Dmitry Lovetsky / AP There is a war between Russia and Ukraine, according to 70% of Ukrainian citizens, while only 26% of Russians share this opinion. These are the results of a parallel survey conducted in Russia and Ukraine by the Levada Center and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, respectively. There are fewer differences on the question of whether Russia supports pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine: 50% of Russians and 74% of Ukrainians agree with this.

October 22, 2014, 02:14 / Finance Construction and agricultural companies are the riskiest borrowers The Central Bank has identified dangerous sectors for banks, the financial condition and debt burden of which are visibly deteriorating. This is construction and agriculture Tatyana Voronova Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti A slowdown in economic growth in the medium term may increase the credit risks of banks, primarily in the segment of corporate borrowers.

October 22, 2014, 02:38 / Business Mostotrest may receive another section of the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway Mostotrest may receive another section of the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway. The equipment located on the track can help the company not only win the competition, but also earn more Margarita Lyutova Sergey Porter / Vedomosti Yesterday, the state company Avtodor opened envelopes with applications for a competition for a section of the new toll highway M11 Moscow - St.

October 22, 2014, 13:44 / Auto Daimler sold 4% in Tesla Motors for $780 million Vedomosti German automaker Daimler AG sold the remaining 4% in American electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors Inc., writes The Wall Street Journal. The company did not say to whom the Tesla shares were sold. From the deal, Daimler will receive cash in the amount of $780 million, and the company's EBIT for 2014 will increase by approximately the same amount.

Total's board of directors will elect a new CEO at an emergency meeting on Wednesday morning and decide on the division of the positions of CEO and chairman of the company's board of directors, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing its sources. The newspaper names the head of the oil refining and petrochemical department, 50-year-old Patrick Pouyanne, and the director of the marketing department, 52-year-old Philippe Boisseau, as the main contenders for the post of general director.

Ukrainian farmers' losses from the Rosselkhoznadzor ban on supplies and transit of fruits and vegetables from Ukraine until the end of 2014 could amount to $17 million, said Igor Shvaika, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Possible losses in 2015 could amount to $50-60 million. In the first nine months of 2014, Ukraine supplied Russia with 81,000 tons of fruit and vegetable products and potatoes.

The European Commission said today that it had received from the Russian authorities a "short list of new animal products" that are banned from being imported into Russia. The statement was made in Brussels today by the EC's representative Frederic Vincent. "The Russian authorities last week sent a list of new products of animal origin that are banned from import.

Banksy's arrest turned out to be a hoax Since the morning of October 20, 2014, art news feeds and social networks have been overflowing with messages and photos of the famous British graffiti artist Banksy, allegedly arrested in a London suburb. The American website The National Report claimed that Banksy's anonymity had finally been revealed, the arrest confirmed by the BBC, and counterfeit money and plans for "future acts of vandalism" had been confiscated from the insidious street artist.

Swiss authorities have frozen bank accounts whose actual owner was the late businessman Boris Berezovsky, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax on Wednesday. "We are talking about accounts worth 21 million Swiss francs. The freeze was imposed at the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office," the agency's source said. He noted that this money is supposed to be returned to Russia as compensation to those who suffered from Berezovsky's actions.

Hannelore Foerster /Bloomberg The ECB's plans were reported by Reuters and the WSJ, citing people familiar with the matter. According to Reuters, a decision to buy corporate bonds on the secondary market could be made in December, with the purchases likely to begin in early 2015. However, one of the people interviewed by the newspaper told the WSJ that no specific plans or timeframes had been discussed.

October 22, 2014, 12:33 / Finance Dvorkovich: The National Welfare Fund is not dimensionless, there is not enough for everyone undefined Vedomosti The National Welfare Fund is not dimensionless; there is not enough for everyone, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich warned at the National Oil and Gas Forum.

October 22, 2014, 02:10 / Auto Kamaz has sharply increased export supplies over the past two months Kamaz sharply increased export supplies in August - September. Orders from Africa and the low base effect in the second half of 2013 helped.

The Moscow City Duma has adopted amendments on changing the calculation of the property tax for individuals in the first reading. 35 out of 43 deputies voted for calculating the tax based on the cadastral value of housing, TASS reports. Four were against. The agency is not naming them. If the law is finally adopted, the new procedure will come into force on January 1, 2015, and the authorities will gradually increase the tax to the full value until 2020.

A bill aimed at combating offshores has been submitted to the State Duma. The authors of the amendments to the Tax Code are United Russia members Sergei Neverov and Vladimir Vasiliev, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Alexander Kurdyumov (both from the LDPR), Socialist Revolutionaries Mikhail Yemelyanov and Vladimir Parakhin, and Communists Ivan Melnikov and Denis Voronenkov.

The US State Department does not confirm the data of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch about the use of cluster bombs by Ukrainian security forces near Donetsk. "We have seen these reports. We are not in a position to confirm the use of cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine," said Deputy Head of the Press Service of the State Department Marie Harf during a regular briefing.