The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) on Friday sent a statement to the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office through their online reception with a request to verify the information contained in the investigation of Alexei Navalny and relating to Deputy Prime Minister - Chief of Staff of the Government Sergei Prikhodko. On Monday, a similar written statement will be sent to the head of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Directorate, Andrei Chobotov, FBK told Vedomosti.

February 09, 2018, 13:09 / Economy / News Oreshkin called for stopping the growth of non-tax burden on business undefined Vedomosti The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development are counting on the State Duma to adopt a bill on the regulation of mandatory non-tax payments in the spring session. This was announced by Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Sberbank is testing a service for withdrawing cash at store cash desks, Svetlana Kirsanova, director of the acquiring and debit cards division of Sberbank, told TASS . Earlier, Vedomosti was informed about this by sources familiar with employees of the state bank. Sberbank declined to comment. The technology for withdrawing cash at store cash desks is being tested together with MasterCard, Kirsanova confirmed.

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State Duma deputies adopted in the third and final reading a bill to extend the capital amnesty period, as follows from the materials of the lower house of parliament. The document was submitted to the State Duma on January 30 by a group of deputies. The second stage of the capital amnesty will last from March 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019. After a voluntary declaration, businessmen will be able to repatriate capital to Russia without paying income tax or personal income tax.

February 09, 2018, 22:16 / Business / Photo Emotions of Russian Business Week Businessmen discussed issues of interaction with officials View / 12 photos

A French court has remanded Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky in custody for another four months, RFI reports, citing his lawyer Dominique Beyrether-Minkov. The defense plans to appeal the court's decision. Following the court's decision, Pavlensky went on a dry hunger strike in protest against the closed court hearing. The court explained the closed hearing by the insufficient capacity of the premises.

09 February 2018, 21:27 / Business Hungary will increase gas purchases from Romania to reduce dependence on Russia undefined Vedomosti The Hungarian authorities plan to conclude contracts for gas supplies from Romania in the near future to reduce energy dependence on Russia in the gas market, Reuters reports citing a statement by the country's Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

09 February 2018, 14:47 / Business Yevtushenkov allowed the sale of 25% of Detsky Mir through SPO undefined Vedomosti A secondary placement of shares (SPO) of the largest seller of children's goods, Detsky Mir, could take place as early as March, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, the main shareholder of AFK Sistema , which owns 52.1% of Detsky Mir, said today. According to him, the size of the share may be larger than it was in December.

$3 billion is how much international reserves have decreased from January 26 to February 2 – to $449.8 billion, the Bank of Russia reported. The reserves decreased under the influence of revaluation, the balance on currency swap transactions with resident banks and transactions on resident accounts, the regulator explained. The decrease in funds in residents' foreign currency accounts with the Central Bank could be due to the absence of new US sanctions against Russia.

The Center for Strategic Research (CSR), which developed the country's development program for President Vladimir Putin, will intensify the publication of various parts of the program in the next two to three months - publications will be made almost every week, the head of the CSR, former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, said today.

Unknown hackers have stolen and posted on the GitHub website the source code of the iBoot program, which is one of the key components of the iPhone operating system. This was reported by the specialized online portal Motherboard . Apple called the leak "the largest in the history" of the company. Protecting the iBoot code was one of the most important tasks for Apple. The company even announced a reward of $200,000 for finding a vulnerability in iBoot, the portal writes.

The global stock market has lost about $5.2 trillion since January 26, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices senior index analyst Howard Silverblatt. The expert provides calculations on his Twitter page. Half of the losses occurred in the US stock market. Thus, with a decline in the S&P 500 index (reflecting the value of shares of the 500 largest US companies) by 10.16% from its historical peak on January 26, American companies lost $2.49 trillion in capitalization, Silverblatt points out.

The price of Brent oil fell below $63 per barrel, to its lowest level in eight weeks. This is evidenced by trading data. At 21.54 Moscow time, the price of April futures for Brent oil fell by 2.77% and amounted to $62.45 per barrel. The price of March futures for WTI oil by this time had decreased by 4.76% to $58.24 per barrel.

As of February 9, the Bank of Russia revoked the license of the Moscow bank Financial-Industrial Capital (FPK). This is stated in a message on the regulator’s website. As of January 1, in terms of assets . the bank ranked 297th in the Russian banking system The Central Bank found that FPC repeatedly violated the requirements of legislation in the field of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.