The Moscow Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has ordered the company "Vkontakte" to pay 100,000 rubles for violating the rules for advertising information products. "The Moscow Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has imposed a fine of 100,000 rubles on VKontakte LLC for distributing advertisements for information products on the www.vk.com website without specifying their age category," reads a statement posted on the FAS website.

Moscow's Ostankino Court has arrested Andrei Mayakov, the director of human resources for the human rights organization "Committee for Civil Rights," until November 16. He is accused of attempted fraud, an Interfax correspondent reports from the courtroom. "The court ruled to satisfy the investigators' motion and ruled to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for Mayakov until November 16," the judge announced. The defendant's defense team said they would appeal his arrest.

September 17, 2015, 00:07 / Business Energy workers argue about fines for late commissioning of energy facilities There is time left until October to discuss whether these fines should be abolished Ivan Peschinsky The meeting that took place on Wednesday was just the beginning of the discussion, some proposals arose already during the discussion, said a representative of the Market Council / E.

September 16, 2015, 22:56 / Finance The influx of household funds into the banking system has stopped In August, the entire increase was provided only by foreign currency deposits, which became heavier in ruble terms due to the rise in the exchange rate Anna Eremina Marie Mesropyan In fact, the population did not bring any new money to banks in August / A.

Unrest has swept Burkina Faso following a coup d'état carried out by the presidential guard on Wednesday, September 16: at least one person was killed and more than 60 were injured, AFP reports , citing medical services. Officers of the presidential guard announced on Thursday that they were dissolving the government and establishing a National Democracy Council, Le Parisien reports .

September 16, 2015, 23:31 / Economics The Ministry of Transport is ready to share with the regions the money that has not yet been collected - tolls for the passage of heavy trucks The money could go towards financing local road concessions Yuri Nekhaychuk The amount of future revenue depends on the tariff; the option of 3.06 rubles is currently being discussed. for 1 km, the still officially approved rate is 3.73 rubles. / A.

US President Barack Obama is confident that his country is creating its own problems. He expressed this opinion at a conference of the Business Roundtable, which brings together the heads of the country's largest corporations. "Our problem is not that China will defeat us in negotiations or that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's strategy will be better than ours... The problem is in ourselves. We are harming ourselves," TASS quotes him as saying.

Hundreds of refugees have broken through police cordons on the Serbian-Croatian border, seeking to enter Croatia, The Telegraph reported on Thursday, September 17. According to local authorities, law enforcement forces sent back 500 people who were heading towards Zagreb, Interfax reports . Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic previously stated that the country could not accept more refugees – over the past two days, more than 7,000 refugees have entered the country.

Viktor Sukhorukov played the messiah who came to the city of sins / KINOPOISK.RU Under the blue sky there is a city called Orleans. No, not in France, but in the Russian hinterland, which slightly resembles hell. There are a lot of flies there (almost like in "Cargo 200"), poor people live there, leading a dreary life. For example, a vulgar hairdresser (Elena Lyadova) habitually performs abortion after abortion, thus ruining an entire kindergarten; but for her it's like brushing her teeth.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to remove the names of BBC journalists from the sanctions list. This was reported on Thursday, September 17, on Twitter by the press secretary of the Ukrainian president, Svyatoslav Tsegolko. "Freedom of the press is an absolute value for me," Tsegolko wrote. "The President has instructed the National Security and Defense Council to remove the names of BBC journalists from the sanctions list.

A person close to the state operator and an employee of the relevant federal department told Vedomosti about the letter from Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov to President Vladimir Putin. According to them, the document was written and sent back in the summer. The letter refers to 3 billion rubles.

Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine in Russia Ruslan Nemchinsky (Ukrainian Ambassador to Moscow Vladimir Yelchenko was recalled on March 17, 2014) has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. This was reported on Thursday, September 17, by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, Interfax writes . The reason for this step is the inclusion of a number of Russian political figures in the sanctions list by the Ukrainian authorities, she specified.

September 17, 2015, 19:56 / Finance Deutsche Bank is winding down its business in Russia Operations of the corporate banking and securities division will be serviced from the international office Ilya Usov Tatyana Voronova Marie Mesropyan A press release distributed by the Russian division of Deutsche Bank emphasizes that this is being done as part of a review of the geographic presence of the financial institution / E.

September 16, 2015, 23:37 / Economics The retirement age may be raised next year With cheap oil, funds from sovereign funds may run out as early as 2018, admits the Ministry of Finance Margarita Papchenkova Olga Kuvshinova The Ministry of Finance does not hope to save the budget piggy banks: in 2018, at best, the National Welfare Fund will remain / E. Razumny / Vedomosti Today, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will hold a meeting with ministers on the budget.

September 17, 2015, 18:37 / Auto PSA Peugeot Citroen is open to forming an alliance with competitors The automaker can even cooperate with technology companies from the United States, said its CEO Andy Sherman PSA Peugeot Citroen's results are improving, and opportunities are opening up for it to find new partners in order to benefit from this in the long term / A.