August 19, 2016, 19:47 / Finance The ruble will escape the “August curse” for the first time in 10 years The Russian currency may strengthen this month for the first time since 2006, according to Merrill Lynch analysts Marie Mesropyan Every August since 2006, the ruble has weakened by an average of 2.6% due to deterioration in the trade and payment balances / E.

MTS had to lower its forecast, in part, due to the situation in the Russian economy / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Megafon's ARPU is falling more than the others, and this can be explained by the migration of subscribers from expensive tariffs to cheaper ones - Megafon reduced tariffs more than others in the second quarter, says Otkritie Capital analyst Alexander Vengranovich.

Auto Concept Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 The company presented a design vision for the luxury coupe of the future 08/19/2016 The design of the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept with a 2+2 seating arrangement pays tribute to the era of the coupe in the style of Aero Daimler AG The design of the concept with the 2+2 seating formula pays tribute to the era of the coupe... Daimler AG The design of the radiator grille is inspired by the image of the noble pinstripe suit...

August 19, 2016, 17:41 / Business / News The Ministry of Industry and Trade will prepare a strategy for the development of online commerce by the end of the year undefined Vedomosti By the end of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Trade will develop a strategy for the development of online commerce in Russia. This is stated in the department's message .

Valentin Davydenko believed in smart alarm clocks so much that he didn’t spare 2.5 million rubles / M. Stulov / Vedomosti The StopSleep device works like an alarm clock and resembles a large ring. It weighs 40 g and is charged via a USB port. The operating principle resembles a polygraph. The driver puts the switched-on device on the index and middle fingers, from which electrical impulses of the brain are read, they are analyzed by a built-in sensor.

According to the schedule, on Friday the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Regional Court will consider the appeal of the former governor of the Sakhalin Region, Alexander Khoroshavin, against the decision of the Yuzhno-Sakhalin City Court to turn his property, the property of his wife and son into state revenue. As the Prosecutor General's Office reported, the total value of the confiscated items is 1.1 billion rubles.

From November 2016, the low-cost airline Eurowings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa , writes will stop flying to Russia, Kommersant . The airline confirmed this information to the publication and referred to “economic reasons.” “The route did not meet the company’s high expectations,” said a representative of the carrier. Now Eurowings is deciding how to transport passengers who have already bought tickets for flights after October.

An expert group of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has concluded that Russia's ban on the supply of live pigs, pork and other pig products from the EU is unlawful from the point of view of international trade rules. The Russian ban is not based on international standards. It violates the rules of the WTO agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary standards, the EU Delegation to Russia said in a statement. Russia can appeal the expert group's report within 60 days.

19 August 2016, 19:19 / Finance The pound sterling falls sharply after media reports about the start date of Brexit Vedomosti The pound sterling fell sharply on Friday against the US dollar and the euro after reports that British Prime Minister Theresa May considers early 2017 the best time to launch negotiations on the country's exit from the European Union (Brexit).

August 19, 2016, 00:01 / Business The Ministry of Agriculture intends to consolidate subsidies, reducing their number The current scheme does not suit farmers Ekaterina Burlakova The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing significant changes in the distribution of subsidies to farmers / D. Abramov / Vedomosti The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing proposals to consolidate subsidies, Interfax reported on Thursday and a person close to the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed to Vedomosti.

August 19, 2016, 16:55 / Economy / News Bank of England may cut rates to 0.1% in November – BofA Merrill Lynch undefined Vedomosti The Bank of England may introduce new measures to ease monetary policy in November - in particular, reduce the base interest rate to 0.1%, analysts at the American bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) believe. The chance of introducing this measure in November is estimated by experts at 90%, whereas previously it was only 75%.

Turkish law enforcement agencies have detained four suspects in the murder of Azerbaijani crime boss Rovshan Dzhaniev (Lenkoransky), the Milliyet newspaper reported on Friday. According to the publication, three of the detainees are citizens of Azerbaijan, the fourth is a citizen of Turkey. Police officers are interrogating the suspects at a police station in the Istanbul district of Gayrettepe, RIA Novosti reports.

Small businesses are less willing to hire young specialists than large corporations; they prefer experienced employees, experts from the Superjob portal have found out / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti University graduates are employed by 72% of companies with more than 1,000 employees and only 50% of organizations with fewer than 100 employees, according to the results of a survey of 1,000 employers conducted by the research center of the Superjob portal.

Continuity in the work of the Ministry of Education and Science will be maintained after the resignation of Dmitry Livanov as head of the department and the appointment of Olga Vasilyeva. This is the conviction of presidential aide Andrei Fursenko, who was the Minister of Science for eight years before Livanov’s appointment. He told TASS: “I believe that in the four years [that Livanov headed the ministry] the situation in education, especially in higher education, has improved.

The new Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva, reported that the main priority in her work in the post will be teachers and educators.