The rating agency "Expert RA" has placed under observation the rating of the insurance company VSK, 49% of which belongs to the holding company "Safmar Financial Investments" (hereinafter referred to as "Safmar"), follows from the agency's message. It states that the new status was established due to the decision of the Bank of Russia to sanitize Binbank , which belongs to the family of the owners of Safmar, the Gutserievs - Shishkhanov.

Olafur Eliasson Creates Paintings from Light / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The current Moscow Biennale, although the seventh in a row, is being held for the first time with new organizers, and for the first time its main project is being shown in a museum – the New Tretyakov Gallery. Formally, the main exhibition of the first biennale occupied a museum space, but it was the closed Lenin Museum, and contemporary art looked like a challenge and a mockery there.

Two films by producer Alexander Rodnyansky were included in the list of films nominated for an Oscar this year in the Best Foreign Film category. The list is compiled by national Oscar committees; this year, 85 films were included in it. The film “Loveless” directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev is nominated from Russia. Its producers are Rodnyansky and Sergei Melkumov. Serbia nominated the film “Requiem for Mrs.

The hull of the first serial universal nuclear icebreaker LK-60Ya "Sibir" of Project 22220 was ceremoniously launched at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. The launch was observed by the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District Nikolay Tsukanov, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev and the President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov.

September 22, 2017, 14:04 / Finance Alexander Pertsovsky resigns as head of BofA Merrill Lynch in Russia His place will be taken by Andrey Sergeev, who headed the investment banking unit Emma Terchenko Alexander Pertsovsky leaves the post of head of BofAMerrill Lynch in Russia / Sergey Porter / Vedomosti The new head of the Russian office of Bank of America Merrill Lynch will be Andrey Sergeev, who previously oversaw the bank's investment banking business in Russia.

The Moscow Office of Rospotrebnadzor inspected 84 Coffee House cafes. Violations of various types were found in all establishments. This is stated in a message on the department's website . In total, the department issued 206 decisions on administrative offenses and imposing penalties in the form of a fine. The amount of the fine amounted to more than 6.4 million rubles.

The general director of the Telegraph company, Alexander Stepanov, posted on the Internet copies of the settlement agreement proposed to his former employee Anton Rosenberg, in which the company offered to pay him almost 1.5 million rubles. The documents were published on Stepanov’s blog. It follows from them that the company twice offered a settlement agreement to Roseberg, before the public disclosure of the scandal and after.

September 22, 2017, 01:05 / Auto Exclusively by subscription Renault will sharply increase supplies of bodies from Russia to Algeria This is one of the largest projects for the export of Russian automotive components Vladimir Shtanov In 2016, the export turnover of Russian components within the Renault group increased by almost 70% to 27.2 million euros / M.

September 22, 2017, 17:46 / Economics Medvedev asked Putin to maintain the terms of financing the agricultural sector in 2018 undefined Vedomosti Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is going to ask Head of State Vladimir Putin to maintain the current conditions for budgetary financing of the agro-industrial complex in 2018 in the form of a protected budget line. He spoke about this at a meeting on the progress of field work.

In the Moscow metro, the first section of the Third Interchange Contour (TIC, Second Ring) between the Delovoy Tsentr and Petrovsky Park stations should open for passengers in November. This was reported by Interfax, citing the head of the Moscow Construction Department, Andrei Bochkarev. The official recalled that five stations will open on this section. The technical launch of the section took place on City Day.

Russia has weakened global norms and undermined states' responsibilities to comply with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement published on the State Department website.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov compared the behavior of the United States and the DPRK in the current situation surrounding North Korean missile and nuclear tests to the behavior of children in a kindergarten.

Merkel has already formed coalitions three times / Jens Buettner/dpa via AP According to polls, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its traditional partners from the Christian Social Union (CSU) will confidently win Sunday's Bundestag elections. But Merkel will not get the majority needed to form a government, and she will have to look for coalition partners.

State Duma deputy Yevgeny Revenko posted a video on his Facebook page showing the launch of the nuclear icebreaker Sibir in St. Petersburg, laid down according to project 22220 back in May 2015. Revenko noted the importance of such work, “as the development of the Russian North and the development of the Northern Sea Route.” In turn, Russian President Vladimir Putin also commented on the launch of the new, most powerful icebreaker in the world.

September 22, 2017, 01:38 / Personal account How to cancel unnecessary insurance From January, the cooling-off period will increase from five to 14 days, but the Central Bank failed to extend it to collective agreements Anna Kholyavko People will have more time to think about whether they need insurance / Dmitry Novozhilov / Vedomosti From 2018, Russians will have 14 calendar days to refuse insurance, this instruction from the Central Bank was registered by the Ministry of Justice.