January 13, 2017, 15:20 / Economics The reserve fund may be partially retained If oil prices do not decline, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov clarified Alexandra Prokopenko “For now, we have leftovers from 2016,” clarified Siluanov / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti If oil prices remain at $50, the reserve fund will not be spent in full, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters.

January 13, 2017, 16:50 / Economics VEB will finance pre-project work at Udokan for $100 million at the expense of the National Welfare Fund Vedomosti In 2017, VEB will finance, using the National Welfare Fund (NWF), pre-project work at the Udokan copper deposit in the amount of about $100 million, said the head of the state corporation, Sergei Gorkov. “The Supervisory Board (of VEB) approved it, it was quite a long time ago.

January 13, 2017, 15:06 / Business Rosneft will allocate 130 billion rubles to finance refineries in Germany Vedomosti Rosneft approved an additional contribution of funds to the authorized capital of its subsidiary LLC RN - Foreign Projects, which is engaged in foreign projects. The amount of additional contribution to “RN - foreign projects” will be 129.545 billion rubles.

January 12, 2017, 23:42 / Finance Exclusively by subscription The Central Bank began a massive audit of small pension funds The attention of the auditors was drawn to funds that did not go through corporatization and continued to operate in the form of an NGO Ilya Usov The Central Bank decided to restore order in the market of unincorporated pension funds / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The Central Bank began a massive audit of non-state pension funds (NPFs) that did not undergo corporatization and

On Thursday, January 12, a C-SPAN broadcast from the US Congress was mistakenly interrupted by a Russia Today story about Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, The New York Times reports. At that moment, Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters was speaking about the Securities and Exchange Act. The TV channel explained that the incident was a technical error and emphasized that the incident was not the result of a hacker attack.

Harm all around On the article “Born not for tobacco smoke” (No. 2 of 10.01.2017, p. 18) In general, what prospects are opening up? For example, cholesterol in the blood also brings a lot of trouble (and budget expenses!). You can ban the sale of eggs to people over forty, and ban the sale of lard to men over thirty-five, ban butter for everyone starting at forty-five, etc. - everyone will become healthy, and most importantly, cheerful.

Politics The Russians, named in the US intelligence dossier as being linked to hacking attacks and collecting dirt on Trump, have denied these claims read on WSJ.com At the Senate hearing, Trump's picks to lead national security made comments on key issues that differ from his positions. Thus, James Mattis, nominated for the post of Secretary of Defense, called Vladimir Putin a threat to the world order.

The Ministry of Finance proposes to cancel the requirement for the repatriation of Russian currency received outside the country, Deputy Minister Alexey Moiseev said. “The issue that we are currently discussing, but which has not yet received the support of the leadership, is the bill that is related to the abolition of the requirement for the repatriation of funds received through foreign trade in national currency,” the Moscow agency quotes him.

2016 was not as bad for the car market as it seemed in the fall / E. Egorov / Vedomosti December was the best month of the whole of last year, with 145,668 passenger cars and light commercial vehicles sold, said Joerg Schreiber, chairman of the Association of European Businesses (AEB) Automobile Manufacturers Committee. This is 10% more than in November, he added. Sales in December 2016 were down just 1% compared to the same period a year earlier.

January 13, 2017, 00:47 / Economics Exclusively by subscription Medvedev and Golodets argued in absentia about the progressive scale of personal income tax First you need to decide why to reform the tax, officials from various departments call on Elizaveta Bazanova Dmitry Medvedev and Olga Golodets / D. Abramov/Vedomosti The government is discussing a progressive personal income tax scale, Golodets said on Thursday.

From January 1, according to the anti-collection law, only companies included in the register of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) can continue collecting debts from the population. As of December 30, there were only 10 companies in it (see sidebar), but, according to estimates from the NAPKA collection association, they account for half of the debt transferred for collection.

Photographer and director Anthony Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth, died in the UK on January 13. He died at home, the BBC reports , citing a press release from his photo agency Camera Press; his death was confirmed by a family representative. Lord Snowdon was 86 years old. Elizabeth II is saddened by this news, the BBC correspondent of the Royal Pool reported. He specified that Snowdon had been ill recently.

Life style Elizabeth II's son-in-law, famous British photographer, dies Princess Margaret's ex-husband dies aged 86 01/13/2017 Photo: FA Bobo/PIXSELL/PA Images / TASS AP Photo/Press Association In the UK, photographer and director Anthony Robert Armstrong died on January 13... FA Bobo/PIXSELL/PA Images / TASS A descendant of the Welsh noble family, Armstrong-Jones got married on the princess... AP Photo After the divorce, Snowdon married a second time, the princess never married again...

January 13, 2017, 19:11 / Business How Chubais and Gref argued about the presence of “sun” and “wind” in Russia The head of Rusnano called his opponent a classic “conservative IT specialist” who rejects progress Irina Chevtaeva Ivan Peschinsky Chubais expects that in 2024 Russia will generate 3,500 megawatts of wind energy and 1,500 megawatts of solar energy / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti Solar energy has already taken place in Russia, and wind energy may become a reality as early as 2017.

January 12, 2017, 11:13 pm / Lifestyle The Institute of Russian Realistic Art has turned into a stylish museum The design was radically updated here and the exhibition “Stories” was opened Olga Kabanova There are no white walls at the Institute of Russian Realistic Art / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The Institute of Russian Realistic Art (IRRI) is a private museum, it has existed for five years and, despite the alarming name, it works and looks very modern.