Economy / World Economy The article was published in No. 4644 dated 09/03/2018 under the title: The rupee has failed the prime minister The Indian rupee fell to a record low This creates problems for the country's prime minister a year before the elections 02 September 22:47 Now Kazmin / Financial Times Listen to this material Loading. Please wait Pause Continue listening Share this article with your friends! This material is available only to paid subscribers of Vedomosti.

The protesters held red flags and carried posters reading “All power to the workers,” “Down with the capitalist ministers,” and “The revival of socialism is the salvation of Russia” / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti A rally against raising the retirement age was held on Academician Sakharov Avenue in Moscow. According to the White Counter, 8,900 people took part in it. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow counted 6,000 participants.

Economics / Taxes and fees The article was published in No. 4644 of 09/03/2018 under the title: Business must be able to foresee The Ministry of Finance explained how to revise the prices of government contracts due to a VAT increase There are exceptions, but generally the business will pay tax from its profits September 02 22:26 Anna Holyavko / Vedomosti Listen to this material Loading. Please wait Pause Continue listening Share this article with your friends!

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attended the farewell ceremony for Russian singer and State Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon. Kobzon died on Thursday, August 30, at the age of 81 after a long illness. The civil funeral service takes place on Sunday at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Putin honored the memory of Kobzon with a minute of silence. Bowing his head, the president stood at the coffin and laid a bouquet at its foot, reports RIA Novosti .

A rally against raising the retirement age began on Academician Sakharov Avenue in Moscow. The action was coordinated with the authorities, its organizer is the capital branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Organizers announced 15,000 participants. According to the White Counter project, which counts people at rallies, by 12.30 Moscow time 7,400 people had passed through the frames into the rally area.

The long-running debate over granting the Orthodox Church in Ukraine independence from Moscow appears to be nearing a resolution. Over the weekend, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (the largest autocephalous local Orthodox Church), Patriarch Kirill, met in Istanbul with the head of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (first among equals), Patriarch Bartholomew.

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) announced the liquidation of the leader of the Kizilyurt gang, Abas Khubaev, who was involved in numerous attacks and murders of law enforcement officers. Khubaev was on the federal wanted list and was discovered on Saturday evening in a forest in the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, reports Interfax with reference to NAC.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Department of Justice have unsuccessfully tried for two years to make Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska their informant, The New York Times (NYT) writes , citing current and former officials, as well as people from the billionaire’s circle.

02 September 2018, 22:57 / Business Utair received a controlling stake in Surgut airport This asset is also of interest to Renova and Novaport Alexander Vorobyov Surgut is one of the main regional hubs for Utair / Surgut Airport In February, the Utair group acquired a 48% stake in Surgut Airport OJSC for 718.6 million rubles. and taking into account the already existing 8% stake, received control over the airport, reported PJSC UTair (flying under the Utair brand) in its IFRS reporting.

After Zakharchenko's murder in Donetsk on Friday, all attempts to revive the peace process have been suspended / Valentin Sprinchak / TASS Following the murder of the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko in Donetsk on Friday, all attempts to intensify the peace process have been suspended. "In the current situation, of course, it is impossible to talk about the next meetings in the Normandy format, as many European partners wanted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke harshly and clearly to his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko at the Normandy Four negotiations in 2015, but did not use threatening language. This was stated by Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Earlier, excerpts from a book by former French President Francois Hollande appeared in the media, who said that Putin threatened Poroshenko at the Normandy Four negotiations in February 2015.

The Kommersant newspaper published a secret UN directive on work in Syria, which was previously criticized by the Russian authorities. The document states that the UN will be ready to facilitate reconstruction in the country only after a “genuine” and “comprehensive” transition of power has taken place in Syria. The fact that such a document exists became known on August 20. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about it.

Sberbank's venture fund SBT Venture Fund II invested in the Israeli company ThetaRay, specializing in the prevention of financial cybercrimes. This was reported by TASS with reference to the management company Fort Ross Ventures, which manages the fund. ThetaRay is working on solutions that are aimed at preventing various financial crimes, such as money laundering, fraud, as well as protecting companies from cyber attacks, said Victor Orlovsky, partner at Fort Ross Ventures.

67 million Russians used mobile internet by the end of 2017 / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti Yandex is planning to create a multilingual version of Alice, an employee of the search engine's partner company told Vedomosti. It is planned that Alice will speak the languages ​​of the CIS countries, where Yandex has a large audience, he claims. A source of Vedomosti, familiar with Yandex managers, clarifies that so far the discussion is about localizing Alice in Ukrainian, Belarusian and Kazakh.

02 September 2018, 21:58 / Finance Exclusively by subscription Rosselkhozbank needs at least another 40 billion rubles in capital by the end of the year The Central Bank insists on additional capitalization of the bank Anna Eremina Daria Borisyak Alexandra Astapenko Without government support, RSHB will have to restrain the growth of assets / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti ) need The Russian Agricultural Bank's ( RSHB for capital is at least 40 billion rubles, this is the Central Bank's assessment,