01 November 2017, 23:47 / Business Vladimir Putin agreed that Gazprom would build a pipeline from Iran to India Rosneft, during Putin’s visit to Iran, agreed to develop fields with the prospect of producing 55 million tons Artur Toporkov Vitaly Petlevoy Gazprom and Rosneft are paving the way in Iran / ATTA KENARE / AFP On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iran, where he met with the country's President Hassan Rouhani and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

November 02, 2017, 10:50 / Business / News The court refused to consider the businessman's claim against Sistema for 190 billion rubles undefined Vedomosti The Tverskoy District Arbitration Court of Moscow refused to consider businessman Evgeny Grafeev’s claim against AFK Sistema for 190 billion rubles, the court’s press service told Interfax. The entrepreneur intends to defend his claims in higher courts.

Ksenia Sobchak will host the show "We Can Do It Again" on the Friday! TV channel from November 6. This was reported to TASS by the channel's press service. The program will be aired on Mondays at 10 p.m. Anton Krasovsky will host it together with Sobchak. The show will be dedicated to significant events and periods in Russian history, including the revolution, the "dashing 90s" and the era of Ivan the Terrible. The program will also present the life of different historical eras.

Twitter's decision not to place advertising for Russia Today and Sputnik demonstrates the company's commercial insolvency and dependence on the "US power establishment," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said at a briefing (quoted by Interfax). According to her, the US security establishment directly controls the decision-making process in this company. Earlier, the social network Twitter refused to place advertisements for the Russia Today TV channel and the Sputnik agency.

November 02, 2017, 01:02 / Finance Exclusively by subscription Fitch saw the threat of default of Vostochny Bank The agency lowered his rating to CCC level Daria Borisyak The bank is unprofitable, and the capital requirements are very strict, and it may be difficult for the bank to comply with them without external support / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Fitch downgraded Vostochny Bank's rating from B- to CCC, the agency announced last night.

November 01, 2017, 22:07 / Business / Interviews and profiles Alexander Shevelev: “Steel will soon be one of the most environmentally friendly products” Alexander Shevelev talks about the transformation of Severstal, promises not to lower profitability below 20% and explains why the demand for steel will never disappear Alexandra Terentyeva Alexander Shevelev, General Director of Severstal Management / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Alexander Shevelev has been working for Severstal owner Alexei

Fixed Internet in Russian regions is becoming more expensive. Cheap low-speed offers are disappearing from the tariff schedules of providers - subscribers are offered more expensive high-speed tariffs. And providers are closing archival tariffs. The research company TMT Consulting came to these conclusions. The fact that budget low-speed tariffs began to disappear from the tariff schedules of Russian operators in September was confirmed by employees of two operators.

The Russian Embassy in the United States responded to the accusations of election propaganda that were made yesterday in Congress at hearings involving lawyers from Facebook , Twitter and Google. "The hearings held in Congress with representatives from Twitter, Facebook and Google confirmed the absence of evidence of Russian state interference in the American presidential election," the embassy said in a statement on its Facebook page.

01 November 2017, 23:46 / Opinions Is it worth suing for wages? Russians do not consider it necessary to fight for their labor rights - but in vain Pavel Aptekar Economic turmoil has created in Russian workers not only uncertainty about the future, but also indifference to violations of their labor rights: delayed wages, increased working hours and lack of vacations.

Russian skiers Alexander Legkov and Evgeny Belov, who were banned for life from participating in the Olympics the day before by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), have filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), TASS reports, citing a statement from the athletes' lawyer, Christoph Wieschemann. "The appeal has just been filed," the lawyer confirmed. On Wednesday, the IOC also annulled the results of athletes from the 2014 Olympic Games.

November 02, 2017, 06:47 / Business / News Khamenei suggested that Putin cancel American sanctions and isolate the United States undefined Vedomosti Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, called for opposition to the US sanctions policy.

The German concern Siemens is deliberately delaying the consideration of the case regarding the supply of turbines to Crimea by filing new petitions, according to Technopromexport (a Rostec structure). stated this to TASS A representative of Technopromexport . In his opinion, the plaintiff’s claims are initially not of an economic, but of a political nature. economic rights “ Siemens’ have not been violated, the contract has been fulfilled 100%, and the plaintiff knows this very well.

AliExpress today is millions of different products, navigation through which is carried out primarily by search, and not through the catalog, says DataInsight partner / Anthony Kwan / Bloomberg One of the world's largest online traders, the Chinese AliExpress, wants to teach its services the Russian language. The company has hired four engineers from Yandex to improve the quality of search and linguistics, AliExpress representative Anton Panteleev told Vedomosti.

The purchase of space in the IQ quarter will cost AHML 24.9 billion rubles / E. Shirinkina / for Vedomosti The VTB -controlled company " Gals Development " has reached an agreement with the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML) to sell it 74,655 sq. m and 327 parking spaces in the multifunctional complex "IQ-quarter", located in the business center "Moscow-city", follows from the developer's statement. It says that the deal may be closed by the end of November this year.

In the Moscow region, at a crossing between the Barybino and Mikhnevo stations of the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway, an electric train collided with a car. As a result of the accident, one person died. At the moment, the movement of four trains has been delayed, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the region's emergency services. “The driver of the passenger car died,” the source said; no one on the train was injured. The causes of the accident are being investigated.