The Ukrainian state-owned enterprise Antonov has confirmed cooperation with the Russian cargo airline Volga-Dnepr on An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft. This was previously reported by the Kommersant newspaper, citing sources.

03 November 2017, 15:48 / Business FAS demanded that Rosneft sell gas stations in seven regions Vedomosti The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) demanded that Rosneft sell gas stations (gas stations) in seven Russian regions as part of the privatization of Bashneft. This was reported in a press release from the department.

November 03, 2017, 00:14 / Business Russians are abandoning kefir and yogurt in favor of cheaper products Sales of dairy products decreased over the year Natalya Ishchenko Irina Sinitsyna Population incomes have been declining over the past 2-3 years, buyers are switching to traditional milk, kefir and fermented baked milk, abandoning yoghurts, cheese curds, dairy desserts and so on.

November 03, 2017, 00:24 / Auto Tesla Motor suffered a record loss The manufacturer of electric vehicles cannot reach the required pace of Model 3 production Gennady Anisimov Harris Kupperman of Praetorian Capital believes that Tesla shares will soon collapse and Musk’s “money burning” project will finally “explode” / Rich Pedroncelli / AP Tesla Motor reported the largest loss in its history – in the third quarter it amounted to $671 million (against $22 million profit a year earlier).

November 03, 2017, 08:52 / Technology AliExpress will test virtual reality stores in Russia undefined Vedomosti Online retailer AliExpress invested 12 million rubles. to a chain of stores in Russia with elements of virtual reality (VR), reports RBC , citing a company statement. The first stores of the chain will begin operating as an experiment on November 3. Most of the funds invested in the project were spent on creating digital copies of goods.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called on social networks Twitter and Facebook not to succumb to the "outrageous pressure" of the US administration. He said this at a press conference following talks with Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Thomas Greminger.

In Ukraine, the People's Front party is asking for a commission to be created to investigate the legality of the Ukrainian concern Antonov's servicing of Russian An-124 aircraft belonging to the Volga-Dnepr airline. "We have appealed to the SBU and the government to immediately verify the information that has appeared in the media.

The idea of ​​selling flowerbeds in boxes came to Irina Mikhailova during a tour of British design agencies / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti Irina Mikhailova sells flowerbeds in a box – sets of seeds with flowerbed patterns, which even a novice gardener can use to create a flowerbed at her dacha or on her balcony. She is a clothing designer by education and decided to apply a tailor's approach to creating flowerbeds.

The Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending received a net profit of 11.1 billion rubles under the International Financial Reporting Standards for 9 months. This is 18.1% more than for the same period in 2016 (plus 1.7 billion rubles), the Agency said in a statement. The Agency's mortgage asset portfolio amounted to RUB 314.4 billion. Thus, since the beginning of the year, the increase amounted to RUB 42.3 billion (15.5%).

Two conflicting draft resolutions on continuing the investigation into chemical attacks in Syria have been submitted to the UN Security Council – one from Russia and one from the United States, TASS reported , citing copies of the documents. The resolutions concern the terms of office of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN on chemical attacks in Syria.

The Pozis plant, part of Rostec, launched household refrigerators with a built-in sound function on the Russian market. As the press service of the state corporation reported to TASS, the buyer for 10,000 rubles. will be able to order this function and select the sound to taste: favorite songs, a warning for losing weight, or anything else. Pozis also produces household appliances with individual designs and artistic painting.

One of Europe's largest companies managing television and radio broadcasting towers, the British Arqiva, has abandoned its plans to hold an IPO in London, Bloomberg reports. The company was planning to raise £1.5 billion (about $2 billion) during the placement. The bulk of these funds were planned to be used to pay off debt. As the news agency notes, if the placement had taken place, it would have been the largest IPO in the UK in 2017.

WhatsApp users around the world are reporting that the messenger is back online after a major outage on Friday, November 3. There has been no official announcement from the Facebook -owned messenger, which has 1 billion users. Large-scale problems with WhatsApp in the mobile application began around 11:00 Moscow time. Complaints came from all over the world. One of the Vedomosti correspondents said that he received an important message with a 40-minute lag.

Neither DNA, nor language, nor passport serve as reliable markers that allow us to distinguish fellow citizens from Americans, Ukrainians or any other people. The genetic paranoia of the Russian leadership is a bit of news. Several years ago, the issue of using completely harmless GMOs was discussed at a meeting of the Security Council, and then the State Duma passed a law restricting their use within the country.

In Spain, National Court Judge Carmen Lamela has issued an arrest warrant for the former head of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont and four former members of the Catalan parliament. The warrant has already been sent to Brussels, El Pais writes. The document states that in their home country, the former leadership of Catalonia is suspected of rebellion, disobedience to authorities and embezzlement of public funds.