The organizers of the placement of securities of the large Russian retailer Lenta, within 2.5 hours from the opening of the book, collected applications from investors for the entire amount of the placement, two Vedomosti sources familiar with the progress of the transaction reported. According to another source involved in the deal, the organizers targeted investors who wanted to participate in the placement at a price of about $7 for one global depository receipt of the retailer.

On Tuesday, October 20, the Russian Defense Ministry received from its US counterparts a memorandum on preventing air incidents in Syria, which they had agreed upon. This statement was made on Tuesday, October 20, by the official representative of the Russian defense department, Major General Igor Konashenkov, Interfax reports .

Microsoft supports US sanctions against Russia, the company has a formal ban on software supplies to Crimea / E. Razumny / Vedomosti On September 22, the Simferopol administration announced an auction to purchase 80 licenses for Microsoft Office for an amount no higher than 772,853 rubles, according to the state procurement portal. The auction was won by the company "Samotsvety", which offered the minimum amount - 226,338 rubles.

Those who work too much become less efficient / Fotolia / Photoxpress At 6 p.m. sharp every day, the great exodus begins at United Shore Financial Services. Within five minutes, the office and the corporate parking lot are empty, says Ahmed Haidar, the firm’s client relations manager. United Shore is one of a wave of small firms trying to implement a radical management concept that isn’t really radical at all: the 40-hour workweek.

October 20, 2015, 20:30 / Business The Cabinet of Ministers allocated 1.4 billion rubles for livestock and crop production programs Vedomosti The Cabinet of Ministers distributed about 1.4 billion rubles. subsidies to support regional livestock and crop production programs in 2015. The government allocated 398 million rubles for economically significant agricultural development programs in the field of livestock farming. 17 Russian regions will receive funds. About 1 billion rubles.

October 20, 2015, 18:52 / Business Kidburg will expand its network of children's centers at the expense of the regions A year ago, the company raised funds for development from CapMan Polina Gritsenko In total, Kidburg plans to launch 6-7 projects a year - children's cities of professions and the format of the interactive museum-theater "Fairy Tale House" / Kidburg The Russian network of children's educational and entertainment parks "Kidburg", which a year ago attracted funds from an investment

The driver of Amiran Georgadze, suspected of committing several murders in Krasnogorsk, voluntarily surrendered to the police. This was reported to Interfax on the morning of October 20 by Vladimir Markin, a representative of the Investigative Committee. According to him, Shota Elizbarashvili worked as a driver for the suspect. Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the alleged accomplice of the "Krasnogorsk shooter" was a security guard.

October 20, 2015, 09:42 / Business Half of 2016 Olympics tickets for Brazilian fans will cost less than $25 Vedomosti Direct ticket sales for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016 will begin on October 20. This was reported by the official website of the Organizing Committee of the competition. We are talking about 4,000 tickets, half of which will cost less than 100 reais (about $25).

October 20, 2015, 21:07 / Business / Economics / Finance / Management / Politics / Technology Announcement of Vedomosti on October 21, 2015 Vedomosti In tomorrow's issue of the newspaper and on the website www.vedomosti.ru you will be able to find out details about what to scare terrorists, it is proposed to punish diggers; the Apple Music streaming service has become the second largest in the world by the number of paid subscribers; Allianz CEO Oliver Bathe received a steel helmet as a gift.

October 20, 2015, 18:56 / Economics China's services sector is booming Some investors see this as a reason for optimism amid falling GDP growth Ira Iosebashvili Caroline Tsui In January-September, cinema ticket sales in China grew by more than 50% year on year, exceeding $5 billion / Reuters On Monday, China reported that GDP grew 6.9% in the third quarter. Growth was below 7% for the first time since 2009, another sign of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.

October 19, 2015, 22:32 / Business Rosneft sells part of its shares to Italian Saras The company can sell an asset for a third more than it bought, and earn about 60 million euros Alina Fadeeva Saras is the sixth largest oil refining company in Europe / Saras Rosneft JV Projects SA (Luxembourg subsidiary of Rosneft) plans to sell up to 8.99% of the Italian Saras SpA under an accelerated bookbuilding scheme (formation of an order book - Vedomosti), Rosneft reported .

October 20, 2015, 09:58 / Finance Stock recommendations: investment banks lowered forecasts for oil and gas and metallurgical companies, raised forecasts for retailers Vedomosti Goldman Sachs revalued oil and gas companies: - lowered the recommendation for Gazprom shares from “hold” to “sell”, and the forecast price from $2.2 to $2; - lowered the recommendation for Novatek’s GDR from “buy” to “hold”, and the forecast price from $114 to $111; - lowered the forecast price of Bashneft shares from

The Russian government has approved an export loan to Cuba for the construction of four thermal power plant units. “The Russian side is providing the Cuban side with a state export loan in the amount of up to 1.2 billion euros to finance the construction of one power unit with a capacity of 200 MW at the Maximo Gomez thermal power plant and three power units with a unit capacity of 200 MW at the Eastern Havana thermal power plant,” the text says draft intergovernmental agreement.

Since 2013, New Cloud Technologies has been developing the My Office office application package / N. Rykhlik / Vedomosti The company "New Cloud Technologies", which develops the cloud office application "My Office", has left the foreign jurisdiction. This is stated in the company's statement. Previously, 43% of the developer belonged to the company "Service Plus" (according to "SPARK-Interfax", it belongs to the Cypriot Jurel Holdings).

The goal of reducing the initial payment is to support the secondary housing market / D. Grishkin / Vedomosti Sberbank will reduce the down payment on all mortgage products by 5 percentage points from October 26. This was reported by Alexey Trubnikov, Head of the Collateral Lending Development Department at Sberbank. "This is the largest reduction in the down payment this year," he said.