On the night of Tuesday, December 23, Komsomolskaya Pravda published on its website an interview with an unnamed person presented as a “secret witness” in the case of the crash of a Malaysian Boeing in the Donetsk region in July. The newspaper's interlocutor said that a Ukrainian pilot flying a Su-25 attack aircraft could have shot down the passenger plane with an air-to-air missile. Komsomolskaya Pravda claims that its source himself came to the editorial office.

photo by ITAR-TASS, Evgeniy Dudin for Forbes Billionaire Petr Aven and former Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Sysuev told Forbes how they participate in charity, how much the market is valued and what social problems big money can solve Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alfa Bank Group, Petr Aven , is one of the founders of the Life Line charity fund for helping seriously ill children (established in 2004).

The State Duma adopted on Tuesday in the second and third readings a law allowing advertising of wine and champagne produced in Russia in print media, radio and television, Interfax reported . The amendments approved by the State Duma will be introduced into the law on advertising and will come into force on January 1, 2015. Advertising of wine and champagne is allowed from 11 pm to 7 am local time. The ban remained in effect for live programs and recordings of youth sports competitions.

Investigative authorities will soon interrogate a Ukrainian citizen who told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that a Malaysian Boeing in the Donetsk region could have been shot down in July 2014 by a Ukrainian pilot flying a Su-25 attack aircraft, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said on Tuesday.

Yota Devices has increased prices for the new YotaPhone 2 smartphone in Russia by 21% to 39,990 rubles from December 23, the company’s press service reported on Tuesday on its VKontakte page. “We were forced to change the price of YotaPhone 2 in Russia due to the change in the ruble exchange rate by 35% since the end of November,” the message says.

photo TASS The reasons for the collapse of the bank are loans to affiliated companies, inflated capital and hidden losses On Monday, December 22, the Central Bank announced the reorganization of Trust Bank, known throughout the country for advertising deposits. To promote them, its owner, candidate master of sports in boxing Ilya Yurov, in recent years has chosen stars who have made a name for themselves in strength sports - first Vladimir Turchinsky, then Bruce Willis.

The Bank of Russia lowered the official euro exchange rate on Wednesday, December 24, by 2.5 rubles - to 66.7539 rubles, reports the website Finanz.ru . The official dollar exchange rate on Wednesday was lowered by 1.93 rubles to 54.5687 rubles. The cost of the bi-currency basket, calculated at official rates on Wednesday, decreased by 2.18 rubles - to 60.05 rubles. During trading on the Moscow Exchange on Tuesday, the ruble strengthened.

The state did not introduce any parameters for the sale of foreign currency earnings for the largest Russian exporting companies, the head of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, said on Tuesday. “We will not impose control, and we did not oblige state-owned companies to do anything,” the TASS agency quotes him as saying . The minister emphasized that there are no agreements with exporters on the volumes that they should produce “on the mountain”.

photo Corbis The foreign exchange market will receive about $1 billion per day from exporters The government sent the largest state-owned exporting companies - Gazprom, Rosneft, Alrosa, Zarubezhneft and Kristall Production Association - a directive demanding that they sell most of the foreign currency accumulated since October, ensuring that about $1 billion a day enters the market, writes on Tuesday, December 23, the Kommersant newspaper.

The dollar exchange rate at the beginning of trading on the Moscow Exchange on Tuesday, December 23, fell below 53 rubles for the first time since December 8, reports the website Finanz.ru . In the first hour of trading, the dollar exchange rate dropped to the level of 52.8775 rubles per $1. The euro exchange rate dropped to 64.02 rubles per €1 - this is the minimum value since December 5. Then the dollar and euro began to strengthen against the ruble.

UTair Airlines filed two claims against Rosbank with the Moscow Arbitration Court, as follows from the information published on the court’s website. The claims were registered on December 19 and 22, respectively. In both lawsuits, in addition to Rosbank, there is another defendant - German Krasnov. There was no information about the carrier’s requirements and other details of the proceedings on the arbitration website at the time of publication.

The Tinkoff Digital company, whose shareholders are billionaire Oleg Tinkov , Artem Yamanov and the investment bank Goldman Sachs, became part of a new group of investors in the Sravni.ru project, launched by the founder of the Odnoklassniki social network Albert Popkov, follows from the Sravni.ru message. , reported to Forbes on Tuesday.

Moody's Investors Service has worsened its forecast for Russia's GDP dynamics for the next two years, believing that the Russian economy will decline by 5.5% in 2015, according to materials published on Tuesday on the website of the international rating agency. The decline in Russia's GDP in 2016 will be 3%, Moody's predicts.

Photo by RIA Novosti The aggravation of political confrontation after the “people's gathering” in defense of Alexei Navalny may also affect economic policy Alexey Kudrin expects protest activity to intensify. According to the former head of the Ministry of Finance, this will be a reaction of citizens to the inevitable decline in living standards, which, in turn, will be caused by a “full-fledged economic crisis” that the country is entering.

One of the world's largest computer manufacturers, Asus (Taiwan), has suspended deliveries of its products to Russia due to the depreciation of the ruble, the Taiwanese newspaper Taipei Times reported on Tuesday, citing a statement by the company's financial director, David Chang. He told the publication that the company has not been shipping goods to Russia for two weeks due to the fallen exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar.