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46 storiesParamount Skydance closes $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition
Paramount Skydance completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery for $110bn, and the combined company is named Skydance. Its shares will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SKYD, while WBD shares stopped trading on Nasd…
Ozon and Ingosstrakh to end insurance programme for sellers' goods from 13 October
Ozon and the insurer Ingosstrakh (Ингосстрах) are ending the programme that insures goods of Ozon sellers, with policies valid until 23:59 Moscow time on 12 October and disabled from 13 October. Ingosstrakh linked the decision to changed re…
Sberbank chief Gref says bank will keep branches as clients shift to digital
Sberbank president and board chairman German Gref said the bank does not plan to give up its branches while customers gradually move to digital services, and that it will keep improving its offline network. Speaking at the “Digital Solution…
Wildberries tests mobile pickup point delivery in Russia’s Tver region
Wildberries, part of the RWB group, has begun testing order delivery through a mobile pickup point — an “avtolavka” — in the Tver region, the company’s press service said. The pilot, carried out with the regional Ministry of Industry and Tr…
Shishkarev sells Delo stake to Rosatom, pledges part of proceeds to national security
Businessman Sergei Shishkarev said he has completed the sale of his stake in the transport and logistics group Delo to state nuclear corporation Rosatom. He said he will direct a “significant part” of the proceeds to national security needs…
Bailiffs seize 115,500 rubles from organiser of cancelled Kanye West concerts in Russia
Russian bailiffs have seized 115,500 rubles from Say Agency, the company that organised the cancelled Kanye West concerts in Saint Petersburg, TASS, Kommersant, Meduza and Vedomosti reported. The enforcement case is based on a writ from the…
Ovechkin to launch OVI beer brand in Russia with Bochkarev breweries
Hockey player Alexander Ovechkin will launch his own beer brand, OVI, in Russia before the end of 2026, produced by the breweries Pivovarni Bochkarev, according to Kommersant and Vedomosti. The lineup will include a classic lager, a lighter…
NYT: Russia and US discuss multibillion-dollar deal for Lukoil's foreign assets
Russia and the United States are discussing a multibillion-dollar sale of Lukoil's foreign oil assets as part of talks to end the war in Ukraine, according to The New York Times, as relayed by Kommersant, Vedomosti and Meduza. Meduza report…
Lukoil's deal to sell foreign assets to Carlyle lapses without US approval
Lukoil's agreement to sell its foreign assets to the US investment company Carlyle lapsed in July 2026 after the deal did not receive approval from US authorities, Russian outlets reported. RBC said the approval was needed from the US Treas…
GTLK moves legal registration from Salekhard to Veliky Novgorod
State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK) has changed its registered address from Salekhard in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to Veliky Novgorod, with the entry made in the EGRUL register on 6 October. Novgorod region governor Alexander Dr…
Former German Chancellor Schröder meets Globus employees in Moscow
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visited Moscow and met with employees of the Globus hypermarket chain, RBC reported, with TASS citing RBC. According to TASS and Meduza, he gave a welcome speech and then continued in a closed forma…
Putin signs decree allowing sale of 100% of UniCredit Bank's Russian shares
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree permitting transactions involving 100% of the shares of AO UniCredit Bank, which belong to Italy's UniCredit S.p.A., according to RIA Novosti, RBC and Kommersant. Kommersant reported the decr…
Fourth auction to sell Moscow’s Rizhsky railway station fails with no bids
A fourth auction to sell Moscow’s Rizhsky railway station, owned by Russian Railways (RZD), was declared void after no bids were submitted, according to the bidding materials. The lot was offered at a starting price of 4 billion rubles. RZD…
Porsche to cut about 40% of management roles in restructuring
Porsche plans to cut roughly 40% of its managerial and leadership positions in the medium term as part of a new restructuring strategy, according to Russian business and state outlets. The company also targets a 25–30% reduction in total he…
Burger King halts two Vladivostok franchise restaurants after staff videos
Burger King said it has stopped operations at two franchised restaurants in Vladivostok and cut the franchisee off from product supplies and corporate systems after videos filmed in a kitchen circulated on social media. The company said it …
David Reuben, one of Britain’s richest, moves to Monaco, The Times reports
David Reuben, co-owner of Reuben Brothers and a shareholder in Newcastle United, has moved from Britain to Monaco, according to The Times, in reporting relayed by TASS, RBC, RIA Novosti and Kommersant. His representative confirmed the move …
Rosatom buys Shishkarev's 51% stake in Delo Group, reaching full ownership
Rosatom closed the purchase of Sergei Shishkarev's 51% stake in Delo Group, bringing its holding to 100%, with the stake valued at 77 billion rubles. Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev said the corporation now begins consolidating all its logisti…
Sierra Leone ready to lease land to Russian businesses for coffee growing, envoy says
Sierra Leone’s ambassador to Russia, Mohamed Yongawo, said in an interview with TASS that the state is ready to lease land to Russian businesses to grow coffee and that Russian businessmen could buy coffee directly from Sierra Leone to cut …
Vanity Fair names OpenAI's Sam Altman most influential person, ahead of Musk
Vanity Fair has placed OpenAI head Sam Altman first in its ranking of the most influential people, according to TASS, Kommersant and RIA Novosti. TASS reported he also placed ahead of Elon Musk and of Anthropic head Dario Amodei, who is sec…
Huawei and Qualcomm sign multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G and AI
Huawei and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year patent licensing agreement covering 5G, artificial intelligence, computing and networking technologies, with cross-licensing of their patent portfolios. Qualcomm will additionally buy a number of…