Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram of congratulations to Alexander Lukashenko on his “convincing” victory in the presidential elections in Belarus on October 11, according to the Kremlin website.

General Director of Aeroflot airline Vitaly Savelyev said that there is no reason for cheap air tickets on the market, since companies should not fly at a loss. about this He spoke in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper. “For a ticket to be cheap, there must be reasons and motives for this. Today, none of the market players have such reasons. The minimum level of ticket prices for the market is the price of the low-cost carrier Pobeda, since the company saves on everything.

EU foreign ministers are demanding an “immediate end” to attacks by Russian forces in Syria against moderate opposition groups and other groups that the UN does not officially recognize as terrorist groups, according to a statement published on the European Council website on Monday, October 12.

photo Vasily Golinyak/Interpress/TASS The Rotenbergs’ chances of successful cooperation with the state monopoly have increased, since they are “well acquainted” with the new head of Russian Railways The resignation of Vladimir Yakunin from the post of head of Russian Railways may lead to a change in its key contractors who have multi-year contracts with the company worth more than 360 billion rubles, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Monday, October 12, citing sources.

Fotolia/PhotoXPress.ru What are the reasons for the weakness of the national currency and what will happen to it It is obvious that the ruble depends on oil. Predicting the ruble for one day or month is a pointless exercise. However, in the future, state policy has a great influence on the exchange rate of the national currency.

Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov rejected accusations against the Kremlin of involvement in hacker attacks abroad, Interfax reported on Monday .

photo TASS/Interpress/Petr Kovalev Elena Timchenko admitted that sanctions made it difficult to travel together with her husband The wife of billionaire Gennady Timchenko, Elena, in an interview with Ogonyok magazine, said that the sanctions imposed against the businessman had an impact on the family’s foreign travels. “Sanctions make it difficult to travel together with my husband, which is a shame, because we have many friends left in Europe, and indeed all over the world.

The Moscow police have put banker Oleg Rafanovich, who headed the bankrupt Senator bank, on the international wanted list, writes . the Kommersant newspaper In September, the Tagansky Court of Moscow considered the petition of investigators from the Investigation Department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District (CAO) of Moscow to arrest Rafanovich in absentia.

photo REUTERS / Marcelo del Pozo The ban on flights of all Russian airlines comes into force on October 25 The State Aviation Service of Ukraine has decided to completely stop air traffic between Ukraine and Russia from October 25, the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure said in a statement published on Monday, October 12.

AFK "Sistema" of Vladimir Yevtushenkov will launch a venture fund in 2016 for investments in the Internet industry on the basis of its subsidiary OJSC "System Mass Media" (SMM), the reported on Monday. company's press service “The main areas of the fund’s work will be investments in “new” media,” the press release says.

The cost of the Russian military operation in Syria is about $1 billion a year, according to military experts who were interviewed by Kommersant Money magazine. According to Vasily Kashin, an employee of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, now the operation in Syria can be compared with “not very large” military exercises.

Getty Images Steve Tyler is unhappy with the unauthorized use of the song "Dream On" by US presidential candidate Aerosmith leader Steven Tyler asked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (No. 405 in the global ranking of billionaires according to Forbes, net worth: $4.1 billion) to stop using his song Dream On at election events, Associated Press reports .

Andrey Lapshin Author Forbes photojournalist spent 24 hours in Sheremetyevo Sheremetyevo is the second busiest airport in Moscow and Russia. At the end of 2014, the airport reported passenger traffic of 31.6 million people and in this indicator was second only to Domodedovo (33 million people). Today Sheremetyevo receives flights from 39 airlines. It is the main airport for the Russian airline giant Aeroflot and airlines of the international SkyTeam alliance.

photo TASS/OOO Rodionov Publishing House The first president of the company, Gennady Fadeev, returns to the railway 78-year-old Gennady Fadeev, who headed the company in 2003-2005, could become an adviser to Russian Railways President Oleg Belozerov. Forbes was told about this by two interlocutors close to the management of the railway state monopoly.

Getty Images The former head of China's largest oil and gas holding admitted to receiving bribes worth $2.2 million A court in China sentenced the former head of China's largest oil and gas holding PetroChina, Jiang Zemin, to 16 years in prison for bribes worth $2.2 million, the BBC reported , citing Chinese media. The court found Jiang Zemin guilty of accepting bribes totaling $2.2 million from 2004 to 2013. The former head of PetroChina himself admitted his guilt.