Thai police have no doubt that the explosion that occurred on Monday, August 17, at 19:00 local time in Bangkok, was carried out by a man who was captured on CCTV cameras at the scene of the attack. The man in the yellow T-shirt is first sitting on a bench with a backpack next to him. Then he leaves at 18:40, but without the backpack. After a while, an explosion is heard, writes the Guardian, citing Thai police.

August 18, 2015, 09:39 / Business Gazprom forgave Gazprom Energoholding 50 billion rubles of debt undefined Vedomosti Gazprom . contributed 50 billion rubles on August 12 into the capital of the subsidiary Gazprom Energoholding (GEH), according to SPARK-Interfax materials, as a result, the authorized capital of GEH increased to 215.1 billion rubles.

The exhibition "70 Years of the Nuclear Industry. Chain Reaction of Success" organized by Rosatom will be held in the Manezh Exhibition Hall in Moscow from September 1 to 29, 2015. This was reported in a press release from the state corporation. According to Rosatom, the central exhibit of the exhibition should be the AN-602 thermonuclear aviation bomb (aka "Tsar Bomba").

Qiwi Plc and Visa have completed the integration of Visa payWave contactless payment technology into the functionality of the Visa Qiwi Wallet electronic wallet and launched a contactless payment service using mobile phones. As reports , this was announced by the head of the department for the development of new products and innovations of Visa in Russia, Mikhail Batuev.

18 August 2015, 17:51 / Economics Putin spoke about the situation with the ruble exchange rate Vedomosti The government monitors the situation with the ruble exchange rate on a daily basis, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I know that the government gives this priority attention and importance. We just discussed with Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (this situation). We generally deal with this every day,” he said.

In Bangkok, security forces are searching for a suspect in the August 17 explosion in the city center, said the spokesman for the military leadership of Thailand, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. According to him, this is an unidentified man who was filmed by a security camera installed near the site of the explosion.

August 18, 2015, 00:35 / Business GSS warned about problems with the supply of parts Due to sanctions, the SSJ100 manufacturer encountered problems purchasing imported equipment Maria Kiseleva Now GSS is trying to reduce the share of foreign components in the SSJ100, a company representative emphasizes / M.

as president of Russian Railways First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov believes that Vladimir Yakunin did a lot . Shuvalov announced this on Tuesday, August 18. “If Vladimir Ivanovich [Yakunin] leaves, he has worked honorably these years and done a lot,” said the First Deputy Prime Minister. “Russian Railways is the only company that has shown the best results every year in terms of costs and productivity,” he added.

18 August 2015, 14:08 / Finance In China, trading on Tuesday ended with a collapse of indices by more than 6% Vedomosti In China, trading on Tuesday ended with another collapse in quotes. According to TASS, the Shanghai Composite Stock Exchange index fell by 245.51 points (6.15%) to 3,748.16. The Shenzhen Component Index, which is the main indicator of business activity on the trading floor in Shenzhen, fell by 890.04 points (6.56%) to 12683.86 points.

August 18, 2015, 21:40 / Business Deputies proposed banning the sale of sanctioned products Retail has long replaced these goods, insists business Yulia Gribtsova Olga Churakova Retailers claim that even without legislative initiatives they do not sell sanctioned products / D.

X5 faces the challenge of regaining its market leadership, which the company lost to Magnit in 2013 / E. Razumny / Vedomosti Russia's second-largest grocery retailer by revenue , X5 Retail Group (the Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, and Karusel chains) has acquired 104 stores of the Rosinka group of companies in the Oryol, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Kursk, and Tambov regions. This was reported in a statement by X5.

Tatfondbank plans to apply to the Arbitration Court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug to declare UTair airline bankrupt.

The Russian Embassy in Thailand has not received any information about Russians injured in the explosion in Bangkok. This was reported to TASS by the head of the consular department of the diplomatic mission, Vladimir Sosnov. According to him, there was no such information from either the police or the Ministry of Tourism and Sports. "The embassy is working as usual, consular reception is underway. In connection with what happened, Russians have not asked us for help," the diplomat specified.

August 18, 2015, 10:28 am / Politics Yakunin advised Russian Railways employees in case of his departure undefined Vedomosti JSC Russian Railways , on behalf of the company's president Vladimir Yakunin, sent a telegram to the management of Russian Railways itself, its subsidiaries and trade unions informing them of Yakunin's possible transfer to the Federation Council.

August 18, 2015, 00:51 / Economics The Leningrad region may receive 44 billion rubles in income tax this year This is 2 billion less than last year, which is considered a record year Polina Gritsenko SMARTMONEY The Leningrad region plans to maintain high corporate income tax collections this year – at the level of 44 billion rubles.