The US Air Force has deployed B-52 strategic bombers and 800 airmen to the UK to take part in a series of NATO exercises that will take place along Russia's borders, particularly in the Baltic and Arctic, CNN reports . "Training with allies and mutual partners improves coordination between them and allows the US Air Force to build the long-term interoperability needed to counter a wide range of global challenges," the Air Force said in a statement.

02 June 2017, 18:52 / Business Rogozin: Egypt will most likely buy Russian helicopters for Mistral Vedomosti Russia expects to win the tender for deck helicopters for the Egyptian Mistral, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax on Friday. “We are counting on a serious result, because these ships themselves were formed according to the technical specifications of our Ministry of Defense and adapted specifically for our helicopters.

Read on vedomosti.ru Russian President Vladimir Putin called not to condemn American leader Donald Trump for the decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. “I would not judge President Trump now, because President Obama made the appropriate decisions, maybe the current president believes that they were not fully thought out, maybe he believes that there are no appropriate resources.

Two buses collided in the Moscow region, Interfax reports, citing a source. According to the source, 14 people, including 8 children, were hospitalized with minor injuries. As the agency's interlocutor specified, the accident occurred on the 102nd km of the Ural highway. Five adults were injured in one bus, and one adult and eight children in the other. The causes of the incident have not yet been reported.

Cellular operators have long promised that communications will be free, but there are few such examples so far / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti By the end of this year, MTS will launch a project of so-called free communication for its subscribers. The operator will work with a pool of partners on a program of refunding purchases (cash-back) to subscribers' mobile phone accounts, said the operator's representative Dmitry Solodovnikov.

Rising oil prices and a stronger rouble have contributed, albeit marginally, to the swell in the ranks of entrepreneurs / Robert Schlesinger / TASS The number of small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia has increased by 10% compared to August 2016, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia Oleg Fomichev reported at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Such dynamics have not been observed for a long time, business is showing good growth, he noted.

One of the major aggregators, the ClassPass company, offers fitness center visit services / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Numerous aggregator startups selling subscriptions for various services are summing up the first results of their activities. The business of some is growing, while others are leaving the market. The Vive service, which sold subscriptions for visiting hairdressers, ceased operations in March, said the company's founder Alanna Gregory.

June 02, 2017, 00:14 / Finance JP Morgan and Oppenheimer funds are buying shares of the Moscow Exchange They are waiting for an increase in volatility, which will increase their commissions, experts say Tatyana Lomskaya The growth of investments from JP Morgan, one of the world's largest funds, indicates its confidence in the management and development strategy of the exchange / Segrei Karpukhin / REUTERS JP Morgan funds increased their share in the capital of the Moscow Exchange to 5.02%, the

01 June 2017, 23:32 / Economics The court made a decision that threatens the concession market He supported the FAS, which accused the market of simulating concessions Ekaterina Mereminskaya In Russia, a third of all investments in public-private partnership projects have been made under a scheme with budgetary participation / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The decision shocked the PPP market, since this is not the first concession in Russia under which the state returns the money to the investor in

02 June 2017, 15:48 / Business Gazprom, DEPA and Edison agreed on Russian gas supplies via the southern route Vedomosti Gazprom , the Greek DEPA and the Italian Edison signed an agreement to organize a southern route for Russian gas supplies to Europe, the Russian company said in a statement. The southern route involves gas supplies from Russia through Turkey to Greece and further to Italy.

The Ministry of Construction expects to reach annual housing construction volumes in Russia of 120 million square meters by 2025, the head of the department, Mikhail Men, told journalists at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ( SPIEF ), RIA Novosti reports. In 2016, the volume of housing commissioned in Russia amounted to 79.8 million square meters, which is 6.5% lower than the 2015 figure.

June 02, 2017, 20:45 / Economy / News St. Petersburg signed agreements worth almost 250 billion rubles at SPIEF undefined Vedomosti Following the results of the International Economic Forum ( SPIEF ), St. Petersburg signed almost 50 investment agreements totaling about 250 billion rubles, city Governor Georgy Poltavchenko said on Friday. Read also: St. Petersburg Economic Forum: day two According to him, the 21st economic forum was one of the most successful for the Northern capital.

June 02, 2017, 07:44 / Economics / Business St. Petersburg Economic Forum: day two The Russian President answered questions about Syria, Ukraine, climate and the agreement with Trump

The issue of revoking the license of the European University will be resolved within the legal framework, Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva said at SPIEF. this reports TASS . “As we have built a plan for interaction with the university in the legal field, this is how it will go,” she promised.

02 June 2017, 18:11 / Finance Investment banks are parting ways with bond indices Although this business, which they have been engaged in for decades, is increasingly in demand by exchange-traded funds Tatyana Bochkareva Inclusion of a security in an index means that investments in it will automatically grow / Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg Last week, two investment banks, Bank of America Merril Lynch and Citigroup, announced the sale of their bond index calculation business.