Specialized products for athletes' nutrition have been exempted from Russian food counter-sanctions, the government press service reported. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed the corresponding decree on September 16. The sanctions will not apply to nutrition for athletes, provided that the Ministry of Sports confirms the intended purpose of the imported goods.

September 22, 2015, 19:40 / Career Business education is mandatory for managers of only 3% of Russian companies Vedomosti has found a branch of Russian business where, in principle, they won’t hire anyone without an MBA diploma Mikhail Malykhin In 19% of Russian companies, an MBA degree is considered a career advantage, including 23% of IT companies and banks, 19% of manufacturing companies, 17% of sales / Photoxpress Only 3% of employers consider business education mandatory for their managers,

September 22, 2015, 18:02 / Business Glencore share price hits new record low Since the IPO, held at the peak of the commodity boom, quotes have dropped by more than 80% Mikhail Overchenko Glencore has never been so cheap / Glencore Shares in mining and trading company Glencore fell below £1 in trading on Tuesday, hitting a new record low of 99.59 pence, reported the Financial Times .

September 22, 2015, 15:02 / Auto / News European automakers were suspected of falsifying emissions after the VW scandal in the USA undefined Vedomosti The scandal involving falsification of emissions from Volkswagen diesel engines in the United States is rising to the international level, AFP reports . Many countries may require the German automaker to explain itself for the quality of its cars.

Asian stock indices are rising on Tuesday following the Chinese market, Bloomberg reports. The Chinese Shanghai Composite rose by 0.9% during trading, the Hong Kong Hang Seng - also by 0.9%, the Australian S&P/ASX 200 - by 0.2%, the South Korean KOSPI - by 0.9%. Japanese markets are closed as on Monday due to a public holiday. The Chinese stock market rose for the third session in a row in anticipation of the upcoming visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the United States.

September 22, 2015, 18:22 / Economy / News The Ministry of Finance proposed reducing the 2016 budget with a deficit of 3% of GDP and maintaining reserves undefined Vedomosti The Ministry of Finance, at a meeting with the president in Novo-Ogarevo, presented its proposals taking into account the instructions of the head of state that next year the budget deficit should be no more than 3% of GDP and that reserves should be maintained in the medium and long term, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov

Russia has increased the deployment of its aircraft in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday, September 22. However, he believes that they are most likely deployed to protect their own base, rather than to conduct offensive operations, AFP reports . “Yes, they [Russia] have increased the number of aircraft [in Syria], and there are certain types of aircraft there that, depending on what Russia’s long-term intentions are, could raise some questions,” Kerry said.

The presiding judge in the case of Nadezhda Savchenko decided not to allow journalists into the courtroom. As reported by Interfax, a bailiff service employee explained that consuls and lawyers would be present in the courtroom, and the journalists would be placed in a room where a video broadcast would be set up. As reported by Mediazona, Savchenko and her lawyers asked to let the journalists in, but the judge rejected this motion.

September 22, 2015, 14:19 / Finance The pilot project of the Postal Bank has already been launched in the capital region Vedomosti The pilot project of the Post Bank is already operating in the Moscow region, said Dmitry Rudenko, chairman of the board of Leto Bank. “We use Leto Bank technologies; this is not yet entirely related to mail,” he shared.

The Government of Ukraine has been temporarily suspending payments for repayment and servicing of public debt since September 23. The corresponding resolution is contained in the order of the country's Cabinet of Ministers “On the beginning of the procedure for restructuring state and state-guaranteed debt and its write-off,” published on Monday, September 21, on the website of the government of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, opening a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) in Kyiv, said that more than 60% of citizens support the idea of ​​Ukraine joining NATO. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is present at the meeting. "The Euro-Atlantic choice with the prospect of NATO membership is receiving extremely important and growing support in Ukrainian society. Two years ago, the course towards Euro-Atlantic integration was supported, dear Mr.

September 22, 2015, 19:38 / Business Hillary Clinton's Twitter post crashes pharmaceutical stocks Their market capitalization fell by $15 billion last Monday David Crowe Hillary Clinton promised to fight drug price hikes / Gareth Patterson / AP Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate for the US presidential election, crashed the stock prices of US pharmaceutical companies on Monday, vowing to fight drug price gouging.

September 22, 2015, 14:23 / Economy / Opinions / World economy How Iran's economy survived under sanctions Thanks to economic restructuring, the oil industry, once its mainstay, now accounts for only 15% of GDP Alexander Losev , General Director of Sputnik - Capital Management Iran demonstrates a unique example of the survival of a country with a population of 78 million people, under various sanctions since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, which has survived a bloody war and military

September 22, 2015, 10:14 am / Business Monopoly supplier of heat to the Ministry of Defense declared bankrupt Vedomosti The once monopoly heat supplier for the Ministry of Defense, Repair and Operations Management JSC (REU), has been declared bankrupt. Now his property must be sold to pay off the debt, which, according to Kommersant , reached 50 billion rubles in the middle of the year. But REU does not have enough assets; no more than 7% of the debt can be covered with them.

22 September 2015, 13:32 / Business Low-cost airline Pobeda sells tickets at a rate of 1 ruble Vedomosti On September 22 , Pobeda Airlines (a subsidiary of Aeroflot ) began selling tickets to all of its 40 destinations at a rate of 1 ruble, i.e., the passenger only needs to pay airport taxes, the company’s press service reported. Tickets for 1 rub. available for flights from October 13 to December 23, 2015 and from January 18 to March 26, 2016, the number of promotional tickets is limited.