Putin gives Vekselberg the insignia “For Good deeds”. Photo from the Kremlin website 11 days before the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017, billionaire Victor Vekselberg met with President’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen in Trump Tower. This is reported by CNN and The New York Times , the video that was at the disposal of the media, and confirm the cousin of Vekselberg, Andrew Intrutter and one informed source. Details The meeting was held on January 9, 2017.

The St. Petersburg Forum did not bring sensational news, but we learned what ways to find money for the May decree of Putin are discussed in the government, and what Alexei Kudrin thinks about raising taxes. Anton Siluanov and German Gref. Photo: Vladimir Slavnov, TASS The main macroeconomic topic of discussion was the rise in protectionism, the benefit of Donald Trump (although they tried not to name his name) gives more than enough reasons for this.

The St. Petersburg Forum did not bring sensational news, but we learned what ways to find money for the May decree of Putin are discussed in the government, and what Alexei Kudrin thinks about raising taxes. Details - in the mailing of The Bell. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev, TASS The main macroeconomic topic of discussion was the rise in protectionism, the benefit of Donald Trump (although they tried not to name his name) gives more than enough reasons for this.

In the new "May Decree", Vladimir Putin set a goal for the government - by 2024, to remove Russia from the number of the five largest economies in the world. The head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin today explained what this meant. Quote “I will clarify, because there are really a lot of talks. We are talking about GDP at purchasing power parity. Because it is by this indicator that it is correct to compare the size of economies,” Oreshkin said.

President Vladimir Putin answered a question at an economic forum in St. Petersburg about whether Boeing MH17 was shot down by a Russian missile. "No. Of course not," the president said. Details Yesterday Putin commented on the latest results of the investigation by the Joint Investigation Team. He noted that he had not yet familiarized himself with the commission's findings, but in any case he could not recognize them, since Russia was not allowed to participate in this investigation.

VTB announced the sale of 100% of VTB Insurance to the SOGAZ insurance group. A united company will appear under its brand, in which VTB will have 10%. The merger will result in “the largest player in the history of the Russian insurance industry,” the bank said in a press release. The merged company will be headed by the current head of SOGAZ, Anton Ustinov.

At the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, businessman Oleg Tinkov and TV presenter Vladimir Pozner conducted Public Talk on the topic of technological entrepreneurship and training for the Russian digital economy. The Bell chose the most interesting quotes of the head of Tinkoff Bank about entrepreneurship, management and Russian business. About entrepreneurship “I would like one word to be written on my grave plate - an entrepreneur.

Producer Harvey Weinstein voluntarily turned himself in to the NYPD and was arrested on charges of raping a woman and forcing another to perform oral sex, CNN reports , citing a source familiar with the investigation. Details Dozens of journalists met Weinstein in front of the police building.

During a speech at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin denied the assumption that he was sick with the digital economy. Details “Mr. Shokhin (head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin - The Bell) said that I fell ill with digitalization last year. I am well. It is the global economy that is pregnant with digitalization. And pregnancy, as you know, is not a disease, but a normal condition,” Putin said.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on the statement of the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin, who had previously criticized Dmitry Medvedev's government for being slow. Details During a Sberbank business breakfast at the St.

The head of Sberbank, German Gref, apologized to the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, for a report criticizing the company, prepared by Sberbank CIB analysts. Quote : “I personally called and apologized to both Alexei Borisovich Miller and all those people [who are affected in the analysts' report],” Gref told reporters on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum (quote from Interfax ) .

Australia and the Netherlands have officially blamed Russia for the downing of a Malaysian Boeing over Donbas in 2014. The decision of the Netherlands and Australia was made public in a statement by the Dutch Foreign Ministry. Quote: “Based on the [Joint International Investigation Team] findings, the Netherlands and Australia are now convinced that Russia is responsible for the deployment of the Buk launcher that was used to hit [flight] MH17.

The introduction of a sales tax will not be proposed, Anton Siluanov, First Vice Prime Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, said during the tax session at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. Details “No,” Siluanov answered the question of Andrey Makarov, head of the State Duma Budget Committee, whether there would be a sales tax.

Through Estonia in the 2010s, $ 13 billion of Russian money was washed, the country's financial intelligence announced. The schemes involved the local branch of the Danish Danske Bank, and the participants were companies related to Igor Putin. Danske Bank. Photo from the company's website The total amount of money washed through Estonian banks in 2011-2016 amounted to $ 13 billion, the country's financial authorities showed.

The Investigative Committee detained the head of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kemerovo region, Alexander Mamontov, according to the website of the TFR. Details Mamontov was detained in a case initiated against him and the head of the supervision department of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations in Kemerovo, Grigory Terentyev.