The Arbitration Court of the Moscow District recovered from the Russian Reporter magazine and the Expert media holding a record compensation in the history of Russian media in the amount of 46.5 million rubles for damage caused to the business reputation of the Human Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), follows from materials posted on the website court The court decided to leave the ruling of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal in the case unchanged, and the cassation appeal was not satisfied.

Olga Pavlova Author Norway, Switzerland and Finland in the top ten happiest countries in the world The British analytical center Legatum Institute (a division of the international investment group Legatum) has published its annual ranking of the most prosperous countries - Prosperity Index 2014 . The organization’s experts have been monitoring the state of happiness and life satisfaction in 142 countries since 2009.

The company Qiwi, which operates the instant payment system, is studying the possibility of purchasing the Unistream money transfer system, Kommersant writes on Thursday, November 6, citing sources.

The Dnepr launch vehicle, produced at the Ukrainian rocket and space enterprise Yuzhmash, launched on the morning of Thursday, November 6, from the Yasny launch base in the Orenburg region with the Japanese ASNARO satellite and four more microsatellites, TASS reports citing a representative Kosmotrans company, together with which the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RSVN) carried out the launch. The company added that all spacecraft were launched into their intended orbits.

Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontyev said on Thursday, November 6, to the Govorit Moskva radio station that the company is not going to comment on a report by The Wall Street Journal that American prosecutors have launched an investigation into businessman Gennady Timchenko on suspicion of money laundering. money during transactions between Rosneft and the trading company Gunvor Group.

The LifeNews television channel removed from its website an article published on Thursday alleging that the activities of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were allegedly secretly financed by Kremlin structures, after a Kremlin source called it “complete nonsense.” At the time of publication of the news, when trying to access the link where the article was located, the TV channel’s website gave an error and reported that the material was not found.

The euro exchange rate at trading on the Moscow Exchange on Thursday in the middle of the day for the first time in history exceeded the mark of 57 rubles, and before the close of the main trading it crossed 58 rubles, Finanz.ru reported . As of 18:34 Moscow time, the euro exchange rate with settlements tomorrow increased by 2.01 rubles and reached 58.09 rubles.

Chairman of the Budget Committee Andrei Makarov submitted to the State Duma draft amendments to the Tax Code, which envisage the introduction of fees from small business owners in the amount of 6,000 to 600,000 rubles, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Thursday, November 6, which has a copy of the document. The amendments introduce basic rates of fees, which municipalities will be able to increase, but not more than 10 times.

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a closed meeting on Wednesday, November 5, with a delegation of German business circles headed by the Chairman of the Eastern Committee of the German Economy, Eckhard Cordes, who arrived in Moscow for a one-day visit, writes on Thursday, November 6, "Kommersant".

The CEO of the Russian Yota Devices, Vladislav Martynov, said that the company has received a security certificate from the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia - KS1 - for the YotaPhone 2 smartphone, which should be presented at the end of 2014, TASS reports on Thursday, November 6 . According to Martynov, KS1 certification ensures that it is impossible to gain access to encryption keys without a decryptor.

EconGas, a subsidiary of the Austrian energy company OMV, will resume negotiations with the Russian Gazprom on reducing gas prices, according to OMV’s financial report for the nine months of 2014, published on Thursday. “EconGas will continue negotiations on a long-term gas contract with Gazprom in order to achieve a gas price that is fully consistent with the market,” the document emphasizes.

Swiss oil trader Gunvor, which, according to The Wall Street Journal, is at the center of an investigation by US prosecutors into the company's founder and former shareholder, billionaire Gennady Timchenko , has found itself in a “political skirmish,” Gunvor spokesman Seth Pietras told TASS on Thursday. "Gunvor was not notified of the investigation against the company. The company was caught in a political firefight," Pietras said.

The Central Bank set on Friday, November 7, the official dollar exchange rate at 45.1854 rubles, the euro exchange rate was increased to 56.5450 rubles, according to data published on the Bank of Russia website. Thus, the dollar exchange rate increased by 78.61 kopecks compared to the previous official figure, and the euro by 92.16 kopecks. The cost of the bi-currency basket, which consists of $0.55 and €0.45, was increased by the Central Bank by 84.71 kopecks to 50.29 rubles.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia opposed the adoption of the so-called Rotenberg law - on the payment of compensation from the federal budget to citizens and companies affected by Western sanctions, writes on Thursday, November 6. Kommersant According to the publication, the Supreme Court sharply criticized this bill in a review submitted to the State Duma before the first reading of the draft on October 8. The Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC) also gave a negative review before its liquidation.

An English court rejected the appeal of the former co-owners of TNK-BP, billionaires Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik (No. 34 in the global ranking of billionaires according to Forbes, net worth $18.7 billion) against the decision of the High Court of London to impose a ban on consideration of the claim of Senator from Chuvashia Leonid Lebedev by the New York court, Interfax reports with reference to the senator's press service.