The head of the regional security department has been replaced in Moscow. As reported by the Moscow agency, the personnel changes were announced at a meeting of the capital's government presidium by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. "We are parting ways with Aleksei Valentinovich Mayorov, who has gone into "freelance work" and is leaving the civil service. I would like to thank you for your work," he said.

04 October 2016, 14:41 / Business The Board of Directors of Rosneft approved a deal larger than $1.5 billion Probably, we are talking about the company’s participation in the privatization of Bashneft Galina Starinskaya On October 1, the board of directors of Rosneft approved a significant transaction / E. Razumny / Vedomosti On October 1, the Rosneft board of directors approved a significant transaction , subject to approval by representatives of the main shareholders, the company reported.

04 October 2016, 00:59 / Finance The Central Bank is reforming banking supervision The current system, even at the cost of extreme efforts, cannot solve the accumulated problems, admitted Elvira Nabiullina Daria Borisyak Anna Eremina Tatyana Voronova Big changes await the supervisory bloc of the Central Bank (on the left - Alexey Simanovsky, on the right - Mikhail Sukhov) / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti Yesterday the Central Bank announced changes in its leadership.

04 October 2016, 11:52 / Business The Ministry of Energy believes that Russia has half a century of hydrocarbon reserves Vedomosti Russia's existing hydrocarbon reserves will last for at least another 40–50 years, Deputy Energy Minister Kirill Molodtsov said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum. This is how he commented on the statements of the head of Sberbank of Russia, German Gref, that oil and gas reserves in Russia could run out by 2028–2030.

Olga Vasilyeva “We need to change the public opinion that we have been doing nothing in school for the last two years, we are just drilling for the Unified State Exam.” To achieve this, the Minister of Education and Science believes that it is necessary to introduce additional assessment of students’ knowledge in all subjects upon completion of school.

In the film "Depth Two" the landscapes speak of human tragedy / Message to man In all good, well-organized film festivals, you can trace a through-line, see how the festival imagines today's "here and now." "Message to Man," one of the best Russian film festivals, was held in St. Petersburg for the 26th time, and this year its through-line was superreality. The festival winners have more or less successfully explored its boundaries.

JSC Russian Railways will sell 25% in Russia's largest manufacturer of reinforced concrete sleepers, Beteltrans (BET), to T-Industry. As TASS reports , such an order from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appeared on the official legal information portal. The government ordered the sale of 942,425 BET shares at a price not lower than the market price determined based on the report of an independent appraiser, but not lower than the par value of the shares.

04 October 2016, 11:09 / Economics Klepach: The proposals of the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank on pension reform are better suited to the rich Vedomosti The reform of the pension system proposed by the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Russia with the preservation of the funded part is “for now a model for wealthy people who have high incomes and can save these funds within the framework of the pension system.” This was told to TASS by Andrey Klepach, Deputy Chairman and Chief

The launch of Apple Pay will take place today, October 4, an Apple representative told Vedomosti. He added that the service will first be available to Sberbank Mastercard cardholders. A Sberbank employee confirmed this. Preparations are now underway to launch the service for clients of other banks, says an Apple representative. He did not give a time frame.

PwC recently released the results of a study on how Russian companies comply with anti-corruption laws. She examined the websites of 125 largest enterprises from 10 industries and calculated the so-called anti-corporate corruption index. It turned out that over the past six months it has increased, although only by one percentage point - from 63 to 64%. The authors of the study calculate the index according to five criteria.

As follows from the presidential decree on the approval of the Regulation on the Russian Guard published on the legal information portal, the position of Chief of the General Staff is being established in this service. He also has the status of Deputy Director of the Federal Service of the Russian Guard Troops and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Guard Troops.

04 October 2016, 16:38 / Economics Inflation in Russia in September amounted to 0.2% Vedomosti Inflation in Russia in September 2016 amounted to 0.2% after zero dynamics in August, 0.5% in July, 0.4% in June-April, 0.5% in March, 0.6% in February and 1 % in January, Rosstat reported on Tuesday. The economists' consensus forecast for inflation for September, prepared by Interfax at the beginning of the month, was also 0.2%.

Russia is going to participate in international negotiations on a peaceful settlement in Syria, despite the end of cooperation with the United States. This was announced on Tuesday, October 4, by the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko.

A quarter of a century ago, the Soviet Union collapsed - a rigid management system based on an ideology that was attractive to many (its adherents still exist), nuclear weapons and the world's second largest economy (in terms of volume).

04 October 2016, 13:16 / Economics Kudrin noticed the economy coming out of its peak Vedomosti The Russian economy is coming out of its nosedive, says Alexei Kudrin, head of the board of the Center for Strategic Research and former Finance Minister. According to Interfax, he said this at the Atlanta business forum in Crocus City Hall. “This year we still have a statistically 0.6% decline in the economy. Next year we will be about 0.5-0.8% growth.