July 29, 2016, 00:41 / Business Sukhoi Log has risen in price by 1.5 times The Ministry of Natural Resources increased the starting price for the gold deposit to 8.6 billion rubles Vitaly Petlevoy Officials expect to hold auctions this year / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The payment is less than 10% of the expected amount of investment in its development, comments the head of the analytical department of BCS, Kirill Chuiko.

Russian political rhetoric exists in two versions – for external consumers and for internal ones. How much they can differ was once again demonstrated by the Kremlin’s farewell to the Olympic team – with a truncated composition. According to the latest data, 250 Russian athletes were allowed to participate in the Olympics, with the ROC's initial application of 387 people.

July 29, 2016, 12:57 / Finance Co-owners of Sovcombank can buy Metcombank from Mordashov – Kommersant Vedomosti Beneficiaries of Sovcombank are negotiating the purchase of Metcombank, controlled by Severstal owner Alexei Mordashov and part of his industrial and financial group, writes Kommersant , citing informed sources. According to them, the negotiations are already at an advanced stage and there is a possibility that the parties will reach an agreement.

July 29, 2016, 21:09 / Business / Lifestyle The Russian weightlifting team is suspended from participation in the Olympics Vedomosti The Russian weightlifting team is not allowed to participate in the Summer Olympics, the press service of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said on Friday. First, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) announced eight weightlifters to participate in the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Sberbank Europe AG, a subsidiary of Sberbank, has completed the sale of 99.5% of its Slovak subsidiary Sberbank Slovensko to the Penta Investments group, Sberbank said in a press release. The sale agreement was signed on December 17, 2015. As of December 2015, the total assets of Sberbank Slovensko amounted to EUR 1.8 billion, and the bank’s services were used by more than 110,000 active clients. The parties do not disclose information about the amount of the transaction.

July 29, 2016, 12:09 / Business / News Rosneft and PDVSA may begin counter supplies of oil and petroleum products in 2016 undefined Vedomosti Rosneft TASS and Venezuelan PDVSA may begin counter deliveries of oil and petroleum products in 2016, reports citing a message from the Russian company. Rosneft and PDVSA signed key terms of contracts for counter supplies of oil and petroleum products.

subscribers MTS will be able to pay for goods and services at offline retail outlets from their phone accounts - this year the operator will introduce this service in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, and then throughout Russia. The operator’s representative Dmitry Solodovnikov spoke about this. To use the service, the subscriber does not need to have a smartphone with special software or an NFC module: he can pay using a regular mobile phone, he says.

July 29, 2016, 17:39 / Business / News Import of feed from Ukraine is prohibited due to the discovery of GMOs undefined Vedomosti Import of feed from Ukraine has been prohibited since August 1, Rosselkhoznadzor reported today. The reason for the ban is the repeated discovery of genetically modified components.

July 29, 2016, 06:03 / Business Naftogaz asked the European Commission to check the facts of the reduction in Russian gas transit Vedomosti The Naftogaz of Ukraine company sent a letter to the Vice-President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, with a request to create a monitoring mission to check pressure drops in the Russian gas transportation system at the entrance to the Ukrainian one. This was reported by the portal 112.ua with reference to the press service of Naftogaz.

Following the meeting on July 29, the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia left the key rate unchanged at 10.5%. The rate of decline in inflation generally corresponds to the Central Bank’s forecast - from the current 7.2% (as of July 25) to less than 5% in July 2017, however, the decline in inflation expectations has stopped, the regulator said in a statement .

Former Novosibirsk Vice Mayor Aleksandr Solodkin Jr., sentenced to eight years in prison for involvement in organized crime, has filed a petition for parole. As Interfax reports , citing the press service of the Dzerzhinsky District Court, the petition will be considered on August 18. The former vice-mayor and his father, former sports adviser to the Novosibirsk governor Aleksandr Solodkin Sr., were arrested in February 2015. In November 2015, Aleksandr Solodkin Sr.

Rosneft cannot participate in the privatization of Bashneft, this is the official position of the government, said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. "It is some kind of stupidity for Rosneft to participate: one state company participating in the privatization of another," said presidential aide Andrei Belousov.

AvtoVAZ’s revenue according to IFRS in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2015 decreased by 5% to 87.1 billion rubles, and the net loss increased 8 times to 27.15 billion rubles, the company’s report says. The operating loss amounted to RUB 27.6 billion. versus 5.16 billion a year earlier. The main reason for the deterioration of the indicator is the depreciation of non-current assets due to the low level of production capacity utilization, explains AvtoVAZ .

July 29, 2016, 11:48 / Business / News 272 Russian athletes were allowed to participate in the 2016 Olympics - Mutko undefined Vedomosti Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said that currently 272 Russian athletes are allowed to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "To date, 272 athletes have been admitted to the Olympic Games for sure. The final point will be set tomorrow, processes will be completed in a number of sports.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has declared inadmissible the complaint of residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions against Russia and Ukraine regarding the shelling and destruction of their homes. The decision, released Thursday, said the information provided was insufficient to determine the merits of the complaint.