Video hosting YouTube is introducing a paid subscription that will allow users to skip commercials while watching videos. The innovation will come into effect on October 28. This was reported on Wednesday, October 21, by the TASS news agency, citing a press release from the Internet portal. The subscription, called YouTube Red, will cost $9.99 per month. For this money, users will be able to watch an unlimited number of videos without ads.

October 21, 2015, 14:39 / Finance / News Nabiullina: Payments on external debt in 2016 will be half as much, there are no risks undefined Vedomosti Payments on Russia's external debt in 2016 will be two times less than in 2015, the Central Bank does not see any risks, said Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina, speaking to State Duma deputies on Wednesday.

Western Digital Corp. will buy its competitor, American SanDisk, one of the world's largest flash memory manufacturers, for $19 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing a company statement. The deal will be made at $86.50 per share, of which $85.10 will be paid in cash and the rest in Western Digital common shares. Tuesday's trading in SanDisk shares in New York closed at $79.15, meaning the entire company was worth $15.4 billion. Read also: Samsung Offers $5.9 Billion for Flash Drives

A Russian Su-24 bomber destroyed a command and observation post of the terrorist group Islamic State (the activities of this organization are banned in Russia and a number of other countries) in the province of Idlib in Syria. This was reported on Wednesday, October 21, by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, Interfax reports .

October 20, 2015, 23:42 / Economics FAS wants to strengthen control over regional departments The central office is going to review their decisions on government procurement Ekaterina Mereminskaya FAS wants to understand itself / S. Porter / Vedomosti The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) wants to review the decisions of regional government procurement departments. Since 2016, the FAS has introduced an internal appeal, but only for cases of protection of competition.

October 21, 2015, 00:05 / Business Transneft tariffs will grow twice as slow FAS proposes to index monopoly tariffs linked to low inflation in 2016 Alina Fadeeva There may now not be enough money to expand ESPO / D. Grishkin / Vedomosti On Tuesday, the board of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) approved the indexation of tariffs for Transneft in 2016 by 5.7%, a Vedomosti source close to the meeting participant said, and a FAS representative confirmed.

The interest rate will be around 500 million rubles, Oleg Malis told Vedomosti / S. Porter / Vedomosti The Solvers Group (owned by Oleg Malis, the controlling shareholder of Svyaznoy) is buying out from Promsvyazbank the rights to claim the debt of Trellas and Enter, which was secured by the retailer's assets, the company said in a statement. The information was confirmed by a representative of Promsvyazbank.

Tele2 presentation begins in Moscow / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti Today in Moscow there is a presentation of the Moscow network of the operator " T2 RTK holding " (brand Tele2). The network itself will start working tomorrow. Journalists were gathered in a specially built pavilion on Revolution Square. The main intrigue of the presentation was Moscow tariffs. Until the last moment, the operator hid the details from partners.

Roskomnadzor has not yet received a response from Facebook regarding compliance with the law on personal data. This was reported to TASS at the Russian Interactive Week 2015 forum by the head of the agency, Alexander Zharov. "We have not yet received a response from Facebook, but we will hope that just as Viber unexpectedly declared that it had transferred personal data, Facebook will do the same," he said. He recalled that Facebook is a social network with a large number of users.

The Russian Federation has asked the US District of Columbia Court to refuse to hear a claim by former Yukos shareholders seeking to enforce a Hague arbitration ruling to pay them $50 billion in compensation, according to the court's database. Russia filed a motion to refuse enforcement of this decision under the New York Convention. A motion was also filed to refuse to consider the case due to lack of jurisdiction to consider the disputes.

By 11:14 Moscow time, Transaero shares had risen in price on the Moscow Exchange by 76.47%, to 12 rubles, while Aeroflot quotes accelerated their decline and are down 5.31% with the MICEX index falling by 0.3%, Prime reports . In accordance with the methodology for determining the risk parameters of the Moscow Exchange securities market, at 10:58 Moscow time, the upper limit of the price corridor (up to 12 rubles) for Transaero securities was changed, the exchange said in a statement.

Television is the main Russian media both in terms of audience reach and advertising sales / M. Stulov / Vedomosti The advertising market in Russia has begun to recover, Sergey Vasiliev, CEO of Russia's largest seller Vi, said at the Dentsu Aegis conference on Tuesday. If in January of this year advertisers cut their TV promotion budgets by 25% compared to the same period in 2014, then in August they did so by 14%, and in October by only 7%.

The Russian government's legislative committee has approved a bill to gradually increase the retirement age to 65 for certain categories of citizens - civil servants and municipal employees. This was reported on the website of the Russian cabinet of ministers on Wednesday, October 21.

October 21, 2015, 20:09 / Business Russia will invest $2 billion in the construction of hydroelectric power stations in Argentina undefined Vedomosti Russia will invest about $2 billion in the construction of a hydroelectric power station in Argentina, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this. “We pay priority attention to increasing trade and economic cooperation.

The Yabloko party has decided not to demand 1 million rubles from Alexei Navalny, the leader of the deregistered Progress Party, for his statements about the election campaign in the Kostroma region. As Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin told TASS, the party will only seek a refutation of Navalny's words. "He's poor, he complains about the lack of income, so they took pity on him," the politician explained.