Kaliningrad Region Governor Nikolai Tsukanov has named a senator from the region: it will be Oleg Tkach, who previously represented the region in the upper house of the Russian parliament. Tsukanov made the statement to journalists on Monday after the inauguration ceremony. Speaking about the work of regional authorities, Tsukanov said that "personnel changes, as well as structural changes for new tasks" are possible in the regional government.

On Monday, September 21, Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos gave the mandate to form a government to the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza), former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, TASS reports . At the presidential palace, the two politicians exchanged views on the elections held in Greece on Sunday: they agreed that the vote had been held in a civilized, democratic manner. Tsipras informed Pavlopoulos of his intention to form a government with the Independent Greeks party.

No specific decisions have yet been made on increasing the mineral extraction tax (MET) for the oil industry, said Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. This is how he commented on media reports about such proposals from the Ministry of Finance. “As a rule, in the Kremlin, the relevant departments do not formulate their attitude, especially officially, to ideas that arise in expert circles, which are discussed in one way or another in such a purely preliminary manner.

The State Duma Committee on Property has generally approved a government bill that will allow Russian courts to limit the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state and its property based on the principle of reciprocity. As reported by RBK , the committee's draft conclusion states that the current version of the amendments does not affect the property of foreign states on the continental shelf and in the exclusive economic zone of Russia, i.e.

According to the WSJ, the money was transferred from account to account at several agencies, banks and companies affiliated with 1MDB before ending up in the prime minister's accounts / Joshua Paul / AP 1Malaysia Development Bhd. (1MDB) is Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, established in 2009. It is managed by a supervisory board headed by Prime Minister Najib Razak. 1MDB is currently struggling to repay $11 billion in debt and is at the center of a financial scandal.

Skype technical support has fixed the problem that caused the service to be out of order on Monday, September 21. The messenger is now fully operational. The problems began around 11:23 Moscow time, according to data from downdetector.com. Skype users complained about its unavailability in Russia, the United States, New Zealand, Vietnam, India, Denmark and a number of other countries. Users could not change their status, contact other contacts, some could not log into the messenger itself.

September 20, 2015, 10:54 pm / Business UTair is close to receiving government guarantees They will help the company restructure a fifth of its debts Alexander Vorobyov UTair is the fourth largest airline in Russia by the number of passengers carried / M. Stulov / Vedomosti On Thursday evening, the interdepartmental commission under the Ministry of Economic Development approved the provision of state guarantees to UTair in the amount of 9.5 billion rubles.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) on Monday, September 21, downgraded the long-term credit rating of Russian Standard Bank in national and foreign currencies to CCC from B-. Thus, the rating was downgraded to the pre-default level. This is stated in a message from S&P. The rating outlook is “negative”.

September 21, 2015, 09:17 / Business / News Brent approaches $48 per barrel again undefined Vedomosti Oil prices on the morning of Monday, September 21, continue to rise. Thus, on the ICE Intercontinental Exchange in London, the cost of November futures for the North Sea Brent mixture came close to $48 per barrel, amounting to $47.97 per barrel. At the same time, the November futures for light oil WTI reached $45.62 per barrel.

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro received Pope Francis at his home, with whom he spent about 40 minutes discussing religious and peace issues, Reuters reports . Castro's wife and family members were also present at the meeting.

Andrey Khorobrov will become the Chairman of the Board of Rossiya Bank. This was stated in a press release from the credit institution on Monday, September 21. On September 16, his candidacy for this position was approved by the Central Bank, the report notes. Khorobrov will replace Evgeny Logovinsky, who is moving to another job at ABR Management. Here he will oversee issues of strategic development and interaction with regulatory authorities. Khorobrov was born in Leningrad in 1965.

Recently, Vedomosti has become one of the platforms for discussing the priorities of the future development of the domestic healthcare system. The experts' opinions were ambiguous, the question of choosing between the insurance and budget models remains open for the expert community. Taking into account the opinions expressed, we would like to once again analyze the prospects of these systems in Russia.

On Monday, the Kushchevsky District Court (Krasnodar Krai) satisfied the civil claims of victims against convicted members of the "Tsapok gang" from the village of Kushchevskaya for a sum of more than 250 million rubles, the victims' lawyer Elena Starkova told Interfax. "The court satisfied the claims of a group of victims in the criminal case of Sergei Tsapko.

LTE equipment of Russian operators may soon start working in another range / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti Operators wishing to participate in auctions for the sale of 2.57-2.62 GHz LTE frequencies, the order for which was published last week by the Ministry of Communications, cannot determine in advance in which regions they will have to spend additional money to compensate MMDS operators for giving up the spectrum, say people close to two major mobile operators.

The film "Sunstroke" was based on the works of Ivan Bunin "Sunstroke" and "Cursed Days" / Kinopoisk The Russian Oscar Committee has nominated Nikita Mikhalkov's film "Sunstroke" for the American Film Academy Award, Interfax reports, citing the committee's press service.