By 2018–2020, Rostec wants to ensure 100% of state orders for blood products are produced in Russia / Grigory Sysoev / RIA Novosti Rostec has proposed making the National Immunobiological Company (NIK; 100% owned by the state corporation) the sole supplier of state purchases of medicines against tuberculosis, HIV and viral hepatitis until 2020, as well as blood products until 2025.

Media learned about Putin's proposal to appoint Berlusconi as Minister of Economy / Alexei Nikolsky / RIA Novosti / AP Russian President Vladimir Putin offered former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Russian citizenship and the post of Minister of Economy, the newspaper La Stampa reported on Thursday.

The ban on flower supplies from the Netherlands, the high probability of which was stated by Rosselkhoznadzor, is an expected measure. According to the head of the department, Sergei Dankvert, "quarantine organisms" have been found in Dutch flowers, which could threaten the economy and agricultural production of Russia.

23 July 2015, 18:13 / Finance The world's largest hedge fund warned about the risks of investing in China Previously, Bridgewater Associates was optimistic about the potential of Chinese stock markets Mia Lamar Rob Copeland “Our views on China have changed,” Raymond Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, wrote in a note to clients this week.

A selection of the most interesting publications in the publications co-founders of Vedomosti dated July 23, 2015. Politics The Pentagon intends to supply Ukrainian troops with more powerful radars. However, the White House still refuses to provide Kiev with lethal weapons read on WSJ.com Point of view In recent months, it seemed that the new Greek government would try to play the “Russian card” to reduce the pressure exerted by creditors.

Exactly 800 years ago, in the summer of 1215, a document appeared in England that is sometimes considered to have laid the foundations of European democracy. It was the Magna Carta, a contract between the monarch and society on the observance of human rights. Representatives of the elite obtained certain personal guarantees from the king and freedom from arbitrary taxation.

The Pentagon intends to deliver a powerful long-range radar station to Ukraine to help the Ukrainian military in the fight against "pro-Russian rebels," The Wall Street Journal reports , citing a source in the administration of US President Barack Obama. The radar station is not a lethal weapon, the delivery of which the White House previously opposed. To resolve this issue, the approval of the presidential administration is mandatory.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has issued a decree amending the rules for using the Moscow Metro and monorail system. A source in the mayor's office told Interfax about this. According to the new rules, when boarding a carriage, passengers are required to let a child go ahead of them. Boarding a carriage is prohibited "upon receipt of information about the closing of the carriage doors (red lights above the doors are flashing, a sound signal is heard)".

Work on restoring a section of the federal highway Tyumen - Khanty-Mansiysk in the Tyumen region was completed on Thursday, July 23. This was reported in a statement by the regional State Traffic Inspectorate. "Restoration work on the 447th km of the Tyumen - Khanty-Mansiysk highway has been completed," the press release notes.

The higher the level of education of respondents, the more often they report maintaining financial records / M. Stulov / Vedomosti The level of financial discipline among Russians is falling, the National Agency for Financial Research (NAFI) has found. According to a June survey, the number of respondents who consider themselves financially literate has grown from 13 to 20% in two years, returning to the 2011 level.

The head of the delegation of French parliamentarians that arrived in Crimea, Thierry Mariani, believes that the peninsula should become a territory of cooperation between Russia and France, regardless of the opinion "from the other side of the Atlantic." He made this statement at a meeting with the leadership of the Crimean parliament in Simferopol on Thursday, July 23, Interfax reports. "We are ready to discuss mutually beneficial cooperation between our two countries," said Mariani.

OOO T2 RTK Holding (brand Tele2, a joint venture of Rostelecom and Tele2 Russia) plans to begin providing communications services in Moscow in the fourth quarter of 2015, tentatively in November-December, the company's operations director Dmitry Lopatukhin told journalists in Perm on Thursday. People close to the company had previously told Vedomosti that the launch of Tele2's Moscow network was planned for August 15, 2015.

Yandex.Taxi and Gett have set up call centers for drivers and clients / A. Astakhova / Vedomosti Five years ago, a customer using taxi services had to call a transport company, order a car, and wait for it to come for him. The fare was high, and the waiting time was unpredictable. People actively used the services of unlicensed "gypsy cabs". But then Internet applications for calling a taxi appeared.

Wells Fargo has long competed with ICBC for the title of the most expensive bank / D. Novozhilov / Vedomosti Wells Fargo shares have gained 13.5% over the past 12 months, making it the seventh-largest company in the S&P 500. On Tuesday, its shares were down 0.17% to $57.95, giving it a market cap of $298.7 billion. That's about $42 billion and $120 billion more than JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup. Wells Fargo has long rivaled ICBC for the title of most valuable bank (see chart).

It is necessary to exclude from the Russian Constitution the provisions that the norms of international law are part of the country's legal system. This opinion was expressed in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) Alexander Bastrykin.