienation of shares took place on October 30 and 31. Earlier it became known that SIB Cyprus Limited received shares of Uralkali as part of repo transactions with the company's shareholders.