January 13, 2015, 11:02 / Auto Yandex may revise the traffic jam scale for Moscow if the traffic situation worsens Natalya Raibman service The Yandex.Traffic may revise the traffic congestion scale for Moscow if the traffic situation in the city worsens and “10 points will fall every week.” the Russian News Service about this Service analyst Leonid Mednikov told .

Andrey Makhonin / Vedomosti The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) reported that it had received a petition from Cyprus-based Niverson Holdings Ltd. asking for permission to “acquire rights to determine the terms of business activity” for ZAO Inteko.

January 13, 2015, 22:36 / Business Mikhail Prokhorov is selling the Brooklyn Nets A Russian businessman is ready to sell not just part, but the entire stake in the NBA Brooklyn Nets club. He hired Evercore Partners to find a new owner of the asset, Alexey Rozhkov told Bloomberg TASS Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, who owns the National Basketball Association (NBA) Brooklyn Nets, has hired consulting firm Evercore Partners to find a new owner for the club.

January 13, 2015, 14:00 / Finance Central Bank: The average maximum rate on ruble deposits has begun to decline Ilya Usov The average maximum interest rate on deposits in rubles (excluding deposits with additional conditions) of ten Russian banks that attract the largest volume of deposits in the first ten days of January 2015 was 15.325%, the Central Bank reports.

The Ukrainian economy is in a very difficult situation. Reserves for December decreased by 24% to $7.5 billion (minimum since 2004) - it was necessary to help Naftogaz so that it would pay Russia $1.65 billion for imported fuel (plus $378 million in advances). Reserves do not even cover two months of imports.

Personal archive The new novel by the National Bestseller Andrey Gelasimov, Cold (Moscow: Eksmo, 2015) is an energetic, gripping and nerve-wracking text. A forty-two-year-old fashionable Moscow director, an active consumer of alcohol and other substances that distract him from melancholy, flies to the North, to his hometown. He needs to make peace with a friend, his past and himself. Suddenly, the electricity in the city goes out. It is minus 50 outside.

The government has submitted amendments to the Duma that provide for a ban on offshore companies participating in public procurement. It is proposed to add a new chapter to the law on public procurement that will prohibit customers from concluding such contracts with offshore companies.

Former general director of the Russian Agency for Insurance of Export Credits and Investments (EXIAR) Pyotr Fradkov has been appointed first deputy chairman of Vnesheconombank, the state corporation said in a statement. In his new position, Fradkov will oversee issues related to VEB’s participation in the implementation of state foreign economic policy.

A witness in the Oboronservis case, former head of the central experimental military cartographic factory Natalya Dynkova refused to testify in the Presnensky Court. At the same time, the witness answered questions from the key figure in the case, Evgenia Vasilyeva, stating that neither Vasilyeva nor former Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov gave her any illegal instructions. Dynkova also reported that she was pressured by the investigation.

Brent Lewin / Bloomberg Oil sands mining has long been an unpopular form of unconventional oil production. But Canada's remote northern Alberta region, rich in heavy oil, has attracted some of the world's largest energy companies, and they have invested billions of dollars to build a giant industrial complex there.

January 13, 2015, 19:38 / Finance Alfa Bank closes its representative office in the US and plans layoffs in London Vedomosti Alfa Bank is closing its capital markets office in New York and planning staff cuts in its London division, bank spokesman Leonid Ignat told Interfax-AFI. “We are planning to reduce this division of four people due to the macroeconomic situation. These employees are engaged in sales introduction and do not close transactions.

The number of victims as a result of the shelling of a passenger bus near Volnovakha (Donetsk region) has increased to 11 people - another woman died in the hospital from her wounds, the website of the Donetsk regional administration reports. "The woman was seriously injured and was taken to hospital in critical condition. Doctors fought for her life, but they were unable to save the victim," the statement said.

In Russia, Thomas Cook has a joint venture with a subsidiary of AFK Sistema - (VAO) Intourist. The British currently hold 75% of the joint company, which includes the tour operator National Tourism Company (NTK) Intourist and the travel agency chain Intourist Travel Store. The revenue of the Russian division of the British tour operator Thomas Cook in the 2014 financial year fell by 20%, to 181 million pounds sterling, according to the annual report of Thomas Cook Group plc.

On Tuesday, Moscow's Tagansky Court postponed until January 26 the hearing of the claim of the editor-in-chief of the radio station "Ekho Moskvy" Alexey Venediktov concerning the warning from Roskomnadzor. Judge Yulia Smolina postponed the hearing due to the absence of the applicant, who was unable to attend due to work commitments.

UAC President Mikhail Pogosyan / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The board of directors of the United Aircraft Corporation ( UAC ) will consider the issue of terminating the powers of the corporation's president Mikhail Pogosyan on January 16. UAC itself reported this today. "The decision to convene the board of directors was made by the corporation's shareholders," a company representative told Interfax, referring the question about the reasons for the convocation to the government.