Defense Ministry's Claims Have Reached Cosmic Proportions / Sergey Porter / Vedomosti The issues of restructuring fines from customers were discussed at a meeting held on Tuesday at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov. The meeting was also attended by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin and directors of industry enterprises.

November 20, 2019, 00:42 / Business Exclusively by subscription Russian metallurgists were not afraid of the fall in world steel prices They do not plan to cut investments and dividends Polina Trifonova Denis Grishkin / Vedomosti Evraz, Severstal and MMK, which account for more than 50% of Russian steel production, held traditional investor days in October and November. They said that they do not intend to reduce investments yet, and some will even increase them.

November 19, 2019, 23:33 / Finance A London court allowed the ex-owner of Vneshprombank to increase expenses undefined Vedomosti The High Court of London allowed the former owner of the bankrupt Vneshprombank Georgy Bedzhamov to increase his monthly expenses. Previously, his expenses were limited to 80,000 pounds (6.6 million rubles) per month due to the seizure of assets.

Varvara Grankova Deloitte surveyed more than 300 U.S. CMOs to find out what they find most challenging in their jobs. The answer that emerged by far was proving the impact of marketing campaigns on financial results. This is a long-standing problem for marketers. They want to gain the respect of management and get a good budget for the future, but in marketing, metrics are often less accurate than in other areas of business. How to tackle this difficult task?

November 19, 2019, 06:09 / Business The owner of Love Republic and Befree put up a controlling stake in the business for sale undefined Vedomosti The Swedish investment company Eastnine, the main owner of Melon Fashion Group (MFG), which operates clothing retail chains Befree, Love Republic, Zarina and Sela, has put up a controlling stake in the business for sale. this reports The Kommersant newspaper with reference to sources. The package could cost up to 9 billion rubles.

Brendan McDermid / REUTERS The United States has recognized Israeli settlements on the West Bank as legal. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced this late Monday evening in the United States. For the past 40 years, the American administration has called settlements in Palestinian territory “contrary to international law.” Washington’s decision could further complicate the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, police officers liquidated the largest laboratory in Russia for the production of synthetic drugs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs website reports . Each month, the laboratory produced about 1.5 tons of narcotics, said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk. During the investigative actions, police officers detained three chemical engineers (citizens of Ukraine) and a courier-stasher.

November 19, 2019, 19:22 / Business Gazprom filled both lines of the Turkish Stream with gas undefined Vedomosti Gazprom the has completed commissioning work before commissioning the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, company said in a statement. It is planned to be launched before the end of 2019, which is on schedule.

November 19, 2019, 08:15 / Finance Rosselkhozbank enters the factoring market undefined Vedomosti Rosselkhozbank has registered a factoring company; it will begin full-fledged work in 2020, writes , citing a source close to the bank. the Kommersant newspaper According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE), the bank registered the RSHB Factoring company in mid-September.

November 20, 2019, 00:30 / Economy Exclusively by subscription The government will help regions reduce their debt burden This will cost the federal budget 440 billion rubles Ekaterina Mereminskaya Regions that stimulate investment will be able to save on payments on budget loans / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The government decided to help the regions reduce their debt burden by changing the repayment schedule for budget loans. Such an amendment to the draft federal budget for 2020–2022.

The Christofari supercomputer, developed by SberCloud (Sberbank's cloud platform) together with the American NVIDIA, was included in the rating of the most productive computing systems in the world according to the Top500 project. Sberbank's supercomputer took 29th place in the rating. Thus, Christofari is also recognized as the most powerful supercomputer in Russia.

The painting "Sils-Maria and the Red Sun" (1961-1964) - from the private collection of the artist's heirs / Press service of the museum complex "New Jerusalem" “How could Vitebsk, how could the soil of Vitebsk, my hometown, how could thousands of years of exile mix with the air and soil of Jerusalem?” Marc Chagall (1887–1985) wondered and admired in a speech he gave in Jerusalem on February 6, 1962.

Sergey Porter / Vedomosti Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia Nikita Mikhalkov has approached Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin with a request to buy out the Solovei cinema center on Krasnaya Presnya. Mikhalkov writes that the union has received more than 100 appeals from prominent cultural figures, as well as public associations and residents of the capital, concerned about the situation around the cinema center.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Sberbank's board has approved the sale of the "golden share" of the Dutch Yandex NV (the parent company of Yandex), the bank's press release reports. It notes that the share will be sold at the purchase price of one euro. This "golden share" should be transferred to the Public Interest Fund, the creation of which Yandex announced the day before, on November 18. This fund will receive part of the management functions in the company.

November 19, 2019, 15:33 / Economics ASI and business associations have launched a portal for complaints against security forces This will increase confidence in the authorities and law enforcement officers, they believe Anna Chervonnaya Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti has been launched for businesses A digital platform , where entrepreneurs can send complaints about pressure from law enforcement agencies.