August 14, 2019, 08:58 / Business Kommersant learned about Sportmaster’s plans to enter European markets undefined Vedomosti The Sportmaster group of companies, which operates stores in Russia, China and the CIS countries, plans to enter the markets of Poland, Germany and France. Kommersant about this .

More than 250 teachers and staff of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) signed an appeal to the Moscow City Court, which on August 15 will consider an appeal against the arrest of HSE student Yegor Zhukov, accused of participating in mass riots in Moscow. The corresponding appeal , signed by colleagues, was published on her Facebook by Anna Kachkaeva, a professor at the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design at the Higher School of Economics.

August 14, 2019, 20:35 / Business Chubais commented on the sale of Rusnano's share in a supplier of HIV drugs undefined Vedomosti Chairman of the Board of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais commented on his Facebook on the sale of the state company’s share in the pharmaceutical manufacturer Nanolek . Earlier, RBC , citing a source familiar with the details of the deal, reported that Rusnano sold its stake of 33.33% for 2.35 billion rubles. It was bought out by the current shareholders of Nanolek.

August 15, 2019, 00:19 / Economics / Interviews and profiles Minister of Natural Resources and Environment: “If you don’t take care of the forest, a fallen tree will sooner or later turn into gunpowder” Dmitry Kobylkin - about how to cope with burning forests, when new landfills will be built and what awaits companies that neglect the environment Ekaterina Mereminskaya Vitaly Petlevoy Dmitry Kobylkin, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Dmitry Kobylkin has

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the information about the order of the Ministry of Education and Science, which tightens the rules for contacts of Russian scientists with their foreign colleagues. The Kremlin spokesman said that he had not seen the text of this document and knew nothing about it. At the same time, he noted that if journalists correctly quoted the order, then it looks like overkill.

Facebook is decrypting users' voice messages, Bloomberg has learned . To do this, the Internet giant hired hundreds of third-party contractors. Employees of such companies, on condition of anonymity, told Bloomberg that they had to deal with voice messages from the social network, including dialogues with indecent content. One of Facebook's contractors may be the company TaskUs, the publication has found out. TaskUs employees were prohibited from publicly stating who they work for.

August 14, 2019, 03:44 / Business RBC: Rusnano sold a stake in a supplier of vaccines for children and drugs for HIV undefined Vedomosti Rusnano , has withdrawn from the capital of the Nanolek company , writes RBC citing a source familiar with the details of the deal. 's share Rusnano in the pharmaceutical company was 33.33%, a stake worth 2.35 billion rubles. completely bought out by Nanolek shareholders. Nanolek is a vaccine manufacturer in the Kirov region.

US President Donald Trump said that after being elected head of state he lost up to $5 billion, NBC News reports , citing a statement by the American leader. At this amount, he estimated the income that, in his opinion, he missed by abandoning his career as a businessman in favor of the presidency, as well as the costs of lawyers due to lawsuits against him. Read on vedomosti.ru “This may cost me between $3 billion and $5 billion,” the American president noted.

NATO considered the maneuver of a Russian fighter jet to be unsafe during the incident with the plane of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. this with reference to a representative of the North Atlantic Alliance. reported CNN Read on vedomosti.ru The day before, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a NATO F-18C fighter tried to approach Shoigu’s plane over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov may completely sell the Brooklyn Nets basketball club to Taiwanese businessman, vice president and co-founder of Alibaba Group Joseph Tsai by the end of the week. This was reported by the New York Post, citing sources. According to the publication’s interlocutors, the entire club will cost Tsai $2.35 billion.

Mail.ru Group is negotiating the pre-installation of its software on devices of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei, the press service of the Russian company told RIA Novosti. Read on vedomosti.ru She noted that Mail.ru is interested in having its products presented on as many platforms as possible. The company is open to all mutually beneficial partnerships, the press service added. RIA Novosti could not get a comment from the Huawei press service.

In the UK, commercials for Volkswagen cars and Philadelphia cheese from the Mondelez brand will be blocked, reports Sky News TV channel . The reason is a new British law prohibiting the use of gender stereotypes in advertising. It came into force in June. Read on vedomosti.ru It said Britain's Advertising Standards Authority had received 128 complaints about a Mondelez ad in which two men forget a child on a restaurant conveyor belt because they were distracted by food.

August 14, 2019, 00:59 / Economics Ministry of Health proposes to give concessions in healthcare without competition So far there are few concession projects in medicine Olga Adamchuk Currently, 206 private medical organizations participate in the compulsory medical insurance program and use the state infrastructure, 282 agreements have been concluded with them / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The Ministry of Health proposes draft amendments to the law on concessions, allowing them to be awarded

Gazprom Chairman Alexey Miller asked the government to support the projects of a giant gas processing and liquefaction complex and the country's largest gas chemical complex, which are planned to be built on the Baltic Sea coast near Ust-Luga. It is proposed to assign the status of “national significance for the economy” to both projects, according to Miller’s letter to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It was sent at the end of June.

The start of the 99th Salzburg Festival was given by artists in whose fate the main opera forum of the world played a decisive role. Read on vedomosti.ru Two years ago, Teodor Currentzis conducted La Clemenza di Tito in Salzburg at the head of the MusiсAeterna orchestra and chorus - and with this engagement, in fact, the great Western career of the ex-artistic director of the Perm Opera began.