The inclusion of Norilsk Nickel's main owner Vladimir Potanin in the "Kremlin list" has not affected the company's ability to attract financing from banks, including foreign ones - European and American. Potanin himself stated this in Krasnoyarsk on Wednesday. "Someone is in the Kremlin pool, someone is on the Kremlin list. It sounds prestigious. Once you're in, you have to stay," Potanin said.

Former Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) Alexei Kudrin believes that it is inevitable to raise the retirement age in Russia, Interfax reports . As Kudrin explained, the International Labor Organization is of the opinion that the state needs to provide at least 40% of the pension compared to the pensioner’s previous income, and taking into account voluntary and funded programs - up to 70%.

American businessman Patrick Huang Xinxiang will buy The Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune newspapers from Tronc Inc. This is stated in an article on the LAT website. According to the publication's sources, the negotiations are close to completion, the deal could amount to $500 million. The Washington Post was the first to report on the negotiations. The Los Angeles Times was founded in 1881 and has a circulation of between 450,000 and 650,000.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets considers poverty to be the main obstacle to Russia's economic growth. “ Today, it is the income of the population that is the most basic limitation on the development of demand and, accordingly, progressive economic growth,” Interfax Golodets quotes . According to Rosstat, real incomes of Russians in 2017 decreased by 1.7% compared to the previous year. This was the fourth year of decline: in 2014-2016.

February 07, 2018, 05:49 / Business / News Bloomberg reported the negative impact of the “Kremlin report” on the business of its defendants undefined Vedomosti The inclusion of Russian billionaires in the “Kremlin report” of the US Treasury Department had a negative impact on the business of some of them , Bloomberg found out .

Millhouse has found tenants for apartments in the premium-class apartment building " Skolkovo Park". "The building is fully leased," says a statement from Millhouse. The company opened an elite apartment building on the territory of the Skolkovo Park residential complex in July 2017. The building has 34 apartments — 18 two-room apartments (from 80 sq. m) and 16 three-room apartments (from 130 sq. m).

The FSB has completed its investigation of the criminal case against the deputy head of the Moscow headquarters of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Denis Nikandrov, Interfax and TASS report, citing sources. Lawyer Alexei Mezentsev confirmed this information to the Moscow city news agency. Nikandrov is asking for his case to be considered in court in a special order within the framework of a pre-trial agreement, an Interfax source said.

Half of the $15 million fine imposed on Russia by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on December 5 will be paid by February 24, Deputy Prime Minister and former Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said today. “I think 50% of the fine will be paid in the near future, the second half will be paid after February 24,” Mutko said, answering a question about the deadline for paying the fine to the IOC.

February 07, 2018, 00:02 / Opinions Perversions of the return of the oligarchs Political scientist Andrei Kolesnikov about the bad historical experience of repatriation Andrey Kolesnikov , program director of the Carnegie Moscow Center It is impossible to persuade a pragmatic business: everyone knows that the Russian government is not really a vertical, but a distributed blockchain “Dear Joseph Vissarionovich, I received a postcard from the writer Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, from unoccupied France.

07 February 2018, 20:05 / Business Yandex.Taxi and Uber closed the merger deal undefined Vedomosti Yandex As reported that Yandex.Taxi a result, the joint business is and Uber closed a deal to combine services, investing $100 million and $225 million in the new company, respectively. valued at more than $3.8 billion. Under the terms of the deal, about 59.3% of the joint venture belongs to Yandex, 36.9% to Uber, and another 3.8% to employees.

06 February 2018, 23:41 / Politics Lawyers don't want to report their clients The Chamber of Lawyers does not agree with the proposals of Rosfinmonitoring Anastasia Kornya By law, a lawyer is an independent professional legal adviser / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti The draft Regulations on client identification requirements, prepared by Rosfinmonitoring, are in conflict with the Law “On the Bar,” which obliges lawyers to maintain attorney-client privilege in relation to their clients, the Federal

The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko, confirmed that during heavy snowfall at Russian airports, the engines of several aircraft were damaged. “This happens when snow, even dry light snow, gets into the gas-air path of the engines, and leads to damage to the engine blades,” explained Neradko (quoted by Interfax). According to the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, there is nothing wrong with this, but the damaged elements need to be replaced.

The topic of healthcare financing is one of the most important on the current agenda: officials and experts are discussing the outlines of the reform of compulsory medical insurance, at the Gaidar Forum there was much talk about a budget maneuver, which includes the redistribution of budget funds in favor of healthcare. Of course, the growth of spending on areas related to human capital should be welcomed.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Forbes has compiled a list of people who got rich thanks to cryptocurrency for the first time. It is published on the website of the publication. The magazine, assessing the fortunes of the rating participants, does not name exact amounts, but only indicates an approximate range. This is due to the fact that the cryptocurrency market is opaque and highly volatile, the publication notes .

07 February 2018, 23:27 / Auto Car exports from Russia grew by a quarter in 2017 undefined Vedomosti Imports of passenger cars to Russia in 2017 amounted to 267,700 units for a total amount of $6.7 billion versus 267,000 units. by $6.03 billion a year earlier, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) reported. Thus, the figure in physical terms increased by only 0.3%. Imports of passenger cars from non-CIS countries decreased by 1.1% to 250,200 units. for a total of $6.58 billion.