Mail.ru Group's revenue in the third quarter increased by 32% to RUB 17.7 billion. Compared to the same period last year, EBITDA increased by 6% to RUB 4.3 billion, according to the Mail.ru Group report for the first nine months of the year. The company increased its own forecast for annual revenue. Previously, she predicted that revenue growth would be 26-30%, now she expects 28-30%, up to 72.7-73.8 billion rubles.

British department store chain Debenhams will close up to 50 outlets over the next 3-5 years. This was said in a statement. In total, Debenhams now has 166 department stores, according to the BBC. Thus, the network will be reduced by almost a third. The company has decided to take tough decisions on stores where financial performance is likely to deteriorate over time, Debenhams chief executive Sergio Bucher said in a statement.

October 25, 2018, 09:30 / Business Mail.ru Group is looking for partners and money for food delivery services and advertisements The group wants to build a new platform on the basis of these and other assets Natalya Ishchenko Ekaterina Bryzgalova We are talking about food delivery services, advertisements, but are not limited to them, Mail.ru Group said in a statement / Denis Abramov / Vedomosti Mail.ru Group is considering the possibility of creating a new platform that will combine online and

October 25, 2018, 19:28 / Business Exclusively by subscription The FAS has claims against the governor of the Irkutsk region and the Rostec company The service suspects them of violating antimonopoly laws when choosing an investor for the new terminal of the local airport Alexander Vorobyov Levchenko has said several times since 2016 that Novaport will become the investor of the new terminal at the existing airport and the construction of a new airport outside the city / Alexander Kryazhev / RIA

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to take out a loan in the amount of $500 million, Bloomberg writes , citing three sources. Goldman Sachs Group held talks with potential investors this week, the people said. Representatives of SpaceX and Goldman Sachs do not comment on this information. As the agency notes, Musk is the CEO and largest shareholder of SpaceX, founded in 2002. According to Bloomberg, the company's capitalization is now about $28 billion.

A sharp increase in banks' borrowings from the Central Bank - the debt to it on short-term secured loans in September increased from 23 billion to 393 billion rubles. (regulator data) - turned out to be the work of VTB . At the end of the month, he owed the Central Bank 350 billion rubles. for loans up to 30 days, as follows from the state bank’s reporting. Central Bank money is quite expensive.

October 25, 2018, 15:52 / Business The Ministry of Finance named the most effective measure to curb the rise in gasoline prices Vedomosti The Ministry of Finance considers the idea of ​​licensing the export of petroleum products to be one of the most effective measures to stabilize the situation on the fuel market . This was stated by the director of the department of tax and customs policy of the Ministry of Finance, Alexey Sazanov, Interfax reports.

The mayor of Sochi, Anatoly Pakhomov, declared a state of emergency due to flooding and erosion of roads in the city. this TASS reports with reference to the text of the relevant resolution. The document was signed on October 25. Earlier, Sochi and the Tuapse region of the Krasnodar Territory received the monthly norm of precipitation. Heavy rains led to mudflows, bridge collapses, and flooding of roads and populated areas.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called “very alarming” data that the Russian Khmeimim airbase in Syria was attacked by drones controlled from an American reconnaissance aircraft . His words are quoted by TASS. “Of course, no one here should have any doubt that the appropriate conclusions, the appropriate analysis will be carried out by our military,” the Kremlin representative noted.

Gazprom in a statement from turned to international arbitration because of the decision of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to fine it $6 billion. This is stated the Russian company. This fine was imposed on the company for allegedly abusing its monopoly position in the Ukrainian gas transit market, Gazprom said in a statement.

Moscow will submit a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly committee in support of preserving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty). about this on Channel One . spoke Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Ryabkov Earlier, US President Donald Trump said that Washington would withdraw from the treaty because Russia was violating its provisions, and also promised to develop weapons.

October 25, 2018, 11:57 pm / Business Oil countries risk not receiving up to $7 trillion due to low commodity prices They should more actively reduce their dependence on oil and gas revenues, advises the IEA Galina Starinskaya Elizaveta Bazanova IEA experts advise countries to quickly reduce their dependence on oil and gas revenues / SCOTT HEPPELL / AFP The largest oil-producing countries are under severe pressure: the shale revolution in the United States, technological progress, the desire for

October 25, 2018, 17:01 / Business / News VTB does not plan to be a shareholder of the regional airline if it is created undefined Vedomosti VTB is not yet planning to join the capital of a new regional airline, the possibility of creating which it is considering jointly with Sberbank. spoke about this , TASS reports. VTB President Andrey Kostin “For us, the ideal option is that we are, as it were, in leasing - it’s more like financial leasing.

US President Donald Trump called “completely incorrect” the publication of The New York Times about the wiretapping of his private phones by Russian and Chinese “spies.” “The so-called Trump experts at The New York Times wrote a long, boring article about my cell phone use. It's so irreparably flawed that I don't have time to correct it. I only use official phones and I only have one official mobile phone which I rarely use. The article is completely wrong!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

In September, the outflow of funds from individuals’ accounts at VTB amounted to 80 billion rubles, according to the state bank’s reporting. Funds in ruble accounts decreased by 30 billion rubles; the population took about 43 million from foreign currency accounts in terms of the bi-currency basket ($0.55 and 0.45 euros), according to Vedomosti calculations.