The weighted average price for Gazprom gas supplies to non-CIS countries in 2015 will be about $238 per 1,000 cubic meters. m. Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Company Alexander Medvedev spoke about this on Friday, October 23, reports . RIA Novosti “According to estimates at the beginning of September, we expect to sell about 158 ​​billion cubic meters of gas to non-CIS countries,” Medvedev said.

The leader of Moldova's "Our Party" Renato Usatii has been detained for 72 hours on charges of illegal wiretapping of telephone conversations, the Moldovan Information and Security Service told Interfax. Usatii was detained on Friday evening at the Chisinau airport, where he arrived from Moscow.

US President Barack Obama has vetoed the $612 billion 2016 defense budget bill, Reuters reports . "I'm going to send it back to Congress. And my message to them is very simple: 'Let's get this right,'" Obama said. He explained that he wanted to pass a budget "that properly supports both our national security and our economic security." The rejected draft document would have provided $300 million in military aid to Ukraine.

The foreign ministers of Russia, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey began a meeting at the Vienna Hotel Imperial, RIA Novosti reports . Earlier on Friday, October 23, a series of bilateral and multilateral meetings of foreign ministers were held in Vienna to discuss the situation in Syria. Thus, the meeting between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry lasted an hour and a half.

October 22, 2015, 11:53 pm / Business / Lifestyle Hamleys toy stores acquired by Chinese shoe retailer The cost of the transaction could be $154 million Polina Gritsenko The oldest toy store, Hamleys, was founded in London in 1760 / Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters Chinese retailer C.Banner International Holdings is buying the famous British toy store chain Hamleys, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, citing informed sources.

October 22, 2015, 10:54 pm / Finance Nikolay Tsvetkov's sale of the Uralsib management company to the BCS group fell through BCS refused to buy toxic assets worth 3 billion rubles in the Uralsib portfolio Marie Mesropyan Natalia Biyanova Tatyana Voronova BCS refused to buy toxic assets worth 3 billion rubles. in the Uralsib portfolio / S.

On the Moscow Exchange, the euro exchange rate fell by 1.15 rubles. to 68.41 rubles, the minimum level since the end of August, TASS reports . On the international Forex currency market, the euro/dollar exchange rate fell below $1.11 per euro on Friday for the first time since September. The euro's depreciation accelerated on Thursday after ECB Chairman Mario Draghi announced a possible adjustment to the quantitative easing (QE) program in December.

October 22, 2015, 10:55 pm / Finance EU ban on analytics will not affect state-owned banks It concerns shares and bonds issued after the introduction of sanctions - there were no such securities Marie Mesropyan Natalya Raibman Galina Kazakulova In particular, Sberbank, Gazprombank, VTB, VEB, RSHB are under EU sanctions / E.

Investigative bodies have brought charges in their final version against businessman Sergei Polonsky in a fraud case, the businessman's representatives reported. "On October 21, the Investigative Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs presented the final version of the charges against Sergei Polonsky in criminal case (No. 28163).

October 22, 2015, 10:50 pm / Finance When placing OFZ at auction, one of the market participants did not execute the transaction for the first time However, he faces nothing except a warning from the exchange Marie Mesropyan Finance Minister Anton Siluanov warns that the first bell has rung for violators / E.

Forward of FC Real Madrid and the Portuguese national football team, Cristiano Ronaldo was included in the top ten of the published ranking of the most valuable brands of 2015 among athletes, compiled by Forbes magazine. The magazine valued Ronaldo's brand at $16 million. At the same time, Ronaldo's main competitor in the fight for the Golden Ball, Argentine FC Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, is not on the list. And Ronaldo is the only football player in the top ten of this rating.

The Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the State Duma a bill on extending the period of zero indexation of salaries of civil servants and military personnel pay until the beginning of 2017. The corresponding order is posted on the official government website . The bill is submitted to the State Duma in a package with the draft budget of the Russian Federation for 2016.

Automaker Mazda is recalling 4.9 million vehicles worldwide, including 1.36 million in the United States, due to ignition problems, AP reports . A manufacturing defect creates the risk of overheating, smoke and possible ignition of the contacts in the ignition socket. In the US, the recall will affect Protégé, MX-6, MPV, MX-3 from 1989-1998. Dealers plan to replace the ignition switches starting in December.

will redirect the pipes that have not yet been welded for the construction of the Southern Corridor Gazprom to expand the northern gas pipelines, through which gas will be supplied to two new lines of the Nord Stream. This was reported to Vedomosti by three people close to the pipe companies and confirmed by a Gazprom representative. According to him, about 380 km of pipes intended for the Eastern route of the Southern Corridor remained unused.

October 23, 2015, 14:25 / Business Transaero canceled 102 flights on October 24 Vedomosti Airlines Transaero is canceling 102 flights on October 24, said in a statement Aeroflot . “Passengers of canceled flights will be transported by flights of Aeroflot group companies under the code SU,” the air carrier notes.