September 17, 2019, 12:33 / Updated September 17, 2019, 20:28 / Finance Sberbank temporarily reduces down payment on mortgage Lending conditions are improving for salary clients Yulia Petrova Lyudmila Koval Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti Sberbank has reduced the down payment on mortgage loans, the bank's press service reported. For participants in the salary project it will drop from 15 to 10%. This program is urgent and will run from September until the end of January 2020.

September 17, 2019, 23:39 / Business The prosecutor's office won the first lawsuit against the airport for the lack of a protective zone This threatens suspension of work and criminal cases Alexander Vorobyov Samara “Kurumoch” is one of the largest regional airports in Russia / Ruslan Shamukov/TASS On August 5, the Krasnoglinsky District Court of Samara recognized that the Kurumoch International Airport violates the flight safety requirements of ships by continuing to operate the airfield

The State Duma wants to stimulate training in blue-collar professions in order to eliminate the shortage of specialists in the regions. Deputy Viktor Zubarev (United Russia) made such a proposal in a letter to the Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva and the Minister of Labor Maxim Topilin. Vedomosti reviewed a copy of the document, and Zubarev’s representative confirmed its authenticity.

September 18, 2019, 00:32 / Personal account Why do banks ask customers to pay extra for bills in euros? The ECB's ultra-soft monetary policy threatens Russian banks with losses Anna Tretyak Lyudmila Koval Russian banks are not eager to work with the euro / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti The Central Bank is concerned: banks, placing funds in European assets, are faced with negative returns, losing interest income, he writes in the review.

The Cypriot structure of Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg Lamesa Investments Limited was unable to collect interest on the loan it provided to the British bank Cynergy. this reports RBC with reference to information from the court decision. Vekselberg’s company cannot receive payments due to the introduction of American sanctions against him, although the loan itself was provided before their introduction - in 2017, notes RBC .

September 17, 2019, 17:54 / Finance Ananyev's company appealed the settlement agreement between Promsvyazbank and two non-state pension funds undefined Vedomosti The company of the former co-owner of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev, Promsvyaz Capital BV, appealed the approval of the bank’s settlement agreement with NPF Future and Safmar on a claim for 16.5 billion rubles.

In order for society to accept electronic voting, absolute trust of both ordinary voters and the political elite in the technology of expression of will and its recording is necessary The scandal around the experimental electronic voting in three districts for the Moscow City Duma elections was programmed.

The High Qualification Board of Judges (HQJC) recommended the current Chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev for reappointment to his position. His term of office expires in May 2020, but this time they decided to speed up the reappointment: the vacancy was announced not six months in advance, as usual, but eight months in advance - on September 2.

The US authorities have filed a lawsuit against former employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden. This was reported by the NBC television channel with reference to the press service of the US Department of Justice. The agency alleges that Snowden's memoir , Permanent Record, violates nondisclosure agreements signed by the former intelligence official.

The senseless cruelty of the state, in whose name victims of tyranny are sent to prison one after another, is becoming more and more often a reason for civil solidarity. For now, this solidarity is predominantly professional, but the indiscriminate nature of state violence could in the future become the basis for uniting professional campaigns into a general civil campaign: each time, colleagues of a new victim discover that the next one could be a person of any profession.

Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party / Nir Elias / Reuters Less than six months after the snap Knesset elections, Israelis were forced to go to the polls again on September 17. And all because of the stubbornness and intransigence of one single person – Avigdor Lieberman, head of the relatively small Yisrael Beiteinu party. It has five seats out of 120 in parliament.

The Prosveshcheniye publishing house will withdraw its claim against Ventana-Graf for 3.7 billion rubles, company representatives told Vedomosti. The parties managed to agree on a peaceful settlement of the dispute, says a representative of Prosveshcheniya, and Ventana-Count will stop challenging the legality of registering a mark with a stylized image of a globe.

Russian actors massively supported Pavel Ustinov , sentenced to three and a half years in prison. The first to speak out in support of Ustinov was Konstantin Raikin, who heads the Satyricon Theater and the Higher School of Performing Arts, where Ustinov studied. Raikin called for the actor to be released from custody even during the investigation: “I would really like for a person’s fate not to be ruined, his life not to be ruined.

The owner of the Goose Goose Films studio, former marketing director of the STS TV channel (flagship channel of the STS Media holding), David Kocharov, has been appointed general producer of Russia's largest online cinema ivi (37% share - TMT Consulting data), the general director told Vedomosti video service Oleg Tumanov.

The prosecutor's office searched the house of the head of the Sputnik Moldova agency, Vladimir Novosadyuk, in connection with a case initiated in 2015 about the withdrawal of $1 billion from the banking system of Moldova, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press secretary of the Prosecutor General's Office Emil Gaitur. Read on vedomosti.ru The report notes that investigative actions are underway against Novosadyuk, but he has not yet been detained.