September 28, 2017, 01:01 / Business Merged Siemens and Alstom may lose part of Russian business The largest train manufacturers Siemens and Alstom are uniting to confront Chinese competitors Daria Beloglazova Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser (left) and Alstom CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge / Thibault Camus / AP The German Siemens and the French Alstom signed a memorandum providing for the consolidation of train production capacities, the French company reported.

A total evacuation has been declared on the island of Oba (Ambae, Aoba) in Vanuatu due to the eruption of the Manaro volcano. According to the BBC, all residents of the island have been ordered to move to other islands of the archipelago. A total of 11,000 people live on Oba. The eruption began several days ago, and scientists on Saturday assessed it as "moderate". At this stage, the area around the volcano is threatened by smoke, ash and rock debris fallout, and acid rain.

On Thursday, Moscow's Basmanny Court decided to remand producer Ekaterina Voronova, who is a defendant in the Seventh Studio fraud case, into custody in absentia. Director Kirill Serebrennikov is accused of organizing the fraud. This was reported to Interfax by the court's press secretary Yunona Tsareva. Voronova was also put on the international wanted list.

Trump and Republican leaders unveil sweeping tax reform plan / Brendan Smialowski / AFP US President Donald Trump and Republican Party leaders have unveiled a plan for a sweeping tax overhaul they want to pass this year. They propose cutting the corporate tax rate to 20% from 35% and the top personal tax rate to 35% from 39.6%. They say it will boost economic growth and benefit the middle class. Big corporate executives have backed the Republican proposals.

Even without the reduction of subsidies, VEB did not plan to make a profit in 2017 / E. Razumny / Vedomosti Subsidies to VEB from the budget may be reduced already this year – by 42.4 billion rubles, according to the published draft of amendments to the budget for 2017. The state corporation was supposed to receive 150 billion rubles, but so far it has been allocated 107.6 billion. The rest, based on the amendments, may not reach it.

Earlier it became known that in 2018 Mikhail Zadornov will become the chairman of the board of FC Otkritie. According to a Kommersant source, a number of key positions in FC Otkritie will be occupied by people from VTB 24 . that some of the VTB Zadornov himself said in an interview with Vedomosti Group employees will move to Otkritie FC.

Fraudsters stole half a billion rubles from a Moscow bank, using other people’s documents to obtain loans, reports . the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs According to law enforcement agencies, the accomplices (five people) provided the bank with documents containing false information, on the basis of which they were given loans in the amount of about 500 million rubles.

Ella Pamfilova, Chairperson of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Russia, said that early voting and home voting are the "main headaches" for the commission. RIA Novosti wrote about this on Thursday. During the CEC round table on the results of the single voting day, Pamfilova noted that such types of voting in some cases become a field for the use of administrative resources and give an abnormally high percentage of those who cast their votes.

The St. Petersburg administration said on Thursday that it had not given its consent for opposition politician Alexei Navalny to meet with his supporters on Mars Field. The legality committee told Fontanka.ru on Thursday. The committee's press service clarified that Navalny was denied permission to hold a rally on Marsovo Pole. He was offered to meet with supporters in the Vyborg District of St. Petersburg.

September 28, 2017, 17:48 / Business The government allocated 98 million rubles for the maintenance of VIM-avia aircraft The funds will help pay for the supply of fuels and lubricants, as well as flight support services for Yana Shebalin The government has allocated 98 million rubles for the maintenance of VIM-avia aircraft / Evgeniy Egorov / Vedomosti Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order on Thursday to allocate 98 million rubles.

September 28, 2017, 21:57 / Economy / News Oreshkin did not rule out personnel changes in the Ministry of Economic Development undefined Vedomosti Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin said that the ministry is expecting personnel updates. “We are undergoing renewal not only in the governor’s corps, but also in the ministry. New people will appear, now we are going through all the necessary procedures.

During the evening rush hour, the Moscow metro stopped traffic on the southern section of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line. According to the metro microblog , the cause of the failure is problems with the power supply. According to the preliminary version, there was a power surge and because of this, the protection system was activated.

A criminal case against blogger Alexey Pskovitin from Nemagiya under Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code (slander) has not been stopped, lawyer Alexander Zinurov told Mediazona. Read on vedomosti.ru Earlier, Zinurov told Vedomosti that he had received a petition to terminate the criminal case against his client at the request of banker Oleg Tinkov. “In a criminal case, we received a petition to terminate the case for reconciliation of the parties. From Tinkov’s side,” said Zinurov.

The extent to which Russians have withdrawn from politics is greatly exaggerated. Most citizens consider direct elections of mayors useful and support their return where they have been abolished.

September 28, 2017, 20:47 / Business / Economics / Finance Announcement of Vedomosti on September 29, 2017 Vedomosti In tomorrow's issue of the newspaper and on the website www.vedomosti.ru you will be able to find out details about what an engineer from Kazan conquered Moscow with unusual excursions, starting a business with $10; More and more Muscovites are spending the summer in the city; Republican tax reform has taken shape.