Volkswagen will begin recalling cars with diesel engines equipped with programs that hide the real level of pollutant emissions from January 2016. Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller said this in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “This week we are submitting technical solutions to the Federal Motor Transport Administration. If accepted, we will order the parts. Everything is going according to plan, we will be able to start renovations in January,” Muller said.

One of the leaders of the Russian division of Goldman Sachs, Nick Jordan, will take over the post of CEO of the Finstar investment holding of billionaire Oleg Boyko. President of the investment holding Finstar, billionaire Oleg Boyko (Photo: RIA Novosti) Co-head of the Russian division of Goldman Sachs Nick Jordan is moving to the post of CEO of the investment holding Finstar of billionaire Oleg Boyko. reports this Bloomberg with reference to a company message.

Photo: AP The leaders of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass agreed to postpone local elections until spring. Adopting a compromise solution is a step towards fulfilling the political part of the Minsk agreements and freezing the military conflict, politicians and experts say. The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics announced the postponement of local elections, the Donetsk News Agency reported. Voting is scheduled for February 21, 2016.

28 million insured citizens voted for the funded component. Testing their trust again with uncertain rules means placing additional limits on economic growth. The old arguments no longer work The decision that pension funds will extend the moratorium on the use of contributions to the savings system is probably already predetermined.

A bankruptcy claim was filed in St. Petersburg for the developer of the Konyushenny Department The company "A Plus Development" asks to declare the developer of the Konyushenny Department bankrupt. The claim to declare the company Orange-Development CJSC (part of Mikhail Zingarevich's Plaza Lotus Group) bankrupt was registered on the website of the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on October 6, 2015.

Photo: Kommersant Russian Standard Bank has given holders of its $550 million Eurobonds a choice: either agree to restructuring, or the loan will be written off.

On Tuesday, October 6, missile systems based in Syria monitored Turkish fighter jets patrolling the Turkish-Syrian border, the Turkish General Staff said . According to the Turkish military, an air defense system located on Syrian territory captured eight F-16 fighter jets flying along the border as targets for 30 seconds. Ankara has twice reported interference with its fighter jets.

French actor Gerard Depardieu, who received Russian citizenship in 2013, admitted that he is proud of his Russian passport and dreams of an apartment in Moscow. He spoke about this at a press conference in the capital, TASS reports . “Someone said to you, why did you give citizenship to this drunkard? But this is in vain. I dream of buying an apartment in Moscow, maybe even in Siberia, a house on Lake Baikal, I already have one in Saransk,” said the actor.

The Russian Ministry of Defense suspected the American Air Force of airstrikes “not against terrorist targets.” This was stated by the official representative of the Russian department Igor Konashenkov. “So, for starters, let us remind you that the American and other air forces have been carrying out strikes for a year now. So, we have reason to believe that they do not always, or rather, very often, hit non-terrorist targets,” Konashenkov is quoted as saying in the department’s statement.

Militiaman Dmitry Oslovsky, who detained Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, said that Savchenko was captured in the Lugansk region. Russia insists Savchenko crossed the border herself and was not kidnapped Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko (Photo: AP) Oslovsky spoke about the capture of Savchenko about one and a half kilometers from the village of Metallist, Lugansk region. He stated this while speaking at a meeting of the Donetsk City Court in the Rostov region, TASS reports .

Cinema chains have agreed with the Ministry of Culture that in 2016 Russian films will make up at least 20% of their repertoire.

Eldar Ryazanov was hospitalized on Wednesday at the First City Hospital in Moscow, but the alarm turned out to be false: nothing was found on the famous director. The Zvezda TV channel was the first to report Ryazanov’s hospitalization. According to him, the director was hospitalized with a heart attack. The fact that Ryazanov was taken to the hospital was also reported by RIA Novosti, whose source at the First City Hospital assessed the patient’s condition as serious.

Photo: Natalya Garnelis/TASS The main source of money for Moscow in 2016 will be the personal income tax. Their share in tax revenues will increase from 50% this year to 51% next year. 100 billion in three years The metropolitan government approved the draft law “On the budget of the city of Moscow for 2016 and the planning period of 2017 and 2018.” A gradual increase in income is planned for the entire three-year period: from 1.599 trillion rubles. in 2016 to 1.693 trillion rubles. in 2018.

The Ministry of Justice refused to leave the Golos Association and the Golos-Ural Foundation from the register of foreign agents. told Vedomosti about this. Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the “Voice” movement, The decision was made based on the results of inspections carried out by the departments of the Ministry of Justice in Moscow and the Chelyabinsk region. The Golos Association was checked from July 13 to August 7. During 2014, the organization did not conduct any activities.

Experts from the Ministry of Defense are holding consultations with Turkish colleagues to subsequently prevent incidents in the airspace on the border of Syria and Turkey. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian defense department Igor Konashenkov. Consultations are taking place “from early morning” at the National Defense Management Center, as specified in a message from the Ministry of Defense received by RBC.