02 July 2014, 15:07 / Finance The Central Bank will select the head of the National Payment System by July 18 Candidates from the Bank of Russia are not considered Anastasia Agamalova Denis Abramov / Vedomosti The Central Bank of Russia will select the head of the operator of the National Payment Card System (NSCP) by July 18; candidates from the Bank of Russia will not be considered, said the first deputy chairman of the regulator, Georgy Luntovsky, at the International Banking Congress.

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The State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs intends to hold special parliamentary hearings on the results of the Russian national football team's performance at the World Cup in Brazil and preparations for the next world championship. This was announced at a plenary session of the State Duma by the head of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports Igor Ananskikh, ITAR-TASS reports.

The cost of a paid subscription to the online publication Slon.ru will be 390 rubles per month and 2900 rubles per year. This is reported on the website of the publication. We are talking about the new Slon Premium service - subscribers will get access to analytical materials, research and investigations, interviews with famous experts and businessmen. The news will remain in the public domain. Slon.ru's CEO Maxim Kashulinsky announced at the end of June that it was introducing a subscription.

Oil production with gas condensate in Russia in the first half of 2014 amounted to 260.923 million tons, which is 1.0% higher than the same figure for 2013. Such data are contained in the operational summary of the State Enterprise "CDU TEK". At the same time, the export of Russian raw materials to non-CIS countries fell by 2.6% over 6 months compared to the level of the corresponding period last year and amounted to 101.044 million tons.

The Ministry of Finance has determined the budget parameters for 2015-2017. , today they should be considered by the government at the budget commission. There is not enough revenue: the government will have to cut expenses and look for sources of increasing revenue - as such, the Ministry of Finance has proposed an increase in the tax burden.

Denis Abramov / Vedomosti The single voting day on September 14 will be the first experience of elections with mass early voting after a four-year break, when it was banned at elections of all levels (see inset).

On Wednesday night, Moody's affirmed the issuer ratings of Moscow and St. Petersburg in foreign and national currencies, as well as the ratings of the senior unsecured obligations of these cities in foreign currency at Baa1.

02 July 2014, 13:32 / Finance Sberbank increased mortgage rates The increase was 0.5-1 percentage points. Sergey Smirnov Marie Mesropyan Denis Grishkin / Vedomosti Sberbank today announced that from July 1, 2014 it has increased interest rates on mortgage lending products. The increase was 0.5-1 percentage points. The minimum rates in rubles for mortgage products will be 9.5% per annum for special products and 11% for basic ones.

$100 million, According to Recode, the microblogging service Twitter paid for TapCommerce, a company specializing in mobile advertising. TapCommerce allows you to re-engage customers in real time who have downloaded an application to their smartphone. The mobile version of the online auction site eBay is currently based on this platform. In September last year, Twitter bought MoPub, a company that also deals with mobile advertising, for $350 million.

UC Rusal has frozen payments on syndicated loans ($4.75 billion and $400 million) until October 31 of this year, the company said in a statement. The statement emphasized that the forbearance regime (waiver of the right to test loan covenants) may be extended until November 30, 2014. The previous payment freeze regime was in effect from April 8 and was due to expire on July 7.

Alexander Medvedev / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Medvedev on the lawsuit against Ukraine. Alexander Medvedev Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom. "To court or not to court. Remember how they said in one film: "Either I take her to the registry office, or she takes me to the prosecutor"? So it's better to go to the registry office than to the prosecutor." June 4, 2013, Gazprom Medvedev has left his post, Interfax reported.

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Emigration is good for the regime On the article “Policy of releasing steam” (No. 115 of 30.06.2014, p. 06) Cuba has a population of 11 million, while Miami has 1.5 million Cubans, who are certainly not the most loyal to the Castro regime. That is, about 13% of the most passionate population (who at one time chose the risky route across the ocean on frail boats, just to avoid living on the island of Freedom).

02 July 2014, 21:15 / Finance Rostec Pension Fund is suing the Central Bank This is the first legal dispute between the NPF and the mega-regulator; most likely, it is associated with the payment of compensation to clients for losses incurred during the stock market collapse in 2008 Natalia Biyanova Galina Kazakulova Denis Abramov / Vedomosti The small NPF First Industrial Alliance, whose founder is the state corporation Russian Technologies (now Rostec), is challenging the Central Bank's order