January 13, 2016, 18:12 / Business Moët Hennessy director invested in wine app undefined Vedomosti Moët Hennessy CEO Christophe Navarre has invested in wine app Vivino, The Spirit Business portal reported on Wednesday. According to him, it was Navarre who became the main investor of the 17.3 million pounds sterling received by Vivino during the second round of investment, completed on Tuesday. A total of £25.7 million has been invested in Vivino since 2010, the publication clarifies.

January 13, 2016, 16:01 / Economics Kudrin: “We are in a vicious circle” To build a social state, we need economic growth of 5% per year, says ex-minister Olga Kuvshinova Russia is in a vicious circle, said Kudrin / E. Razumny / Vedomosti Russia has entered a period when social problems are becoming the most pressing of all problems, former Minister of Finance and head of KGI Alexei Kudrin said at the RANEPA Gaidar Forum.

0.7% That's how much industrial production in the UK fell by in November 2015 compared to the previous month. This is the most significant decline in three years, according to the country's Office for National Statistics. Economists polled by Bloomberg did not expect the indicator to change. To avoid a decline in industrial production by the end of the fourth quarter, growth of at least 0.5% in December is required.

In recent years, one could regularly hear from representatives of the Polish ruling class: don’t dare call us Eastern Europe anymore – or even Central Europe, we have chosen the West. And now, literally in a few weeks, the Poles have returned to the East, and have gone so far that there is talk of whether the EU will impose sanctions against them.

President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia has registered a drug for Ebola fever, Interfax reports. "We have good news, I will ask the Minister of Health to tell us about it. We have registered a medicine for Ebola fever, which after appropriate tests shows high efficiency, higher than those drugs that are still used in the world," Putin explained. The Ebola outbreak in Africa in 2014 killed more than 11,000 people, according to the World Health Organization.

8.9 trillion rubles was in the reserve fund and the national wealth fund (NWF) together on January 1, the Finance Ministry said in a statement: 3.64 trillion ($49.95 billion) and 5.23 trillion ($71.72 billion), respectively. In December, the reserve fund decreased by 290.5 billion, the NWF increased by 443.1 billion. In December, the Finance Ministry sold 710.7 billion rubles worth of currency from the reserve fund to finance the budget deficit.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov stated at the Gaidar Forum 2016 that last year the government did not make a single major mistake in the economy, TASS reports. "Some criticize us, they think that we are not acting strictly enough within the framework of the budget rule. But here I will also voice the position of the rector of RANEPA, Professor Vladimir Mau, and many other foreign experts - probably, we all, like normal people in the current conditions, make mistakes.

The Moscow Patriarchate denied information that the Russian Orthodox Church is going to buy Moscow Ergobank, Interfax reports. “I don’t know anything about this. Most likely, it’s just some kind of canard,” explained the head of the financial and economic department of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky.

January 13, 2016, 16:07 / Business Ruble devaluation threatens chocolate production in Russia Vedomosti In 2015, ruble prices for basic types of raw materials for chocolate production increased by 40-80% - more than world prices for cocoa beans, reports the Center for Confectionery Market Research (CIMR). According to Interfax, experts warn that further devaluation of the ruble could lead to a reduction in chocolate production in Russia, including the shutdown of a number of enterprises.

January 13, 2016, 16:50 / Business Transneft expects a fall in oil exports in 2016 Russian manufacturers risk losing their share in the global market Galina Starinskaya Almost 90% of Russian oil is transported through the Transneft system / E. Egorov / Vedomosti In 2016, oil companies plan to transport 476 million tons of oil through the Transneft system, which is 1% lower than in 2015, said vice-president of the monopoly Sergei Andronov.

The new building of City Hospital No. 40 in the Kurortny district will be built by Nevskaya Medical Infrastructure LLC on the basis of a public-private partnership (PPP). An agreement with the government of St. Petersburg was signed at the end of December. Nevskaya Medical Infrastructure is a joint venture established by the Italian Pizzarotti (71%) and Gazprombank - Investment Development North-West (29%).

Former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is not currently thinking about returning to government service. He stated this on RSN . "I'm not going back anywhere yet, I haven't commented on this topic for a long time. It seems to me that all sorts of newspaper canards are getting ahead of all possible events," he said.

January 13, 2016, 11:04 / Economics Ulyukaev considers the main risk for the economy to be a change in the behavior model of the population Vedomosti A significant risk in the near future for the Russian economy may be a change in the consumer behavior of the population - a shift from a consumer model to a savings model. This was stated at the Gaidar Forum by the Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev. “In fact, it is already happening,” Interfax quotes him as saying.

Agroprom The article was published in No. 3992 dated January 13, 2016 under the title: Vodka reduces inflation Rosstat: in 2015, the prices of cereals and sugar increased the most - by an average of 40–42% Alcohol, on the contrary, was one of the laggards 01/12/2016 Vedomosti Maria Kunle, Anastasia Demidova On average, alcohol prices rose by 11.9% over the year, with food inflation at 20.8% M.

President Vladimir Putin has not yet created a stable “ruling class like there was in the days of tsarist Russia,” Vladimir Yakunin, former head of Russian Railways , said in an interview with Bloomberg. In 2014, the U.S. government considered Yakunin “a close confidant of Putin” and included him in the sanctions list due to Moscow’s policy towards Ukraine.