Vladimir Putin set the task of considering proposals for setting up the tax system and adopting all amendments to the Tax Code by 2018. Supervisors are (traditionally) tasked with reducing the number of business inspections but increasing their efficiency. And stop clinging to self-employed citizens. “Justice is not about equalization,” Putin states. Read also: Putin: Russia’s economy should grow faster than the world’s by 2019 Read also: Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly

Politics Syrian rebels are holding secret negotiations with Moscow, with the participation of Turkey, to end the fighting in Aleppo. This shows that the US has been sidelined in this important conflict read on FT.com Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to exit the business entirely.

December 01, 2016, 12:48 / Economics Putin: Russia's economy should grow faster than the world's by 2019 Official forecasts of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance say that this will not happen Alexandra Prokopenko Olga Kuvshinova Putin demanded that by 2019 the Russian economy grow at a rate no lower than the world's / E. Razumny / Vedomosti President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to develop a set of measures to accelerate economic growth.

December 02, 2016, 00:35 / Finance / Opinions / Markets Could all markets be wrong about Trump? History shows that the first reaction of investors to the results of the US elections is not always correct James McIntosh , markets columnist for The Wall Street Journal Markets do not always follow the tenets of economic theory perfectly, but they have an internal logic. It also works in the situation with the election of Donald Trump as US President.

This coming Monday, December 5, is the deadline for Rosneftegaz to sell a 19.5% stake in Rosneft. There are two options: to investors or to Rosneft for subsequent resale. The first option has not yet been taken off the agenda, says a senior official. True, the government consultant, Bank Intesa, has still not submitted a list of applicants, although it previously promised to do so by mid-November.

Russia does not want confrontation with anyone, it is not looking for enemies, it needs friends, but it will not allow its interests to be neglected, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in his address to the Federal Assembly. "We do not want confrontation with anyone, we do not need it, neither we, nor our partners, nor the world community.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law increasing the permissible volume of advertising in print media while maintaining the VAT rate. “The federal law increases the permissible volume of advertising in one issue of a printed periodical, for which such publications have the right to apply a value added tax rate of 10%, to 45%,” says the reference to the law. The federal law was adopted by the State Duma on November 16, 2016 and approved by the Federation Council on November 29, 2016.

December 01, 2016, 19:13 / Technologies Amazon offered to transport data to its “cloud” on a truck For large volumes, this is faster than transmitting them using high-speed Internet Jay Green Laura Stevens Snowmobile truck can transport 100 million petabytes of data / Amazon Web Services Can a truck deliver data faster than high-speed internet? Amazon believes yes, if there is a lot of data.

December 01, 2016, 15:30 / Business / News Brent rose to $52.56 per barrel undefined Vedomosti Oil prices continued to rise on Thursday after jumping 9% to highs since late October, caused by the signing of an agreement to reduce production by OPEC countries. The price of February futures for Brent oil on the London ICE Futures exchange rose by $0.79 (1.39%) to $52.56 per barrel by 14.45 Moscow time.

FAS wants to force Google to comply with the order The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Google in an arbitration court to compel it to comply with its order, a representative of the agency said. Earlier on Monday, the deadline for Google to provide the FAS with information on the compliance with the order expired.

December 01, 2016, 08:50 / Finance Hackers stole more than 100 million rubles from a Russian bank Vedomosti ABS is a hardware and software complex aimed at automating banking activities. The system keeps records of data about bank clients, concluded banking service agreements, settlement and foreign currency accounts, processes payment orders, and creates payment registers for making settlements through the Bank of Russia payment system.

VKontakte Wants to Get Rid of “Gray” Advertising in Communities / E. Shirinkina / Vedomosti VKontakte wants to get rid of advertising that is sold by community administrators, bypassing the social network itself. The company plans to offer administrators to replace part of the direct placements with promotional posts that the company itself sells, said Alexander Kruglov, the social network's development director.

The general director of the special flight detachment (SLO) “Russia” Yaroslav Odintsev, who was arrested as part of a case of abuse of power, resigned. His place was taken by the deputy head of SLO Rossiya and the former chief pilot of the enterprise, Konstantin Tereshchenko. Odintsev was placed under house arrest on September 7. He was charged under Part 1 of Art. 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers).

December 01, 2016, 00:04 / Auto Russian Lada sales may grow by 15–18% in November AvtoVAZ sales on the domestic market are growing for the fifth month in a row Vladimir Shtanov Lada sales in Russia began to grow in July, despite market contractions / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti Russian sales of Lada in November, according to preliminary forecasts, may increase by 18% compared to November 2015, the government of the Samara region reported, citing AvtoVAZ President Nicolas Mora.

December 01, 2016, 00:20 / Finance Tinkoff Bank promises to earn 40% more in 2017 than in 2016 will help him with this Financial supermarket Anna Eremina Owner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tinkoff Bank Oleg Tinkov / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The net profit of TCS Group, which includes Tinkoff Bank and Tinkoff Insurance, grew by 14% in the third quarter to 2.9 billion rubles, according to the group’s reporting according to international standards.