October 21, 2019, 20:03 / Business Venezuelan opposition risks losing oil refinery Citgo The company, 49% of whose shares are pledged under a loan from Rosneft, may go under the hammer Alexey Nevelsky Mikhail Overchenko Eric Gay / AP Photo When Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself acting president earlier this year, the United States, hoping to change the regime of Nicolas Maduro, helped Guaido gain control of the Citgo oil refinery.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is open to dialogue, but does not see the point in the moratorium proposed by the Kremlin on the deployment of intermediate-range missiles (INF), NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper. According to her, NATO believes that Russia has already deployed such missiles on its territory.

Technical in form (reaching the age limit), but political in meaning, the probable resignation of the presidential adviser, head of the Human Rights Council Mikhail Fedotov, and the proposed candidacy of his successor seem to be an unambiguous hint at the current political line of the Kremlin, which does not involve dialogue with the dissatisfied minority of society and public criticism of the actions of the security forces and the courts.

Collection "Black Dragonfly" / Fashion House "Tatiana Parfenova" The Tatyana Parfenova Fashion House became the first Russian participant in the Tokyo Fashion Week (Rakuten Tokyo Fashion Week). The spring/summer 2020 collection show closed the first day of the week. The founder and chief designer of the brand, Tatyana Parfenova, explains the decision to participate in the Tokyo Fashion Week by her interest in the market.

Evgeny Egorov / for Vedomosti St. Petersburg is one of the few subjects of the Russian Federation that has not yet signed an agreement with the Ministry of Construction on increasing housing commissioning. According to calculations by federal officials, by 2024 the city should reach the figure of 5.4 million square meters - more than what is required of Moscow. And this figure is not discussed - it is necessary to fulfill the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation.

Tragedies with human victims time and again expose the illusory nature of government control over compliance with certain rules – this time, gold mining. Another bad tradition in this area is the ability of local rent controllers to escape responsibility in emergency situations.

company The Tatneft will invest about 570 billion rubles. in the construction of a new petrochemical complex in Tatarstan, TASS reports with reference to Tatneft CEO Nail Maganov. Read on vedomosti.ru “In their maximum configuration, the plants will process more than 3 million tons of petrochemical raw materials and produce 32 types of products,” he said. Maganov explained that the complex’s products will be processed into consumer goods.

Member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), former judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Tamara Morshchakova resigned from the HRC. this She reported to Interfax. Read on vedomosti.ru Morshchakova linked her decision to the resignation of Mikhail Fedotov from the post of chairman of the council. According to her, no one at the HRC was notified about this. She suggested that Fedotov himself was not aware of his impending resignation.

The Ministry of Defense commented on reports of an emergency situation during the Grom-2019 exercises, in which President Vladimir Putin took part. The department confirmed that the nuclear submarine cruiser K-44 Ryazan carried out only one launch of the R-29R missile, and not two, as previously announced. At the same time, the department refused to recognize the incident as an “emergency situation,” saying that the cancellation of the launch did not affect the results of the exercise.

Billionaire Leonid Boguslavsky's fortune grew from $1 billion to $1.6 billion after the IPO of the New York IT company Datadog, Forbes calculated . The businessman's fund, RTP Ventures, controls 8.2% of the company's shares. Read on vedomosti.ru Datadog IPO took place on September 19. The placement price of the company's shares was $27 per share, and at the end of the first trading day it increased to $37.55.

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One of the world's largest cosmetics manufacturers, Coty, is considering the possibility of selling its business producing professional cosmetics for hair and nail care. In particular, we are talking about the brands Wella, Clairol and OPI.

An emergency situation occurred at the Grom-2019 military command and staff exercises, two people close to the Ministry of Defense told Vedomosti. According to them, the nuclear submarine cruiser K-44 Ryazan made only one launch of the R-29R ballistic intercontinental missile (ICBM) instead of the planned two. The nuclear submarine returned to its home base with an unfired missile. The Ministry of Defense did not respond to Vedomosti’s request on Friday.

Sunday's Swiss parliamentary elections confirmed the pan-European trend of a "green wave" / Arnd Wiegmann / REUTERS Sunday's Swiss parliamentary elections confirmed the pan-European trend of a "green wave". Both parties with an environmental agenda - the Swiss Green Party and the Green Liberal Party - strengthened their positions. According to preliminary results, they together gained 20.3% of the vote - 8.6 percentage points more than in the previous elections in 2015.

The YouDrive car sharing service has begun offering users to buy cars from its fleet, writes RBC . As a YouDrive representative explained, the service has about 2,000 Smart cars, Mercedes A-class, BMW Active Tourer, BMW X2, MINI Cooper, Nissan X-trail, Nissan Qashqai, and BMW i3 electric cars. Read on vedomosti.ru There are 80 2016 Smart cars available for purchase initially. The cost of the car is less than 0.5 million rubles, which is 60% lower than the price of a new car.