The popular photo service Instagram, which is owned by the social network Facebook, will allow users to post not only photos, but also short videos, TechCrunch reports. As a source at Facebook told the publication, the social network will announce this on June 20. According to TechCrunch, the length of the uploaded videos can be between 5 and 10 seconds. The appearance of the video feature on Instagram will be a response to Twitter's video service Vine, experts say.

A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The approximate cost of creating a park in Zaryadye on the site of the demolished Rossiya Hotel will be 10 billion rubles, said Moscow's chief architect Sergei Kuznetsov. "The approximate cost of creating a park in Zaryadye is estimated at 10 billion rubles, and will be financed from the city budget," Kuznetsov told journalists on Monday.

June 17, 2013, 02:01 / Finance Collectors will not be left without work In 2013, banks will transfer 35% more to debt collectors - up to 400 billion rubles, the National Collection Service expects. Bankers are being pushed towards this by the position of the Central Bank Daria Borisyak How loans grow. 20% According to the Central Bank, this is how much retail lending will grow in 2013. In 2012, the volume of loans to the population increased by 40%, and the growth of unsecured loans was 60%.

The board of France Telecom, France's largest telecommunications company, decided on Tuesday to keep Stephane Richard as the company's chief despite charges brought against him in a case involving International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde. The head of France Telecom is a defendant in the case, which concerns events during which Lagarde served as finance minister and Richard was her chief of cabinet.

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Mikhail Pogosyan, President of the United Aircraft Corporation / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti 1979 He joined the Sukhoi Design Bureau as an engineer and has been the company's CEO since 1999.

June 17, 2013, 02:06 / Finance Businesses are tired of taking loans Problems in the economy crippled lending growth in May, which was already unfavorable for banks. Corporate debts increased by less than 1% over the month Tatyana Voronova In May, borrowers cooled towards banks - both in receiving new and in repaying old loans / E.

Apple has released statistics on requests from US law enforcement agencies regarding personal data of users of the corporation's services. Over the past six months, Apple has received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests. "We asked the U.S. government for permission to release a number of requests. We have received permission to release some of that information," Reuters quotes Apple as saying in a statement. It says Apple received the requests between Dec. 1, 2012, and May 31, 2013.

The first deputy head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma and former candidate for Moscow mayor Vladimir Ovsyannikov has decided to hand over his deputy mandate early, said the leader of the "A Just Russia" faction Sergei Mironov. "Today, I was surprised to hear at the Duma council a statement from LDPR deputy Ovsyannikov about his voluntary resignation as a State Duma deputy," Mironov said at a briefing.

Guardian: US intelligence intercepted Medvedev's G20 talks British intelligence service GCHQ tried to intercept negotiations and confidential information of participants in the summit of G20 leaders and G20 finance ministers, who News , 17.06.2013 Yuri Urlichich is being integrated into Sistema The board of directors of Sitronics accepted the resignation of Shavrov, Urlichich will become the new president of the company, said a representative of AFK Sistema (controls Sitronics through the

June 17, 2013, 14:58 / Management / Opinions Are a medical certificate and an explanatory note sufficient to justify absence from work? answers questions from Vedomosti readers Labor law specialist Elena Kozhemyakina From personal archive Olga T. writes: “The employee was absent from the workplace for almost two months. To justify his absence, he provided a certificate of being in the hospital (not a sick leave certificate) and an explanatory note.

The aviation business is akin to sports: players are attracted by romance and risk, the downside of which can be a good jackpot. However, only the winners can count on serious income. The rest can either be content with little, or persistently look for an opportunity to get around their rivals at the turn.

In 2009, the ski jump was valued at 1.2 billion rubles, in 2012 – at 8.9 billion rubles. / M. Mokrushin / RIA Novosti That's how it is. After Vladimir Putin gave "Comrade Bilalov" a dressing down in absentia, law enforcement agencies became interested in the businessman On April 10, 2013, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against the former chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Resorts of the North Caucasus (KSK) Akhmed Bilalov under the article "abuse of power".

June 17, 2013, 22:23 / Business Megafon may acquire Scartel in the future Anastasia Agamalova company The Megafon is considering the possibility of purchasing Scartel in order to expand its subscriber base due to the growing popularity of the mobile Internet, company CEO Ivan Tavrin said in an interview with Bloomberg . “Skartel is a very interesting asset,” Tavrin noted.

Hotel opening delayed by three years / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti Corrected version. The original published version can be viewed in the Vedomosti archive (smart version) The Lion Palace St. Petersburg Hotel in the Lobanov-Rostovsky mansion on Voznesensky Prospekt, 1, will open on July 7, the hotel operator's press service reports.