Investment bank VTB Capital has stopped negotiations that lasted several months to purchase a controlling stake in the Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing sources. As one of the newspaper's interlocutors explained, VTB Capital stopped negotiations due to the fact that it was not satisfied with the price of the transaction.

The Russian Sogaz group bought 99.7% of the insurance company Alrosa at an open auction for 620 million rubles, reported on Thursday. the diamond mining company's press service The signing of the purchase and sale agreement took place on November 20. Sogaz has already transferred funds for the transaction. The transaction amount - 620 million rubles - was determined based on the results of an open auction. The initial price of the package was 576.547 million rubles.

The Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN), a recognized extremist organization, planned to kill lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant, who defended ex-YUKOS head Mikhail Khodorkovsky in court, Evgenia Khasis, convicted of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, reported in the Moscow Regional Court on Thursday. Khasis said that Klyuvgant was included in the list of people whose murders were planned by BORN, Interfax reports .

The American corporation ExxonMobil, due to sanctions imposed against Russia, is forced to look for alternative areas for using the West Alpha drilling platform, which participated in joint exploration drilling with Rosneft in the Kara Sea, Bloomberg reports on Thursday, November 20 .

Sberbank and the Chinese bank Ping An are negotiating investments in the Israeli trading platform eToro, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing informed sources. According to sources, eToro in total could receive about $15 million from the Ping An Insurance Group and Sberbank's venture fund SBT Venture Capital, as well as existing investors in the project. eToro previously raised about $31.5 million from Spark Capital, BRM Capital and other investors.

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Five people died on Thursday as a result of the crash of a private Eurocopter helicopter in the Kstovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Interfax agency reported , citing a representative of the regional head office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to preliminary data, bad weather conditions - heavy fog and piloting error - are considered among the main causes of the disaster.

German racing driver Sebastian Vettel (No. 83 on the Forbes list of the highest paid athletes, annual income of $19 million) left the Red Bull team, with which he won Formula 1 races for the last four years, and signed a three-year contract with Ferrari , replacing her in it. long-time leader Fernando Alonso (No. 21 in the Forbes ranking with annual income of $31 million), according to a statement published Thursday on the Italian team's website.

Mikhail Demin, who previously held the post of PR director of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games in Sochi, was appointed advisor to the general director of Echo of Moscow, TASS reports on Thursday, November 20, citing a source familiar with the appointment. This information was confirmed by the general director of the radio station, Ekaterina Pavlova, while refusing to clarify how long Demin has held this position.

The Renova group of companies owned by Viktor Vekselberg acquired the Czech holding Safina, which is engaged in the production and processing of precious metals, the Interfax agency reported on Thursday , citing Renova official representative Andrey Shtorkh. Sold the asset to Safichem Group. The transaction amount is not disclosed. Czech media suggest that we are talking about an amount not exceeding 2.6 billion crowns ($120 million).

Photo by Max Novikov for Forbes President and Chairman of the Board of VTB Andrei Kostin regained first place in the ranking of the highest paid executives of Russian companies according to Forbes . Kostin’s total compensation for 2013 is estimated at $37 million. Second place in the ranking was taken by Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller. His compensation for 2013, according to Forbes, amounted to $25 million.

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The government does not see the need to unseal buckwheat reserves held by Rosrezerv in order to stabilize prices, the Prime agency reports , citing a source in the Cabinet of Ministers. Earlier, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that the government could open Rosrezerv's buckwheat reserves to stabilize the situation with a sharp increase in cereal prices.

The Moscow Meshchansky Court on Thursday rejected a civil suit for 10 million rubles for the protection of honor and business reputation, filed by the LDPR party against the former head of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Interfax reported . “The court decided to reject the LDPR’s claim against Mikhail Khodorkovsky,” Khodorkovsky’s press secretary Olga Pispanen told the agency. She explained that so far the court has announced only the operative part of the decision.

Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin, in an interview with the online publication Gazeta.Ru, called the information about the presence of a fur storage facility in his house in Akulinino, Moscow Region, “an absolute fabrication.” Yakunin said that he never wore a fur coat at all - only a fur jacket. “There are fur hats too. There is not a single fur coat,” said the head of Russian Railways.