It was decided to increase the tax burden on the oil industry last year - the mineral extraction tax now has a term, an increase: in 2017 - 306 rubles. per ton, in 2018 – 357 rubles. and in 2019 – 428 rubles. But the Ministry of Energy considers a further increase in the tax burden on the industry excessive and proposes to leave it the same as in 2017, Deputy Minister of Energy Kirill Molodtsov told Vedomosti, and additional withdrawals will be the same as in 2017 - 150 billion rubles .

Government agrees to label beer Rosalkogolregulirovanie conceptually agrees with the idea of ​​labeling beer and beer drinks with excise stamps, follows from a letter from the head of the agency Igor Chuyan to State Duma deputy Andrei Golushko. According to Chuyan, the idea needs to be carefully worked out due to the variety of materials and packaging and the possibility of selling products on tap.

09 June 2017, 01:11 / Business Mars launches a network of M&M's vending machines in Russia They will appear in cinemas and shopping centers Ekaterina Burlakova Mars will begin installing jelly bean vending machines in Moscow shopping centers and cinemas in the fall – M&M's Colorworks / PIXABAY The Mars company is piloting a new project - a network of M&M's Colorworks vending machines that will sell M&M's dragees, a company representative told Vedomosti.

There have been massive layoffs at the Kultura TV channel, which is part of VGTRK, several laid-off employees told Vedomosti. One of the channel’s former employees said that more than 200 people were fired from the company; according to another employee with whom Vedomosti spoke, the layoffs affected almost 300 people. The entire staff is about 800 people, they say. wrote about the mass layoffs on her Facebook Former channel employee Natalya Repina page.

India and Pakistan have received the status of full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The corresponding document was signed at the SCO summit by the leaders of six member states of the organization (Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan). The Convention on Combating Extremism and the Astana Declaration were also signed at the meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State.

Japan's upper house of parliament has passed a law allowing the current Emperor Akihito to abdicate, reports AP . The Lower House supported this initiative on June 2. The bill was developed by the government after the emperor made it clear in a televised address to the nation last August that, due to his age and health, he would like to transfer the throne to an heir. Akihito is now 83 years old.

Yandex will produce five short film novellas about the city and its inhabitants, the protagonist of which will be a taxi , the company announced at the Kinotavr festival in Sochi. This is a Yandex.Taxi project with information support from Kinopoisk. The project budget is 10 million rubles, a Yandex representative clarified for Vedomosti.

Read on vedomosti.ru Small investors - usually former or current top managers who invest in startups - increasingly prefer ready-made, established teams. There are noticeably more people who want to invest in a small startup with a competent technology team, notes Alena Vladimirskaya, head of the Anti-Slavery project.

The Conservative leader, Prime Minister Theresa May, proposed early parliamentary elections in April in order, as she said, to strengthen unity in Westminster before the start of difficult negotiations with the European Union, and at the same time strengthen her own position. At that time, the Conservatives were considered the favorites, but by election day on June 8 they had lost the support of voters and, as a result, lost their majority in parliament.

June 13, 2017, 19:59 / Auto / Lifestyle Mercedes-AMG E43 4matic: Sport for the thrifty The sedan tries to maintain passenger comfort in all situations Alexander Gubsky Kirill Kharatyan The large Mercedes-Benz emblem on the false radiator grille is traditionally a distinctive sign of sports modifications of the Stuttgart brand / Daimler Mercedes-Benz religiously adheres to the design principles of its most popular model, the E-Klasse: the even generation of a new model is always “revolutionary”

The head of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, was detained at a spontaneous protest taking place today near the State Duma building. "I was detained together with Anton Antonov-Ovseenko. But the protest continues. About 300 people. An hour ago they tried to take a woman, but we did not let them take her," Mitrokhin told RBC . At the picket, he said that the renovation is "arbitrariness" towards Muscovites.

A fire broke out at the Kievsky railway station in Moscow; it was contained at 1:45 p.m., a press service employee for the city's Emergencies Ministry told the Moscow agency. He has no information about the victims. Due to dense smoke, about 3,500 people were evacuated from the nearby Evropeisky shopping center, TASS reported , citing a source in the capital's emergency services.

The Tver Magistrate's Court fined The New Times magazine 100,000 rubles. this to Mediazona The editor-in-chief of the magazine, Evgenia Albats, reported . In addition, the court decided to return to Roskomnadzor the warning it issued for the material “From Kaluga with Jihad.” Read on vedomosti.ru Previously, Roskomnadzor issued written warnings to the editors for material that contained signs of justifying terrorism.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has remanded Dmitry Borisov, the sixth defendant in the "March 26 case," in custody until August 8, Mediazona and Dozhd report. The court has thus granted the investigators' motion. According to the investigation, during the March 26 protest Borisov kicked an off-duty police officer twice. Borisov himself does not admit his guilt.

Read also: The final application of the Russian national team for the Confederations Cup has been announced A friendly match between the Russian and Chilean national football teams ended with a score of 1:1. The match took place in Moscow. In the 56th minute, Mauricio Silva put the Chilean team ahead, and in the 67th minute, Viktor Vasin scored a return goal. Both teams are preparing for the 2017 Confederations Cup, which will begin on June 17. Its matches will be held in Moscow, St.