In 2016, the ECHR recognized that Russian legislation is unable to protect citizens from unauthorized wiretapping / Andrey Gordeyev / Vedomosti Not only do the Russian authorities fail to implement the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) adopted in the case of Roman Zakharov v.

December 16, 2018, 11:57 pm / Business Exclusively by subscription Metro Cash & Carry has decided to temporarily issue customer cards to everyone Until now, only legal entities could become clients Natalya Ishchenko The German network of small wholesale centers Metro Cash & Carry has decided to temporarily abandon restrictions on issuing customer cards / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti The German network of small wholesale centers Metro Cash & Carry has decided to temporarily abandon restrictions on

December 16, 2018, 23:35 / Media Tavrin sells the STS Media television holding to the National Media Group and VTB After the deal, NMG will become the largest player in the television market with a share of 24% of viewers Ksenia Boletskaya Ivan Tavrin sells the STS Media holding to the National Media Group and VTB / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Ivan Tavrin is selling STS Media, employees of two large media companies told Vedomosti.

Finance / Banking The article was published in No. 4718 dated December 17, 2018 under the title: The Internet is more valuable than money Why German Gref wants to turn Sberbank into an IT company This would triple the bank’s capitalization, and it would be worth “under $200 billion” December 16 23:51 Anna Tretyak, Anna Eremina / Vedomosti Listen to this material Loading. Please wait Pause Continue listening Share this article with your friends!

The turnout in the re-election of the governor of the Primorsky Territory exceeded the figures for the September vote. According to the regional election commission, by 6 pm local time, 39.57% of voters had voted in the repeat elections . In the first round of elections on September 9, by this time had taken part only 26.57% of voters in voting. In the second round on September 16, this figure was slightly higher - 29.15%.

December 16, 2018, 23:23 / Economics The risks of next year forced the Central Bank to raise the key rate Banks are not lagging behind the Central Bank, raising loan rates Tatyana Lomskaya The risks of next year forced the Central Bank to raise the key rate / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti The Central Bank confirmed its status as one of the most difficult to predict regulators in emerging markets, raising the key rate for the second time in six months by 25 percentage points - to 7.75% per annum.

December 16, 2018, 23:51 / Finance Why Gref wants to turn Sberbank into an IT company This would triple the bank’s capitalization, and it would be worth “under $200 billion” Anna Tretyak Anna Eremina Transforming Sberbank into an IT company would triple its capitalization / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Sberbank's capitalization now reaches approximately $60 billion, but it would be worth many times more if it turned into an IT company, says its president German Gref.

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The Mi-8 helicopter of the Yeltsovka airline made a hard landing in the Tomsk region, reports RIA Novosti , citing a representative of the emergency services. “The incident occurred during landing at the helipad in the city of Kedrovy. Three people were injured,” the agency’s source said. According to him, there were three crew members and 22 passengers on board. The information was confirmed by an Interfax source in the emergency services.

December 16, 2018, 23:40 / Business The project of Gutseriev and the Canadian Cirque du Soleil was under threat Edgard Zapashny complained to Putin about him, the president promised to look into it Ksenia Boletskaya Daria Korzhova The project of Mikhail Gutseriev and the Canadian Cirque du Soleil was under threat / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti General Director of the Bolshoi Moscow State Circus Edgard Zapashny at a meeting of the Council for Culture and Art under the President of Russia on

Employees of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg detained the general director of the company Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Makhachkala, Vladimir Anastasov, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz. At the time of his arrest, Anastasov was in one of the St. Petersburg clinics, where he was scheduled to undergo a planned operation, the press service said.

A few days ago, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a closed meeting with the participation of senior officials, at which “pressure from the Russian side” was discussed. This was reported by the Belarusian publication “Nasha Niva” with reference to “two unrelated sources.” “There was a big meeting with the president. [It said that it is necessary] to stand for independence to the end,” said the publication’s first interlocutor.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko did not hold any meeting on the topic of independence of the republic, allegedly under pressure from Russia, told press secretary of the Belarusian president Natalya Eismont RIA Novosti. “The issue of independence in our country was decided a long time ago, and it is not even discussed. There were no meetings on this topic; it was all a figment of someone’s wild imagination,” Eismont said.

In the Primorsky Territory, at 13:00 Moscow time, polling stations for the repeat gubernatorial elections closed, and vote counting began. According to the Central Election Commission, after counting 75.91% of the votes for the acting governor of the region, self-nominated Oleg Kozhemyako gains 59.84%.

December 16, 2018, 23:30 / Business Importers warned of interruptions in the supply of imported alcohol before the New Year Not everyone had enough excise stamps due to changes in the accounting system Ekaterina Burlakova Natalya Ishchenko The problem is related to the introduction of updated samples of federal special stamps and excise stamps for the transition to blotted alcohol accounting from 2019 / Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Alcohol importers lack excise stamps, which means they cannot