What German Gref did not succeed with Yandex may succeed with Mail.Ru Group — according to Bloomberg, Sberbank is in talks to buy a 20% stake in Mail.Ru voting shares from Gazprombank. After unsuccessful negotiations on the purchase of a large stake in Yandex, the bank has already begun building a partnership with Mail.Ru - in the spring the companies created a joint venture, which included taxi and food delivery services, in which Sber is going to invest 50 billion rubles.

Sberbank is negotiating 20% ​​of Mail.Ru Group shares from Gazprombank The fact that German Gref did not succeed with Yandex can turn out with Mail.ru Group - according to Bloomberg, Sberbank is negotiating the purchase of 20% of the voting shares of Mail.ru.

Yandex.Taxi is in talks to attract Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs for IPO purposes, writes Bloomberg. These same companies were preparing the IPO of Yandex itself in 2011. According to the agency, the placement is being prepared in Russia and the United States, but may not take place. The company's IPO valuations range from $5 billion to $8 billion, depending on whether car sharing and food delivery services are included in the deal.

Sberbank is negotiating the purchase of Gazprombank's stake in Mail.ru Group, Interfax writes with reference to Bloomberg. According to the agency, we are talking about 20% of the voting rights, the amount of a possible deal is about $170 million. Negotiations have not been completed. Gazprombank does not have direct ownership in Mail.ru: it participates in the MF Technologies joint venture with Megafon, Rostec and USM Holdings of Alisher Usmanov and partners.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has ordered politicians Alexei Navalny, Lyubov Sobol and the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) to pay 88 million rubles in a lawsuit filed by the food processing plant Moskovsky Shkolnik, which was linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin's business. Navalny himself reported this on Instagram. The plaintiff claimed that after the video was published on the YouTube channel “Navalny Live”, one of the company’s clients terminated a contract with it for exactly 88 million rubles.

Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) Vladimir Davydov canceled the decision of the judge of the Supreme Court Alexander Botin in the precedent case of the co-owner of the Ust-Luga company Valery Izraylit, writes Vedomosti . Prior to that, Botin did not see violations of the law in the FSB's withdrawal of the declaration on the amnesty of capital.

President and co-owner of Russia's largest private oil company Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, personally denied rumors of a sale of shares. Quote. "Neither I nor the other managers of the company have any intentions to sell their stake in Lukoil. I have always said that I consider our company's shares to be the most effective investment" (Interfax). Alekperov specified that there were no offers for sale in recent weeks either.

A year ago, hockey player Evgeni Malkin invested $4 million in the blockchain startup of his friends Mark.Space, becoming a co-founder and “face” of the company — his participation in the project looked like a guarantee of reliability in the eyes of investors. When the first investments came to an end, the leaders of Mark.Space decided to enter the ICO.

Quotes of the Russian Norilsk Nickel, whose largest shareholder is Vladimir Potanin, jumped almost 6% today, and its capitalization to historical highs (2.8 trillion rubles on the Moscow Exchange and $43 billion on the LSE). The reason is the sudden decision of Indonesia to immediately stop the export of nickel ores.

The most indebted people in Russia turned out to be security guards, doctors and social workers, writes RBC with reference to a study by the National Bureau of Credit Histories (NBKI). The rest of the Russians have a lower debt burden, but it also continues to grow, regardless of income. As of October 1, the guards gave 34% of their income to pay off loans. Medical workers (33.2%) and social workers (32.8%) are almost as heavily indebted.

President Putin instructed to work out criminal liability for promoting drugs on the Internet. Quote.

The constant stress that people experience is only by the US economy in $ 300 billion a year: with the help of rats, scientists have found a new way to cope with it. The fact that the economists wrote about what interesting in their blogs in their blogs, we talk along with the Econs portal.

Sberbank Online now has the ability to make transfers to foreign accounts, including legal entities. The State Bank believes that this option will be in demand when paying for services or studying abroad. Transfer can be sent in dollars or euros. At first, the amount will be limited to 300 thousand rubles a day or the equivalent in the currency of the debit card. Transfer fee - 1% of the amount, but not less than 150 rubles.

The European Union agreed to approve the UK's request to postpone the country's exit from the Union for three months - until January 31, 2020. about this on Twitter. wrote EU President Donald Tusk This means that a "hard" Brexit is finally off the agenda, and the British opposition will be able to support early elections.

Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin complained that the government was wasting time and huge resources on unnecessary "paper" reporting - often at the request of the Accounts Chamber (CA). This reminded him of the subversive activities of the famous Soviet intelligence officer Kim Philby. Quote. "We need to look for them [enemies] in your ranks, for example. Because when I look at the number of requests that we receive from the Accounts Chamber ...