Russian runner, winner of the 2015 Russian Team Championship in the 1500m, Andrei Dmitriev helped German journalist Hajo Seppelt make a new film about doping in Russian sports. "Yes, I did make a film with Hajo Seppelt. It will be released presumably on January 21. I do not consider (WADA informants) Stepanovs traitors.

January 20, 2017, 00:08 / Finance Exclusively by subscription The Bitcoin price increasingly reflects what is happening in China Because this country accounts for 94% of cryptocurrency trading turnover Tatyana Bochkareva The popularity of cryptocurrency in China is due to the fact that it makes it possible to withdraw money from the country / Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg In January, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) began inspections of the Shanghai BTCC exchange and Beijing OKCoin and Huobi.

The regional court confirmed the sentence of 12.5 years in prison for the suspended mayor of Yaroslavl, Yevgeny Urlashov, in a corruption case. The sentences of other defendants in this high-profile case were also upheld: former mayoral aide Alexei Lopatin was sentenced to seven years, and Urlashov's former deputy Dmitry Donskov was acquitted. “The verdict of the Kirov District Court regarding Urlashov, Lopatin, and Donskov shall be left unchanged,” the judge announced the decision.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered near the Capitol to watch the ceremony.

January 20, 2017, 14:00 / Business / News Court fines Uber $20 million for deceiving drivers undefined Vedomosti A district court in San Francisco sentenced taxi service Uber to pay a $20 million fine for misleading drivers. As reports Interfax with reference to The Hill, the company was charged by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The Ministry of Economic Development does not consider it necessary to rush to privatize a 10.9% stake in VTB in 2017 while maintaining Western sanctions, said the head of the department, Maxim Oreshkin. As TASS reports , he said this on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, commenting on the opinion of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov that there is no need to privatize VTB in 2017. “We will, of course, work on VTB within three years.

January 20, 2017, 11:10 / Finance / Politics The Ministry of Finance is waiting for an early court decision on the format for considering a claim against Ukraine regarding a $3 billion debt. Vedomosti The High Court of London on Thursday completed the first hearings on Russia's claim against Ukraine over a $3 billion Eurobond debt, reports Interfax , citing materials from the Russian Ministry of Finance.

January 19, 2017, 23:57 / Business Lukoil and Rosneft will continue to work together The companies signed new documents on the fields named after. Trebs and Titov Galina Starinskaya In April 2011, Lukoil and Bashneft signed an agreement on joint development of the fields named after. Trebs and Titov. In October 2016, 60.16% of the voting shares of Bashneft were purchased by Rosneft / Bashneft Rosneft .

An expert working group led by Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov rejected the idea of ​​repealing the Yarovaya law, but proposes to introduce serious clarifications into the by-laws. This is stated in its conclusion, adopted yesterday (Vedomosti reviewed it).

January 20, 2017, 15:42 / Business Peskov commented on the closure of the Roshen factory in Lipetsk undefined Vedomosti The decision to stop the Roshen confectionery factory in Lipetsk was made by the shareholders themselves. This was stated on Friday, January 20, by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. “This is the decision of the owners, work was carried out there, and the president made statements regarding this.

January 20, 2017, 09:06 / Finance / News Brent is trading at $54.37 per barrel undefined Vedomosti At 8.52 Moscow time on January 20, March Brent futures were trading on the ICE Futures exchange at $54.37 per barrel. On Thursday, during the trading session, these contracts rose in price by $0.24 (0.45%) to $54.16 per barrel, reports Interfax . February futures for WTI in New York on Friday morning were trading at $51.5 per barrel; on Thursday they rose by $0.29 (0.57%) to $51.37 per barrel.

Last fall, it became known that Rostec and AFK Sistema were discussing the merger of assets in microelectronics and the production of electronic equipment. A third partner may appear in this joint venture (JV), and not a public one, but a private one, the main shareholder of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, said today at the economic forum in Davos (his words are reported by Interfax).

The State Duma's initiative to decriminalize domestic violence and the attitude of Russians towards it is another example of a situation where the state and citizens prefer to meet as little as possible. A recent VTsIOM poll on attitudes towards decriminalizing domestic violence confirms the well-known fact that Russians know about domestic violence firsthand. 33% of respondents have encountered violence in the families of their acquaintances, 10% - in their own.

Russia's GDP growth in 2017, according to the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development, will be 1.5-2%, said the head of the department, Maxim Oreshkin, in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Read on vedomosti.ru Earlier, Oreshkin told reporters that if current oil price quotes continue, GDP growth for the year could reach 2%.

Most US small businesses create no more than one new job per year / PIXABAY Although small businesses are considered the engine of employment growth in the United States, job growth in this sector is very slow and unsteady. The median small business creates less than one new full-time job per year.