February 15, 2016, 12:43 pm / Finance Central Bank: Overdue retail loans in Russian banks increased to 8.3% in January Vedomosti The share of overdue debt on loans to non-financial organizations in Russian banks in January 2016 increased from 6.2 to 6.8%; in the retail portfolio, the share of overdue debt increased from 8.1 to 8.3%, the Bank of Russia said in a statement.

February 15, 2016, 17:17 / Business An investor in the Azov City gambling zone filed claims against the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory for 1.1 billion rubles undefined Vedomosti One of the investors in the Azov City gambling zone, the Royal Time Group, filed claims with the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Tatarstan to recover almost 1.1 billion rubles from the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory. losses and lost profits, Interfax reports.

Tolls on the still free section of the M4 (from 1091 to 1319 km, between Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar) may be introduced before the end of 2017. This follows from the Russian reporting of the state company Avtodor published last week. for the fourth quarter of 2015. The joint company Avtodora and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), LLC, established in December, will create a collection system for plans - Road Investment Company LLC (DIK). Avtodor back in 2014–2015.

February 15, 2016, 00:04 / Auto The auditor of AvtoVAZ doubted its ability to continue operations continuously The car plant is waiting for financial assistance from shareholders Vladimir Shtanov Gennady Anisimov AvtoVAZ auditor EY doubted that the plant, whose losses tripled last year, is capable of continuous operations / D.

The modalities of a ceasefire in Syria will be developed by a group co-chaired by Russia and the United States, foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry announced on Friday / Ivan Sekretarev / AP The modalities of a ceasefire in Syria will be developed by a group co-chaired by Russia and the United States, Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry said on Friday.

Preliminary results of regional budget execution in 2015 were better than expected by both federal authorities and experts. The deficit of the consolidated budget of the regions was less than 200 billion rubles, or 2.2% of their revenues, which is 2 times less than in the previous year. Due to the reduction in the deficit, the growth of debt slowed down, and the share of commercial debt in the total debt stopped growing.

February 15, 2016, 08:21 / Finance / News Brent is trading at $33.16 per barrel undefined Vedomosti After a 12% rise in oil prices on Friday, they began to decline at the beginning of the week on news of the shipment of the first large shipments of Iranian oil to Europe, Interfax reports , citing Bloomberg. At 8.18 Moscow time, April futures for Brent oil on the London ICE Futures exchange were trading at $33.16 per barrel.

February 15, 2016, 09:45 / Economy / News The market exchange rate of the yuan against the dollar rose sharply after the New Year holidays undefined Vedomosti The yuan exchange rate against the US dollar on Monday rose at a record pace in more than a decade - since July 2005, when China abandoned its national currency peg to the US dollar, MarketWatch reports. During trading, the rise reached 1.2% - to 6.4975 yuan/$, then the rate adjusted down - to 6.5014 yuan/$.

In Russia, import duties may be reduced on a number of vegetables, certain types of nuts and dried fruits, Prime reports citing RIA Novosti and its source in the financial and economic bloc of the government. We are talking about cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, broccoli, dates, pistachios and dried grapes. According to the agency's interlocutor, this issue is scheduled to be considered on February 18.

February 15, 2016, 10:36 am / Business Postpayment for Platon will be allowed only to disciplined carriers Vedomosti The operator of the toll system on federal roads for Platon trucks, LLC RT-Invest Transport Systems (RTITS), announced the conditions for postpayment in the system, writes the Moscow city news agency.

The European Commission has set preliminary 26% duties on cold-rolled products from Russia / D. Grishkin / Vedomosti Europe has introduced preliminary anti-dumping duties on Russian cold-rolled steel: for MMK they will amount to 19.8%, for Severstal – 25.4%, for NLMK and all other metallurgists – 26.2%, according to the official journal of the European Commission. The final decision will be made in August.

Passenger traffic from express train operator Aeroexpress LLC to Moscow airports in 2015 decreased by approximately 22% to 13 million people (compared to 16.6 million in 2014), the company reported. “The company’s share in the market of the Moscow aviation hub was 17% compared to 21.65% in 2014,” notes the carrier. “The difficult economic situation had an impact on the tourism services market, which could not but affect the activities of Aeroexpress.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Munich Conference / Matthias Schrader / AP Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev "never said that a new Cold War had begun," but he did say that "NATO decisions are pushing for the emergence of a new Cold War." The Russian prime minister said this in an interview with Time ( translated on the Cabinet website).

February 15, 2016, 05:31 / Business / News The government has developed a project for the sale of a 25% stake in Bashneft - Interfax undefined Vedomosti The draft government decree on the privatization of PJSC Bashneft provides for a reduction in the state's share in the company's authorized capital to 25% plus 1 share, Interfax reports , citing a source in the financial and economic block of the government familiar with the progress of the approval of the document.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed that the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, launch regular meetings of business associations and law enforcement agencies with the support of the administration.