Andrey Kostin and Arkady Dvorkovich said they think about new American sanctions Prior to the publication by the US Treasury, the “Black List” by Russian businessmen related to the authorities, only 5 days remain - and Russian officials who have not been commenting on future sanctions begin to give their anxiety. More frankly - as if he already knows what would be included in the “black list” - said the head of VTB Andrei Kostin.

VTB will give the Chinese company CEFC €5 billion using 14.6% of Rosneft shares as collateral, said VTB First Deputy President and Chairman Yuri Solovyov at the forum in Davos. The bank's CEO Andrei Kostin confirmed this. The Chinese company announced its intention to buy a stake in Rosneft in 2017, with the deal valued at $9.1 billion. Reuters wrote back in September that the company could take a loan from VTB for this purpose.

“It will be an unprecedented roadshow,” writes Bloomberg: the new president of Zimbabwe, a country with one of the worst economies in the world and millions of percent of hyperinflation, Emmerson Mnangagwa decided to place Eurobonds and thus revive the local economy. There is no information on specific terms and amounts yet, but analysts say that if several conditions are met, the plan can work.

RBC learned that Gazprom-Media is creating its own video service in the spring to monetize the content of the holding’s entertainment TV channels on the Internet. Gazprom-Media has been investing in video services since 2008: then the holding bought the Rutube service for $15 million. In 2011, one of the holding’s channels, TNT, created the online cinema Now.ru , which operated on a paid subscription, but the project never materialized became profitable.

UPD: in the afternoon Russiangate employees were told about the closure of the entire project, according to Open Media. There are no official comments from Russiangate yet. The Russiangate website was blocked a few hours after the publication of an investigation into the undeclared real estate of the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov.

The head of VTB Andrey Kostin at a forum in Davos said that he thinks about new Western sanctions against Russia.

VTB is considering the option of purchasing Vozrozhdenie Bank, VTB President Andrei Kostin said at the economic forum in Davos. According to him, there “may be interest” in the bank, but VTB managers “have never analyzed this bank” and have a poor understanding of the situation in it. “We’ll probably take up this topic now, after returning from Davos, and we’ll see,” Kostin promised. Vozrozhdenie shares on the Moscow Exchange rose by 12.6% after the statement by the head of VTB.

The Central Bank and Rosfinmonitoring decided to compete with cashing money through electronic wallets - anonymous wallets and cards can be completely banned. Photo: pxher.com / cc0 1.0 The government is preparing a bill to limit anonymous electronic payments. It is assumed that Russians will be able to credit the funds to electronic wallets and prepaid bank cards only from a bank account.

In Russia, the principle of “network neutrality” can be canceled - at least, communication operators ask for this. MAIN Photo: pxher.com/cc0 public domain Communication operators can get the right to choose which traffic to transmit in priority. This issue is discussed by the participants of the media-communicative union (ISS, it also includes MTS, Megafon and Vimpelcom, as well as the largest media holdings, including the National Media Group and Gazprom Media).