Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrei Turchak and his deputy Evgeniy Revenko left for a week to pray on Mount Athos before the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) broke off relations with Constantinople. this with reference to sources. reports Dozhd On Sunday, Turchak posted a photo from Mount Athos on Instagram. Earlier, Dozhd's sources said that he would be gone for a week.

Believers of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), after the cessation of Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, will no longer be able to receive communion and participate in divine services in the churches of this patriarchate, including on Mount Athos in Greece. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Deputy Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov.

October 16, 2018, 17:05 / Business The Supreme Court rejected Siemens' appeal against court decisions on Crimean turbines undefined Vedomosti The Supreme Court of Russia refused to allow Siemens and its joint venture with Power Machines, Siemens Gas Turbine Technology, to submit a cassation appeal against the court decisions in the lawsuit against Technopromexport to the judicial panel of the Supreme Court.

October 16, 2018, 17:18 / Economics Exclusively by subscription Business proposes to mitigate criminal liability for dismissing people before retirement And reduce the rates of insurance premiums for such workers from 30% to 10–12% Tatyana Lomskaya Anna Kholyavko It is necessary to initiate a criminal case only if a person has filed an application for an unreasonable refusal to hire or unjustified dismissal and there is a court decision on this labor dispute, suggest the authors of the letter /

US authorities have imposed sanctions against 20 companies and banks from Iran. Information about this is contained on the website of the US Treasury. Restrictive measures were introduced due to financial assistance to the militants of the Bonyad Taavon Basij gang, subordinate to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, an elite Iranian military-political formation).

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is repeating the Kremlin’s policies, which is why it risks finding itself in self-isolation. about this on his Facebook page. wrote The press secretary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP) Evstratiy (Zorya) “Minsk schism [schism],” he wrote.

Audi has been fined 800 million euros ($927.1 million) for manipulating the emissions of its V6 and V8 diesel engines. The fine was imposed by the Munich prosecutor's office. Audi accepted the punishment and will not appeal, the company said in a statement . Thus, the automaker admits responsibility for violations, notes Reuters . Audi developed and sold diesel cars equipped with a program that underestimated emissions during testing.

In Moscow, housing commissioning has increased, in the first nine months of 2018 – 1.8 million sq. m, 28% more than in the same period of 2017 / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti In the first nine months of 2018, 39.2 million square meters of housing were commissioned in Russia, Deputy Minister of Construction Nikita Stasishin told Vedomosti. Overall, this is almost the same as in the first nine months of 2017, a decrease of only 1.1%.

From October 17, for the first time, Sberbank clients will have the opportunity to exchange “Spasibo” bonuses accumulated on bank cards for rubles, reported the press service of the Loyalty Program Center, operator of the “Spasibo from Sberbank” program. to offer Sberbank clients such an opportunity Bank President German Gref promised in early June. Previously, bonuses could only be spent with Sberbank partners and used to pay for certain bank services.

The investigation asked the court to arrest the former arbitration manager of Transaero , Mikhail Kotov, accused of embezzlement on an especially large scale, as well as abuse of power. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR). According to investigators, as a result of Kotov’s actions, the airline’s property was wasted in the amount of over 1 billion rubles.

China could face a “debt iceberg” and “titanic” credit risks, ratings agency S&P Global has warned. He estimates that off-balance sheet debts of Chinese municipalities could reach 30–40 trillion yuan ($4.5–6 trillion) due to their investments in infrastructure projects. For many years, Chinese municipalities were not allowed to independently enter the debt markets; for this they created special financial organizations.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service has received a request from the Broiler Invest company to purchase the main production assets of Krasnoyaruzhsky Broiler CJSC, the agency reported. The first belongs to the largest chicken meat producer in Russia with a share of 10.7% - the Cherkizovo group, the second is part of Prioskolye - this is the third largest player in the market. Cherkizovo's revenue in 2017 amounted to 90.5 billion rubles, the company is controlled by the family of Igor Babaev.

October 16, 2018, 11:04 pm / Business Polish PGNiG accused Gazprom of new abuses in the European market She appealed the closure of the antimonopoly case against the Russian state-owned company Artur Toporkov If Gazprom is not deprived of control over gas export pipelines, it will continue to abuse its position in the European market, Poland / STEFAN SAUER / EPA believes Gazprom has not suffered the deserved punishment for abusing its dominant position and continues to artificially inflate gas

Alleged killing of Saudi dissident sparks international row / AP Saudi Arabia is considering admitting that its agents accidentally killed dissident Jamal Khashoggi during interrogation, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the Financial Times (FT) report. Khashoggi is a prominent journalist who moved to the United States in 2017 and wrote columns for The Washington Post that criticized the policies of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Primorye have chosen the date for the re-election of the head of the region. this reports RIA Novosti . According to their decision, a new vote will take place on December 16. 35 out of 40 deputies took part in the meeting. 30 parliamentarians supported the holding of elections on this day. Previously, the holding of elections on December 16 was approved by the Committee on Regional Policy and Legality of the Primorsky Parliament.