August 10, 2017, 00:29 / Business Exclusively by subscription Shokoladnitsa will open a coffee shop and restaurant “Wabi Sabi” in the capital of Mongolia This is the company's first project outside the CIS Alina Didkovskaya The Shokoladnitsa Group of Companies opens all establishments outside Russia as a franchise, notes Trubnikov / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The Shokoladnitsa group of companies announced its intention to open a coffee shop of the same name and an Asian restaurant, Wabi Sabi, in

Due to blockages in Ukraine, Mail.ru Group will lose almost 1 billion rubles / S. Porter / Vedomosti The blocking of Mail.ru Group products in the second quarter had an adverse effect on its revenue, the company said in a statement. The group estimated losses at 1.5% of its total revenue this year. Mail.ru Group predicts that the company's revenue in 2017 will grow by 23-26% to 52.6-53.9 billion rubles.

In the first half of 2017, Evraz Plc's net profit under IFRS increased 12.3 times year-on-year and amounted to $86 million, compared with the market forecast of $526 million, Interfax reports. Consolidated EBITDA doubled to $1.152 billion, with Interfax's consensus forecast of $1.163 billion. Consolidated revenue increased by 44.1% to $5.106 billion, with a forecast of $4.979 billion.

Intel said it plans to create and begin testing more than 100 self-driving cars in the US, Israel and Europe. The Israeli company Mobileye, a developer of computer vision tools for self-propelled vehicles, will be involved in this project, recently acquired by Intel. The company plans to release the first such cars by the end of 2017. The fleet will include cars of different brands and different types.

Politics The United States on Wednesday softened President Donald Trump's rhetoric but continued to press North Korea over its nuclear program. Relations between the countries have become strained, and Pyongyang has outlined how it could strike Guam, a US territory in the Pacific read on WSJ.com read on FT.com South Korea has invited North Korea to hold talks to resolve the conflict between it and the United States.

10 August 2017, 16:41 / Economics The Accounts Chamber identified violations amounting to 1.13 trillion rubles in the first half of the year undefined Vedomosti The Accounts Chamber of Russia identified violations amounting to 1.13 trillion rubles in the first half of 2017. The head of the department, Tatyana Golikova, spoke about this at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the end of 2016, the chamber identified violations amounting to 965 billion rubles.

TPK Vilon (Moscow region), which produces products under the Sytoedov brand, considers the claims of the Miratorg agricultural holding regarding the packaging of its products to be unfounded, according to a company press release. “Of course, the relative similarity of individual elements of food packaging is typical for most categories of food products,” Denis Vikhirev, director of the legal department of TPK Vilon LLC, is quoted in a press release.

The global ranking of the most innovative companies in the world in 2017 according to Forbes included two Russian companies: the retailer Magnit was in 53rd place out of 100, Norilsk Nickel was in 63rd, according to the magazine’s website. The innovation coefficient of the first is estimated at 46.81%, the second - at 45.52%. Magnit's sales growth over the past 12 months amounted to 12.37%, Norilsk Nickel - 5.67%.

The world's largest brewing company Anheuser-Buсh InBev (AB InBev) and the Turkish Anadolu Efes announced that they had entered into an agreement of intent to merge businesses in Russia and Ukraine. This merger is a consequence of a global deal worth $106 billion to buy AB InBev's competitor, the British SABMiller.

Alexey Taranin This spring, the Federal Assembly began receiving letters from regional authorities asking to postpone the transition to new cash register equipment (KKT), which transmits information about each check punched online to the Federal Tax Service, until January 1, 2021. The regions gave the same reason: small businesses do not have the money for this and cannot cope with the maintenance of modern equipment.

Sberbank and Yandex are creating a joint venture based on Yandex.Market, the companies reported. So far, non-binding documents have been signed. It is expected that Sberbank will invest 30 billion rubles in Yandex.Market. At the time of the transaction, the partners value the entire enterprise at 60 billion rubles. without taking into account future synergies, the report said. The parties will receive equal shares in the joint venture.

On the far, far away planet Mühl, skinny, big-eyed, androgynous humanoids lived happily. They looked for large pearls in the ocean that contained enormous energy, then fed them to special animals - rainbow fat crocodiles with rat faces. The animals, having eaten the pearl, began to multiply it - that is, literally poop in hundreds of the same ones.

The RT television channel has released a video of a Russian Tu-154 aircraft flying over the Capitol and the White House in the United States. In the video, the plane flies at a low altitude. The Americans who are near the White House do not notice the Russian Tu-154 flying over them. The US Department of Defense said the flight was carried out under the Open Skies Treaty.

According to investigators, Starostenko was recruited in 2016 via social networks. A member of the group named Abdullah proposed to her, the girl agreed and went to Istanbul, from where she was promised to be sent to Syria. At Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, she was detained by FSB officers while she was waiting for a connecting flight.

The financial technology segment is too narrow for a fund with $100 million in capital, especially considering the restriction on the Russian origin of startups, says iTech Capital partner Alexey Solovyov / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Qiwi co-founder and main shareholder Sergey Solonin and management company Target Global are creating a new venture fund in the field of financial technologies, Target Global Fintech Opportunities Fund (TGFOF).