The leaders of the European Union countries, during a summit in Brussels on the night of June 29, agreed on an agreement to overcome the migration crisis. about this on Twitter wrote President of the European Council Donald Tusk . The text of the decision is provided by the press service of the European Council. Its debate lasted more than 14 hours and was briefly blocked by Italy, which is hosting the bulk of the refugees.

The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi conducted an initial public offering of its shares (IPO), managing to raise only $4.7 billion instead of the planned $6.1 billion, reports , citing sources. Bloomberg In total, the Chinese company issued 2.18 billion shares. Each is priced at HK$17, which is the lower end of a range that went as high as HK$22. Based on this price, investors valued the company as a whole at $54 billion, which is half of Xiaomi's original target of $100 billion.

A French court has opened an official investigation against the cement manufacturer Lafarge related to the operation of its plant at Lafarge Cement Syria in the Syrian Al-Jalabiya from 2011 to 2014. This is stated in a statement by the LafargeHolcim group, which was created later, in 2015, as a result of the merger of the French Lafarge and Swiss Holcim. Lafarge is accused of complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorism, France24 reports .

Former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, convicted of bribery, was unable to pay 130.4 million rubles. fine due to the seizure of his money and property, the lawyer of the former official, Larisa Kashtanova, said at a meeting of the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow.

The United States assured Germany that any sanctions imposed against Russia will not affect the construction of gas pipelines through which Russian gas will be supplied to Europe. This was announced by a representative of the German Ministry of Economics, reports . Reuters According to her, the US authorities, in particular, promised that the sanctions would not affect the contractors of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the claim of Promsvyazbank, represented by former chairman of the board Dmitry Ananyev, against the Central Bank, Interfax reports. Prior to this, the arbitration court did not satisfy the claim against the regulator of the company controlled by the banker, Promsvyaz Capital B.V. Promsvyazbank demanded that the Central Bank's order to create additional reserves of 104 billion rubles be invalidated.

For the first time in history, the German national football team failed to advance from the group stage of the World Cup. They had to beat the Koreans in the last match – they lost the first one, to Mexico, and in the second, a miracle named Toni Kroos saved them from a draw (and elimination), scoring against the Swedes in the last seconds.

One of the largest heat and power companies in the Center and North-West of Russia, TGK-2, is thinking about purchasing the generating company “ Quadra - Power Generation ” from the Onexim group of Mikhail Prokhorov. this with reference to sources. reports The Kommersant newspaper The deal, according to the publication, could take place in the coming months. One of the sources clarified that it could take place in September-October.

June 29, 2018, 21:00 / Business Petropavlovsk co-founder returned to the company's board of directors undefined Vedomosti Pavel Maslovsky, who co-founded gold mining company Petropavlovsk with Peter Hambro, was elected to the board of directors at a shareholders meeting on Friday. This was said in a statement . Independent directors Roderick Lane and Robert Jenkins are also returning to the board of directors of Petropavlovsk.

Several hours ago, Rostelecom stopped the work of some of the e-government servers located in the operator's data centers, its representative Andrei Polyakov told Vedomosti. The reason was an emergency power outage that occurred "due to the fault of a third-party organization." The equipment was turned off to avoid overheating, he explained. At the time of publication of the note, Rostelecom had restored the work of the data center, Polyakov said.

The Central Bank accused the owners of the United Technosystems (ETS) group, a major player in the Russian market of spare parts and consumables for construction equipment, of manipulating the company’s stock market at trading on the Moscow Exchange. This is stated in the regulator's message. The message clarifies that we are talking about manipulation of shares in the period from 2015 to 2017.

Programmers Andrey Kalashnikov and Anton Nazmiev had to learn to work with small bus depots to create a successful bus transportation service / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The idea for the service was born in 2008 by Ural Federal University graduate Andrey Kalashnikov and student of the same university Anton Nazmiev. Nazmiev worked part-time in the university trade union organization and ordered buses for student events.

The Rospatent Board in its conclusion recommended allowing Telegram Messenger LLP to register the Telegram trademark in Russia. To do this, the company that owns the messenger had to file an objection with Rospatent - during the first consideration of the application from Telegram Messenger in August 2017, the service refused to register the trademark. Telegram Messenger LLP, according to data from the British registry, belongs to Telegram Messenger Inc.

O1 Group of Boris Mints will become the sole owner of O1 Properties. It is buying out the shares of the latter’s minority shareholders – the East group Alexander Nesis and the owners of the development company Forum Properties Andrei Barinsky and Vladimir Zubrilin, said an acquaintance of Mints, a partner at O1 Properties and two people close to its shareholders. O1 Properties is one of the largest owners of Moscow class A offices: 15 business centers with a total area of ​​743,000 sq. m.

Retailer Lamada may open its first traditional store by the end of 2018. writes Kommersant about this, citing sources in the commercial real estate market. The company is currently looking for premises in Moscow; the lease agreement has not yet been signed. In the future, Lamoda does not rule out creating multi-brand stores in major Russian cities. On the website of the recruiting company HeadHunter, the publication found a Lamoda vacancy for the position of head of retail sales.