The Rosinfokominvest fund, reporting to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, has agreed on joint investments with Infowatch (a group of companies that produces protection against information leaks) in Igor Ashmanov’s Kribrum company, which is engaged in monitoring and analysis of social networks, said a person close to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, and was confirmed by an interlocutor familiar with by Infowatch management.

Russian Railways can spend more than 530 million rubles. for archaeological excavations as part of the Krasnodar railway bypass project, Interfax reports.

The price war in the American mobile communications market has given way to a “policy of détente.” After years of price cuts and deafening marketing pitches that saw operators outbid each other to win new subscribers in a nearly saturated market, the country's four largest operators released second-quarter 2016 results showing prices have stabilized. The stabilization comes as telecom companies face heavy investment and slowing revenue growth.

01 August 2016, 15:01 / Finance / News Brent oil fell to $42.9 per barrel undefined Vedomosti Oil prices have moved from rising to declining as excess inventories of oil and refined petroleum products in the world continue to put pressure on prices, writes MarketWatch. The price of October futures for Brent oil on the London ICE Futures exchange dropped by $0.61 (1.40%) to $42.92 per barrel by 14.10 Moscow time.

01 August 2016, 11:36 / Business / News Qatar Airways increases stake in IAG to 20% undefined Vedomosti Qatar Airways Ltd. increased its stake in Europe's third largest airline group, International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG), taking advantage of the decline in the value of its shares as a result of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit). As stated in a press release from Qatar Airways, the company increased its stake in IAG to 20% from 15.7%.

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it would lay off another 2,850 employees, representing 2.5% of the company's total workforce, The Wall Street Journal writes. A company representative said that all employees being laid off have already been notified, and 900 people from the sales department have already been laid off.

Moscow pays due attention to the threats of terrorist groups, they are taken into account by the special services, but the threats of ISIS (Islamic State, banned in Russia) will not affect Russia's policy on combating terrorism, said the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov. "Of course, such publications are taken into account by special services that are responsible for anti-terrorist work and for ensuring security.

Relatives of the former head of RusHydro , Evgeny Dod, transferred 73.2 million rubles to the company’s account last Monday. - thus, they fully reimbursed that part of the bonus by which, in the opinion of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR), Dod inflated his bonus at the end of 2013. The defendant’s lawyer, Vladimir Zherebenkov, told Vedomosti about this. The company representative could not say whether the funds were transferred to the RusHydro account or not.

The extraordinary congress of the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice (RPPS) on Friday removed Yevgeny Artyukh from his post as party chairman. These duties will be performed by the head of the central council of the party, Vladimir Burakov. Artyukh, ex-governors of the Pskov region and Nenets Autonomous Okrug Evgeny Mikhailov and Vladimir Butov, as well as State Duma deputy Oleg Savchenko were excluded from the federal list for the State Duma elections.

Objects built in Moscow with gross violations of laws and regulations must be demolished, the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in an interview with Interfax. "There are many objects in Moscow that were built with gross violations of urban planning rules, land allocation, and acceptance of these objects into operation," he specified.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees to pardon two Russians: Viktor Kudryavtsev, convicted in the Kaliningrad region, and Aleksey Kazamkin, convicted in Nizhnevartovsk. Kazamkin was sentenced to one year and six months in prison for intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, according to the case file in the Nizhnevartovsk District Court database. The court ruled that during an argument with a certain N. D. Yu., Kazamkin stabbed him in the chest.

The West Siberian Transport Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a case regarding the crash of the An-2 in the Krapivinsky District of Kuzbass. The case was opened under the article on violation of traffic safety rules and operation of air transport, which resulted in the death of two or more persons through negligence.

The Energy Fund has submitted an application to participate in the privatization of Bashneft, Kommersant reported. This was confirmed by a Vedomosti source close to one of the privatization participants. A fund representative declined to comment. Igor Yusufov served as Minister of Energy from 2001 to 2004, and served on the boards of directors of Gazprom, Rosneft, and Transneft. In 2011 he founded the Energy Foundation.

The compulsory medical insurance system in Russia has turned 25 years old, but it still cannot be called an insurance system. In 2014, President Putin gave the order to complete the transition of the compulsory medical insurance system to insurance principles, the main one of which is established by the law of 29.11.2010 No.

Five Russian servicemen who were on board a Russian Mi-8 helicopter shot down today near Aleppo in Syria during a humanitarian mission died heroically, trying to minimize casualties on the ground. This statement was made by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. “Those who were in the helicopter, as far as we know from the information received from the Ministry of Defense, died.