August 24, 2018, 14:26 / Business / Economics Belousov and Siluanov will report to Putin about the meeting with big business Vedomosti Presidential aide Andrei Belousov said that, together with First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, he intends to report to Vladimir Putin on the results of the meeting with big business on Friday.

Assistant to the President of Russia Andrei Belousov, the author of the idea of ​​confiscating 500 billion rubles from businesses, said that the authorities do not intend to take their income from companies. He said this after a meeting with representatives of big business, which took place at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). According to Belousov, at the meeting it was agreed that business would increase investments in promising social projects.

The function of sending a “self-destructing” email has become available to all Google Mail users. The update is reported by Cnet with reference to the company's press service. Gmail users, including those who use email on mobile devices, can now specify a date when sending an email when it will be deleted from Google's servers and from the recipient's inbox. The date can be set from one day to five years.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group and Mail.ru Group are discussing the creation of a joint venture in Russia in the field of e-commerce, Interfax reported, citing a source familiar with the situation. A Vedomosti source close to one of the parties to the negotiations confirmed this: RDIF, Alibaba Group and Mail.ru Group are thinking about a joint project in online commerce.

August 24, 2018, 06:04 / Business / News Morgan Stanley may advise Musk on buying back Tesla shares undefined Vedomosti Tesla founder Elon Musk hired analysts from Morgan Stanley to advise on the repurchase of the company's publicly traded shares. Bloomberg reports this, citing informed sources. We are talking about private consulting for Musk - not for Tesla, its board of directors or its individual committees, the agency emphasizes.

PIK Group is a leader in attracting public funds for shared construction in Moscow - in total, the company raised 47.5 billion rubles, said the head of Moskomstroyinvest, Konstantin Timofeev, RIA Novosti reports. In second place, according to Timofeev, is the company "Garden Quarters" - 32 billion rubles, in third - "Donstroy" (30 billion rubles). Next comes the LSR group of companies (28 billion rubles), the A101 Group of Companies - 25 billion rubles.

Lavrentiy Beria, who replaced Nikolay Yezhov as People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, reduced the scale of the Great Terror, and the repressions under him became more targeted and sophisticated. He became one of the symbols of Stalin's tyranny, so it is no coincidence that some publicists are trying to rehabilitate the "effective manager" of the repressions.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the activities of the Pacific Center for the Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources (Pacific Environment; USA) as undesirable on Russian territory. This is stated on the department's website. The work of the organization poses a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order of Russia and the security of the state, the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.

The Center for Infrastructure Economics (engaged in methodological support for large infrastructure projects) estimated the agglomeration effect of the Yekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk high-speed railway at 2.2 trillion rubles. (“Vedomosti” reviewed the calculations; the authenticity of the document was confirmed by a representative of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Chelyabinsk Region).

In Vilnius, a square named after Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was opened in front of the Russian embassy, ​​Delfi reports . The ceremony was attended by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, Chairman of the Board of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom Vladimir Kara-Murza, member of the St.

August 23, 2018, 11:50 pm / Politics India stopped payments to Rosoboronexport due to US sanctions The problem can be solved by switching to national currencies Alexey Nikolsky Indian payments for most arms contracts with Russia have been stopped due to US sanctions, but may soon resume / AP Photo Payments from India for most arms contracts with Russia have not been received since April 2018, a manager at a defense industry enterprise and a person close to Rosoboronexport told Vedomosti.

The government declared war on illegal turnover of goods a couple of years ago. This is a serious and large-scale problem. In 2015 alone, the share of illegal goods reached 9%, or 2.5 trillion rubles, according to experts from the Higher School of Economics. The largest number of “illegals” is in the alcohol, clothing and footwear markets. In 2016, the Russian authorities decided to conduct an experiment – ​​to mark fur coats with tags to track their path to sale to the client.

Some legislative backlogs are not as easy to clear as they seem / Andrey Gordeyev / Vedomosti / Vedomosti Only 2.7% of the bills inherited by the Seventh State Duma from previous convocations remain to be considered by deputies, said the Chairman of the Chamber Vyacheslav Volodin at the end of the spring session.

The fire in the Kemerovo shopping and entertainment center "Winter Cherry", which killed 60 people in March, began with a short circuit in an LED lamp that was flooded with melt water from the roof of the building. about this with reference to an examination of electrical equipment carried out by specialists from Bureau of Independent Expertise LLC, appointed by the senior investigator under the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Rustam Gabdullin.

British spirits maker Diageo is in talks with at least three cannabis producers. This was reported by the BNN Bloomberg television channel (a partnership project of the Canadian Bell Media and Bloomberg) with reference to people “close to the situation.” Diageo held meetings with company representatives last month, BNN Bloomberg notes. According to the TV channel, the British company is considering possible investments or the creation of a partnership to prepare drinks with marijuana.