Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika has written to the Kommersant newspaper, naming the person who ordered the film by Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation about his sons' business. "I have no doubt that the people who ordered this false film are (head of the Hermitage Capital investment fund) William Browder and the special services behind him.

The Moscow Cinema Museum, which will be created at VDNKh, will become a "center for the propaganda of Russian cinema." As TASS reports , this was stated by Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky at the IV St. Petersburg Cultural Forum. "We are launching the creation of a Cinema Museum, which has not existed for more than 15 years; a pavilion has been allocated at VDNKh; it will not just be a museum, it will be a center for the promotion of Russian cinema," he said.

Opposition lawmakers sprayed tear gas at a session of the Kosovo parliament, the Associated Press reported on Monday. It was another attempt to pressure the government into denounced agreements with Serbia and Montenegro that guarantee the rights of the Serbian minority. The toxic clouds of gas that enveloped the meeting room forced the deputies to leave the room where the debates were taking place.

December 14, 2015, 00:10 / Business / Interview “The situation in Russia is always volatile” Why effective demand now worries foreign businesses more than the investment climate, and what the company is gearing up for in 2016, Pierre-André de Chalandar told Ekaterina Kravchenko S.

The Government Commission on Foreign Investments allowed Chinese Sinopec to acquire up to 20% of Sibur shares, said the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Igor Artemyev (his words were quoted by Interfax on Friday). The first 10% will cost Sinopec $1.338 billion, the price of the second part of the package has not yet been set. Sinopec has the right to buy this additional 10% within three years, Artemyev added.

Competition in the construction of the St. Petersburg metro did not work out / E. Egorov / Vedomosti The only participant who submitted an application for the tender for the construction of a section of the Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya metro line with a starting price of 39 billion rubles was OAO Metrostroy, according to the protocol of the envelope opening on the state procurement website. Metrostroy reduced the contract price to 37 billion rubles.

The persistent line of replacing undesirable regimes does not bring results, such an approach is counterproductive, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. As reported by TASS, he said this to participants of the A. M. Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Support Fund's "Dialogue for the Future" program. "Recent events have shown that we can achieve success only through collective efforts," he said.

Olga Kroytor's performance "Point of Support" could not fail to win / E. Razumny / Vedomosti The Kandinsky Prize, which recognizes achievements in the field of Russian contemporary art, was awarded this year for the ninth time. Several years ago, the ceremony was a bright intellectual celebration, then gradually the ambitions, passion and, it is easy to assume, the finances of Shalva Breus, the head of the prize fund, diminished.

The FSB Border Service for Crimea has denied information from Chernomorneftegaz about an incident involving a Turkish vessel that allegedly did not give way to the state company's convoy. As the agency's press service reported today, there were no attempts to stop or hinder the Russian vessels. "After contacting the Turkish vessel, on the recommendation of the Black Sea Fleet ship and in order to ensure safety of navigation, it changed its course and safely separated from the convoy.

The meeting between Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled for mid-December / Alexey Nikolsky / RIA Novosti There will be no Russian-Turkish summit in the near future, it is not planned. As reported by the Vedomosti correspondent, this was stated to journalists on December 14 by the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

December 13, 2015, 23:17 / Finance The creation of Pochta Bank may deprive Svyaz-Bank of its key corporate client - Russian Post It accounts for 15–20% of the bank’s client funds Anna Eremina Olga Petrova Svyaz-Bank hopes that Pochta will not leave immediately / E. Razumny / Vedomosti The creation of a postal bank could result in Svyaz-Bank losing one of its main clients - Russian Post, which holds its funds in it: accounts and deposits.

At the morning session on the Kazakhstan Currency Exchange (KASE), the first transaction took place at a price of 315.2 tenge per dollar, and at the end of the session the dollar exchange rate was 322.47, reports Tengrinews.kz . The maximum price was 329.67 tenge. The total trading volume reached $166.1 million, with 23 participants. The dollar against the tenge has been growing since December 8, 2015.

The American NeoPhotonics has opened production in the Moscow technopolis, this was announced by Rusnano, which previously invested in this company. NeoPhotonics has invested $15 million in production, which currently employs about 30 people, and may invest as much more in the next few years, company CEO Tim Jenks told Vedomosti. NeoPhotonics produces components for communications equipment that are needed when transmitting large amounts of data and traffic surges.

The RVM Capital company acquired an office complex of 10,000 sq. m. m in the center of Glasgow in Scotland, reports the Internet portal PropertyWeek. The total amount of the transaction, according to the publication, was 8.7 million pounds sterling (about $13 million). Representatives of RVM Capital and the owner of the building, Savills Investment Management, did not respond to Vedomosti’s requests.

On Monday, the Ministry of Transport published clarifications on the recommendations of the Presidential Council on Human Rights (HRC) regarding the Platon toll collection system for vehicles weighing over 12 tons, according to information on the ministry's website.