Russia's budget revenues have quadrupled over 10 years - from 3.2 trillion rubles in 2004 to 13 trillion in 2013. By the end of 2014, the budget should receive more than 14.2 trillion rubles.

Rosneft's production will grow in 2015-2016 from 1.8 billion to 1.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent per year. This was stated by Rosneft Vice President Svyatoslav Slavinsky, speaking at the Third Eurasian Forum in Verona. "Annual production will grow in 2015-2016 from 1.8 to 1.9 billion barrels per year," he said. In 2013, Rosneft's daily hydrocarbon production amounted to 4.9 million barrels of oil equivalent, the company reported earlier.

Sales of light commercial vehicles (LCV) in Russia in September fell by 23% to 11,900 units, Avtostat calculated. Over the first nine months of 2014, LCV sales totaled 101,100 vehicles, down 18% from the previous year. Two-thirds (68%) of sales were LCVs of domestic brands. In September, sales of new passenger cars and LCVs in Russia fell by 20.1% to 197,233 units (according to the Automobile Manufacturers Committee of the Association of European Businesses, AEB).

October 23, 2014, 12:59 / Auto Mostotrest, Stroygazconsulting and three other companies submitted applications for the competition for the fifth section of the Central Ring Road undefined Vedomosti Mostotrest OJSC, Stroygazconsulting LLC (SGK), Crocus International CJSC (part of Aras Agalarov's Crocus Group), Ring Highway LLC and DSK Avtoban OJSC submitted applications for the competition for construction, maintenance, repair and overhaul of the fifth launch complex of the Central Ring Road

October 23, 2014, 6:28 pm / Finance Russia will take 62nd position in the Doing Business ranking A change in methodology helped the country rise in the rankings Sergei Titov Margarita Papchenkova E. Razumny / Vedomosti In the new World Bank Doing Business ranking, Russia will take 62nd position, TASS reports citing “reliable sources in Washington.” 62nd place in the future Vedomosti ranking was confirmed by two sources familiar with him and close to the Russian government.

October 23, 2014, 01:03 / Finance The Central Bank will dampen peak demand for foreign currency by issuing it directly to banks The Central Bank intends to dampen peak demand for foreign currency by issuing it directly to banks.

The Danish Carlsberg Group reported that it has closed a deal to acquire 100% of the Chinese brewing company Chongqing Beer Group Assets Management Co. Ltd., which is part of the Chongqing Beer (Group) Co. Ltd. The deal is worth about 1.4 billion Danish kroner (about $239 million). As a result, the Danish company received eight breweries with a total capacity of 12 million hectoliters.

Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg In a Q3 earnings call with analysts, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer said the company has returned five times more money to shareholders than it spent on acquisitions in her two years at the helm. Mayer was responding to recent complaints from activists at Starboard Value LP. The company acquired a stake in Yahoo!

Magic Leap Google will become the lead investor in one of the largest venture deals to finance $542 million startup Magic Leap, which develops augmented reality glasses and 3D special effects, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Financial Times (FT) report.

The first deputy head of the presidential administration Vyacheslav Volodin, with his phrase yesterday at the Valdai forum - "There is Putin - there is Russia. No Putin - there is Russia" - translated into the "language of meanings" what almost 90% of the country's citizens feel and understand. This opinion was expressed today to journalists by the head of the Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Research (ISEPI) foundation Dmitry Badovsky.

Internet company Google has unveiled a new email service called Inbox, which will complement Gmail. "Inbox was built by the same people who built Gmail, but it's not Gmail. It's a whole new kind of email service, focused on the things that really matter," the company said in a blog post. Inbox is designed to make it easier for mobile users to work with their mailbox. It uses an improved system for sorting letters that appeared in Gmail about a year ago.

Crimea won't get offshore benefits / D. Abramov / Vedomosti The government will not introduce reduced tax rates on dividends received from the work of companies in Crimea and Sevastopol. This decision was made following a meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the government website says. At the end of August, the Crimean Ministry prepared amendments to the Tax Code, which set a 6% rate on company dividends on the peninsula (the standard rate in Russia is 9%).

-18.3% Pre-tax profit of large and medium-sized enterprises continued to fall in August, Rosstat reported: it decreased by 18.3% year-on-year after falling by 22.4% in July. Before that, the indicator had been growing for four months in a row. For January-August, net profit amounted to 4.656 trillion rubles, increasing by 5.2% over the year (in January-August 2013, it decreased by 17.9%).

The European Union has allocated 24.4 million euros for the development of vaccines against the Ebola virus, the press service of the European Commission (EC) reported. "These funds are used to finance five programs for clinical research of a potential vaccine, testing of existing vaccines and development of new vaccines for the treatment of the Ebola virus," the EC noted.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, reduced supplies of this type of raw material to the market in September 2014, a source familiar with the country's oil policy told Bloomberg on condition of anonymity. According to the source, supplies decreased by 328,000 barrels per day (b/d) to 9.36 million b/d last month from 9.69 million b/d in August this year. At the same time, oil production in Saudi Arabia increased from 9.6 million in August to 9.7 million bpd in September.