Official opinion Fundamental agreements have been reached between Baghdad and Erbil, the unofficial capital of the Kurdish autonomy in northern Iraq. After several months of intense negotiations, the parties managed to agree on the issue of export of oil and petroleum products. This was announced by Iraqi Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari.

Debt instruments compete with deposits in profitability The interest of individuals in the exchange bond market continues to grow, despite the decrease in the activity of other categories of participants in the main section. While the share of individuals in bonds is negligible, so it does not change the balance of power in the market, however, the exchange pins its hopes on this category of investors.

VTB President Andrei Kostin, in an interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt , said that disconnecting Russian banks from the international payment system SWIFT would mean war. “In my personal opinion, if this type of sanctions is introduced, it will mean war,” said Mr. Kostin. The VTB president also added that if Russia were disconnected from SWIFT, the American ambassador to Russia should have left on the same day. Mr.

The best business books of the year: the choice of "The Secret of the Company" Gabe Zickermann, Jocelyn Linder "Gamification in Business" "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", 2014 Gamification is a fashionable topic. Here we collect all the best that can be taken from loyalty programs, game mechanics and behavioral economics. It is gaming methods that are actively used today to attract the attention of audiences - both external (clients) and internal (employees).

The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk on Kommersant FM Russia will not mindlessly submit to the West on the issue of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin stated this in his message to the Federal Assembly. The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk discussed the speech of the Russian leader with host Marat Kashin on Kommersant FM. Photo: Vladislav Sodel, Kommersant / buy photo “What is this whole tragedy in Ukraine for?

On Thursday, December 4, Vladimir Putin will deliver a message to the Federal Assembly. Many experts believe that economic issues will be the focus. Deputy General Director of the Institute for the Development of Financial Markets Valery Petrov answered questions from Kommersant FM host Maxim Mitchenkov.

The European Court of Human Rights recovered more than €50 thousand from Russia in favor of oppositionists Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin. The court decision states that the decision to administratively arrest the applicants in 2011 was made by the Russian authorities with a number of violations. The court ruled that Russian authorities violated the activists' rights to a fair trial, as well as to freedom and security of person.

Recently, the Moscow Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod" opened the exhibition "Forgotten War", dedicated to the events of the First World War. In a relatively small area, the views of various artists converged on this large-scale human massacre, which went down in the history of the bloody 20th century. Gleb Ivanov talks about his impressions.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service granted the request of Direct Investments LLC (Moscow, main activity - monetary intermediation) to acquire 25% and one voting share of the gold mining OJSC Seligdar, the FAS said in a statement. According to SPARK-Interfax, the parent company of Direct Investment is Sever Petroleum LLC. According to Seligdar, its shareholders are Russian Funds Investment Group (about 40%), management (about 30%), Russian and foreign portfolio investors (about 30%).

Angarsk merged with neighboring settlements and received the status of an urban district Yesterday, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region unanimously voted for the transformation of the settlements of the Angarsk region into an urban district. The bill was adopted first in the first reading, and after a break - in the final one. It will come into force on January 1, 2015.

The brightest startups of 2014 In 2014, investors preferred to invest in foreign companies, explaining this by the gloomy prospects for the Russian economy. But some entrepreneurs managed to find money even in such conditions. "Secret of the Company" selected three startups that did what others thought was impossible. Text: Andrey Lapshin Pizza to heaven Pizza construction.

3K 1 min. ... Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that serious cases of corruption were discovered in the rocket and space industry, which were committed under the previous leadership of this industry. “Facts of theft are now beginning to come to light when the management of individual enterprises changes, in particular when management changes in the rocket and space industry.

What cities do people live well in? Where do the richest and poorest live in Russia? The Avito company, at the request of Sekret Firmy, calculated the average cost of real estate and cars on the secondary market. Text: Vladislav Kovalenko As of mid-November, Russians posted advertisements for the sale of 4 million apartments and 1.1 million cars on the Avito portal.

New sanitary rules for industrial enterprises have been sent for revision An attempt by Rospotrebnadzor to introduce new sanitary rules for industrial enterprises - taking into account the risks to public health - has been postponed for now. The document has been sent for revision, this is the result of yesterday’s meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets. However, business somewhat softened its position, admitting that the new version of the rules is still better than the current one.

At the Kamensk-Ural Metallurgical Plant (KUMZ, Sverdlovsk Region), construction of the first stage of a rolling complex has been completed, reports the information policy department of the head of the region. The new building will produce thin metal sheets and rolls. It is planned that the rolling complex will be put into operation in 2016, production volumes will be increased to 165.9 thousand tons per year. Kommersant-Online