French Airbus will stop producing A380 aircraft, with the last delivery scheduled for 2021, the company said in a statement. Emirates announced a reduction in orders for these aircraft; other companies do not plan to buy them, Airbus notes. “As a result of this decision, we have no significant orders for the A380 and therefore no basis to maintain production, despite our best efforts,” CEO Tom Enders said in a statement.

The Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) will inform Russians who have not yet retired in advance the expected size of future pension payments, said Anton Drozdov, Chairman of the Board of the Pension Fund of Russia. His words are quoted by the TASS agency. He added that for this purpose the fund will launch a special project “My Pension”. It will be intended for Russians who are already working, but are still 15–20 years away from retirement.

The Ministries of Culture and Education want to introduce a "cultural standard" for schoolchildren, the passing of which will be mandatory. The program, bureaucratic in concept, will probably be ideological in content, but meaningless in results, serving only as an imitation of cultural development. The proposal came from the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, the Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva said at the investment forum in Sochi.

Scenes in a hospital in the Syrian city of Douma after a suspected chemical attack were staged for "maximum effect." about this on Twitter wrote BBC Syria producer Riam Dalati . “After almost six months of investigation, I can confirm without a shadow of a doubt that the scenes in the Duma hospital were staged. There were no deaths in the hospital,” he admitted.

The real growth of the Russian economy in 2018 could be lower than the 2.3% declared by Rosstat, according to the bulletin of the research and forecasting department of the Central Bank “What are trends saying” (the conclusions contained therein may not coincide with the official position of the regulator). Earlier, the Ministry of Economic Development warned against global positive conclusions from Rosstat data.

February 14, 2019, 20:01 / Economics Novatek may receive government support in case of new US sanctions First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov promised money from state reserves for the Arctic LNG 2 project Georgy Yashunsky Anna Chervonnaya Anton Siluanov, usually careful in his statements, promised support to Novatek / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Novatek FM may receive financial assistance from the state to implement the Arctic LNG 2 project if the company suffers from US sanctions, .

Total investments in the Russian fuel and energy complex by 2024 may increase by 50% to 7.5 trillion rubles. per year, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said at the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi. Now annual investments in the fuel and energy complex amount to 5 trillion rubles, he noted. “We have proposals for every industry.

The Ministry of Economic Development will increase the inflation forecast in Russia for 2019. This was stated by the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin, reports . Interfax Oreshkin promised that the increase will be insignificant and will remain within 5%. The current inflation forecast for this year is 4.3%. “We will now clarify all the indicators. Of course, something can change,” the minister added.

The Russian Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights Boris Titov asked Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to consider the possibility of creating a network of private minibuses in the capital on some routes. He announced this at the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi. According to the business ombudsman, state carriers are now unable to cope on some routes. “It would be possible to allow private yellow minibuses from small businesses and the self-employed.

The Dozhd TV channel is changing its organizational structure, General Director Natalya Sindeeva told Vedomosti. The programs will be produced by production centers, they will also produce other content, and each center will have its own director, she says. “The general editorial policy of the TV channel will be determined by a new collegial body - the production committee, this committee will include the heads of production centers,” notes Sindeeva.

International trader Litasco, owned by Lukoil, has stopped supplying petroleum products to Venezuela. Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov spoke about this at the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi. Litasco stopped all operations with Venezuela immediately after the relevant restrictions came into force, Alekperov explained. “There were both direct sales and swaps,” he added.

Center-Invest Bank (57th in terms of assets in the Interfax-CEA ranking for 2018) stated that it was subject to an information attack that followed searches at the credit institution.

Bank VTB will buy a controlling stake in the Moscow football club Dynamo for one ruble. This was stated by President Andrei Kostin, TASS reports . “We still fully finance Dynamo. We sold them for a ruble, and now we will buy them back for a ruble,” Kostin noted. The deal is expected in the near future.

February 14, 2019, 21:30 / Business / News Siluanov: to lift sanctions from GAZ, it is necessary to complete corporate procedures undefined Vedomosti The government is working to lift US sanctions against Oleg Deripaska's GAZ group. First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov told reporters about this.

Former mayor of New York, billionaire Michael Bloomberg (Forbes estimates his fortune at $46.2 billion) is ready to spend at least $500 million of his own money on the election campaign, the Politico newspaper writes , citing representatives of the Democratic Party familiar with the businessman’s plans.