's Mechelu company The Moscow Arbitration Court upheld VTB's claim against Igor Zyuzin for the recovery of almost 3 billion rubles in loan debt, Interfax reported on Friday, December 5 . In addition, the company's counterclaim against VTB to amend the loan agreement was denied. A Mechel representative said that the company plans to challenge these decisions, but declined to comment further.

The European Union has allowed to provide loans for a period of more than 30 days to sanctioned Russian banks to maintain the solvency of their European subsidiaries, according to a publication in the Official Journal of the EU.

The former head of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in an interview with the Dozhd TV channel on Friday, December 5, said that he considers it necessary to carry out lustration in Russia and get rid of 50,000-70,000 officials or 10-15% of their total number. Thus, he answered the question of what measures he could propose to bring Russia out of the crisis. “Some of the current officials, I think 10-15%, are so affected by corruption that nothing can be done with them.

The company Uber Technologies, which manages the mobile online taxi calling service of the same name, has already attracted $1.2 billion in investments in a new round, and this amount could grow to $1.8 billion. The American Forbes reported this with reference to data from the analytical firm VC Experts on December 5 .

The government is receiving “polar” opinions on the proposal of the Russian Union of Copyright Holders (RUU) to introduce a so-called anti-piracy fee and is not going to rush to a decision, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Friday. Shuvalov noted that all participants in the process need to seriously consider their proposals and come to an agreement, Interfax reports .

The dollar exchange rate in the last hour of the main trading session on the Moscow Exchange on Friday, December 5, lost 1.5 rubles in 5 minutes, reports the Finanz.ru website. Before the sharp fall, the dollar strengthened against the ruble and reached the level of 54 rubles per $1. Having reached this mark, the dollar fell within five minutes to 52.48 rubles per $1. The volume of transactions during this time totaled about $550 million, which is equivalent to 11% of daily turnover.

The Ministry of Economic Development has received four projects from Rosneft that apply for funds from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) in the amount of 200 billion rubles, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Friday, citing informed sources. They told the publication that the total cost of four Rosneft projects submitted to the Ministry of Economic Development is 500 billion rubles. 40% of this amount - or about 200 billion rubles - can be allocated from the National Welfare Fund.

On the evening of Thursday, December 4, Ural Airlines removed from the flight the clergy of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra who were trying to smuggle the icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh in business class, TASS reports . The icon with a piece of the saint’s relics was taken to Yekaterinburg for display in the Holy Trinity Cathedral. On Thursday evening, the clergy of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra were planning to fly with her on a Ural Airlines flight from Moscow Domodedovo airport.

Photo by Max Novikov for Forbes From December 8, the channel may be broadcasting from employees’ apartments The Dozhd TV channel will leave its temporary studio in the editorial office of the Snob project on Red October until Monday, December 8, sources at the channel told Forbes . “Today we were politely asked to stop broadcasting from here and leave the premises,” told Forbes .

Getty Images The head of the investment company Iconiq, Divesh Makan, has woven a web of useful connections in the technology business. How does he gain the trust of Forbes list members? In the complex hierarchy of the investment business, financial advisors have always occupied a lowly place at the very end of the market food chain. They are hunters and gatherers, knocking on doors for modest commissions while bigger players pull off headline-grabbing deals and impressive bonuses.

Chairman of the Board of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais suffered injuries to both hands during an expedition in the mountainous part of Jordan and upon returning to Moscow he underwent surgery, according to a press release issued on Friday by the company's press service. The operation to eliminate damage to the wrists was performed in one of the Moscow clinics. Currently, the 59-year-old head of Rusnano is on sick leave and feels well, the report notes.

Foreign investment funds are “taking part” in a speculative attack on the Russian ruble, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, said in an interview with Bloomberg . “Any speculation has specific schemes, and schemes have participants,” he said. Fradkov said that the United States and its allies are using sanctions and attacks on the ruble exchange rate in attempts to achieve regime change in Russia.

The development company "Regional Hotel Network" (RGS) of Andrei Yakunin, the son of the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, due to the crisis, decided to abandon the development of the hotel business in Sochi and increase its presence in Moscow and other cities, writes the Kommersant newspaper on Friday with reference to on Yakunin. In Moscow, RGS, which owns the Marriott hotel near Paveletsky Station, plans to build two to five more facilities, said Andrei Yakunin.

Elizaveta Surganova Author The new general director of the Kommersant publishing house (at the time of the interview - vice president of the publishing house) talks about meeting Vyacheslav Volodin, editorial policy and coverage of the conflict in Ukraine

Photo by Max Novikov for Forbes Forbes opens a series of interviews with jury members of the startup competition Mathias Eklef, founder of the Yell.ru project Send your questions to the entrepreneur by mail to the project editor , post on Twitter and Facebook . Education: Stockholm School of Economics, MBA degree.