The State Duma has approved in its final reading a bill that allows Russian citizens to obtain two foreign passports, Interfax reports. The authors of the law believe that obtaining only one foreign passport limits the opportunities of Russians. "For example, you submitted documents for a new passport, but at that moment you can no longer use the old one," explained the first deputy head of the committee on constitutional legislation and state building, Rizvan Kurbanov.

04 December 2015, 15:13 / Finance B&N Bank may launch international placements worth $100-150 million in 2016 Vedomosti Next year B&N Bank is going to refinance the issues of European commercial paper that are currently in circulation. The bank can also make new international placements for a total amount of $100-150 million, Interfax reports. This statement was made by the head of the international capital markets department of B&N Bank Aisylu Yakusheva.

According to Kolomoisky, this is a "road map, on the basis of which there is a verbal agreement and verbal understanding." "The guarantors were both Lozhkin [head of the presidential administration Boris Lozhkin] and Avakov [Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov]. The agreement was concluded by two parties: on one side - Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, on the other - Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov [businessman Gennady Bogolyubov].

December 04, 2015, 00:11 / Business One of the four claims against Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik was rejected The next hearing on the $2 billion case will take place in early 2016 Ivan Peschinsky Vitaly Petlevoy Leonid Lebedev still has a chance to sue money from his former partners / S.

04 December 2015, 19:53 / Politics The ECHR recognized that the SORM system does not comply with the European Convention Russian legislation is unable to protect citizens from unauthorized wiretapping, the court decided Anastasia Kornya The case concerned a system for tapping mobile phones in Russia / D.

In May 2015, Chemezov suggested that both a tablet and electronic textbooks based on Yota Devices developments would soon appear / E. Razumny / Vedomosti Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov demonstrated an electronic textbook created on the basis of YotaPad to Vladimir Putin, the official website of the Kremlin reports. According to Chemezov, the device is Russian-made, "but the components may, of course, be foreign." The screen is made at an enterprise created by Rusnano , Chemezov told the president.

Sberbank CEO German Gref expects Russia-Turkey relations to improve in 2016 "I believe that the peak of negative events has remained this year, and next year there will be a de-escalation, and I think that you and I have a certain role to play in this, so that we dismantle this level of horizontal relationships among companies," he said on Friday after a "direct line" with bank employees (quoted by Interfax).

A bill has been introduced to the State Duma to deprive terrorists and persons participating in military conflicts against Russia of citizenship. The corresponding draft was introduced by the People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan and posted on the State Duma website on Friday. The deputies propose to supplement Article 21 of the Federal Law "On Citizenship of Russia" with Article 21.1. "Deprivation of Citizenship of the Russian Federation".

The incident with the Russian plane shot down by Turkey is likely to bring the Russian government down to earth. It is obvious that Moscow still has not realized what kind of adventure it has gotten itself into by starting a military campaign in Syria. How else can one interpret the Russian president’s words that Turkey has “stabbed our country in the back”?

December 04, 2015, 18:22 / Auto / News The Duma approved a reduction in fines for truckers not having trackers undefined Vedomosti The State Duma adopted a bill in final reading, according to which the fine for truckers not having trackers - special systems that track the route and set the amount of payment - is reduced almost 100 times (from 450,000 to 5,000 rubles), Interfax reports.

December 04, 2015, 10:24 / Business / News Russians will travel to the UAE, Thailand and India on New Year's Day undefined Vedomosti Russian tourists are beginning to come to terms with the loss of Turkey and Egypt and, on the eve of the New Year, are looking for an alternative to the two most popular destinations. Demand for tours to the UAE increased by 20%, to Thailand - by 10-15%, to India and Vietnam - by 5%.

Turkey does not intend to introduce a visa regime for Russians as a response to Moscow's actions, a representative of the Turkish embassy in Moscow told Interfax. "Turkey considers the Russian people friendly and wants to continue good relations," he said. "Turkey does not intend to make decisions that will negatively affect the Russian people.

Deputies propose to impose VAT on Google and Apple / M. Stulov / Vedomosti State Duma deputies Andrei Lugovoi and Vladimir Parakhin have prepared a bill that introduces taxation of foreign companies for selling Russian users access to databases, software, games, music, video, books and any content.

December 03, 2015, 23:17 / Business Russians are more likely to try to save money on medicines They choose cheap pharmacies and promotions Anastasia Demidova Pharmacy revenue on the day of promotions can increase several times compared to a regular trading day / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Russians are increasingly trying to save money, including on medicines, according to the results of a Nielsen study (see sidebar).

04 December 2015, 13:14 / Economics The Central Bank saw the threat of rising prices in anti-Turkish sanctions Vedomosti Limiting the import of Turkish products could lead to an additional increase in consumer prices by up to 0.4 percentage points in 2015-2016, according to the monthly bulletin of the Research and Forecasting Department of the Bank of Russia.