Formula Kino risks losing its cinema in Moscow City / Andrey Gordeyev / Vedomosti The Formula Kino cinema chain has filed a lawsuit against the Afimall City shopping center, demanding changes to the lease terms, Formula Kino reported.

The Constitutional Court of Russia has recognized the right of those sentenced to life imprisonment, including those who have served less than 10 years, to long visits. According to Interfax, it ruled that the relevant changes should be enshrined in the Criminal Executive Code. Until these amendments are adopted, a person sentenced to life imprisonment, even if he has not yet served 10 years, should be granted the right to at least one long visit per year, the ruling says.

Auditors will be checked longer The State Duma Committee on Financial Markets recommended that the lower house of parliament adopt in the first reading a bill increasing the period for checking auditors who work with the reports of banks, professional participants, NPF insurers and stock exchanges to 40 working days.

The International Olympic Committee has stripped Russian wrestler Khasan Baroev of the silver medal he won at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. This was reported by the IOC press service.

Competition in the Moscow and St. Petersburg retail real estate market continues to intensify, forcing owners of shopping centers to look for new ways to retain customers. They are betting on the public catering area. So far, this segment occupies an average of 4-5% of rental space in shopping centers in both capitals, but in some properties the share of the restaurant dose is approaching the average European indicator - 15%, analysts from JLL calculated.

November 17, 2016, 14:47 / Finance The Moscow region has set a date for the first bond placement in 8 years Vedomosti The Ministry of Finance of the Moscow Region has scheduled the collection of applications for bonds worth 25 billion rubles for November 23, a source in the banking market said. Technical placement is scheduled for November 29. The target rate of the 1st coupon is set at 9.6-9.8% per annum, which corresponds to a yield to maturity of 9.95-10.17% per annum.

The head of Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergei Dankvert, said that due to dissatisfaction with low interest rates, he withdrew 75% of his deposits from Sberbank. “There was a percentage, excuse me, ten and a half - it became seven,” Interfax quotes his statement, which refers to unnamed media outlets. The official said this at the III International Agro-Industrial Dairy Forum. At the same time, Dankvert believes that as a manager, the head of Sberbank, German Gref, is acting correctly.

November 17, 2016, 16:01 / Auto St. Petersburg car dealer began sales via the Internet In five years, online will account for 30% of sales, he expects Dmitry Gorshenin St. Petersburg car dealer began sales via the Internet / Lidiya Vereshchagina / for Vedomosti St. Petersburg automobile holding Maximum is launching a full service for selling cars online. Investments in the Carmart project amounted to about $1 million, of which 40 million rubles.

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In India, the government, after deciding to withdraw large banknotes from circulation, introduced restrictions on currency exchange, writes the BBC . Now a citizen can exchange only 2,000 rupees (about $30) at a time per day; previously, it was allowed to change 4,000 rupees. Last week, Indian authorities removed banknotes in denominations of 500 ($7) and 1,000 rupees from circulation as part of measures to combat corruption.

Reserves are melting away The State Duma Budget Committee recommended adopting the draft federal budget for 2017 and for the planning period of 2018 and 2019 in the first reading (see table). To finance the deficit in 2017, 1.15 trillion rubles will be spent from the reserve fund, which will be completely depleted, and 668.2 billion from the National Welfare Fund (NWF).

November 17, 2016, 19:33 / Economics Bank of Japan wants to buy government bonds at fixed prices In an attempt to curb the rise in yields, he further interferes with the principles of the functioning of the market Megumi Fujikawa Monetary authorities are trying to curb rising yields / Toru Hanai / Reuters The Bank of Japan on Thursday unexpectedly offered to purchase an unlimited number of Japanese government bonds at fixed prices.

Despite the good pace of placing orphans in families across the country as a whole, the situation remains unsatisfactory in certain regions, said Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets. As reported by Interfax, she said this at a thematic conference call in the government. According to her, this concerns regions where the number of orphans in the database significantly exceeds the number of orphans in other regions as a whole.

The capital's largest road construction projects will be completed in 2019–2020, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Construction Marat Khusnullin said on air at Moscow FM radio. "All the most complex and large-scale road construction projects will be completed in 2019–2020. Then the main focus will be on building small cross-connections between districts," Khusnullin said.

"I submitted my resignation last night," he said, noting that his actual departure would take place in 64 days.