May 22, 2017, 11:24 am / Finance Oreshkin predicts an increase in the dollar exchange rate to 62 rubles Vedomosti Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin said that by the end of 2017 the dollar exchange rate will reach 62–63 rubles. “We had two forecast schedules: a basic one with a decline in oil prices to $40 by the end of the year, inflation of 3.8% and a weakening of the ruble to 68 rubles. per dollar by the end of the year and an option with inflation of 2.9%.

Yandex has integrated virtual private network (VPN) capabilities into the mobile version of Yandex Browser on Android. This has already allowed Ukrainian users to bypass the recently introduced blocking of Yandex itself, Mail.ru , social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, Kinopoisk and other services, according to messages from Ukrainian users on Twitter and Facebook . "Yandex Browser has implemented a VPN at the software level," one user writes on Twitter.

May 22, 2017, 00:23 / Finance Sberbank began issuing credit cards to young people under 25 from May 1 The bank found 300,000 potential borrowers Anna Eremina Sberbank has found 300,000 potential borrowers: it will issue credit cards to those under 25 years old / E. Razumny / Vedomosti From May 1, Sberbank reduced the age requirements for clients to receive a credit card from 25 years to 21 years.

May 21, 2017, 11:54 pm / Business Aeroflot filed a lawsuit against aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi SuperJet The supplier wanted to sell the vessels so much that he vouched for the state for subsidies. Alexander Vorobyov GSS will have to answer in rubles for the state’s obligations / Ekaterina Kuzmina / Vedomosti The Moscow Arbitration Court will begin considering Aeroflot's claim against Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) on June 6, according to the court's website.

Companies that, according to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, are associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, entered into a cartel agreement at auctions of the Ministry of Defense, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) decided. But the volume of violations found by the department turned out to be an order of magnitude less than the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) expected.

May 22, 2017, 20:45 / Business / Interviews and profiles Gregory Hayes: “Everything coming out of Washington these days should be taken with a grain of salt.” United Technologies, which closed a U.S. plant for low-cost production in Mexico, became a target of Trump during the presidential campaign. CEO Gregory Hayes made a compromise, but is not going to follow the instructions from the White House in everything Joseph Rago Gregory Hayes, CEO of United Technologies Corp.

The Moscow Arbitration Court will begin considering Aeroflot's claim against Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) on June 6, according to the court's website. The carrier recovers RUB 576 million under the contract dated June 2, 2011. from the manufacturer of the first Russian civil aircraft SSJ100. The reasons for filing the lawsuit are not indicated in the court materials.

In 2016, Russia lost 10 million tons of grain, or 8% of the harvest, due to a shortage of combine harvesters, said Petr Chekmarev, director of the crop production department of the Ministry of Agriculture, in the Federation Council. Read on vedomosti.ru “It should be noted that last year, although we received 120 million tons - a record harvest, the gross harvest in recent years - we lost, according to our calculations, within 10 million tons of grain.

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Russia is negotiating with a number of European countries to continue construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline on their territory, including Greece and Bulgaria, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a press conference in Istanbul. He recalled that Russia has begun construction of the offshore line of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. “In total, it is planned to lay two strings of the gas pipeline. One of them is completely focused on the Turkish market.

May 22, 2017, 08:32 / Finance Brent rose to $54.2 per barrel Vedomosti Oil is rising in price on expectations of an agreement between oil-producing states to limit its production, writes Bloomberg. July Brent futures rose by 0.87% to $54.23 per barrel by 8.05 Moscow time. WTI futures rose 0.93% to $50.80 a barrel. At a meeting on May 25, OPEC countries are expected to extend the agreement on production cuts until at least the end of the year.

Alisher Usmanov is the fifth Russian businessman on the Forbes list with a fortune of $15.2 billion. He made a significant part of his fortune from investments in technology companies - Megafon, Mail.ru Group and Facebook. But his VKontakte profile was created on May 18, the day the video message to Alexei Navalny was published, and his YouTube profile the day before.

The CEO of the American automaker Ford Mord, Mark Fields, has been fired. Fields, 56, is retiring after three years as CEO, the company said. The new head of the company will be Jim Hackett, who headed Ford Smart Mobility, a subsidiary of Ford engaged in promising developments in the field of new mobility - car sharing, calling cars with a driver and autonomous driving.

Rosstat's first estimate for Russia's GDP growth in the first quarter of 0.5% in annual terms allows us to count on achieving the current GDP growth forecast for 2017 at the level of 2%, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin told reporters. “The first quarter gives reason to expect growth of 2% for 2017. Our forecast does not change, and we see no reason why it should be changed,” the minister noted.

May 22, 2017, 14:46 / Business / News OPEC Secretary General: we see some light at the end of the tunnel undefined Vedomosti The OPEC agreement to limit oil production has a positive effect on the market; the parties to the agreements are firmly committed to supporting the process of market rebalancing. This was reported by the cartel's press office with reference to its Secretary General Mohamed Barkindo.