Mikhail Fridman testified in a Spanish court in the case of “raider takeover” Mikhail Fridman appeared in a Spanish court to testify in the bankruptcy case of the Spanish mobile content developer Zed WorldWide. The Spanish prosecutor's office accuses Friedman of attempting to raid the company. The billionaire denies all the accusations, and his defense claims that the lawsuit is the result of a slander by the founder of Zed.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska today called a series of publications about searches in the British company Terra Services controlled by him, and these searches themselves, an attempt to draw him into US domestic political intrigues. Read also How the FBI recruited Deripaska: the oligarch spoke about negotiations with US intelligence agencies Quote.

The US State Department proceeds from the version of a radiation catastrophe during the lifting of the Burevestnik cruise missile with a nuclear jet engine from the bottom of the White Sea on August 8, 2019, follows from a statement by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Dinanno. Quote. "The cause of the explosion was a supercritical incident, an uncontrolled nuclear reaction with a release of radiation, when the Burevestnik rocket was lifted from the seabed by Russian specialists ...

TV presenter of Channel One, United Russia Valery Fadeev has been appointed the new chairman of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of Russia after the departure of Mikhail Fedotov, who has reached the age limit for civil service (70 years). The decree was signed by Vladimir Putin. At the same time, the president changed the composition of the council. So, together with Fedotov, .

There is less and less chance that Deputy Anton Gorelkin's draft law on significant information resources will be adopted in its original version. On October 18, the Cabinet of Ministers proposed to increase the maximum share of foreign ownership in significant Internet resources to 50% minus one voting share.

The State Duma urgently - before the end of the year - plans to adopt a law on the abolition of bank commissions for interregional transfers in one bank, said Anatoly Aksakov, head of the Duma committee on the financial market. Quote. “We expect to consider it in the first reading in November and adopt it in the second and third readings by the end of the year. So that it begins to operate from the beginning of next year, ”said the deputy.

Billionaire Mikhail Fridman remains a suspect in a case related to the bankruptcy of the Spanish game content developer Zed WorldWide, RIA Novosti writes . But the investigation did not ask for any restrictive measures for him. On Monday, October 21, Friedman arrived at the National Court of Justice of Spain to testify in the case. The meeting lasted three hours.

Trust, a bank of “bad assets” controlled by the Central Bank, has counted debts of 450 billion rubles from Otkritie Holding, Interfax writes with reference to the press service of Trust. The debt is based on unrepaid loans issued by Trust, FC Otkritie Bank and Rost Bank and Otkritie Holding bonds on the bank’s balance sheet. The debt to Trust is about 86% of the total debt of Otkritie Holding, Trust says.

Protests, fatal arson, curfews and a halt to economic activity have all been caused, but not caused, by a modest increase in public transport fares in Chile's capital, Santiago. For the first time since the fall of the regime of Augusto Pinochet in 1990, troops and armored vehicles took to the streets of Chilean cities. Read also Tax on WhatsApp provoked a political crisis in Lebanon What happened In early October, authorities raised fares on public transport in Santiago.

Boris Johnson failed to resolve the issue of Brexit in the first vote - on Saturday, the British Parliament did not consider the merits of his deal with the European Union. Today and Tuesday, Johnson will try to succeed the second time, and he has a good chance - the government announced that the prime minister secured the 320 votes necessary to approve the deal.

Wealthy Chinese for the first time in history became more rich Americans, according to a report by Credit Suisse. The bank estimated how many people in the countries of the world are in the 10% of the richest people on Earth - these are not necessarily millionaires. An annual survey by a Swiss bank showed that as of the summer of 2019, there were 100 million such people in China, a world record. In second place is the United States with 99 million.

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Banks, insurance companies, pension funds and other market participants proposed to the Central Bank to cancel 27 "outdated" rules related to the implementation of the anti-money laundering law, writes RBC. The reason is the regulatory guillotine of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev: the regulator asked the participants to give suggestions, and now he has received them.

Quotes of "Yandex" after noon on Monday October 21 rose by 9%, to 2,100 rubles apiece, follows from the data of the exchange. The company rises in price on the news about the government's recall of the bill of MP Anton Gorelkin. On October 18, the Cabinet of Ministers proposed to increase the maximum share of foreign ownership in significant Internet resources to 50% minus one voting share, Gorelkin proposed 20%. Gorelkin's bill appeared in the summer.

Boris Johnson will win the Brexit fight in two days - or go to early elections Boris Johnson failed to resolve the issue of Brexit in the first vote - on Saturday, the British Parliament did not consider the merits of his deal with the European Union. Today and Tuesday, Johnson will try to succeed the second time, and he has a good chance - the government announced that the prime minister secured the 320 votes necessary to approve the deal.