Entrepreneurs from Estonia ordered 15 thousand tons of flax from Chelyabinsk farmers. As TASS reports with reference to the regional Ministry of Agriculture, flax is sown on 7.3 thousand hectares in six districts. Of these, 3 thousand hectares, in particular, are sown in the Khlebinka farm. According to preliminary estimates, profits from the sale of flax this year will be about 400 million rubles, at 25 thousand rubles per ton. Kommersant-Online

Vice-President of the European Commission (EC) Valdis Dombrovskis, who oversees the economic and monetary union, said in an interview with the German newspaper Welt that Europe is ready to offer assistance to Greece if negotiations are resumed. “To restore financial stability, we need, first of all, a credible strategy on the part of Greece. Of course, the European Commission is ready to cooperate with Athens and offer assistance.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed considering the issue of reducing duties on government services provided via the Internet. “In order to increase interest in the use of government services (electronic - Kommersant ), we can think about reducing the state duty,” he said at a meeting of the government commission on the use of information technology.

Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation Andrei Klishas said that the patriotic “stop list” of foreign NGOs will be formed based on information provided by the Ministry of Justice, the FSB, the Prosecutor General’s Office and other departments and regions. “We have a lot of information provided to us by the Ministry of Justice, the FSB, and the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The ex-head of Rusnano will be under investigation at home Today, the Basmanny District Court chose a preventive measure in the form of house arrest for the former head of the Rusnano company, general director of CJSC Holding Company Composite, Leonid Melamed, suspected by the Investigative Committee of organizing a particularly large embezzlement. His accomplices - former deputy chairman of the board of Rusnano Andrei Malyshev and financial director Svyatoslav Ponurov - are abroad.

The State Duma adopted in the second and third readings a draft law on postponing federal parliamentary elections from December to the third Sunday of September 2016. The document simultaneously provides financial and social guarantees to those deputies who will not be re-elected to the State Duma of the 7th convocation, as well as to state and municipal service bodies.

A professional standard will be developed for them The Committee on Political Technologies of the Russian Public Relations Association will develop a professional standard for a political strategist. This will make it easier to find specialists for campaigns, the head of the committee, president of Minchenko Consulting, Evgeniy Minchenko, is sure. The development of a professional standard should not put an end to market self-regulation, its participants say.

As part of the criminal case regarding the fire in the Kazan Admiral shopping center, 586 people were recognized as civil plaintiffs, who declared material damage caused to them in the amount of 1.444 billion rubles. Natalya Loseva, press secretary of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, told Kommersant about this. According to her, during the investigation of the case, entrepreneurs trading in the burnt market began to contact the investigators with statements about the damage caused.

The first section will begin to be built only in 2016 The construction of the first section of the future central ring road (TsKAD) was postponed for 2016. This is due to the problems that arose from Stroygazconsulting, which won the state contract for construction in the amount of 48 billion rubles. Another site, between M3 and M10, is building the company of Arks. The remaining sections of the CCAD will be played at the competition only in the fall, also with a delay.

British BP will pay $19 billion for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that occurred in 2010 after the accident on the Deepwater Horizon platform. Despite the large fine, the company's quotes rose by 4.5%. Kommersant FM experts explain this by saying that investors expected more serious sanctions. Photo: Evgeny Pereverzev, Kommersant / buy photo British BP will pay the US almost $19 billion for the accident in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Central Bank revoked the licenses of four more banks The Central Bank traditionally revoked the licenses of violating banks at the end of the week. Banks “Client”, “Old Kremlin”, “Gagarinsky” and ENO left the market. Photo: Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant The Central Bank announced the revocation of licenses from four participants in the banking market on its website today. According to the regulator, four players left the market - banks Client, Gagarinsky, Stary Kremlin and ENO.

The Nizhny Novgorod region complains about deteriorating lending conditions Vice-Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Vladimir Ivanov proposes that the Bank of Russia increase the status of state guarantees provided by regions of the Russian Federation to enterprises as collateral for loans. In his opinion, downgrading the quality category of government guarantees reduces the availability of credit resources for business, which negatively affects the economy of the region.

Sema Fridman, 3 years old, cerebral palsy, requires treatment. RUB 154,740 Attention! The price of treatment is 199,740 rubles. TV viewers of State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Altai" will collect 45 thousand rubles. The happiest time is to carry two lives under your heart at once. Stepan was born healthy, but Semyon suffered cardiac arrest. Two weeks of coma, difficult intensive care. All these years we have been fighting for our son. Treatment is given with great difficulty.

Searches are being carried out at the place of work of Svyatoslav Ponurov, a defendant in the case of embezzlement at Rusnano, in an office on Zubovsky Boulevard in Moscow, said Vladimir Markin, official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR).

The United States condemns the intention of the authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) to hold local elections on December 18, Vice President Joseph Biden said on Thursday in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk. “The Vice President condemned in the most serious terms the separatist leaders’ announcement of plans to hold elections on October 18,” RIA Novosti cites an excerpt from the White House message.