Last week, the social network VKontakte announced that it would reduce the free background music listening time to an hour a day, and later to half an hour. The social network Odnoklassniki (both are part of Mail.ru Group) did the same. This is a requirement of copyright holders, explained a representative of VKontakte. Once upon a time, unlimited music reserves within VKontakte became a feature of this social network.

The military has been proposed to prohibit the publication of photos, videos, geolocation data and other information that allows one to establish departmental affiliation and location / D. Abramov / Vedomosti Contract soldiers may be prohibited from publishing information about themselves and other servicemen on the Internet. The reasons for this were explained by the Defense Ministry on Wednesday on the portal of draft regulations.

According to him, as of September 30, 2015, about 90% of Syrian territory was under direct or indirect control of militants. "The entire military "strategy" of the US then consisted of contemplating the advance of the "caliphate", arming the thugs under the guise of helping the "Syrian opposition" and counting the number of days until the overthrow of the legitimate government of Syria," he noted.

The consumer price index fell 0.4% year-on-year in September, statistics agency Cystat said on Thursday. Compared with August, prices rose 0.3% and year-to-date by 0.7%. Vegetable prices fell by 6.2% compared to August 2016, while industrial prices fell by 1.2%. This helped offset a 4.6% increase in fuel prices and a 3.8% increase in electricity prices. Inflation in Cyprus and the eurozone as a whole remains below the 2% inflation target set by the European Central Bank.

Andrey Turchak may head the general council of the party in whose youth organization he began his career / Andrey Gordeyev / Vedomosti Pskov Region Governor Andrei Turchak will become a senator from the Pskov Region, sources close to the presidential administration and in United Russia told Vedomosti.

05 October 2017, 13:55 / Business Saudi Energy Minister named the final goal of OPEC+ Vedomosti The work of OPEC+ cannot be completed until the market has achieved rebalancing, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khaled Al Faleh said at Russian Energy Week. He is quoted by TASS.

Two-thirds of the land area being developed for housing in New Moscow will be given over to the creation of social facilities and jobs, said Vladimir Zhidkin, head of the Department for the Development of New Territories of Moscow, at the international Expo Real exhibition. "We insist on the ratio of construction by developers in new real estate territories in the following proportion: one part is housing, two thirds are places of employment and social facilities.

The main owner and chairman of the board of directors of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, is not considering selling the holding’s assets to meet the requirements of Rosneft . According to Interfax, journalists asked him about this possibility on the sidelines of the Russian-Saudi investment forum in Moscow. Rosneft in the first instance sued AFK for 136.3 billion rubles.

As of July 1, 2017, the most common foreign cars on the Russian car market were cars from Japanese manufacturers, found out experts from the Autostat agency . As of July 1, 2017, there were more than 25 million foreign-made passenger cars in Russia. Of these, Japanese cars accounted for 37% (9.4 million cars), 17% - Korean brands (4.3 million), 16% - German brands (4.2 million), 12% - American brands (3. 1 million), 8% - for French (2.1 million).

During the period from January to August of this year, banks issued more than 600,000 mortgage housing loans (HML) worth over 1 trillion rubles. This is stated in a press release from the Central Bank. As noted in the report, interest rates on mortgage loans continue to decline for the sixth month in a row. The weighted average rate on mortgage loans in August decreased by 0.36 percentage points to 10.58%.

Adviser to the head of Rostourism on transport Dmitry Gorin said that passengers of regular VIM-Avia flights returned over 12,000 tickets, Interfax reports. According to him, passengers who bought a ticket for a regular flight are protected by full refund mechanisms. As of October 4 this year, 12,217 tickets have already been returned. At least 13,500 passengers can use the ticket refund service or “rebook on flights with other airlines,” he said.

Volvo Cars suffers reputational and other losses, the statement says / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti As of October 3, Volvo Car Russia is terminating its contract with the Independence Group, the automaker announced. "Considering the reputational and other losses that Volvo Cars is suffering in connection with the current situation, we do not see any possibility of continuing cooperation with the Independence company," the statement said. A representative of Independence confirmed the information.

Today, the court overturned the decision on the administrative arrest of Alexei Navalny's associate, the head of the opposition leader's federal headquarters Leonid Volkov, FBK lawyer Ivan Zhdanov reported on Twitter. "Volkov has been released from custody. The case is being returned to Nizhny Novgorod," he said. The opposition leader was released after appealing the arrest decision in the Moscow City Court, the Telegram channel "Navalny's Team" reports.

The prosecutor asked the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow to sentence all defendants in the case of embezzlement of funds allocated for the restoration of cultural heritage sites to suspended sentences, except for former Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov. This was reported on Thursday by RIA Novosti . “In view of Pirumov’s active role, I ask that he be sentenced to five years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony,” the prosecutor noted.

05 October 2017, 14:01 / Finance / Technology Tinkov announced the timing of the launch of the mobile operator Tinkoff Mobile Vedomosti Banker Oleg Tinkov said that the Tinkoff Mobile mobile operator will be launched in two months. According to TASS, he said this at the Finopolis-2017 forum. “We want to be a telecom company, although on the networks of Rostelecom, including Tele2,” said the main owner of Tinkoff Bank.