The owners of Transneft preferred shares have never been known. But in May, information that had been circulating in financial circles for a long time was confirmed: UCP is a large minority shareholder of Transneft. They bought shares because they believed in the growth of Transneft’s capitalization, said Ilya Sherbovich, managing partner of UCP. In addition, these shares were supposed to eventually be bought by Transneft , although the monopoly itself denies this.

The State Duma is ready to spend 397,520 rubles to purchase plastic letters and door signs for deputies of the new convocation. As reported by Interfax, an order for 600 plastic letters "made of double-sided plastic on an adhesive base" has been placed on the state procurement website. The letters should be in the color "glossy gold" / black, the order states. The height of the letters is 20 mm; the thickness is 3.2 mm.

Colombia has issued banknotes featuring the famous writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. The new 50,000 peso notes are light red, BBC reports The banknote features the traditional portrait of the writer and also a drawing of Marquez with butterflies circling around him. This is a reference to his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The St. Petersburg government has approved a plan to redistribute funds from the 2016 targeted investment program of the city construction committee for the completion of the stadium on Krestovsky Island, known as the Zenit Arena, and the infrastructure of the adjacent territory for 2.6 billion rubles. As TASS reports , this money will be redistributed from social facilities. The adopted resolution was published on the Smolny website.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of former Kirov Region Governor Nikita Belykh in a bribery case until December 24. This was reported by a RIA Novosti correspondent from the courtroom. The investigator, whose motion the judge agreed with, justified the extension of the arrest by the need to conduct a number of examinations. According to him, the crime is related to receiving a bribe from a foreign businessman using his powers and official position.

August 22, 2016, 21:24 / Business The power unit at the Enel Russia station in Siberia, where the accident occurred, is connected to the network Vedomosti Power unit No. 6 at the Reftinskaya State District Power Plant of the Enel Russia company in the Sverdlovsk region, where an emergency situation occurred on Monday due to the destruction of an insulator, is connected to the network. This was reported to TASS by the company's press service for the Ural Federal District.

The share of non-residents in the paid-up authorized capital of Russian banks in mid-2016 approached a 10-year minimum - 14.08% (as of July 1, 2006 - 12.98%), follows from the Central Bank data. The decline in this indicator intensified at the beginning of 2014; in just two and a half years it decreased by almost 9 percentage points from 23%.

Employees of Kamaz PJSC have resumed work after a two-week corporate vacation, the company’s press service told Interfax. They clarified that the enterprise will continue to operate on a five-day basis. The first part of the annual paid corporate leave in 2016 fell on January 11-24.

August 22, 2016, 15:43 / Business / News Ukraine may not catch up with the backlog in gas injection into underground gas storage facilities – Miller undefined Vedomosti Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexey Miller said that Ukraine lags behind in pumping gas into underground storage facilities by 2.1 billion cubic meters. This creates risks for the transit of Russian gas, TASS reports.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny "considers the opportunity to participate in the 2018 presidential elections as a candidate to be of primary importance," the politician's lawyers wrote in a letter to the Council of Europe's Cabinet of Ministers. According to Kommersant, Navalny's lawyers Olga Mikhailova and Karinna Moskalenko are asking the European ministers to assist in reviewing the opposition leader's sentence in the Kirovles case in the Supreme Court.

T2 RTK now has 96,219 stations / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti T2 RTK now has 96,219 stations, VimpelCom has 95,928. Both operators are still far behind Megafon (164,091 stations) and MTS (137,290 stations). " T2 RTK Holding " (operating under the Tele2 brand) has overtaken " VimpelCom " in the number of base stations in Russia. This is evidenced by Roskomnadzor data for July 2016.

August 22, 2016, 20:59 / Auto Toyota began production of RAV4 at a plant in St. Petersburg Vedomosti Previously on the topic: In January, car production in St. Petersburg fell by 46% Previously on the topic: St. Petersburg factories are refocused on assembling crossovers The Toyota plant in St. Petersburg on Monday began production of the second model, the RAV4 crossover, the Russian division of Toyota reported.

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) is calling on the new Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva to clarify her attitude toward the era of terror under Stalin.

Among Russian radio holdings, Gazprom-Media Radio (“GPM Radio”, until 2016 “Broadcasting Corporation “Prof-Media” - VKPM) is the largest in terms of the number of radio stations. General Director of GPM Radio Yuri Kostin in 1992–2000. was the co-founder and director of one of the first independent radio stations in Russia - Radio 101 (101.2 FM).

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