Rosneft has announced its readiness to offer projects worth $100 billion to European companies, Interfax reported on Thursday, October 22, citing a statement by the president of the oil company, Igor Sechin. The head of Rosneft noted that European business has a variety of opportunities to work with Russian partners. “This includes the supply of equipment, participation in joint production and logistics projects, portfolio investments, and bank financing,” Sechin explained.

The federal sports channel Match TV will receive equipment worth $150 million, which was used at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, TASS reported on Thursday, October 22, citing Match TV general producer Tina Kandelaki. “We equipped it (the TV channel) with Olympic-level equipment worth $150 million, which will satisfy the highest demands of the modern TV viewer,” Kandelaki said.

Semyon Katz for Forbes Boris Yeltsin's daughter about friendship with her father, the murder of Boris Nemtsov, reforms in the 1990s, the Chechen war and the circumstances of the transfer of power to Vladimir Putin Some dates or dashes between dates grow into symbols involuntarily, as history dictates. In relation to the 1990s, no one is indifferent - they hide behind them as an alibi, poke them in the nose as a source of trouble.

President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club on Thursday, compared opaque economic blocs to a “time bomb” that could provoke future conflicts, Interfax reports . “The formation of economic blocs by imposing their terms on the strongest player will certainly not make the world safer, but will only lay a time bomb, the ground for future conflicts,” Putin said. The process of creating such economic blocs “follows almost all the rules of secrecy,” he said.

The Central Bank proposed to cancel the right of minority shareholders to request additional information from the issuer, Interfax reported on Thursday, October 22, with reference to First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Sergei Shvetsov at a conference on corporate governance. “Let's review what is disclosed, but remove the right to additionally request information.

Sberbank has decided to change the focus of its development to serving individuals until 2018, Interfax reports with reference to the bank’s materials for the presentation of Sberbank’s updated strategy for investors scheduled for October 22.

The management of the Moscow Metro will propose to the Moscow authorities in 2016 to increase fares by approximately 7%, said the head of the metro, Dmitry Pegov, at a press conference on Thursday, October 22. “We, as we promised Muscovites, that even if we come up with the initiative to increase tariffs, they will be within the limits of inflation,” Interfax quotes Pegov as saying .

The government will not have an anti-crisis plan for 2016, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday, October 22. He noted that instead of an anti-crisis plan, a fund would be created to support priority sectors of the economy, Interfax reports . “You cannot constantly be in a crisis; the economy has experienced shocks this year, it is beginning to adapt,” Siluanov explained.

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The decision of the European Commission to prohibit European banks from releasing analytics on sanctioned Russian banks will not affect Sberbank, said the bank’s deputy chairman of the board, Alexander Morozov, during a telephone conference on Thursday, October 22. “This applies only to new issues, and this is no longer news, but “old age,” so it has no effect for us, and we are not going to do anything,” Interfax quotes Morozov as saying .

Russia is in favor of holding early presidential elections in Syria, as a result of which Bashar al-Assad could receive a new mandate, Bloomberg wrote on Thursday, citing sources in Moscow and Damascus. If early elections are held, Bashar al-Assad will independently decide on his participation in them, a high-ranking agency source in Moscow said on condition of anonymity. The fact that there is fighting in a significant part of Syria should not become an obstacle to the elections, he said.

The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region accepted the claim of Sberbank to declare bankrupt Vladimir Kekhman, the founder of the fruit importer to Russia JFC, director of the Mikhailovsky Theater and the Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theater, RIA Novosti reported in court on Thursday. The arbitration court scheduled a hearing on the validity of the application for December 3.

AP / TASS Restrictions do not prevent VTB from publishing its own reports, the state bank recalled The decision of the European Commission to prohibit European banks from releasing analytics on Russian banks subject to sanctions corresponds to the logic of “to spite my mother I’ll freeze my ears,” Vasily Titov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of VTB, said on Thursday. Titov called the European Commission’s move “ridiculous” and noted that he did not understand its logic, TASS reports .

Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev almost halved the price of his last asset in Russia - a business center on Vozdvizhenka, RBC reported on Thursday, October 22, citing representatives of three international consulting companies. According to the publication, the billionaire is ready to sell Vozdvizhenka Center (the building of the former Voentorg store) for $200 million. Previously, the center was already put up for sale; in 2014 its value was estimated at $500-$550 million.

The Government Commission on Legislative Activities approved a bill to increase the retirement age for civil servants. This is stated on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers. According to the bill, the retirement age from which officials are entitled to an additional payment to the old-age insurance pension will be gradually increased from 60 to 65 years.