The official happy ending to the story of Russian "sanctioned" businessmen at the World Economic Forum in Davos: all three are going to the forum - Andrey Kostin, Viktor Vekselberg, and Oleg Deripaska. The last two, however, are not listed as businessmen, but as heads of non-profit or public organizations. From the parent company, VTB, only Andrey Kostin is listed as a participant in the forum.

Voting in the British parliament on Brexit. Short of broadcasting In the British parliament, a vote was held by agreement on the exit from the European Union, developed by Teresa May and approved at the EU summit on November 25. The Prime Minister of Great Britain has suffered a crushing defeat, and now her government is waiting for a vote about trust. Read more . Only 202 parliamentarians supported by the Brexit agreement prepared by the May Cabinet, there were 432 against 432.

Oleg Deripaska and Victor Vekselberg will go to Davos - but not quite like businessmen The World Economic Forum starts in Davos. Photo: World Economic Forum/Flickr/ Official happy end in the history of Russian “sanctions” businessmen at the World Economic Forum in Davos: all three are going to the forum-Andrey Kostin, Victor Vekselberg, and Oleg Deripaska. The last two, however, are not declared as businessmen, but as the heads of non -profit or public organizations.

Vladimir Titorenko has become the new Russian ambassador to the Central African Republic. The corresponding decree was signed by President Vladimir Putin on January 15. Previously, the ambassador to the CAR was Sergei Lobanov. Read more . Titorenko is an experienced diplomat. Since 2002, he headed the embassy in Iraq. During the evacuation of the Russian embassy during the Iraq War in April 2003, the ambassador's motorcade came under fire from an American armored column.

American funds Oppenheimer Funds increased their investments in Yandex to 6.4%, Vedomosti writes , citing disclosures on the website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The funds doubled their stake during the third quarter, that is, even before the sharp drop in Yandex's capitalization following news of Sberbank's interest in the company. More details . Oppenheimer Funds' Yandex stake was worth $542.7 million at the close of trading on NASDAQ on Monday.

On January 7, the multinational corporation DXC Technology agreed to pay $ 2 billion for the Russian Luxoft developer. The shares of the latter immediately rose by more than 80%, from $ 31.7 to $ 57.68. For Luxoft, which has now spread through 22 countries, but began in 1995 in Moscow as the IBS development center Anatoly Karachinsky and Sergey Matsotsky, the deal was the final break with Russian roots.

Traveling in Russia topped the rating of the most expensive package tours for Russians in 2018, which was compiled by the Association of Russian Tour Operators. The cost of the top 15 tour packages purchased by Russian tourists ranged from 300,000 to 7 million rubles per person. More. A tour of Russia for 7 million rubles per person became the most expensive trip of the past year. It was sold to a family of 5.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that more than 8 thousand people have joined the experiment with a tax for the self-employed. Read more . “In two weeks, we received such registrations [as part of the experiment] from more than eight thousand people,” he said on the RBC TV channel. Siluanov called the starting figures successful, given that only four regions are participating in the experiment.

The topic of release is the departure of Russian IT business to the west On January 7, the multinational corporation DXC Technology agreed to pay $ 2 billion for the Russian Luxoft developer. The shares of the latter immediately rose by more than 80%, from $ 31.7 to $ 57.68. For Luxoft, which has now spread through 22 countries, but began in 1995 in Moscow as the IBS development center Anatoly Karachinsky and Sergey Matsotsky, the deal was the final break with Russian roots.

The Avanti business association (it was where the daughter of the presidential press secretary Elizaveta Peskova worked last year) proposed introducing a tax on leaving the country in Russia. It is proposed to use the collected money to develop domestic tourism. Read more.

The Prosecutor General's Office has found land plots, recreation centers and cars worth a total of 10 billion rubles belonging to the former head of the Serpukhov District of the Moscow Region, Alexander Shestun, the official representative of the department, Alexander Kurennoy, reported . Now the department plans to file a request with the court to seize all the property in favor of the state. More details.

Avtozak, on which Alex Leslie and Nastya, the fish leave the courtroom. Photo of an arrested lawyer Alex Leslie (Alexander Kirillov) and Nastya Rybka (Anastasia Vyukevich), who received a suspended sentence in the court of Pattaya on Tuesday, are considering the possibility of deportation not to Russia or Belarus (the fish entered Thailand according to the Belarusian passport), but into one of the countries with which Russia has a visa -free regime.

The Aeroflot airline again deprived its regular customer of privileges due to criticism of the carrier. This time, the businessman, the creator of the Tooligram service and blogger Alexander Sokolovsky, who spoke unflatteringly about the company's actions on his Instagram, turned out to be in the spotlight.

Alexander Kirillov (Alex Leslie) and Anastasia Vashukevich (Nastya Rybka), who figured in Alexei Navalny's investigation into Oleg Deripaska, pleaded guilty in a case of illegal sex training in Thailand, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the Pattaya court. Read more . Along with Rybka and Leslie, six other defendants in the case admitted their guilt. The court sentenced them to a suspended sentence and actual imprisonment for nine months.

The son of billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev, Said, became an investor in the first legal cryptocurrency exchange in the CIS, Currency.com, launched on January 15 in Minsk. Read more . Together with a partner (the VP Capital company of the Belarusian businessman Viktor Prokopenya), Gutseriev invested about $10 million in the project. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has legalized cryptocurrencies in the country since March 2018 by a decree “On the development of the digital economy”.