Russian Railways sold the control package of Transcontainer for almost $ 1 billion. This is the largest privatization transaction since 2016 In Russia, the largest privatization transaction since 2016 - Russian Railways sold a control package of shares of the largest operator of container transportation "Transcontainer" for 60 billion rubles.

The market for illegal cigarettes in Russia is twice as much as it was believed to quote Vedomosti Research by Nielsen by order of tobacco companies. This year, the company included in the study of the city smaller than 50,000 inhabitants and rural areas. It turned out that the smuggling and counterfeit accounted for 15.6% of 15 050 packs collected on the streets. Last year’s study was 8.4%.

The defense of the founder of the Baring Vostok investment fund, Michael Kalvi, filed a complaint against security forces through the newly launched system of working with entrepreneurs for business, writes Forbes. The agency of strategic initiatives (ASI) banker Artem Avetisyan, whom Kalvi himself called the customer of the criminal case, created this system. The service was launched only on November 19, but Calvy’s complaint in it is already submitted at number 278.

A massive multi -storey complex will appear on the site of the Nightingale film center on Krasnaya Presnya. Its customer, Kinocenter JSC, showed a design project, writes RBC. The building consists of a two-story stylobate part, three 18-story residential buildings connected in the central part, and the last floor of the penthouses. Landscaping, helicopter platform and solar panels are drawn on the roof.

Today, President Vladimir Putin opened the new highway Moscow-St. Petersburg throughout. It was built for almost 10 years, it cost half a trillion rubles. The M-11 highway is the largest implemented infrastructure project of modern Russia. It cost about 520 billion rubles, of which 370 billion are budget funds. In terms of cost and duration of construction, the project doubled the Crimean bridge (228 billion rubles were spent on it, 5 years were built).

The partner of his friend Vladimir Putin Gennady Timchenko in the most closed contractor Gazprom - Stroytransneftegaz - turned out to be a friend of Kirill Seleznev - the once “untouchable” comrade -in -arms of the head of Alexei Miller, writes RBC. This became known before the sale of Stroygazmontazh, Gazstrom, the joint company Gazprombank and Gazprom. Half of the contractor is owned by the Volga Group Timchenko and the company of his relatives. The owners of the second half were not known.

The main intrigue of “Big Privatization” is allowed: the control package of “Transcontainer”, which belonged to Russian Railways, will go to the “Del” group Sergei Shishkarev, writes RBC. At the auction for the sale of shares, the package price increased from 36.159 billion rubles to 60.3 billion rubles. Details Three applicants fought for the package: the “case” by Sergey Shishkarev, the Yenisei Capital Alexander Abramov and Roman Abramovich and the first cargo company (PGK) Vladimir Lisin.

Photo: Artem Korotaev/TASS Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska is not deprived of Cypriot citizenship: he did not receive any official notifications from the country's authorities, the official representative of the businessman told RBC. According to him, the information that has appeared in the media today "is not true." The representative of Deripaska connected information about the deprivation of his Cyprus passport with the activities of the United States.

The Court of Appeal in Sweden rejected Gazprom’s complaint to revise the decision of the Stockholm arbitration in a dispute with the Ukrainian Naftogaz on gas supplies to Ukraine, Yuri Vitrenko, executive director of Naftogaz, wrote on his Facebook. “A complete victory! Ukraine wins again,” Vitrenko said. The company has reasons for joy: the decision of the court of appeal cannot be appealed. The decision was made on the first of three complaints.

Apple finally corrected the attributes of the geographical affiliation of Crimea and Sevastopol - now they are considered the territory of the Russian Federation. True, this works only if the devices are located in Russia. Quote. "The work went in stages ... Today they reported that all errors were eliminated.

Peter Aven/Agency "Moscow" The co-owner of Alfa-Bank Peter Aen gave a large interview to the channel “Russian Norms!”, In which he also commented on constant rumors about the possible sale of the bank. “Alfa-Bank is a business, if good money is offered for it, we will certainly sell,” Aven said. “But no one has contacted us about this.” In his opinion, the regulator would not support such a deal in any case.

Peter Aven is a billionaire, one of the authors of the economic policy of Russia in the 1990s and a member of the first cabinet of ministers of the Russian government, a co-owner of the largest private bank in the country. Aven talked with Elizabeth Ossetian about corruption, authoritarianism, mistakes of the 90s, the gold of the Communist Party, the economic crisis, Boris Berezovsky, sanctions and much more. See the full version on our channel .

Presidential Assistant Igor Levitin told reporters that after the commissioning of the Central Committee for CKA (Central Ring Road) in 2021, MKAD travel can be prohibited for trucks. Quote: “When it [TsKAD] will be introduced in 2021, then, most likely, the traffic of trucks along the Moscow Ring Road will be completely canceled,” Levitin told Kommersant during a rally raiding to open the M11 Moscow-Sancti-Petersburg paid highway.

On December 25, the Board of Economic disputes of the Supreme Court will decide how legally to punish the company's taxes that did not know about the criminal schemes organized by their suppliers or counterparties, and were not beneficiaries, writes RBC. Often, taxes do not establish taxes without establishing real beneficiaries, and the courts take the side of the tax authorities, lawyers interviewed by publication tell. Details.

The 80-year-old Rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichi will probably remain for a new term: after a month of discussing his future fate, the State Duma adopted a law that allows him to stay in his post for life. Today, Sadovnichi in a large interview with Vedomosti spoke about his reassignment, earnings of Moscow State University, Vladimir Putin and Katerina Tikhonova. We retell the main thing. About whether the rector will remain.