Banks will have to coordinate the issuance of long-term financial instruments with the Swiss authorities The Swiss government on Wednesday announced the introduction of additional restrictive measures against Russia. New sanctions, in particular, will affect five Russian banks, follows from a message published on August 27 on the website of the Swiss State Secretariat of Economics (SECO). The government's supplementary materials listed these five banks.

Gazprom Neft may receive payment for 80,000 tons of oil that it will supply to Europe from the Novoportovskoye field in rubles, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday, August 25, citing sources. Gazprom Neft concluded a contract for supplies from the Novoportovskoye field in mid-August; oil should be delivered to Europe in September by two tankers. Sources do not know who the buyer is. “The contract is denominated in dollars, since oil quotations are made in them.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine has canceled its own decision to extradite Adam Osmayev, accused of preparing an assassination attempt on President Vladimir Putin, to Russia, the Interfax agency reported on Wednesday , citing the detainee's defender Olga Chertok. The lawyer told the agency that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office made its decision on August 15.

The Prosecutor General's Office proposed developing a procedure for blocking sites selling prohibited goods, wrote on Wednesday, August 27, citing sources.

Negotiations on energy issues with the participation of the energy ministers of Russia, Ukraine and the EU will take place on September 6, reported on Wednesday, August 27. the press service of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko This decision was made following a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger, which took place in Minsk on Tuesday, August 26.

The company Stroytransgaz-M, part of the group of Gennady Timchenko , and Grossmann Rus, whose co-owner is the German Ingenieurburo R. Grossmann, have united into a consortium to participate in the Rosneft tender for the design and construction of a complex for loading light petroleum products at Komsomolskoe Refinery", follows from the published document of Rosneft. The second participant in the tender was the Moscow consortium of JSC Giprogazoochistka and the Pskov JSC Neftegazmontazh.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has charged the ex-head of the logistics and procurement department and the chairman of the permanent competition commission of OJSC "MOESK" Harris Ravilov with theft of funds from the enterprise in the amount of more than 1.1 billion rubles, the press reported on Wednesday, August 27 - TFR service. The charge was brought under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code - “fraud”.

Swiss authorities on Wednesday announced the introduction of additional restrictive measures against Russia and published a new, expanded sanctions list, which included five banks, a number of companies and 11 Russian citizens. The document posted on the website of the State Secretariat of the Economy of Switzerland (SECO) clarifies that the new list of banks subject to sanctions includes Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Vnesheconombank and Rosselkhozbank.

The Prosecutor General's Office will not conduct an inspection at the request of the Progress Party, which asked the supervisory agency to check a possible violation of anti-corruption legislation in connection with the non-publication of declarations by volume managers of Russian Railways and Rosneft, follows from a letter from the prosecutor's office published on the blog of party leader Alexei Navalny in Wednesday.

The mining and metallurgical company Evraz is not going to resume the activities of the Evraz Claymont steel plant in Delaware in the USA, which was stopped in November 2013, ITAR-TASS reported on Wednesday, August 27 . “We do not plan to resume production. We are currently negotiating how the land and structures will be used. We will complete these negotiations in the near future.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Russia will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the eastern regions of Ukraine under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in coordination with the country's authorities, ITAR-TASS reported on Wednesday, August 27 .

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, at the request of the prosecutor's office, declared illegal the sale in 2012 by the former leadership of the Ministry of Defense of a forest plot of more than 45 hectares near the village of Nakhabino to the company "Partner Capital", RIA Novosti reports on Wednesday, August 27 . In accordance with the decision made, Partner Capital must transfer to the Ministry of Defense the site where the training ground was previously located.

The only problem with the Otkritie Arena stadium of the Moscow football club Spartak is the high property tax, Leonid Fedun , chairman of the club's board of directors and vice-president of the Lukoil oil company, said on Wednesday at the opening of the new sports arena. “Now there is only one problem - when you build such an arena, it will inevitably be subject to a large property tax,” the ITAR-TASS agency quotes him as saying.

President of AFK Sistema Mikhail Shamolin said that the company does not intend to sell Bashneft and has not received offers to sell the oil business, Interfax reported on Wednesday, August 27 . He declined to comment to the agency regarding the litigation surrounding the company.

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, was charged by French law enforcement authorities in the so-called “Tapie case” for money laundering, Reuters reports on Wednesday, August 27 . As Le Monde notes , Lagarde said she has no intention of resigning and will return to Washington on Wednesday afternoon. Lagarde is suspected of abuse of power during her tenure as French finance minister.