Andrey Kostin wants to be a little German Gref - VTB will develop its own strategy for its own digital ecosystem. Read more . The bank is ready to pay 158 million rubles for the strategy, according to its tender materials. The strategy will involve the creation of "partnership platforms".

The Justice Ministry has proposed relaxing anti-corruption laws, allowing officials to break the law with impunity in some cases. We are talking about violations committed “due to force majeure circumstances.” Read more . As follows from the notice posted on the portal of draft regulations, amendments are being prepared in pursuance of the National Anti-Corruption Plan for 2018–2020.

The effect of relieving sanctions from EN+ and Rusal for the Russian market has exhausted in two hours Oleg Deripaska, photo from the Kremlin website The positive effect of relieving sanctions from Oleg Deripaska’s companies for the Russian market was far from the negative effect of the news about their imposition in April 2018 - good news revived the market for only a couple of hours, and the drop in oil prices and the decrease in the American market did not at all allow the ruble and the

The Dubai Government presented the annual gender balance awards. Prizes in all three categories went to men, writes Business Insider. https://twitter.com/DXBMediaOffice/status/1089547416037191680 More. The Gender Balance Index 2018 award is presented to people or departments of government that advocate for the interests of women and pursue the goal of gender equality in Dubai.

Roskomnadzor obliged Sberbank Online and 2GIS to provide data and user correspondence at the request of law enforcement agencies. The Roskomsvoboda project drew attention to this. Read more. This requirement for services appeared after Roskomnadzor added Sberbank and 2GIS to the list of information dissemination organizers. Sberbank Online (the service itself and the messenger) was included in the register on January 25, and the 2GIS online card service on December 18.

Roskomnadzor has begun checking Burger King and Procter & Gamble for compliance with data localization legislation in Russia, said . Deputy Head of the Department Yuri Kantemirov Read more . The results of the check will be known in the second half of February, Kantemirov said. According to the representative of the department, this is a planned monitoring of the activities of companies, which is carried out on a systematic basis. Context.

The lifting of sanctions on En+ Group, UC Rusal and Oleg Deripaska's Eurosibenergo encouraged investors investing in Russian assets. During morning trading, the Moscow Exchange index broke a historical record, and the ruble strengthened to more than 66 rubles / $ - but later the market corrected to its previous values. Experts believe that the lifting of sanctions does create a positive background for Russian assets, but the market growth potential depends more on other external factors.

Last Friday, activists from the Distributed Denial of Secrets project published an archive of letters from Russian officials, businessmen and religious figures called "The Dark Side of the Kremlin". Most of the correspondence has already been published in Russia, and no new sensations have yet been found in 175 gigabytes of files. Kommersant spoke with some participants in the published correspondence. More. Files of about 175 gigabytes were posted online on January 25th.

The business jet of the Turkish billionaire Turgai Chiner returned to Moscow a day after departure to Karakas, follows from the data of the Tracking Service FlightAware. This is the only direct flight from Moscow to Venezuela and back in recent days, the tracking data indicate. Read more .

The focus of the recent World Economic Forum in Davos was not the content of the discussion, but the list of absentees, writes VTB CEO Andrey Kostin in his article in the Vedomosti newspaper. The head of the state bank shared his thoughts on why many world leaders, including Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, did not attend the forum and how the event itself has changed. More details.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs released a video showing the moment of the theft of a painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi from the Tretyakov Gallery. Read more . The man simply walks up to the canvas, touches the frame, as if checking to see if an alarm is installed, removes the painting and leaves with it. https://twitter.com/mvd_official/status/1089803695863275520 During a conversation with operatives, the suspect in the theft of the painting stated that he did not commit any crimes.

In the dispute between Elvira Nabiullina and Herman Gref, he will decide how almost the entire Russian fintech will work. While winning Nabiullina, the sources of The Bell believe Photo: Alena Kondyurina for The Bell 2019 in the banking market will be held under the sign of the confrontation between Elvira Nabiullina against Herman Gref. Disagreements of the head of Sberbank with the leadership of the Central Bank are discussed both in the Kremlin and in the government.

The Internet Initiatives Development Foundation (IIDF) proposed introducing the concept of "depersonalized" user data - this will give users the opportunity to earn money by selling their data to businesses, writes Kommersant . Experts believe that the real goal of the project is to make it easier for Internet companies and banks to access citizens' data for their resale.

The criminal who stole Arkhip Kuindzhi's painting “Ai-Petri. Crimea," said Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk . According to police, the painting itself was also found. Read more . The suspect is a 31-year-old man, he was detained in the village of Zarechye, Moscow Region. He told the operatives that he hid the stolen painting on the territory of a facility under construction in the Odintsovo district, where it was found by the police, Volk said.

Disagreements of the head of Sberbank German Gref with the leadership of the Central Bank are discussing both in the Kremlin and in the government. The parties themselves do not hide that they have great discrepancies in the field of fintech regulation. Gref dreams of turning his bank into a technological giant, Nabiullina puts sticks in the wheels, stating that Russian banks need equal opportunities in the digital sphere.