February 08, 2017, 00:48 / Opinions Regulatory impact assessment How the improvement of legislation worsens legislation Pavel Aptekar The Ministry of Economic Development published the report “Regulatory Impact Assessment. Six years in Russia”, where he summed up the implementation of the procedure for the adoption of regulatory legal acts (NLA), which provides for an assessment of their possible impact on the economy.

Pirates attacked the BBC Caribbean vessel in Nigerian territorial waters, the Russian embassy in that country reported . Seven Russian citizens and a Ukrainian citizen were kidnapped from the vessel, the diplomatic department noted. The embassy noted that the diplomatic mission had asked the Nigerian authorities for assistance in establishing the whereabouts of the abducted persons.

08 February 2017, 19:48 / Economics International business rushes to Brazil Political changes gave investors hope for economic recovery Vedomosti Investors are ready to ignore the recession because the current decline in GDP appears to them to be cyclical, not structural / Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Despite the fact that 2016 was the second year of recession in Brazil, foreign investor interest in the country increased significantly after the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the

07 February 2017, 23:41 / Business The Ministry of Energy stood up for the deregulation of Gazprom gas prices The Ministry proposes to sell gas to LNG producers and gas processors at market prices Alena Makhneva Deregulation of gas prices for gas processing will jeopardize new export projects / E.

Karelia's head Alexander Khudilainen is not going to resign early, his press secretary Marina Kabatyuk told TASS. Vedomosti's sources named him among the heads of problematic regions that the Kremlin could replace in order to improve the situation by the presidential elections, although they did not claim that he would resign early after Buryatia's head Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn. "We are not planning any press conferences, we are working. We do not have any new inputs.

The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg approved in the third reading amendments to the city law on the status of deputies, obliging local deputies to coordinate meetings with voters in the form of public events with the authorities. As TASS reports , these amendments were introduced after two such actions against the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church, which were held on the street and turned out to be quite massive.

Deputy Head of the National Police of Ukraine Oleksandr Vakulenko named the priority version of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet as his professional activities both on the territory of Ukraine and abroad. He noted that in addition to the version of professional activity, the investigation considered the version of destabilization of the situation in Ukraine, the version of “object’s mistake”, as well as a conflict situation in personal life.

The Security Service of Ukraine is checking information about the death in Donetsk of the commander of the Somali battalion, Mikhail Tolstykh (Givi). According to Interfax, this was reported to the 112 Ukraine TV channel by the adviser to the head of the special service, Yuriy Tandit. "We do not yet control the temporarily occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," he recalled.

February 08, 2017, 00:12 / Business Exclusively by subscription The largest meat producer in the United States is suspected of price fixing Tyson Foods accused of inflating chicken prices Jacob Bunge Tyson did not change pricing due to recent lawsuits / April L.Brown / AP Tyson Foods has received a subpoena from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said.

February 08, 2017, 15:51 / Business / News Mail.ru Group bought Delivery Club undefined Vedomosti Mail.ru Group has completed the acquisition of 100% of the food ordering and delivery service Delivery Club from foodpanda, as follows from the SPARK-Interfax database. The value of the deal, which was announced in November 2016, is $100 million, part of the amount of $90 million was paid during November, the remaining funds were paid in early 2017, the company told Interfax.

The administration of US President Donald Trump is searching for candidates to fill the post of White House communications director, CNN reports . Sean Spicer, who combines this post with the position of the president's press secretary, has drawn criticism from Trump, who was "disappointed" in him after his first two weeks on the job.

The bankruptcy trustee of the bankrupt Mezhprombank, the Deposit Insurance Agency, has begun selling its assets, reports RBC , citing several sources in the banking market. The first asset from which funds will be used to pay debtors will be the 18th-century Lower Venn Farm estate. in the English county of Herefordshire. Now DIA is preparing a deal to sell it for closure. Sell ​​this property, as well as the 17th century Old Battersea House.

February 08, 2017, 00:11 / Business Exclusively by subscription The minimum price for vodka may increase by 15 rubles to 205 rubles The Ministry of Finance explains this by increasing excise taxes and rising electricity tariffs Ekaterina Burlakova The real minimum price for vodka, with which producers can make money, is 230–240 rubles.

In tomorrow's issue of the newspaper and on the website www.vedomosti.ru you will be able to find out details about what about 20% of sites providing anonymity on the Internet were disabled; the WordSkills championship will try to reduce the shortage of young workers in Russia; Navalny's trial ended in deja vu.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which through the Russia-China Investment Fund (RCIF) owns a stake in the Detsky Mir retailer, may completely sell the stake within three to five years. As Interfax reports, RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev told reporters. “Sooner or later we need to exit, because we must show income for our investors, and we see such a horizon - three to five years,” he said.