November 18, 2019, 15:37 / Business Gazprom offered Naftogaz to extend the gas transit contract But the Russian company set several conditions Irina Chevtaeva Artur Toporkov Maxim Blinov / RIA Novosti Gazprom offered Naftogaz to extend the gas transit contract or enter into a new one for the coming year, taking into account the forecast for 2020 on demand in the EU, the Russian company said in a statement.

Yandex's top managers and Russian shareholders are celebrating. They have finally come up with and, most importantly, agreed with the government on a new management scheme that, on the one hand, will allow the company to save face and investors, and on the other hand, will calm officials who are very worried about foreign influence on the company. After all, almost 85% of Yandex's ordinary shares are traded on the American NASDAQ stock exchange.

Attempts by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to explain his harsh statements, which outside the republic are read as overt threats against certain undesirable people and groups, by cultural peculiarities do not solve the problem of Chechnya's obvious "otherness" for a significant part of Russian society. Regular denials of the republic's special status by the Kremlin press service do not help either.

Satisfaction of the foreign policy ambitions of the Russian leadership and a turn towards the country's domestic problems can be a source of pure joy for Russians.

Russian writer and poet Igor Sakhnovsky died on November 18 in Yekaterinburg at the age of 61. This was reported by Interfax, citing the writer's colleague Yevgeny Kasimov. According to him, Sakhnovsky died of an aortic rupture. It is not yet known when the writer will be forgiven. Igor Sakhnovsky's book "A Sharp Feeling of Saturday": a collection of short stories featuring filibusters, city lunatics and Venetian beauties Lifestyle Sakhnovsky was born on July 17, 1958 in Orsk.

Dmitry Medvedev has developed unprecedented activity ahead of the United Russia congress / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti By the United Russia congress, which will take place next Saturday (President Vladimir Putin will attend), the party will add powers to the party's general council, introduce new people to it, and redistribute powers among the deputy secretaries of the general council. Three sources in United Russia told Vedomosti about this.

November 18, 2019, 09:33 / Updated November 18, 2019, 13:41 / Technologies Yandex, together with officials, came up with a new company management structure The Kaliningrad offshore fund will be able to give instructions to its board of directors and even temporarily remove CEO Ksenia Boletskaya Mikhail Metzel / TASS Yandex . has found a compromise with the state: it is creating a special Public Interest Fund, to which the company will transfer part of its management functions Yandex .

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Andrey Makhonin / Vedomosti Last week, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant delivered four Su-35S fighters to the Russian Knights aerobatic team, thereby fulfilling the plan for deliveries of this type of aircraft in 2019: earlier this year, six such aircraft entered service with the 790th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Khotilovo airfield, Tver region).

British troops may have committed war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, including killing and torturing civilians, while their actions were covered up by military leaders, according to secret documents obtained by the BBC and The Sunday Times .

November 19, 2019, 00:46 / Business A newcomer has appeared on the list of the largest drug suppliers in Russia for the first time The subsidiary of Pharmacy Chain 36.6 was helped by government procurement Ksenia Virchenko Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti GP LLC, which belongs to Pharmacy Chain 36.6, took 11th place in the ranking of pharmaceutical distributors compiled by the analytical agency DSM Group since 2004.

November 18, 2019, 14:49 / Finance / Opinions / Markets Exclusively by subscription Are private investors capable of becoming a driver of the financial industry? Low deposit rates force people to look for alternative investment options Alexander Kudrin , chief strategist of Aton The economic situation in Russia has remained stable in recent years and is characterized by both sluggish GDP growth and a significant slowdown in inflation - from 16.9% in 2015 to 3.7% now.

Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh does not hide the fact that he coordinated the company's new management structure with the presidential administration / Mikhail Metzel / TASS The decision to create the Public Interest Fund was made by the Yandex Board of Directors, the company reported. On December 20, shareholders will be asked to vote on this decision – the company needs the approval of the owners of 75% of the voting shares.

November 19, 2019, 00:28 / Opinions The price of Stalin's collectivization Historian Viktor Kondrashin about how the village was sacrificed to industrialization Victor Kondrashin Stalin's collectivization, the 90th anniversary of which is celebrated these days, has become one of the symbols and phenomena of the Soviet era, the tragedy of the Soviet village. In popular memory, it is associated primarily with the dispossession of hardworking peasants, exile and the mass famine of 1932–1933.

One of the largest Japanese Internet portals, Yahoo Japan, owned by Softbank, and Line Corporation, which controls the messenger of the same name, have signed an agreement of intent to merge their businesses. The companies will continue to discuss the terms of the merger in the near future and plan to sign a binding agreement by the end of the year. The agreement stipulates that Sofbank and Naver, Line's parent company, will each own 50% of the joint venture.