An increase in the load on the oil and gas industry is inevitable, said Assistant Minister of Finance Svetlana Nikitina on Monday, September 28. “What is important is the method that would lead to the least consequences for the industry,” TASS quotes her as saying . Nikitina noted that the Ministry of Finance is making the necessary calculations.

TASS/ fotoimedia / Maxim Stulov MKB-Capital bought 5.375% of the voting shares of the pharmacy chain The MKB-Capital company, which manages the assets of the owner of the Moscow Credit Bank (MCB) Roman Avdeev , bought out 5.375% of the voting shares of Pharmacy Chain 36.6, acquiring part of the additional issue, writes the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to materials from “36.6” .

The total debt of Transaero airline to the Vnukovo group of companies is about 1.5 billion rubles, said Vitaly Vantsev, chairman of the board of directors and co-owner of Vnukovo, on Monday, September 28. “Transaero owes the Vnukovo group 1.5 billion rubles,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying . Vantsev also said that Transaero could have stopped flights back in December 2014 if the state had not promised it state guarantees, Interfax reports .

Diomedia Winterkorn, ranked among the world's most powerful people according to Forbes, quit due to environmental scandal German prosecutors have launched a formal investigation into the activities of former Volkswagen AG chief executive Martin Winterkorn, who was running the automaker when he was accused of falsifying environmental test results, Bloomberg reported Monday .

The CEO and founder of the travel agency Eviterra Travel, Nikolai Zayarny, has been put on the international wanted list by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), according to a message published on Monday, September 28, on the Interpol website. The businessman was given a “red card”, which Interpol uses to mark especially dangerous criminals. The entrepreneur's profile states that he is wanted for large-scale theft by fraud.

Aeroflot airline received a notification about the ban on flights to the territory of Ukraine from the beginning of the winter schedule, that is, from October 25, Interfax reported , citing a representative of the carrier on Monday, September 28. Earlier on Monday, the press service of the State Aviation Service of Ukraine reported that it had notified in writing all Russian airlines subject to sanctions that flights to the country would be banned from October 25.

Gazprom sent a letter to the European Commission in response to the claims formulated as part of the antimonopoly investigation of its activities in the countries of the European Union, the TASS agency reported on Monday , citing a press release from the Russian company. “The document substantiates our company’s position with respect to each of the claims notices,” the press release said.

Speech at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, meeting with Barack Obama and other points of the Russian President’s visit to the USA Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in New York on Monday, September 28, to take part in the 70th session of the UN General Assembly. On the sidelines of the summit, the Russian leader will hold a series of bilateral negotiations.

Germany is not deploying new American atomic bombs on its territory, but is only replacing old components, TASS reported on Monday, September 28, citing a statement by German Ambassador to Russia Rüdiger von Fritsch. “There is nothing new in this, that is, this is not an expansion of what is there,” the source said. He explained that we are talking about replacing those components and units whose service life has expired.

A meeting of the international contact group on Syria with the participation of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Turkey and Egypt may take place in October, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, September 28, citing Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.

Communist Party candidate Sergei Levchenko won the second round of elections for governor of the Irkutsk region and won 56.39% of the votes after counting 99.1% of the protocols, TASS reports with reference to data in the State Automated System “Elections” system. According to the election commission, Levchenko received the strongest support from the regional center, where in various territories from 66.65% to 74.54% of residents of the Irkutsk region voted for him.

The international payment system Visa will refuse guaranteed servicing of transactions on cards of Russian banks from October 1, reported on Monday, September 28. the Kommersant newspaper The publication refers to the corresponding warning from Visa, which the rating agency sent to its partners. The payment system confirmed that it had sent such a letter to all banks.

The Moscow Arbitration Court registered an appeal from Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant OJSC (ChMK), part of Igor Zyuzin ’s Mechel , against the decision to recover 6.76 billion rubles from him and four other structures of the metallurgical company in favor of Sberbank, RIA Novosti reported on Monday , September 28, citing court data.

Visa's decision to abandon guarantees for processing domestic transactions on Russian cards from October 1 will not affect cardholders, Interfax reported on Monday, September 28, citing the NSPK press service. The interlocutor explained that all banks send domestic authorization requests and exchange clearing messages for Visa payment system cards through the unified processing and clearing center NSPK.

Alfa Bank filed six new claims with the Moscow Arbitration Court against the scientific and production corporation Uralvagonzavod (UVZ, Nizhny Tagil) and its subsidiaries, according to materials published on the court’s website on Monday, September 28. The message indicates that four claims have been accepted for production - in the amount of about 2.4 billion rubles and $30 million.