389 1 min. ... It would seem that the September 20 release of Turkish hostages held in Iraq by terrorists from the Islamic State organization should have been a cause for jubilation and a personal triumph for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After all, Islamists kill hostages more often than free them. However, from the moment the Turkish President announced the release of 49 people held by terrorists, he has to make excuses rather than respond to gratitude.

180 people in Surgut were poisoned by psychoactive substances, the death toll reached seven. Drug police reported the arrest of two drug suspects. Meanwhile, Kommersant FM's interlocutors do not rule out that the detainees will be able to evade criminal liability, since the new smoking mixture is not on the list of prohibited drugs. Photo: Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant The number of people poisoned by an unknown drug in Surgut has grown to 180 people. All of them are in local hospitals.

1K 1 min. ... Although the era of the Great Geographical Discoveries is in the past, we are well aware that if you move a little further than a hundred kilometers from Moscow and dig a little deeper, you can make a lot of discoveries. And not only geographical ones.

How Russian are Russian cars? 7K 9 min. ... Do you want to show your fist to the West and switch to a Lada? Please. You just have to stand in line: on its own, Russia can only provide 20% of the population with passenger cars. Photo: Yulia Gukova ARTEM NIKITIN Import in boomerang shape In response to Western sanctions, Russia may limit the import of cars from the EU and the US, primarily used ones. Presidential aide Andrei Belousov stated this a few weeks ago.

During the summit of the Caspian Five countries in Astrakhan, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed that state authorities consider the issue of creating a Caspian free trade zone, RIA Novosti reports. Photo: Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant / buy photo Read more about the summit in the Kommersant article “The Caspian settlement is reaching the finish line.”

1K 1 min. ... Krasnodar airport was evacuated on Monday due to a suspicious bag that was found at the check-in counters. The Interfax agency was informed about this by the press service of the Basel Aero company, which manages the airport. “About 11:00 Moscow time, about 400 passengers awaiting check-in for flights to Moscow by Aeroflot, Transaero and VIM-Avia were escorted out of Krasnodar International Airport in an orderly manner,” said a press service employee.

Behind Nyman is an intelligent cowboy. Manages to pull the trigger before any opponent. His tracing jokes are poisonous... In addition, Naiman writes wonderful poetry, he is Akhmatova’s friend and Brodsky’s teacher... I envy Naiman. His wit, confidence, anger. Sergey Dovlatov, writer Against Naiman is a translator. He was not a very independent figure at all, and yet there was something about him, some sharpness, some subtlety.

355 6 min. ... Irina Bulgakova, head of the directorate for working with municipal projects at the Bank of Moscow, speaks about the role of commercial banks in the formation of a new system for capital repairs of apartment buildings (MKD). According to Irina Bulgakova, the Bank of Moscow is already creating optimal financial conditions for major housing repairs in four regions.

Omsk agricultural complex plans expansion to Perm The Udarny agricultural complex intends to invest in the reconstruction of the state-owned Perm Pig Farm. The government of the Perm region is studying proposals from two potential partners: the Omsk agricultural holding and the Czech Bauer technics. Omsk residents are ready to rent the most unprofitable part of the pig farm and make it profitable, the Czechs are ready to completely build a new plant.

The director of the Rosgosstrakh branch in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Igor Lagutkin, told BG correspondent Yulia Chayun about the prospects for the development of the Russian insurance market, the MTPL crisis and where “long-term money lies” in the country. Photo: Alexander Koryakov, Kommersant BUSINESS GUIDE: Previously, you headed the Rosgosstrakh branch in Perm, and you have been working as director of the St. Petersburg branch for six months now.

The Ural Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case into the crash of a Mi-8 helicopter of UTair airlines in South Sudan. According to the department's press service, the rear fuselage of an aircraft chartered by the UN caught fire while transporting food weighing 2.5 tons along the Wau - Bentio route.

The United States and a number of allied countries carried out airstrikes on Syria's main gas processing plant, AFP reported on September 29, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “The United States, with the support of the international coalition, carried out airstrikes for the first time on the entrance and prayer area of ​​the largest Syrian gas processing plant under Islamist control,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, a spokesman for the monitoring center.

The head of the marketing laboratory Legenda Intelligent Development, Vsevolod Glazunov, in an interview with BG, talked about how to make square meters correct, neighbors friendly, and business interesting. Photo: Evgeny Pavlenko, Kommersant BUSINESS GUIDE: The company is still very young. How did she appear?

At the end of last week, the first gastronomic festival of Russian duck was held in Rostov-on-Don, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and 22 other cities. At the same time, the holiday with treats took place in 150 HoReCa establishments (restaurants, cafes, hotels, shopping and entertainment centers). According to the information policy department of the government of the Rostov region, the festival’s goal is to draw attention to products manufactured under the “Made on Don” brand.

How Alibaba brought fabulous profits to investors In the current reading, Alibaba is a fairy tale about a poor and poorly educated translator from Hangzhou who overnight became the richest man in China, and his company became one of the largest in the world. Among those who believed in this story were wealthy Russians: they attended the feast, drank mead and beer, and received almost a thousand percent of the profit.