October 17, 2018, 19:04 / Technologies / News Investment funds have proposed removing Zuckerberg from his post as head of the board of directors of Facebook. undefined Vedomosti Several public investment funds in the United States have supported the proposal to remove Mark Zuckerberg from his position as chairman of the board of directors of Facebook .

Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed about an explosion at a college in Kerch. The head of state instructed the FSB and investigative authorities to establish the causes of the incident. The possibility of a terrorist attack cannot be ruled out. This was stated by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov, RIA Novosti reports. “The President was reported through various services. Data on casualties and the number of victims is constantly being updated,” Peskov noted.

The Central Election Commission on Wednesday stopped the procedures for implementing the initiative to hold a referendum on raising the retirement age on all five formulations of the question previously approved by the CEC. This decision was made due to the expiration of the deadline for submitting petitions from at least 43 regional subgroups to the CEC, CEC Secretary Maya Grishina said at the meeting.

The church schism, which arose after the Patriarchate of Constantinople canceled the 1686 document on the subordination of the Ukrainian Church to the Moscow Patriarchate, and in response, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) decided to end Eucharistic communion with Constantinople, reflects not only the intra-church, but also the interstate conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

As a result of the terrorist attack at the Kerch Polytechnic College, 13 people were killed and about 50 were injured, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) reported. Most of the victims are teenagers. Previously, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) reported ten deaths. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of terrorism in connection with the explosion (Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism “Avanti” proposed making entry into Moscow and its center chargeable. The association sent a letter with its proposals to the capital’s mayor’s office, reports (the agency has the document at its disposal). RIA Novosti Entrepreneurs suggested that the mayor's office establish flexible tariffs.

Enlarged negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, which were scheduled to take place on Wednesday in Sochi, have been cancelled. Vedomosti was informed about this by a source close to the organizers of the negotiations, one member of the Russian delegation and two other interlocutors close to it.

The Georgian prosecutor's office announced the involvement of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili in the murder of businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili. In 2007, the former head of state authorized the murder of a Georgian businessman, the country's prosecutor's office said in a statement . According to the department, the plan to assassinate the businessman was developed in the Georgian Department of Constitutional Security.

Revenues from increasing VAT from 18 to 20% are overly optimistically estimated in the draft budget for the next three years, according to the conclusion of RANEPA and the Gaidar Institute. In 2019, VAT revenues will amount to 6.5% of GDP, in 2020 and 2021. – 6.7%, follows from the draft budget. But they may turn out to be 0.5–0.7 percentage points lower, as indicated in the conclusion.

Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The Ministry of Justice has registered the Association of Big Data Market Participants, a MegaFon representative told Vedomosti and a representative of the ministry confirmed.

The Zelenograd microelectronic plant Angstrem-T does not pay its debts and may come under the control of the creditor, Vnesheconombank ( VEB ), writes Reuters with reference to the chairman of the board of directors of Angstrem-T Leonid Reiman. The plant cannot pay the state bank for a loan of 815 million euros, the agency explains. According to SPARK-Interfax, the shareholder of JSC Angstrem-T in 2016 was the Cypriot Runica Investments. More recent data could not be obtained.

The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, was the first official to provide details about the identity of the person who carried out the terrorist attack at a Kerch college. On the air of Rossiya 24, he said that this is a resident of Kerch, a 22-year-old student who was in his 4th year. The attacker committed suicide, Aksenov noted.

The word “cybercrime” brings to mind images from Hollywood movies: interception of control of satellites, theft of huge sums from bank accounts, or even theft of access codes for nuclear weapons. This summer, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Zubov said that in six months about 40,000 cybercrimes were registered in Russia, the majority occurred in the banking sector.

October 17, 2018, 22:33 / Economics Numbers. Trends. Events Vedomosti There are fewer poor people Despite declining poverty rates, the world's 3.4 billion people struggle to meet basic needs, the World Bank said in its Poverty and Shared Prosperity report. The poverty line in lower-middle-income countries is $3.2 a day, and in upper-middle-income countries it is $5.5, which, according to CBS, is equivalent to the cost of a large latte at Starbucks in New York.

In 2018, [the top three public opinion leaders] took on a somewhat frightening character: army-president-special services with the army taking a very noticeable lead Recently, the latest “institutional trust rating” of the Levada Center was published: the results of an annual public opinion poll on the degree of trust of citizens in individual government bodies and public institutions.