The State Duma Committee on Rules of Procedure approved amendments according to which State Duma deputies are allowed to vote only if they are personally present in the meeting room, at committee meetings and at the Duma Council. According to these amendments, they are prohibited from voting by proxy.

October 16, 2016, 23:08 / Business Rostechnadzor will inspect Bashneft-Polyus at the request of the company itself However, Rosneft is conducting a large-scale audit of the company and will also check cooperation with Lukoil Alina Fadeeva Vitaly Petlevoy On October 24, the Pechora Department of Rostechnadzor will begin an unscheduled on-site inspection of the joint venture of Bashneft and Lukoil - Bashneft-Polyus - which is developing the fields named after.

The initial losses that the market has already recorded may be subject to adjustment, but overall the total shareholder value will be less than before the deal. Corporate finance experts are very fond of analyzing the behavior of stock prices of companies that announce a merger or acquisition (M&A) deal. The observed patterns can say a lot about the information efficiency of the market, the nature of the deal and its prospects.

October 17, 2016, 09:50 / Economics The Ministry of Economy proposed to provide all entrepreneurs with a tax deduction for the introduction of online cash registers Vedomosti The Ministry of Economic Development proposes to provide a tax deduction of up to 18,000 rubles. to introduced online cash registers for all taxpayers, not just individual entrepreneurs.

Organizing video surveillance of the State Duma elections cost the federal budget almost 2 times more than planned. This follows from the documents attached to the draft government resolution on the rules for compensating the costs of providing video surveillance and broadcasting images from polling stations (published on the information disclosure portal). In total, 232 million rubles are allocated for these purposes in the 2016 budget.

October 17, 2016, 17:21 / Business / News Excise taxes on sugar-sweetened drinks will not be introduced - Ulyukaev undefined Vedomosti Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev said that the government does not plan to introduce excise taxes on sugar-sweetened drinks, TASS reports. “We are not going to introduce it. And the main directions of tax policy say that this is not in our plans,” the minister clarified.

October 17, 2016, 19:36 / Business Electricity tariffs for the population in 2017–2019 are proposed to be indexed by 4% undefined Vedomosti Indexation of electricity tariffs for the population in the period 2017-2019. planned at the level of 4% per year, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development told Interfax, commenting on the ministry’s final proposals included in the forecast of the country’s socio-economic development for 2017-2019.

An explosion at a German chemicals plant by BASF has killed at least one person and left six others missing, a Ludwigshafen fire department spokesman said. The company noted that emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere do not exceed permissible levels. On Monday, October 17, an explosion occurred in the plant building, Reuters reports. The explosion may have occurred due to a fuel leak.

"This is our money." This phrase, said by Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin three years ago about the prospects of TNK-BP Holding minority shareholders to receive dividends, has become popular. The company did not pay dividends, and Rosneft put forward the offer only after Sechin was asked to do so by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. On October 10, Medvedev signed an order to sell to Rosneft 50.07% of the capital (60.16% of ordinary shares) of Bashneft.

October 17, 2016, 23:31 / Real estate / Video Vladimir will monitor the entrance to the Kremlin The monument to Prince Vladimir on Borovitskaya Square in Moscow is being prepared for opening Vedomosti

Rector of the Moscow State Pedagogical University (MPGU), academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education Alexey Semenov is leaving his post. This was reported by Interfax, citing Semenov himself. "The planned decision was not discussed with me," he said late in the evening on October 16.

Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Ryabkov stated that Russia will respond to hostile actions by the United States, TASS reports. “As for the threats that are pouring out of Washington and do not stop for a single day, our answer is one: this is evidence of the weakness of the US administration, the absence in its arsenal of tools that would allow for agreements on a realistic basis,” he said.

In the near future, the online publication Slon will change its name to Republic, the publication said in a statement. The new name is more suitable for an analytical publication on politics, economics and business, the publishing house believes. The Slon.ru website was launched in May 2009, the project's investor is Alexander Vinokurov. The businessman's other media assets include the Dozhd TV channel and the Bolshoi Gorod publication.

The volume of coal production in Russia in January-September 2016 increased by 6% compared to the same period in 2015 and amounted to 284 million tons, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) reported. At the same time, in September of this year, compared to September 2015, coal production increased by 0.2%, but decreased by 4.9% by August 2016. Production of coke from hard coal over 9 months increased by 1.1% to 19.8 million tons.

On October 3, Putin ordered the suspension of the agreement between the state corporation Rosatom and the US Department of Energy on the disposal of plutonium due to Washington's unfriendly actions towards Russia. The draft law provides for the renewal of the agreement under a number of conditions. Among them, in particular, the repeal of the "Magnitsky Act" and the reduction of NATO military forces near the borders of Russia.