Sberbank increased the salaries of all employees by 6% in 2017, bank president German Gref said at a meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “Last year we indexed our wages by 6% for the entire team,” Gref said (quoted by Interfax). In the structure of Sberbank's expenses, 50% are salaries; as a result, the bank's expenses increased by 2.2% last year, Gref noted.

Russian servicemen have begun to leave the area of ​​the city of Afrin in northern Syria, the Turkish publication Daily Sabah reported, citing Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli. Kirill Romanovsky, a journalist for the Russian Federal News Agency who is in Syria, also reported on social media that Russian servicemen had left Afrin.

January 19, 2018, 00:58 / Business Chinese CEFC may become a shareholder of Rosneft in the coming days For $9.1 billion, it will buy 14.16% of Rosneft from Glencore and the Qatari investment fund QIA Vitaly Petlevoy Chinese CEFC may buy 14.16% of Rosneft from Glencore and the Qatari investment fund for $9.1 billion / Reuters Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin called the sale of 14.16% to China Energy (CEFC) in September 2017 “a serious event that will ultimately shape the shareholder

Law enforcement officers have detained Makhachkala Mayor Musa Musayev. The mayor has been placed in a temporary detention facility, Interfax reports, citing an informed source. "He was detained under Article 91 of the Russian Criminal Code. Presumably, tomorrow he will be charged and arrested," he explained.

January 19, 2018, 09:58 / Business Ex-managers of Bashneft asked Putin to help receive bonuses from Rosneft undefined Vedomosti Former managers of Bashneft sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin asking for help in receiving bonuses worth 2.7 billion rubles from Rosneft. This was reported by RBC with reference to a copy of the appeal; its authenticity was confirmed by one of the authors - the ex-director of the company's remuneration and personnel motivation department, Alexey Penno.

Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated Epiphany by swimming in an ice hole near the walls of the Nilov-Stolobenskaya Pustyn Monastery on Lake Seliger. "On the occasion of the Epiphany of the Lord, Putin attended part of the liturgy and also took part in the Epiphany bathing on Lake Seliger," TASS quotes his press secretary Dmitry Peskov as saying. The temperature in the area did not fall below minus 6-7 degrees, Peskov said.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti The Ministry of Culture will begin issuing distributors (these companies act as intermediaries between film producers and cinemas) special notices about preliminary approval of the premiere date, Minister Vladimir Medinsky reported. Such notices will be issued when film companies submit documents for registration of a distribution certificate, that is, before the certificate itself is issued.

US President Donald Trump is proposing to change the venue for negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at a press conference in New York after a meeting of the UN Security Council. "We talked about the fact that Minsk-1 has stalled, is at a dead end, and we need Minsk-2. He (Donald Trump - Vedomosti) says: "Let's [hold negotiations] in another place." I say: "Let's do it," Interfax reports Nazarbayev as saying.

Anheuser-Busch (AB InBev), the official sponsor of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in the category "beer and beer drinks", does not rule out filing a lawsuit against the leadership of the Rostov Region due to restrictions on the sale of alcohol at the Rostov Arena stadium, where the tournament matches will be held. This is reported by Kommersant, citing a company representative. The 2018 World Cup will be held in 11 Russian cities from June 14 to July 15.

January 19, 2018, 14:33 / Economics Dvorkovic did not rule out the price of oil Vedomosti The trend of rising oil prices is unstable and the market could go down at any moment, says Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. “The oil market has been and remains very volatile, so it is difficult to talk about the sustainability of the trend [increasing oil prices].

The law requires operators and Internet services to store all telephone conversations, text messages, images, sounds, videos and other electronic messages of users / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti The entry into force of Irina Yarovaya's package of anti-terrorist amendments may be postponed, TASS quotes Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. "A short delay is currently being discussed, for several months. The amendments are currently being developed," he said.

January 19, 2018, 10:54 / Business "Yandex.Taxi" will combine food delivery businesses into one service "Yandex.Food" undefined Vedomosti Yandex.Taxi has created a subsidiary company , Yandex.Eda LLC. This follows from SPARK-Interfax data. Interfax was the first to draw attention to this. This company will develop the food delivery business, Yandex.Taxi told Interfax. We are talking about Uber Eats and Foodfox.

Turkish troops continue to arrive at Afrin borders / AP Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces General Hulusi Akar left for Russia on Thursday, the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported. As part of the visit, Akar will meet with his Russian counterpart Valery Gerasimov and discuss the current situation in Syria and the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva and Astana, the agency reported.

Transneft will restore the operation of the damaged oil pipeline in the Saratov region no later than January 21. This was reported by the company's press service. The accident will not affect the shipment schedule. The cause of the accident is being investigated. The consequences are planned to be completely eliminated on February 5, 2018, the report notes.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Russian senator and billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, who is under investigation in France, has been granted permission to travel to Russia for three days, AFP reports, citing a statement from Nice prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre. "Mr. Kerimov received permission from the investigating judge to make a short trip to Russia to visit a seriously ill relative - a brother or half-brother," the prosecutor explained.