The investigation into the murder of four people in the Moscow region by businessman Amiran Georgadze will check the legality of the authorities granting him land for development and a construction license, official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Vladimir Markin said on Monday, October 26.

REUTERS/Stephen Lam The founder of Facebook said that he needed knowledge of Chinese to communicate with his wife’s grandmother Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (No. 7 on Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans, worth $40.3 billion) gave his first public speech last weekend in Mandarin, the most popular Chinese language, at Tsinghua University in Beijing. this on Monday, October 26 .

The Commission of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) invited the authorities of the European Union (EU) to begin a dialogue on the creation of a common economic space, TASS reported on Monday, October 26, with reference to Tatyana Valovaya, Minister for Main Directions of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission. The agency clarifies that an official letter has been submitted to the EU Commission.

Photo by Alexey Panov / RIA Novosti Tatyana Malkina about the transparency of state families, the harsh fate of the first lady and those whom we do not elect. The debate about whether the family life of the head of state should be a public domain or has the right to remain his (or her) private matter is, of course, not new, its history is as long as the history of politics, trade and fashion, the tradition of gossip and corruption, the chronicle curiosity, intrigue and envy.

The government will not cut scholarships to students in 2016, said the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov at a working meeting in Naberezhnye Chelny on Monday, October 26. Livanov noted that the draft budget for 2016 already includes an indexation of student scholarships by 4%, Interfax reports . In mid-October, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, who oversees the social block in the government, said that scholarships would not be increased in the near future.

The deal with Aeroflot to purchase 75% + 1 share of Transaero fell through due to the fact that the purchasing company did not receive permission from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), the former CEO of Transaero wrote on Monday, October 26, on Twitter. Olga Pleshakova.

photo by Dmitry Ternovoy for Forbes But the company has to negotiate a merger with a competitor Investment company LetterOne, controlled by Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman , German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev , is ready to invest $4 billion in the Brazilian telecommunications company Oi SA, provided that it agrees to merge with local competitor TIM Participacoes, The Wall Street Journal wrote on Monday. LetterOne Oi announced its interest on Monday.

Analysts at investment bank Goldman Sachs warned in a new note to clients about the likelihood of a sharp collapse in oil prices, Reuters reported on Monday, October 26. Goldman Sachs notes that crude oil storage capacity utilization in the US and Europe is close to “historically high levels.” The note notes that this threatens a repeat of the events of 1998 and 2009, when, as distillate storage capacity was exhausted, oil began to sharply fall in price.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) found Tinkoff Bank to have violated antimonopoly laws when changing deposit rates unilaterally, TASS reported on Monday, October 26, citing the press service of the antimonopoly agency. Deputy Head of the FAS Andrey Kashevarov explained that the bank will be fined in the amount of 100,000 to 500,000 rubles. “Tinkoff Bank’s actions to unilaterally change the terms of the deposit agreement are contrary to banking legislation,” he explained.

The Pentagon fears damage to the undersea cables that provide Internet to Western countries The US military and intelligence agencies are concerned about the activity of Russian submarines and spy ships near key undersea cables that provide global Internet, The New York Times writes , citing sources.

S7 co-owner Natalia Fileva, who owns 50% of the shares of this airline, denied information about the cancellation of the deal to purchase Transaero, RBC reported on Monday, October 26, citing Fileva’s statement. According to her, S7 continues to finalize the deal. She declined to elaborate on the details of this process. Earlier, Gazeta.Ru, citing sources, wrote about the cancellation of the deal for the purchase of Transaero airline by S7 shareholders.

A bill was introduced to the State Duma to suspend the indexation of salaries of civil servants, military pay and salaries of judges, according to a message published on Monday, October 26, on the official website of the lower house of parliament.

The Russian VimpelCom has canceled the fee for access to the WhatsApp messenger on a number of its tariff plans, said on Monday on his Facebook page. the telecom operator’s CEO Mikhail Slobodin “Together with WhatsApp, we are launching for the first time unlimited and free access to the messenger on our most popular “Everyone” tariff plans,” Slobodin wrote. He explained that as of October 26, 2015, Beeline customers will no longer have to pay for data traffic for the WhatsApp messenger.

Joe Toth/BPI/REX Shutterstock Launched in 2013, the fund invests in Russian and Israeli startups The Millhouse fund, which manages the assets of billionaire Roman Abramovich , will invest up to $10 million in the Altair Capital venture fund, which invests in innovative projects in the Internet sector, reported , citing an Altair Capital press release.

Transaero Airlines has notified of its intention to apply to the arbitration court to declare itself bankrupt, as follows from materials posted on Monday on the website of the Unified Federal Register of Information on the Facts of the Activities of Legal Entities. The notification was submitted on behalf of the general director of the air carrier Dmitry Saprykin. Earlier, Transaero's largest creditors, Alfa Bank and Sberbank, filed bankruptcy claims for Transaero.