The heads of state have found, on the whole, "compromise solutions" to the existing issues, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council (EAEC) in Moscow.

Sollers, which owns 96.44% of UAZ, today announced a forced buyout of the remaining shares: the company will pay 1.54 rubles for each ordinary share, and 1.02 rubles for each preferred share. Sollers bought UAZ shares under the same conditions as part of a mandatory offer announced in April.

The Moscow city state enterprise "Luzhniki Big Sports Arena" has announced requests for proposals for the design and construction of four sports facilities in the capital with a total cost of 1.965 billion rubles, according to materials published on the state procurement portal.

December 23, 2014, 21:58 / Politics The Ministry of Justice explained why Russia does not need to ratify Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption undefined Vedomosti The UN Convention against Corruption has been ratified by Russia in full; there is no need to introduce additional penalties for illegal enrichment of officials into legislation - these norms are already enshrined in the anti-corruption law adopted two years ago, the press service of the Ministry of Justice reported.

The Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML) has decided to buy mortgage securities from banks in January 2015 at a rate of 15.9% per annum. This is stated in a statement by AHML. This decision was made to ensure the continuity of business of partner banks in the current high volatility of interest rates, the agency notes. Currently the average rate is at 12.3%.

Alexey Navalny / Denis Abramov / Vedomosti Russian Twitter users who post information about a rally in support of blogger Alexei Navalny are receiving a warning from the social network asking them to delete it. Vedomosti has copies of several such messages to users from Twitter administration. In these messages, the company refers to the Prosecutor General's Office's demand to restrict access to information containing calls for mass unrest.

The BBC has asked the UK Foreign Office for additional funding for broadcasting to Ukraine, but has not yet received a response, The Guardian newspaper reports. Former BBC World Service Director Peter Horrocks, who resigned in early December, is confident that the UK and the US are losing the "global information war" to the Kremlin due to the financial superiority of Russian state news channels. The BBC's annual budget is currently £245 million (RUB 21.5 billion).

December 23, 2014, 00:59 / Real estate The mortgage rate has exceeded the psychologically acceptable level for borrowers Sberbank, which issues more than half of the mortgages, raised rates to 14.5-16% per annum, but people are ready to borrow at any price. Then demand will fall, which will cripple developers Natalia Biyanova Bela Lyauv This winter, mortgages were in limbo / D.

This conclusion follows from the rating of governors’ effectiveness for the year, which was published today by the Civil Society Development Foundation (CSF) of former Kremlin official Konstantin Kostin. The leader of growth in 2014 is the governor of Ivanovo Oblast Pavel Konkov. In second place is Vasily Golubev (Rostov Oblast), followed by Viktor Zimin (Khakassia) and Marina Kovtun (Murmansk Oblast), and Rustem Khamitov (Bashkiria) closes the list of those growing.

In Russia, the smartphone is sold in the Yota retail chain (a subsidiary of Megafon), the Yota Devices online store, and a number of online retailers, including Ulmart and Ozon.ru. YotaPhone 2 will not be sold in the networks of large traditional retailers for now. Yota Devices has raised retail prices for the YotaPhone 2 smartphone in Russia by 21% to RUB 39,990, according to data from the company's online store.

December 23, 2014, 10:21 am / Finance At the beginning of trading, the ruble rose to a two-week high The RTS rebounded by 33.6% from its local minimum reached on December 16 Natalya Raibman Anastasia Agamalova Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti At the very beginning of trading on the Moscow Exchange, the ruble began to grow and strengthened to a two-week high amid the consolidation of world oil prices and increased demand for liquidity, Interfax reported.

December 23, 2014, 11:26 am / Finance Old-age pension in Russia may reach 13,000 rubles by February 1, 2015 - Pension Fund Vedomosti Old-age pension in Russia can reach 13,000 rubles. by February 1, 2015, said Anton Drozdov, Chairman of the Board of the Russian Pension Fund at a meeting of the fund’s board.

Yuri Milner's DST Group has registered a new investment fund, DST China EC XI, TASS reports, citing the group's materials. The fund will be incorporated in the Cayman Islands and affiliated with Milner's DST Managers, which already manages a stake in the Chinese Internet service JD.com. The Wall Street Journal reported that DST, as part of a consortium of investors, will participate in investing more than $1 billion in Xiaomi, with the entire company valued at more than $45 billion.

December 23, 2014, 21:12 / Finance S&P does not rule out downgrading Russia's rating to junk level The decision to revise the rating will be made in mid-January Olga Kuvshinova Sergey Smirnov Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti The state has a small debt and the budget deficit is also small, argues Natalia Orlova from Alfa Bank : the main threat, if the rating is lowered to “junk”, will arise with the additional capitalization of banks, which is planned to be done through OFZ.

Italian football club AS Roma has received permission from the City Hall of Rome to build a new stadium. This was reported by the newspaper Football Italia. The club needed to gain the support of the authorities, who confirmed that the project was being implemented in the public interest of the city. “I congratulate all Romans on this historic day,” said AS Roma President James Palotta.