Traffic in the area of ​​Irkutskaya Street is very difficult, it is being regulated by traffic police officers / vk.com / 1golyanovo About 900 apartment buildings in the east of Moscow have been switched to a backup heat supply system with reduced heating network parameters due to a utility accident, the Ministry of Energy reported. TASS, citing a source in the city's emergency services, reports that more than 2,000 residential buildings were left without heat and hot water.

The Supreme Court of Russia has allowed people to demand compensation from neighbors who smoke on their balconies, the court’s press service told RIA Novosti . This decision was made in a dispute between two residents of Novosibirsk. One of them complained about tobacco smoke from a neighbor smoking on the balcony. The litigation lasted for two years and eventually reached the Supreme Court.

“Oleg [Deripaska] and I agreed that UC Rusal and Norilsk Nickel are different enterprises and different companies and no synergy is visible between them. Therefore, they will develop independently in the medium term,” Vladimir Potanin, president and main owner of Norilsk Nickel, said in an interview with Vedomosti.

The Russian business community does not recognize itself as a political force, avoids any political activity to the last and is more afraid of being suspected of disloyalty than losing its business The attempt to present business ombudsman Boris Titov (who has declared his desire to participate in the presidential elections) as a "business candidate" says a lot about the current relations between the authorities and business in Russia.

November 29, 2017, 17:59 / Auto Peugeot-Citroen wants to return half of what GM paid for Opel undefined Vedomosti The French automaker PSA Peugeot-Citroen will demand that the American General Motors (GM) return half the amount it paid for Opel. According to Reuters , the French insist on returning 600-800 million euros for a transaction value of 1.3 billion euros and are ready to prove in court that they were misled about Opel’s emissions reduction strategy.

According to Gazprom's investment program, in 2017 the total volume of investment development increased to 1.644 trillion from 1.58 trillion rubles. This is stated in the company’s IFRS reporting for the third quarter of this year. “The total volume of investment development, according to investment programs for 2017 for gas, oil, electricity and heat generating assets, will amount to 1 trillion 644 billion 051 million rubles,” the report says.

November 29, 2017, 16:51 / Economics The Accounts Chamber reported 40% of unfulfilled budgets of regional road funds undefined Vedomosti The regions have not fulfilled almost 40% of the budgets of their road funds, this figure will most likely remain in the future, warned the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber (CA) Tatyana Golikova, speaking in the Federation Council during the discussion of the budget law for 2018-2020.

November 29, 2017, 14:58 / Business / News Russian business jet suffered significant damage at Le Bourget undefined Vedomosti The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) reported an aviation accident involving an Embraer Legacy 500 business jet registered in Russia. The aircraft is currently at Le Bourget Airport in France, and the damage to the aircraft is significant. IAC does not indicate the operator of the aircraft.

Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said he does not have enough time to read the diaries of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov published by The New York Times. He "does not have time to read" the publication's material, he told RBC . Earlier, the NYT published excerpts from Rodchenkov’s diaries for 2014 and 2015, in which he wrote that he discussed swapping doping samples before the 2014 Sochi Olympics with Mutko, who was then the Minister of Sport.

Inflation in Russia is “near the bottom” and its further decline is not expected, said Andrei Lipin, deputy director of the Central Bank’s monetary policy department, at the Financial University forum. He added that the Central Bank will “very, very smoothly” reduce the key rate. It will drop to 6-7% in 2019 if there are no shocks in 2018.

November 29, 2017, 01:03 / Economics Exclusively by subscription State-owned company PDVSA is more reliable than Venezuela Investors consider a default on sovereign bonds more likely than on state-owned securities Jonathan Whitley While investors expect PDVSA to hold out longer, some see default on both types of bonds as inevitable / Marco Bello / REUTERS Venezuela can be compared to Schrödinger's cat - the country is and is not in a state of default at the same time.

Challenges for VEB To reduce risks and develop, VEB will still need budget support, the Central Bank concluded in its review of financial stability. The VEB Group portfolio is concentrated in industries with a high level of risk. The capital growth of 19.5% to 617.5 billion rubles is mainly due to the provision of a subsidy from the budget in the amount of 196.2 billion rubles. In 2018-2020, state support will be reduced to 100 billion from 150 billion rubles.

November 29, 2017, 01:34 / Business Exclusively by subscription RusHydro complained about a coal shortage in the Far East The company's power plants do not have enough coal, since it is more profitable for producers to export it Ivan Peschinsky Vitaly Petlevoy The problem of shortage of gondola cars arises annually in October-November, says ACRA analyst Maxim Khudalov / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti was In the fall , RusHydro faced with the problem of a coal shortage at its thermal power plants in

The Crimean State Council has adopted in the second, final, reading a law on writing off debts of up to 5 million rubles from Crimeans to Ukrainian banks that ceased operations on the peninsula in 2014 after its annexation by Russia, Interfax reports.

The German authorities are ready to begin discussing within the EU the possibility of lifting sanctions against Russia if there is progress in implementing the Minsk agreements. This statement was made by the representative of the country's Foreign Ministry Maria Adebaar at a briefing in Berlin. “If progress is noted, then within the EU we will think about talking step by step about the possible prospect of lifting sanctions,” she explained.