October 26, 2017, 15:11 / Business Gazprom structures managed to take 3 billion rubles from Otkritie undefined Vedomosti The Gazprom group took from Otkritie up to 3 billion rubles Bank. even before the bank's problems were officially recognized. to Interfax This was told by the head of department 839 (treasury) of Gazprom, Alexander Dushko. According to him, Gazprom had a bank account, there were no investments there, the account is not used now and has never been used.

October 26, 2017, 10:07 / Finance The main candidate for the role of a specialized bank for the defense industry is the structure of Rostec undefined Vedomosti The Russian Financial Corporation (RFC), 100% owned by Rosoboronexport and part of Rostec, is considered as the main option for creating a special bank for the defense industry, Kommersant writes , citing several sources close to the government and the Kremlin.

The Izvestia newspaper reports that Apfelbaum is suspected of falsifying documents / Alexandra Mudrats / ITAR-TASS Investigators detained the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Sofya Apfelbaum after questioning, said Olga Romanova, director of the human rights organization “Rus Sidyashchaya.” "The director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater, Sofia Apfelbaum, has been detained in connection with the criminal case against Kirill Serebrennikov.

The authors of the BadRabbit ransomware were the same hackers who were behind the summer NotPetya epidemic, according to a study by Group-IB. According to the company's observations, the BadRabbit code was created from the source codes of NotPetya. BadRabbit has affected Russian media and Ukrainian infrastructure (Kiev metro and Odessa airport) this week.

The murder of Roscosmos CEO Vladimir Evdokimov in Moscow's pretrial detention center No. 5 "Vodnik" in March 2017 is supplemented by new details. His wife Valentina Rakitina reported to the FSB's "M" department about the facts of extortion, Novaya Gazeta writes . Rakitina stated that at the end of January 2017, her husband informed her about a transfer to cell #600 with more comfortable conditions and asked her to transfer him 75,000 rubles to Yandex.Wallet .

First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Franz Klintsevich reported that the decision to establish a naval base on the Kuril Islands has been made. "The decision has been made. It is in the implementation stage," the senator said. According to him, at the moment "organizational issues are underway." A year ago, it was reported that Russia had deployed the latest coastal missile systems "Bal" and "Bastion" on the Kuril Islands.

October 26, 2017, 00:55 / Finance Exclusively by subscription S&P upgraded the rating of Russian Standard Bank The agency believes that the bank has recovered from the losses of previous years Anna Eremina Tatyana Voronova Russian Standard bondholders want to grab their payments / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The rating agency S&P has upgraded the rating of Russian Standard Bank from CCC+ to B- with a “stable” outlook (it was “negative”).

Lukoil increases dividends Lukoil's board of directors recommended paying 72.3 billion rubles in interim dividends and called a shareholders' meeting on December 4, the company reported. This is 13% more than in the first nine months of 2016. Interfax TMK redistributes guarantees TMK is asking holders of $500 million Eurobonds maturing in 2020 to release the North American asset of the IPSCO Tubulars group from the guarantee on this debt, the company said.

Kalashnikov will provide all media employees with a discount on traumatic weapons, according to the website kalashnikov.media. “The concern is ready to provide a 10% discount to all media employees upon presentation of a journalist’s ID. In addition, the concern’s employees are ready to advise journalists on issues of self-defense,” the message says . Earlier, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, said that he plans to issue trauma cards to employees.

Last week, one of Russia's largest retailers, Magnit, reported an unexpected halving of net profit and a noticeable decline in profitability for the third quarter. The market reacted sharply: Magnit's receipts on the London Stock Exchange fell by 15%, shares on the Moscow Exchange by 9.5% and continued to fall on Monday and Tuesday. Sergey Galitsky's Magnit is one of the main Russian blue chips, and has been a favorite of investors for the past few years.

The case of former senator Umar Dzhabrailov has been investigated and sent to the Tverskoy Court, Interfax reported . The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow reported that the case of the man who opened fire in a hotel in the center of Moscow has been sent to court. "During the investigation, the accused admitted his guilt," a representative of the Main Directorate said. The case was investigated under the article on hooliganism.

Russian authorities are already taking the first steps to transition from shared housing construction to project financing, but have not yet named the exact timing of this transition, Interfax reports, citing the head of the Ministry of Construction, Mikhail Men. "This is a big, serious job, even the development of the roadmap itself, where the main ones will be the Ministry of Economic Development and the Central Bank.

First Deputy Prosecutor of Kyiv Pavlo Kononenko reported that Ukrainian investigators are considering three main versions of the explosion in the city center: the first is an attempt to murder Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk, organized by Russian special services; the second is Mosiychuk's political and public activities and his position within Ukraine; the third is an attempt to murder Mosiychuk for personal reasons.

Russia has become the largest supplier of militants to the ranks of the Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia), according to a report by the Washington-based consulting company Soufan Group. As Fox News reports , since 2015, the number of militants from Russia in IS units has grown from 2,400 to 3,417. The number of Tunisians over the same period has decreased from 6,000 to 2,920, the group's analysts calculated.

The October issue of the American magazine The Economist came out with a cover that depicts Russian President Vladimir Putin as a tsar. The cover photo was posted on the publication's Twitter . The cover image is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. "The Tsar was born 100 years after the revolution," the cover reads. "Russia is again under the rule of the Tsar," the magazine's Twitter account says.