The Committee for Press and Interaction with the Media, together with the St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise “City Advertising Center” and the State Public Institution “City Advertising and Information”, dismantled 11,918 advertising structures in 2015, including 11 rooftops, the committee reported.

January 17, 2016, 22:21 / Economics The Ministry of Economic Development is ready to make concessions to state-owned companies The agency may soften the bill on their procurement Ekaterina Mereminskaya The Ministry of Economic Development is ready to meet Gazprom halfway and soften the bill on procurement of state-owned companies / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Previously, Rosneft asked to adjust the procurement rules (in September, Rosneft President Igor Sechin wrote to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev).

The Russian delegation will most likely refuse to participate in the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

A new “reset” of US-Russia relations is possible “depending on what we (America) get for it,” TASS quotes former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as saying during the Democratic Party’s presidential debates. She listed the benefits that the first “reset” that she helped launch brought to the United States.

January 18, 2016, 14:23 / Economy / Opinions / World economy With the help of the Belt and Road project, China is building a new economic order around itself The Celestial Empire proposes a model of “global management” Alexander Losev , General Director of Sputnik - Capital Management In the fall of 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping presented the concept of the “One Belt, One Road” project, which included the creation of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “Maritime Silk Road of the 21st

January 18, 2016, 15:32 / Business The IAAF Commission will visit Moscow again undefined Vedomosti The Commission of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) will make another visit to Moscow in two weeks, said the President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) Dmitry Shlyakhtin. “The previous visit was on 13-14 [January], so the next one will be in two weeks, that is, at the end of January,” Shlyakhtin said.

In 2015, aluminum on the London Metal Exchange (LME) fell in price by 16.8% to $1,500 per 1 ton. Global demand for aluminum last year, according to the November forecast of UC Rusal , was expected to grow by 5% to 58 million tons. Domestic Aluminum consumption in Russia and the CIS fell, according to preliminary estimates, to approximately 1.5 million tons, a representative of UC Rusal noted.

January 17, 2016, 10:28 pm / Opinions The simple truth of Ramzan Kadyrov The head of Chechnya is alien to pseudo-democratic omissions Dmitry Kamyshev Still, Ramzan Kadyrov is a very necessary person for Russia. After all, what is the main complaint of the people to their rulers? The fact is that they not only steal, but also lie. And the head of Chechnya always speaks the truth, even if it diverges from the officially expressed state position.

January 18, 2016, 15:58 / Business / Economics Renewable energy attracted record $329 billion in 2015 The collapse of fossil fuel prices has not made “clean” energy resources less interesting for investors Mikhail Overchenko In 2015, China spent a record $111 billion on renewable energy infrastructure / Alexander F.

January 18, 2016, 16:05 / Business Putin invited the Emir of Qatar to discuss joint positions in the energy sector Vedomosti Russia and Qatar have a need to discuss cooperation in the energy sector, especially in the gas industry, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “There is a need to talk about interaction and coordination of positions in the energy sector, especially in the gas sector,” he said on Monday at negotiations with the Emir of Qatar Tamim al-Thani.

Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) president Chris Kermode has denied reports that the organisation hid information about a large number of alleged match-fixing matches in tennis in recent years and failed to take action. According to the BBC and BuzzFeed News, 16 players, who at one point were in the world's top 50, have been suspected of match-fixing over the past 10 years but have escaped punishment.

Russia and Qatar plan to hold a meeting of the intergovernmental commission with the participation of business representatives in 2016, since investment cooperation is one of the priorities in the relations between the parties, TASS reports. This statement was made by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following talks in the Kremlin between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.

January 18, 2016, 10:34 / Auto Kaluga Volkswagen resumed work after vacation Vedomosti Volkswagen Group Rus LLC (the Russian division of the German automaker Volkswagen) resumed car production in Kaluga on Monday after a corporate holiday. The company's personnel were sent on corporate leave from December 21, 2015. During the leave, a planned modernization of assembly lines was carried out.

January 17, 2016, 23:25 / Finance / Investigations Vneshprombank: Reasons for the collapse of one of the largest Russian banks Why did a bank that served state-owned companies, state managers and officials collapse? Roman Shleinov Svetlana A. Petrova Elena Vinogradova Vneshprombank has always strived to work with state-owned companies. Thus, his clients for many years were structures headed by Nikolai Tokarev: both Zarubezhneft and Transneft / E.

Aeroflot has cancelled a tender for an event for employees and key clients, “Runway,” worth 64.9 million rubles, RIA Novosti reports, citing a company representative. "Having received several proposals, Aeroflot has decided not to hold the Runway awards and related festive events," TASS quotes the carrier as saying. On January 17, it became known that Aeroflot was planning to hold the corporate awards ceremony "Runway" in March 2016.