January 23, 2019, 15:37 / Finance The Central Bank explained the weakening of the ruble at the end of the year undefined Vedomosti The weakening of the ruble in December 2018 was largely due to the fall in world oil prices, as well as foreign currency purchases by foreign investors, the Central Bank said in its commentary on liquidity.

The five countries that created the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) signed a memorandum of financial support for the criminal prosecution of those responsible for the crash of the Malaysian Boeing MH17 over the Donbass in 2014. The document was published on Tuesday on the Dutch government website. It follows from the document that the costs of public prosecution, the activities of the judiciary and the protection of witnesses will be borne by the Netherlands.

January 23, 2019, 10:58 pm / Finance Exclusively by subscription The Central Bank will help pay in stores without cards and cash This is how the regulator fights Sberbank’s monopoly on servicing retail outlets Anna Eremina Typically, payment using QR codes takes root in underdeveloped markets / Maxim Shemetov / Reuter The Faster Payments System (FPS) being created by the Central Bank will add other options to the current methods of paying for products and services at retail outlets - cash or

The Syrian government army on the evening of Tuesday, January 22, was able to repel a double attack by militants of the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra (banned in Russia) in the province of Idlib in northern Syria. The Turkish side has been informed of the situation, said the head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, Lieutenant General Sergei Solomatin. “By the evening, the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone sharply worsened.

The construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome cannot be completed by 2021. The delivery date for the cosmodrome facilities has been pushed back by two years, Interfax reports , citing a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov. According to Borisov, the reason for the postponement was “leapfrog with the choice of the main contractor”, “slipping at the start”. “The deadline is for 2021, but no later than 2023.

January 23, 2019, 19:50 / Economics Merkel called for strengthening the role of the euro in the global economy undefined Vedomosti The eurozone (which includes 19 EU countries whose official currency is the euro) must strengthen its global presence to balance the role of the dollar in global trade, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the World Economic Forum in Davos (her words were reported by Bloomberg ) .

January 23, 2019, 10:47 am / Finance VTB announced the purchase price of shares of Zapsibkombank and Sarovbusinessbank undefined Vedomosti VTB spent 10-12 billion rubles each on the purchase of Zapsibkombank and Sarovbusinessbank in 2018. President and Chairman of the Board of the Bank Andrei Kostin spoke about this in an interview with Interfax. “They [the deals] are small, the maximum size of each investment, in my opinion, was about 10-12 billion rubles,” he said.

Read on vedomosti.ru The Russian Ministry of Defense showed the 9M729 cruise missile for the first time. Its presence in the Russian Armed Forces became the reason for the United States to announce its intention to suspend the implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) from February 2. The presentation of the rocket took place on Wednesday in the Patriot Park near Moscow.

January 23, 2019, 13:42 / Finance VTB increases short-term deposit rates undefined Vedomosti From January 23, VTB increased by 0.4 percentage points (pp) the rates on basic deposits in rubles “Vygodny” and “Benefit-Privilege” when placed for a period of 91 to 180 days. The bank's press service reported this. When investing for a longer period, the rates will remain the same, as follows from the information on the bank’s website.

January 23, 2019, 16:14 / Business IKEA will open the first full-fledged store within Moscow undefined Vedomosti Swedish retailer IKEA announced that it will open the first Russian store of a new urban format in the summer of 2019. It will be located in the Moscow Aviapark shopping center, the company said in a statement. Moscow will become one of the first world capitals to open an IKEA store within the city, the company notes. In a two-story store with an area of ​​7,700 sq.

January 23, 2019, 09:50 / Finance Sberbank will gradually abolish commissions for transfers within the bank Vedomosti Sberbank plans to gradually reduce fees for money transfers from citizens within its territorial banks; in the future, the fee may be abolished. Sberbank President German Gref spoke about this on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Interfax reports .

January 23, 2019, 19:04 / Economics The US and China are still far from a trade agreement There is less and less time for negotiations, but key differences remain Alexey Nevelsky The White House rejected China's offer to send a delegation to the United States for preliminary trade talks this week / Andy Wong / AP The White House rejected China's offer to send a delegation to the United States for preliminary trade talks this week, reports the Financial Times .

January 23, 2019, 1:31 pm / Finance Citibank will close about a third of its branches in Russia undefined Vedomosti Within a year, Citibank, owned by the American Citigroup, plans to close eight Russian branches. This was announced by Mikhail Berner, member of the board, head of the directorate for working with private clients of Citibank, TASS reports.

WTC on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment / Andrey Makhonin/TASS The International Trade Center (ITC) company may carry out the reconstruction of the eponymous building complex on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment: after this, the area of ​​the facilities on the same territory will increase by 75,550 sq. m to 344,950 sq. m, according to the explanatory note to the project, presented for the public hearings. The hearings took place at the very end of last year.

January 23, 2019, 20:00 / Business Johnson & Johnson may buy surgical robot maker undefined Vedomosti American Johnson & Johnson plans to acquire surgical robot manufacturer Auris Health Inc. this Bloomberg reports , citing sources. Johnson & Johnson could acquire Auris at a premium, according to the company's latest funding round, sources told Bloomberg. According to one of them, Auris was then valued at $2 billion.