December 24, 2014, 21:40 / Business Italian luxury goods manufacturers are buying up family restaurants Rachel Sanderson Sales of luxury goods are slowing, but luxury goods companies are opening a new front in the battle for consumers by buying up family-owned Italian restaurants and food producers. The demand for Italian delicacies and dishes is high, and businessmen now also consider them as unique luxury items.

December 24, 2014, 13:25 / Finance The minimum wage in Moscow will increase to 14,500 rubles from January 1, and to 15,000 rubles from April 1. Vedomosti The minimum wage in the capital will be increased twice in 2015, according to an agreement between the Moscow government, the capital's trade union associations and the Moscow Association of Employers, the text of which is available to Interfax. From January 1, 2015, the minimum wage will be 14,500 rubles, from April 1 - 15,000 rubles.

December 24, 2014, 00:53 / Opinions Ekaterina Shulman: Practical Nostradamus, or 12 mental habits that prevent us from foreseeing the future Ekaterina Shulman The traditional genre of the end of December is fortune-telling and predictions, but the stormy 2014 increased the demand for this genre almost more than for cash currency.

The 41st US President George W. Bush has been hospitalized after experiencing shortness of breath, CNN reported , citing the former president's office. He has been placed in the cardiology department of Houston's Methodist Hospital and will undergo testing as a precaution, Reuters reports. Bush Sr., a Republican, is the father of the 43rd US President, George W. Bush. Another son, Jeb Bush, recently said he was going to "actively explore his options" for a presidential run in 2016.

The Federation Council proposes to cancel the decisions of the highest party and state bodies of the USSR on the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in February 1954. It turns out that it is not entirely sure that the legal foundation for the annexation of Crimea is strong enough, and for the sake of strengthening it, it is ready to resort to a legal tactic - to cancel the decrees and resolutions of a non-existent state. What could be the legal and political consequences?

Metro has been operating in Rostov for 10 years / PhotoXPress On December 1, the bankruptcy trustee of ATP Super held an auction to sell a plot of land with an area of ​​8.8 hectares at 1v Korolev Avenue, with office, commercial and warehouse premises located on it. ATP Super was part of the Doninvest group of Mikhail Paramonov and was a dealer for TagAZ. At the end of last week, the auction protocol was published on the website of the Sberbank-AST electronic platform.

December 24, 2014, 06:29 / Business BP buys 20% in Rosneft's production project - Kommersant Lyudmila Klymentyeva The private shareholder of Rosneft, the British BP (19.75%), is buying from the state company about 20% in Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobych, writes Kommersant , citing sources familiar with the transaction. They estimate its possible amount at $700-800 million. The parties, according to the publication, signed a preliminary agreement, and plan to close the deal in early 2015.

December 24, 2014, 04:34 / Finance Otkrytie FC Bank will rehabilitate Trust The Otkritie banking group will rehabilitate the collapsed bank, and the amount of state support will most likely be increased Anna Eremina Daria Borisyak E. Razumny / Vedomosti was chosen as the sanator of Trust Otkritie , a person who knew this from one of the employees close to the supervisory block of the Central Bank told Vedomosti.

December 24, 2014, 14:40 / Finance / News Sberbank will not change rates on already approved consumer loans undefined Vedomosti Rates on approved consumer loans from Sberbank will not change, said Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Alexander Torbakhov at a press conference on Wednesday. Credit limits on cards of existing customers will also not change.

Negotiations of the contact group on a peaceful settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine will begin in Minsk at 16:00 Kyiv time (17:00 Moscow time instead of the planned 15:00 Moscow time), said Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration Valeriy Chaly.

December 24, 2014, 01:14 / Finance The government obliged five state-owned companies not to increase foreign currency savings The government obliged five state-owned companies - Gazprom, Rosneft, Alrosa, Zarubezhneft and Kristall - to adjust their net foreign currency assets.

December 24, 2014, 17:15 / Business RFPL clubs want to fix exchange rates for paying salaries to players The heads of all 16 Premier League clubs will offer football players to receive salaries at the rate of 45 rubles. for a dollar and 55 rubles.

Jason Alden / Bloomberg Massimiliano Pogliani earned his reputation as a marketing guru while working at Nestle : in the global corporation producing mass-market food products, he managed to create a premium brand that conquered all continents - Nespresso. 1998 International Marketing Manager at Saeco 2003 joined Nestle.

Bloomberg Brothers Simon and David Reuben have bought Metro International Trade Services, which operates more than 30 non-ferrous metals warehouses near Detroit, from Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs said in a statement. A spokesman for the Reuben brothers confirmed that Metro was bought by British investment fund Reuben Brothers, but declined to disclose the amount of the deal.

The agency's actions are rather neutral in relation to Sberbank, believes BCS analyst Yulia Safarbakova: "On the bond market, the long-term rating of unsecured debt is taken as the base rating, and Sberbank's is already at the level of the sovereign.