VTB bought a major Russian grain trader and became the largest owner of Russia's grain infrastructure, writes RBC. This means that the state bank, consistently buying up grain assets, will control 6 million tons, or about a tenth of all exports at all stages - transportation, transshipment and export. Purchased by VTB "Mirogroup" in the season 2017/2018 exported almost 2 million tons of grain - this is the seventh place.

The United States has secured concessions from Mexico on the issue of migrant control, which means that the United States will not impose from Monday the 5% tariffs on all exports of its southern neighbor, which Donald Trump threatened. The possibility of such a measure remains, writes Reuters. The essence of the agreement with Mexico, firstly, is the immediate strengthening by the US southern neighbor of the protection of the southern border with Guatemala by 6,000 National Guard fighters.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov admitted that part of the funds of the National Welfare Fund (NWF) in excess of the "cushion" of 7% can be invested in domestic assets, reported . Bloomberg Quote. “Foreign investments are falling, we need domestic investors... We need new money, if this money from the state will lead to the fact that private traders will invest ten rubles of private money per ruble - why not. In fact, these are equity investments,” Siluanov said at SPIEF on Saturday.

The social network Facebook, which owns the WhatsApp messenger with 1.5 billion users, has banned the pre-installation of all its applications on Chinese Huawei smartphones, including the social network itself, writes the BBC. WhatsApp and the Facebook app already installed on the device will continue to work and receive updates. But only the user himself can install them on a new smartphone.

On Saturday day, the Medusa journalist Medusa was charged on Saturday afternoon in attempted drugs for drugs under two articles of the Criminal Code-30 and 228.1. This follows from a copy of the investigator’s decision on attracting as the accused, which was placed by lawyer Pavel Chikov. On the same day, the Nikulinsky court of Moscow was supposed to elect Golunov a preventive measure.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov proposed returning the rule allowing the Federal Tax Service (FTS) to give its own conclusion in case of suspicion of tax violations, Interfax reports. The minister told reporters about this in connection with the “Calvi case.” Quote. “On financial and tax violations, we used to have a good rule that the tax service should give its opinion.

We've collected Ivan Golunov's investigations on Meduza and beyond. Almost all of them are connected with corruption in power. The evictioners . For five years, "black creditors" took away more than 500 apartments from debtors in Moscow and the surrounding area. Ivan Golunov disclosed a scheme for taking apartments by microfinance organizations bypassing the court.