Deputies of the Rotterdam Municipal Council intend to bring up for discussion in September the issue of banning the construction of an oil terminal in the port of Rotterdam by the Russian Summa group of billionaire Ziyaudin Magomedov , the Kommersant newspaper wrote on Monday, citing a source. According to the publication’s interlocutor, the council will have to coordinate this initiative with the mayor and the city government of Rotterdam.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed hope on Monday that Moscow's ban on food imports to Russia in response to sanctions from the US, EU and a number of Western countries will not last long, the ITAR-TASS agency reported . “Once again I would like to say that these measures are naturally forced and retaliatory. I hope that they will not last very long,” the agency quotes Medvedev as saying at a meeting with deputy prime ministers.

The Tax Service of Tajikistan presented claims to the mobile operator TT Mobile, controlled by Megafon, in the form of additional tax charges and fines in the amount of 94 million somoni (626 million rubles), the Interfax agency reported on Monday , citing a report from the Russian operator. In 2013, TT Mobile's revenue amounted to 1.9 billion rubles. This is 0.6% of Megafon's consolidated revenue. Thus, the amount of tax claims corresponds to 33% of the annual revenue of the Tajik operator.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that he signed a decree on the creation of a special economic zone (SEZ) of industrial production type in Vladivostok. “For obvious reasons, this decision remains for us one of the ways to develop the Far East and, naturally, a government priority,” the RIA Novosti agency quotes Medvedev as saying at a meeting with deputy prime ministers.

The leading Russian mining and metallurgical group Mechel, owned by Igor Zyuzin (he owns 67.42% of the shares), terminated the powers of board members ahead of schedule, the ITAR-TASS agency reported on Monday, citing a company press release. Until now, Mechel's board included 11 directors, including 5 directors who left the company during the year. The functions of the chairman of the board were performed by the general director of the company Oleg Korzhov.

ARKS Investment and Financial Construction Company LLC (IFSC ARKS), co-owned by billionaire Gennady Timchenko , will prepare the construction site for a section of the M-1 Belarus highway for 2.3 billion rubles, Interfax reports , citing a representative "Avtodora". According to the agency's interlocutor, the contract will be concluded with ARKS, despite the fact that the competition was declared invalid. The company's application met the requirements, said an Avtodor representative.

Telecom operators providing access to Wi-Fi in public places will have two ways to identify users, follows from an explanation published on Monday on the website of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. In particular, before connecting to Wi-Fi, the operator may prompt the user to enter his mobile phone number, to which a code will be sent to confirm the entered data.

Photo by Maria Savelyeva Former Russian Railways consultant Nadezhda Semenova-Bryullova created the healthy food retail chain “I-MNE” with annual revenue of 37 million rubles. What challenges does this business face? “By and large, all this happened by accident,” notes Nadezhda Semenova-Bryullova, owner of the retail brand “I-MNE” with annual revenue of 37 million rubles.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Finance startups are already making life easier for users. Will they be able to completely replace traditional instruments? The lion's share of venture investments today goes into new financial technologies. And this is quite understandable. What is happening in finance can be compared to the transformation of the world after the transition from carriages and horses to engines and machines.

Former president of the Bayern Munich football club (No. 4 on the Forbes list of the most valuable football teams in the world, current value: $1.85 billion) Uli Hoeneß, sentenced to three years and six months in prison for tax evasion, will work in Landsberg prison - in Lech as a storekeeper with a salary of €1.12 per hour, reported on Monday. German television channel n24 On March 13, 2014, a Munich court sentenced Hoeness to 3 years and 6 months in prison for tax evasion.

Former President of Bashkortostan Murtaza Rakhimov testified as a witness in a criminal case about the theft of Bashneft shares, in which his son Ural Rakhimov is a suspect, ITAR-TASS reports , citing the ex-official's lawyer Sergei Makarenko. According to the lawyer, the interrogation concerned the events of 2002-2010, when Bashneft enterprises were privatized.

Brazilian Gisele Bundchen has topped the ranking of the world's highest-paid models according to the American magazine Forbes for the eighth time in a row. The rating was published on the publication's website on Monday, August 18. The 34-year-old model earns income from endorsements for H&M, Chanel, Carolina Herrera, Pantene and Oral-B, as well as her own line of sandals, which she created for footwear manufacturer Grendene, and a line of lingerie under the brand Gisele Bundchen Intimates.

The Bank of Moscow, controlled by VTB, acquired a 42.3% stake in Hals-Development, which allowed VTB to consolidate 100% of the developer, Interfax reported on Wednesday . In July 2014, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia allowed the Bank of Moscow to acquire a 48.76% stake in Hals-Development. Before this transaction, the Bank of Moscow did not have a stake in the development company, and VTB owned 51.24% of the company.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images The story of the rise and fall of a legendary athlete who beat cancer but was stripped of all his major titles after admitting to doping. In January 2013, a scandal erupted in the world of big-time sports: cycling star Lance Armstrong, who has seven victories in the Tour de France, admitted to using doping. Lance was stripped of his titles and his sponsors terminated their contracts.

photo Kommersant Against the backdrop of sanctions and a worsening budget situation, it is important to get in line to receive government support on time The Rosneft company appealed to the government with a request to allocate 1.5 trillion rubles from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) in connection with Western sanctions imposed against it, causing indignation among the expert and even some bureaucratic community. The outrage is, frankly, unfair.