“Insure us <...> if the income does not come in to meet expenses, give us the opportunity to spend a little more than the reserve fund,” said First Deputy Minister of Finance Tatyana Nesterenko at a meeting of the Duma Budget Committee (hereinafter quotes from Interfax) . A little more is 1 trillion rubles, which the Ministry of Finance is asking for permission to use additionally.

October 21, 2016, 18:59 / Finance A third of the funds of the administration of the Russian Orthodox Church were stored in Peresvet - Interfax Vedomosti Peresvet Bank held the main account of the Moscow Patriarchate, a source among the bank’s shareholders told Interfax on Friday. According to the source, Peresvet was built on the basis of Expobank in the early 1990s. due to contacts between the leadership of the synodal Department for External Church Relations and Expocentre.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi influenced the decision of the European Union (EU) to abandon new sanctions against Russia due to the situation in Syria. this The Financial Times newspaper reports , citing diplomatic sources. According to the publication, during a nine-hour meeting at the EU summit in Brussels on October 20, it was Renzi who insisted that the proposal for new anti-Russian sanctions be removed from the final statement.

The Moscow Credit Bank (MCB) will increase its authorized capital, the bank’s supervisory board decided on October 19: 3.2 billion shares with a par value of 1 ruble will be placed by open subscription. (11.8% of the new capital of MKB). In addition, MKB plans to place five-year dollar Eurobonds, for which it will hold meetings with investors in Europe and the United States on October 24, according to the preliminary road show prospectus, which Vedomosti has reviewed.

Moscow has refused to hand over to Kyiv the Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted in Russia, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Serhiy Petukhov said. He wrote about this on his Facebook page. In August 2015, the North Caucasus District Military Court of Russia found Oleg Sentsov and Aleksandr Kolchenko guilty of creating a terrorist group in Crimea, committing two terrorist attacks and preparing another, as well as attempting to acquire explosive devices and illegally possessing weapons.

Entrance to the building from the ground should be made a mandatory standard in housing construction, said First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov today during an inspection of the exhibition at the “Environment for Living: New Approaches” forum in Kazan. "I have already seen new projects without stairs.

Yesterday, Megafon's global depositary receipts (GDRs) fell in price on the London Stock Exchange by 2.87% to a historical low of $9.13 per security. The previous low was on January 21 – $9.42 per receipt. Investors expect that Megafon's shares will be excluded from the MSCI Russia index, and therefore are selling the operator's shares ahead of the curve, according to Raiffeisenbank analyst Sergei Libin and Finam Group analyst Timur Nigmatullin.

The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, called the sanctions policy of the European Union destructive. "Our position has not changed in any way: we consider the position aimed at expanding and continuing the sanctions policy to be absolutely destructive," Peskov said.

October 21, 2016, 11:45 / Finance / News The euro exchange rate fell below 68 rubles for the first time since August 2015 undefined Vedomosti The euro exchange rate fell below 68 rubles for the first time since August 5, 2015. During trading on the Moscow Exchange as of 11.27 Moscow time, the euro was worth 67.94 rubles. The ruble also showed growth against the dollar. The dollar exchange rate settled at 62.43 rubles. The Russian currency is growing against the backdrop of rising oil prices.

The problems of Peresvet Bank will not seriously affect the finances of the Russian Church, a source in the Moscow Patriarchate said on Friday. “In Russia, there has long been a tendency to liquidate small banks, the number of which is decreasing almost every week.

October 21, 2016, 17:17 / Finance / Auto Damage under compulsory motor liability insurance will be compensated by repair work The Ministry of Finance will prepare a bill next week, the main disagreement is the choice of service station Tatyana Lomskaya E.

October 21, 2016, 13:54 / Business Razgulay quotes jumped 40% with record trading volume Vedomosti Quotes of the Razgulay group soared by 40% on Friday, reaching a new high since the end of April on record trading volumes for the year; demand for securities is fueled by expectations of a settlement of the issue with the debt to the Rusagro Group of Companies . By 12.53 Moscow time on the Moscow Exchange, quotes of the Razgulay group soared to 8.66 rubles.

October 21, 2016, 10:06 am / Business The head of Bashkortostan does not expect layoffs at Bashneft Vedomosti The head of Bashkortostan, Rustem Khamitov, considers the optimization of Bashneft employees unlikely at the moment. As reports Interfax , he reminded journalists that “all these optimization measures have been carried out quite actively in recent years.” “These optimization opportunities have already been selected,” says the head of the republic.

" Lenta " slowed its growth Revenue of retailer Lenta in the third quarter of 2016 increased by 20.2% year-on-year to 75.4 billion rubles, the company reported. Compared with the dynamics of the second quarter (21.8%), revenue growth in July-September slowed down. Over nine months, sales increased by 21.3% to RUB 215.5 billion. The retailer's comparable store sales (LfL) in Q3 grew by 4.3% (in Q2 - by 4.9%). Traffic growth slowed to 0.1% from 1.4% in Q2.

The investigation will ask to change the measure of restraint for nationalist and former leader of the banned movement "Russians" Dmitry Demushkin, Yulia Ivanova, a representative of the Moscow Investigative Committee, told Interfax. According to her, Demushkin violated the terms of his written undertaking not to leave and to behave properly. The politician told the agency that in July, Nagatinsky Court Judge Vanina gave him permission to leave Moscow.