August 29, 2016, 18:51 / Business The Ministry of Economic Development is not familiar with Sechin’s proposal to purchase a controlling stake in Bashneft undefined Vedomosti The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia is not familiar with the proposal of Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin to the government to sell a controlling stake in Bashneft of 50.08% of shares for $5 billion, a representative of the department reported this in a comment to TASS.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed the Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Igor Rainin as the new head of the presidential administration of Ukraine, Poroshenko's official Twitter reported . The former head of the presidential administration (since 2014) – founder of the UMH media group Boris Lozhkin has been dismissed. Lozhkin remains an adviser to the president and a member of the National Reform Council.

Life style Pirelli Calendar 2016 Photos of Annie Leibovitz for the famous calendar 08/29/2016 Pirelli Fashion model Natalia Vodianova Pirelli Film producer Kathleen Kennedy Pirelli Collector Agness Gand with her granddaughter Pirelli Tennis player Serena Williams Pirelli Director Fran Lebowitz Pirelli Producer Mellody Hobson Pirelli Director Ava DuVernay Pirelli Journalist Tavi Gevinson Pirelli Iranian artist Shirin Neshat Pirelli Artist Nica Yoko Ono Pirelli Singer Patti Smith

August 29, 2016, 19:46 / Business Aeroflot may allocate more than 25% of its 2016 profit to dividends Vedomosti PJSC Aeroflot plans to pay dividends for 2016 in the amount of 25% of net profit. This was stated by Shamil Kurmashov, Deputy General Director for Commerce and Finance of the carrier. “As for dividends, we have our own dividend policy, and we are going to pay dividends at the end of the year,” he noted.

The Expert Council of the Industrial Development Fund (IDF) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade approved a five-year loan of 300 million rubles. at 5% of the Rostoner company, which will engage in import substitution of cartridges and toners for the Russian market, the director of the fund, Alexey Komissarov, told Vedomosti and was confirmed by the co-founder of Rostoner, Anton Likhachev.

August 29, 2016, 12:37 / Business / News Aeroflot turned a profit in the first half of the year undefined Vedomosti The net profit of the Aeroflot group according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) in the first half of 2016 amounted to 2.5 billion rubles, the airline reported. A year ago, in the first half of the year, Aeroflot suffered a loss of 3.5 billion rubles.

Employees of AvtoVAZagregat held an unauthorized rally on the federal highway M5 in Tolyatti against non-payment of wages, traffic was difficult, the city mayor's office confirmed today. "The rally really took place today from 9 to 10 am on the M5 highway. According to the police, a traffic jam really did occur on the highway. The rally participants walked across the road with posters, and this complicated traffic in the morning," the agency's interlocutor said.

The demolition of illegal buildings near the Kropotkinskaya metro station in Moscow has begun, an Interfax correspondent reports. According to him, the facade, roof and walls of one of the three buildings have already been destroyed by excavators. The police are asking those gathered at the Prechistenskiye Vorota to go behind the fences for safety reasons.

Moscow and Washington are discussing a joint operation in Aleppo in mid-September during negotiations to resolve the situation in Syria, a source in Geneva told Interfax. "The parties are discussing the possibility of launching coordinated strikes against militants in Aleppo from about mid-September," said a source close to the Russian-American consultations.

Compared to the last weekend of August 2015, the table's top box office totals increased by an impressive 43.5%. And the thriller “Don’t Breathe,” with a starting result of $26.1 million, exceeded the forecast of Boxoffice Mojo experts by $5.6 million, which, in turn, was almost twice as high as the studio’s. In the very first weekend, the film, which received a decent B+ rating from the premiere audience on the CinemaScore scale for a thriller, recouped its budget 2.6 times. Last year, M.

August 28, 2016, 11:46 pm / Business IKEA will build the first store in several years in the Moscow region For the first time it will be separate - without the Mega shopping center Natalya Ishchenko In two years, an IKEA store will be built on this site / E. Razumny / Vedomosti Swedish furniture and home goods retailer IKEA will open its first store in the Moscow region in recent years.

August 28, 2016, 11:24 pm / Finance PwC confidentially settles claims for $5.5 billion The auditing firm was accused of unfair audits of the statements of a bank that went bankrupt in 2009 Tatyana Bochkareva The auditing firm PwC confidentially settled claims for $5.5 billion / A.

August 29, 2016, 16:01 / Business Inter RAO will reduce its loan portfolio using funds from the sale of a stake in Irkutskenergo Vedomosti PJSC Inter RAO plans to use funds from the sale of its stake in Irkutskenergo to reduce the loan portfolio this year, the company’s financial director Dmitry Palunin said on Monday.

Technologies The main nuclear test site of the USSR a quarter of a century after its closure What is happening these days at the Semipalatinsk test site 08/29/2016 M. Stulov / Vedomosti On August 29, 1949, the first nuclear tests took place at the Semipalatinsk test site... M. Stulov / Vedomosti The test site was the main base of the USSR for conducting nuclear tests. In the photo: ... M.

The European Commission, its spokesman said, will publish in September draft amendments to EU intellectual property laws that would allow media outlets to take money from news aggregators. EU officials believe that Internet companies' relations with the media are not sufficiently balanced and want to give publishers exclusive rights. Music studios and film companies have the same exclusive rights.