The Council of the European Union has officially extended economic sanctions against Russia until January 31, 2020, according to a message on the organization’s website. Read on vedomosti.ru The decision is based on information received from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on the status of implementation of the Minsk agreements. Until the parties return to the dialogue necessary to implement the agreements, sanctions cannot be lifted.

Russian software developers complained about the Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT) purchasing Microsoft office software for 99.3 million rubles, reports .

June 27, 2019, 14:30 / Business Ford will lay off 20% of employees in Europe due to production restructuring undefined Vedomosti The American concern Ford will lay off 12,000 employees in Europe due to production restructuring, the company said . This represents about 20% of the total workforce, writes Bloomberg. The bulk of the cuts will occur in Germany, Russia and the UK.

Already in 1969, one of the legendary IBM CEOs, Thomas Watson, who, by the way, later became the US Ambassador to the USSR, said: we do well for ourselves when we do well for society. This win-win idea – gain from investments in society, gain from social activity, from what the company does – is the seed embedded in the company’s genotype, which we now proudly raise on the flag. IBM is an internationally active supporter of sustainable development goals.

Commenting on the case of Ivan Golunov, Vladimir Putin on a direct line reported the impossibility of liberalizing drug policy, but noted that “it is necessary to establish control over the activities of law enforcement agencies,” and even made a specific proposal: “Perhaps the Ministry of Internal Affairs should create a special separate direction in the internal security system, which would control this area of ​​activity." Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, according to an

In developed countries, 46% of the population believes that in the future our children will live worse than we do. And although there are still slightly more of those who think that, on the contrary, it will be better, the number of pessimists has been steadily growing since 2011.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that at the Army-2019 forum in Kubinka it signed 46 contracts with 27 enterprises worth more than 1 trillion rubles. Read on vedomosti.ru First of all, attention is paid to the purchase of the fifth-generation multifunctional aviation complex Su-57, including promising aviation weapons, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement; in the interests of the Aerospace Forces, the delivery of the latest Mi-28NM helicopters will also be carried out.

From my observations, what is happening in business in connection with the topic of sustainable development can be defined as follows: the candy is separate, and the wrapper is separate. Moreover, this candy is also divided into 17 parts. Why is that? Because each part of a large business is involved in some area related to sustainable development: ecology, supplies, people. But it turns out that everyone who is involved in their individual areas is not always connected into a single whole.

I will discuss the challenges and solutions in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) based on Deloitte's client and global experience. What's stopping you? One of the main barriers is the lack of clear regulation. There are no unified reporting forms that would allow companies to regularly report on the implementation of the SDGs. We have different standards, there are different approaches, but there is no such message from the regulator yet.

Life style The leader of the Leap Year group Ilya Kalinnikov has died 27.06.2019 In Moscow, at the age of 47, the founder and lead singer of the musical group “Leap Year” Ilya Kalinnikov died, the group’s director Alexey Kan wrote on Facebook . The cause of death was cardiac arrest. Read on vedomosti.ru “On June 25, the founder of the Leap Year group, Ilya Kalinnikov, author of the hits “Metro,” “Best Love Song,” “Quiet Light” and many others, died,” Kan said.

McDonald's is a global company, and sustainability has been on its agenda for decades; in line with the UN goals, the company has formulated its 13 directions. In 2017, McDonald's adopted a new global development strategy as a whole and also outlined the brand's purpose, which is expressed very simply: delicious food and pleasant experiences available to everyone.

Iran has not yet violated restrictions on enriched uranium reserves, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) writes, citing European diplomats familiar with the situation. Thus, the remaining parties to the international agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program still have time to salvage the deal.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti One day at the recent Diaghilev Festival in Perm, I found myself in a small circle of people invited to a night concert in the foyer of the opera house.

The President does not like what is happening in the country. The President would not like citizens to think so much about her life, and not about national interests When in the afternoon of June 21, calls from the presidential reception room went to the FSB border service, the Ministry of Transport, the industry vice-premier Akimov and Aeroflot , everything was done so that everyone got the message: the president made a decision, and now we will all implement it together.

The Kremlin's clarifications narrowing the scope of application of the law on insulting the authorities reflect its desire to limit the circle of people and symbols that have the right to be insulted on behalf of the state, to reduce the flow of absurd cases and to dampen the administrative delight of law enforcement officers who see in the legal novelty a new opportunity to improve reporting.