The Russian Railways company will set rolling stock manufacturers the task of creating a “mini-electric train” consisting of one or two cars, company head Vladimir Yakunin said at a briefing on Thursday. “We will set technical tasks for rolling stock manufacturers so that we begin to produce electric rolling stock in the 1-2-car configuration,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying .

Photo TASS The trial against the former owners of Snoras Bank in the UK has been completed The High Court of London on Thursday rejected the petitions of the former owners of the bankrupt Lithuanian bank Snoras, Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, who asked to be allowed to file an appeal against the decision to extradite them to Lithuania, writes the Lithuanian publication Delfi , citing the BNS agency.

Rostechnadzor identified 20 and 11 violations in the work of operators of the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 projects, respectively, the head of the department, Alexey Aleshin, told Interfax on Thursday. According to Aleshin, we are talking about violations of industrial safety requirements and safe conduct of work related to the use of subsoil, non-compliance with the requirements of technical and design documentation during field development.

The Kremlin denied information that Russian President Vladimir Putin offered former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi the post of minister in Russia, Interfax reported on Thursday, July 23, citing the head of state’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

Businessman Evgeny Roitman and his partner, a billionaire from the Russian Forbes list , will launch a new LTE operator at the beginning of 2016, Interfax reported , citing a source in the telecommunications market. According to the agency's interlocutor, the new operator's network will be built on LTE frequencies of 1900-1920 MHz, which belong to Roitman's three companies - Antares LLC, Arktur LLC and Integral LLC.

Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), reports Bloomberg . The IPO will be organized by UBS AG, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Banco Santander SA and Pierce, Fenner & Smith.

The next issue of Forbes. Topic of the week" is already in the App Store In today's release of the free iPad app Forbes. Topic of the week" foreign top managers of Russian representative offices of Jaguar, Audi, Porsche and Volvo tell what they think about Russian roads, Moscow prices and the currency crisis. The Forbes Weekly iPad app can be downloaded for free from the App Store at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/forbes-russia-mag/id934323468?mt=8 .

photo TASS The Kremlin has already asked not to take this as an official proposal Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has friendly relations, allegedly offered him Russian citizenship and the post of Minister of Economy, the Italian newspaper La Stampa writes on Thursday, July 23. “My future? Become a minister for my friend Putin,” the publication quotes Berlusconi as saying.

Forbes Editorial Forbes Editorial The growing economic crisis and declining consumer demand have affected the well-being of Russian stars The total income of 50 actors, singers, musicians, directors and athletes from June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015 amounted to $174 million. The drop for the year was 24%. The ruble exchange rate fell by 34% during this time. That is, the ruble income of celebrities has increased slightly. But this trend did not affect athletes competing outside of Russia.

The Investigative Committee (ICR) began a pre-investigation check against the officials responsible for the construction on the territory of a military camp in the Omsk region, where the barracks collapsed, according to a statement from the official representative of the department, Vladimir Markin, published on Thursday, July 23. As a result of the collapse of the barracks, according to the latest data, 24 people were killed.

Photo TASS The speaker of the State Duma invited the French delegation to find out the opinion of ordinary residents of the peninsula about joining Russia Crimea was peacefully annexed by Ukraine between 1991 and 2014, State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said on Thursday, July 23, at a meeting with a delegation of French parliamentarians. At the meeting, Naryshkin advised his interlocutors to communicate with ordinary residents during their visit to the peninsula, TASS reports .

photo TASS The idea is for the new structure to coordinate the actions of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Central Bank The Federation Council announced the need to create a special body that would deal with international legal processes similar to the lawsuit of former Yukos shareholders, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, July 23, with reference to a letter from Deputy Head of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation Konstantin

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the country's interest in expanding the program of joint exercises of the Ukrainian and American military, reports .

Rosselkhoznadzor prevented an attempt to import more than 2 tons of “dangerous” cheese into Crimea from the Novotroitsk cheese factory in Ukraine, reported on Thursday, July 23. the press service of the Russian agency According to Rosselkhoznadzor, the cheese was intended for sale in Simferopol. During the inspection, the agency discovered that the product exceeded the safety indicators for coliform bacteria, which violated veterinary and sanitary standards for the supply of products.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a government meeting on Thursday that he had signed a decree on subsidizing manufacturers of the latest Russian SSJ100 and MC-21 aircraft in the amount of 250 million rubles, Interfax reports . Medvedev noted that these funds are provided for in the 2015 budget.