The Verkhovna Rada approved Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new Prime Minister of Ukraine on Thursday, TASS news agency reported . 341 deputies voted for the candidacy of 40-year-old Yatsenyuk. 7 parliamentarians abstained and two spoke out against. After the announcement of the voting results, the deputies greeted Yatsenyuk with a standing ovation and presented him with a large bouquet of red roses. Yatsenyuk’s candidacy was proposed to the Rada by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (No.

Russian Railways' investment program for 2015 will exceed 400 billion rubles, half of which will be allocated by the state, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a government meeting on Thursday. “The total volume of Russian Railways’ investment program for the next year is more than 400 billion rubles. Half of this money is state support,” the TASS agency quotes him as saying .

Apple is going to stop producing the iPhone 5C in 2015, reports MacRumors, citing a report from Taiwan's Industrial and Commercial Times. MacRumors also recalls that KGI Securities analyst Ming Hee Kuo had previously announced the upcoming cessation of production of the iPhone 5C. In addition, he announced that in 2015 Apple will stop selling the iPhone 4S, leaving the iPhone 5S as an affordable option.

Ren-TV will launch two new TV channels in 2015 - REN TV International and "Military Secret", reported the channel's press service on Thursday, November 27. The corresponding applications have already been sent to Roskomnadzor. The REN TV International channel will become the international version of Ren-TV, which will be “specially prepared” for Russian-speaking viewers abroad. “The content of the channel will be as close as possible to the broadcast of the Russian version of Ren-TV.

In 2012 and 2013, Gazprom lost about $2 billion in additional profit due to the sale of natural gas at reduced prices to the companies of Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash (No. 14 in the ranking of Ukrainian Forbes billionaires, net worth $673 million), follows from an investigation by Reuters . Firtash, together with Gazprom, owned the company Rosukrenergo, which in 2004-2009, as an intermediary, purchased gas from the Russian holding and resold it to Naftogaz of Ukraine.

Vice President for Commerce and Logistics of Rosneft Didier Casimiro sent a letter to Deputy Minister of Energy Kirill Molodtsov in which he proposed limiting the presence of resellers on the oil product exchange, since they do not buy fuel for their own consumption, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Thursday, November 27. , who has a copy of the document. The letter is dated October 3.

Several key FIFA sponsors have expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of the international football federation in connection with the scandal surrounding the publication of a report recognizing newspaper writes on Thursday, November 27 the fair selection of Russia and Qatar as host countries for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, respectively, The Wall Street Journal .

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction Vyacheslav Lysakov (United Russia) called the proposal to issue a driver’s license from the age of 16 untimely, calling first to “deal with driving schools,” TASS reports on Thursday. “Now we need to deal with adult drivers; there is no need to talk about training schoolchildren,” Lysakov said.

Rosneft President Igor Sechin admitted in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse that the oil price of $60 per barrel suits the company, and assessed Russia’s potential to reduce oil production at a low price of 200,000 - 300,000 barrels per day. He said that the company expects a possible price drop to $60 per barrel or lower, but only during the first half of the year, or more precisely, by the end of the first half of the year.

reports on Thursday, November 27 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko threatened to respond to Russia's introduction of restrictions on the supply of Belarusian products, BELTA . During a meeting with the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, the Belarusian president said that he was “not just surprised, but depressing” by the behavior of the Russian authorities. “If trade between the two countries is not normalized in the near future, we will be forced to react.

Anastasia Shvetsova Author Five young mother-entrepreneurs talk about where to find strength, how to combine family and work, and how to succeed in business , an educational project for active mothers , was held in Moscow for the second time In November, the Selfmama Forum . The organizers of the forum - five successful mothers - decided to unite women who believe that they can do business or build a career without compromising raising a child.

New Zealand banks, following the Australian ones, closed the correspondent accounts of some Russian state banks from the sanctions list, including Gazprombank and Vnesheconombank (VEB), writes on Thursday, November 27. Kommersant The problems began in the summer, when the Australian government expanded sanctions against Russia, and after another wave of sanctions in the fall, the situation became “even worse,” said a source in one of the state-owned banks that were sanctioned.

Products produced by Russian enterprises of the military-industrial complex (DIC) should be better in quality and price than those of foreign manufacturers, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on the defense industry on Thursday, November 27. Putin noted the need to begin import substitution of units and components for weapons and military equipment, Interfax reports.

The fall in world oil prices and Western sanctions will lead to a more significant reduction in oil production in Russia than expected, Lukoil vice-president Leonid Fedun said in an interview with the British newspaper Financial Times . According to Fedun, Russian oil companies previously had two scenarios - a “small” decline in production since 2015 or a more significant reduction as fields in Western Siberia are depleted.

Former senator and founder of the bankrupt Mezhprombank Sergei Pugachev (until 2010 he was part of the Forbes Golden Hundred ), arrested in absentia in Russia, is wanted by Interpol, according to information from the website of the police organization. The Interpol database contains a card for Sergei Pugachev, from which it follows that the ex-banker is wanted at the request of Russia, whose authorities accuse him of misappropriation or embezzlement.