Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov called the organization of the New Year's corporate party “a personal matter for everyone,” TASS reports . He added that he does not yet know whether any corporate events are planned in the presidential administration. According to the official, “each mini-team independently organizes some New Year’s parties.” “But this is an absolutely personal matter for each employee,” he added.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia will check Samsung's pricing and requested materials on retail prices for the company's smartphones, the agency's press service told Interfax . "We have complaints about Samsung [about the coordination of prices for smartphones], we are checking. I can't say yet how it will end.

"It's time for me to try a life in which there are more private passions than public ones," said Sarkozy, who admitted defeat / Ian Langsdon / Pool Photo via AP Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy lost the race for the presidency, taking only 3rd place in the first round of the center-right primaries with 20.6% of the vote.

Only 16% of employees of Russian companies are ready to work in open spaces, according to a survey of 2,500 office workers conducted at the end of October by Superjob. More than half of respondents (59%) admitted that they work better in closed offices.

November 22, 2016, 15:15 / Business Alexander Shevelev became CEO of Severstal Since April 2016, he headed the woodworking company Sveza Vitaly Petlevoy Alexander Shevelev became CEO of Severstal / Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS From December 12, Alexander Shevelev, who previously headed the Sveza woodworking group, will take over as general director of the management company Severstal Management, Severstal said in a statement.

November 22, 2016, 11:14 / Economics Global economic growth has slowed and will be below 3% in 2016 – Siluanov Vedomosti The growth rate of the global economy has slowed down and will be below 3% in 2016, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at the “Trap of the New Normal” forum. “The World Monetary Organization (IMF) has revised its forecast (for global economic growth) four times. The latest data is 3.5% at the end of 2016. According to our data, it is even lower.

November 22, 2016, 11:26 / Business / News TransAsia Airways suddenly stopped flying and announced self-liquidation undefined Vedomosti Taiwanese airline TransAsia Airways, the country's third largest, unexpectedly announced it would stop flying and trading its shares, reports Reuters . She also said that she may hold an emergency meeting of the board of directors on November 22. Her decision came as a shock to the local tourism sector, the airline industry and the country's government.

Russia should have a federal authority to implement national policy, says Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin. He told Kommersant that the existing Federal Agency for Nationalities Affairs (FANA), which is not subordinate to any ministry, currently lacks resources and powers. Agency director Igor Barinov said he is “not against” raising the agency’s status to a ministry.

Sberbank will sell forecast and statistical models based on anonymized data about the bank's clients, said Andrey Khlyzov, Senior Vice President of the state bank. "We do not provide information about specific clients. The point is that based on this data, we can be ordered, for example, where Magnit should open stores. We can very well issue some aggregates for commercial structures and for state ones too," Khlyzov said.

November 22, 2016, 08:44 / Economy / News Foreign online retailers warned the government about the consequences of introducing VAT undefined Vedomosti The introduction of VAT for international online trading platforms will make the Russian market uninteresting for them, warns the President of the National Association of Distance Trading (NADT) Alexander Ivanov addressed to Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. about this writes Kommersant with reference to a copy of the document.

“We are ready to create a database for storing data, for processing this data together with all operators <...> We are ready to work with Megafon, and with MTS , and with Beeline, and with Rostelecom,” said the September, General Director of the Rostec State Corporation Sergei Chemezov on the sidelines of the Biotechmed-2016 conference (quote from Interfax).

November 22, 2016, 00:51 / Finance The former chairman of the board of Baltinvestbank moved to Bank St. Petersburg Igor Kirillov heads the additional office on Nevsky Prospekt Maria Buravtseva According to the Kirillovs, some employees of Baltinvestbank also moved to Bank St. Petersburg / E. Egorov / Vedomosti The former chairman of the board of Baltinvestbank, Igor Kirillov, headed the additional office of the St. Petersburg bank, Business Petersburg reported yesterday.

November 22, 2016, 16:49 / Finance S&P upgraded Sovcombank's rating The agency appreciated the efforts of the credit institution to become a universal bank Marie Mesropyan The quality of the bank’s assets is improving, indicates S&P / M. Stulov / Vedomosti S&P raised the long-term rating for obligations in foreign and national currencies of Sovcombank from B to B+, the rating outlook is “stable”.

November 22, 2016, 01:00 / Finance The Central Bank wants to become a consultant to banks, not an overseer And Daria Borisyak is counting on the launch of the supervisory reform Tulin realized the scale of problems in the banking supervision of the Central Bank / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti This fall was remembered by the financial sector for high-profile resignations in the Central Bank - first deputy chairman Alexey Simanovsky and deputy chairman Mikhail Sukhov, who had worked in banking

On November 18 , the board of directors of Rusagro , headed by Vadim Moshkovich, decided to freeze the project for the construction of a greenhouse complex for 24 billion rubles. due to insufficient government support for agriculture for 2017, the group said.