"Interros"

left the capital of Rosbank by selling a 7% stake in the French Societe General. The latter consolidated 99.4% of the shares. According to Kommersant, Vladimir Potanin’s share in Rosbank was pledged to SG via repo. Interros and SG do not comment on this. According to a representative of Interros, the transaction for the sale of the stake was completed on market conditions, the price was not disclosed, and “partnership relations” with Rosbank are maintained.

Finance Department; Natalia Barkhatova

Sberbank

decided on the dividend equation. At a meeting on Friday, the Supervisory Board of Sberbank recommended that shareholders allocate 72 billion rubles, or 20% of their net profit according to IFRS for 2013, for dividend payments. This is the maximum amount of payments allowed by Sberbank's dividend policy. Last year, 16.9% was allocated for these purposes, and in 2012 - 15.2% of Sberbank’s net profit according to IFRS. As the head of Sberbank German Gref explained, for three years the bank promised to move from 15 percent payments to 20 percent for 2013. At the same time, the amount of payments for ordinary and preferred shares is set at the same level - at the rate of 3.2 rubles. per share.

"Prime", "Interfax"

OJSC "Russian Networks"

supports the initiative to extend the validity of last mile contracts after July 1, 2017, said Oksana Shatokhina, deputy general director of the company for economics. “Last Mile” is a cross-subsidization mechanism that, through additional payments to distribution networks, increases electricity bills for large industries, but reduces the load on other consumers. The Republic of Mari-El, the Nizhny Novgorod region, and Khakassia made a proposal to extend the deadlines.

"Interfax"; Anastasia Fomicheva

RSPP

proposed to create on the basis of the Federal Air Transport Agency a single body for the management of civil aviation - the Federal Aviation Administration, according to the draft minutes of the meeting of the RSPP Transport Commission. Now the industry is regulated by the Ministry of Transport, the Federal Air Transport Agency and the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC, which also investigates accidents with aircraft of the CIS countries). The RSPP proposes that the new department be responsible for state regulation, civil aviation management, and ensuring flight safety. In parallel, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs wants to create an independent agency to investigate plane crashes.

ITAR-TASS

Yesterday – Kommersant Newspaper No. 63 (5336) dated 04/14/2014