Alfa-Bank raised the forecast price of X5 Retail Group GDRs from $31.3 to $35, the “buy” recommendation remained unchanged. Goldman Sachs lowered the forecast price of Magnit GDRs from $43.1 to $42.6, the “hold” recommendation remained unchanged.

October 20, 2016, 23:06 / Auto In September, the growth of the auto industry stopped in St. Petersburg At the end of the year, the decline may be 5% Dmitry Gorshenin September data suggests that at the end of the year the St. Petersburg auto industry will not grow / E. Egorov / Vedomosti In September 2016, the St. Petersburg factories of Hyundai , Nissan and Toyota produced 28,000 cars - the same as in September last year, the agency “Auto-Dealer - St. Petersburg” calculated.

Exhibitions “Studio “New Reality” (1958–1991). Transformation of Consciousness" and "Mikhail Shvartsman's Vertograds" opened at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art almost simultaneously and side by side - on two floors of a building on Petrovka. At the center of each is an artist with his own creative method and view of the essence and purpose of art; both had disciples-fans, faithful and apostates.

Turkish bombers have carried out 26 strikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Syria, Reuters reported , citing the Europe-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. According to the organization, the strikes hit targets belonging to the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces in three villages northeast of the city of Aleppo. The Kurds recently drove out Islamic State (banned in Russia) militants from these villages.

Russia has promised the UN to refrain from bombing eastern Aleppo for four days, 11 hours at a time, Reuters reports , citing UN officials. The organization believes that such breaks are not enough to persuade militants to leave the besieged areas.

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The State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots recommended ratifying the agreement on the joint group of troops of Russia and Abkhazia. As TASS reports , it is recommended to bring the issue to the plenary session on November 2. The agreement on the joint group of forces was signed in Moscow on November 21, 2015.

Alfa Bank plans to hold meetings with investors in London and Switzerland on October 24-25, which could result in an issue of perpetual Eurobonds in dollars, a source in banking circles told Interfax. The placement will be organized by UBS and Alfa Bank itself. The fact that Alfa Bank could place perpetual Eurobonds worth $300 million in 2016 was announced in June by the bank’s chief managing director, Alexey Marey. However, in July he reported that Alfa Bank had abandoned these plans.

The investment program of Bashneft will be revised in connection with the privatization of the company by Rosneft, said the head of Bashkiria Rustem Khamitov. – “Taking into account the synergy, the investment program will be revised; it will be large. Rosneft is very interested in petrochemical issues, and we have our own proposals in this area,” he said.

The Department of Banking Regulation and the Department of Banking Supervision is supervised by Deputy Chairman Vasily Pozdyshev, reminds Reuters. Pozdyshev headed the banking regulation department in 2012–2014, but then became deputy chairman of the Central Bank. From that moment on, the position of director of the department was vacant, the duties of the head were performed by former deputy directors Lobanov and Alexander Zhdanov.

October 19, 2016, 11:44 pm / Finance Payment systems are trying to return money to customers due to Ukrainian sanctions Western Union and MoneyGram will remain the only way to transfer money Anna Eremina The National Bank of Ukraine has banned the operation of Russian payment systems since Wednesday / E.

October 20, 2016, 14:37 / Business Sechin: it’s too early to talk about Rosneft buying out Bashkiria’s stake in Bashneft Vedomosti It is too early to talk about buying out or taking over Rosneft’s management of Bashkortostan’s stake in Bashneft, said the president of the oil company, Igor Sechin. Answering a question about buying out Bashkortostan’s share in Bashneft (25% plus 1 share) or taking it under management, Sechin said: “It’s probably too early to talk about this now.

The State Duma Council has agreed to approve Tatyana Voronova for the position of head of the chamber's staff. This was reported by Interfax, citing State Duma Vice Speaker Igor Lebedev. Earlier, a source in the presidential administration and a source close to the State Duma leadership told Vedomosti that the head of the presidential administration’s internal policy department, Tatyana Voronova, was leaving her position and moving to work in the State Duma.

October 19, 2016, 23:26 / Business Gazprom sets a historical record On Tuesday, the company transferred 578.9 million cubic meters to Europe. m. Low prices and cold weather helped Alena Makhneva Alina Fadeeva Gazprom set an absolute daily record for gas sales to Europe thanks to low prices and cold weather / M.

The number of requests from Russian companies for placement in industrial parks this year amounted to 60%, and from foreign companies – 40%, according to calculations by analysts from the Dega Development network of industrial and agro-industrial parks. According to Dega, which analyzed current and concluded contracts, as well as customer requests for 2015-2016, the main share – 68% – of Russian industrial parks is occupied by small and medium-sized enterprises.