Abramovich got rid of the last asset of Berezovsky, Britain changed the procedure for issuing “gold visas” and the new hero of “Russian norms!”

Roman Abramovich broke up with the last asset, which he once went to him from Boris Berezovsky - a share in the First Channel Channel

Photo: Musaelian Vladimir / ITAR-TASS

Abramovich remaining 20% ​​of the “Channel One” was bought by VTB Capital, a financial partner of the National Media Group of structures of Yuri Kovalchuk and his partners.

• The share in the “first” is the last asset that was left by Abramovich from Berezovsky: the businessman sold banker Alexander Lebedev back in 2003 in Aeroflot, and his main asset Sibneft-Gazprom in 2005. However, in the famous court between the oligarchs in London, Berezovsky was not able to prove that in the case of Sibneft, he was not just a “roof”, but a co -owner of the company.
• “If the president of the country or [the former head of the administration] Mr. Voloshin told me not to buy ORT shares, I would not buy them. This is a fairly explosive product, these shares, ”Abramovich admitted in the same trial with Berezovsky in London. Buying ORT, according to Abramovich, he "saved his other business and helped Badri [Patarkatsishvili] and Berezovsky." For 49% of the shares of ORT Abramovich in 2001, he was supposed to pay partners $ 150 million, but in the end it turned out even more - $ 164 million, taking into account the costs of legalizing transactions through one of the Latvian banks.
• Berezovsky at the trial insisted that he did not want to part with a share in the television channel, but the Kremlin and Abramovich threatened him with the fate of Vladimir Gusinsky. However, of all the testimonies of the oligarch, in the end, only the personal meeting of Berezovsky with Vladimir Putin was confirmed , on which the president directly demanded that he move away from the ORT department.
• Abramovich remained a co -owner of the “Channel One” of a long 18th year, but since 2010 - sold part of his package of the National Media Group (NMG), which is controlled by the structures of Yuri Kovalchuk and his partners. Control in the "first" belongs to the state and its structures.
• Since last year, VTB has become a full-fledged financial partner of the NMG in the media business. On New Year's Eve, under their joint control, the STS Media holding was transferred , which was one of the largest private media holdings in Russia (controls five television channels). After this transaction, the television channels under the control of the NMG together were to take first place in the TV audience. And in January, VTB bought Anatoly Karachinsky from IBS and the control package of “Mediaology”, the largest media analysts and social networks in Russia.
• For the VTB group, a transaction for the purchase of a share in the “First Channel” is part of the “successful business investment business”, including in the media segment. The share in the television channel is an attractive asset, it has a tremendous position in the market, and digitalization opens up new opportunities for him, said the first deputy Andrei Kostin Yuri Soloviev. According to Spark, the revenue of the channel in 2017 amounted to 31 billion rubles, a net loss - 1.55 billion rubles, and payables - 12.8 billion rubles (the channel itself has not published reports since 2016).

What am I to me?

It is useful to recall the story with Russian television channels: it’s easier to explain the increased attention that the authorities now pay the rune. In 2016, Internet projects, led by Yandex, went around the largest Russian television channels to cover the audience, and the next year the Internet was the first to advertise.

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MONEY

Fakes and insults

The State Duma adopted a bill on liability for fake news in the third, final reading. If Internet media will still be able to “immediately delete a false message after notification of Roskomnadzor without blocking, ordinary Internet resources, accounts and blogs of ordinary users will be blocked“ immediately ”. Even for the distribution of fakes, which has not entailed serious consequences, citizens face a fine of 30,000 to 100,000 rubles. The bill on insulting state power also provides for large fines, but at least gives the Internet day to remove content.

Prove that you are an investor

Great Britain, as promised, will tighten the rules for issuing investment visas (Tier 1) - it was this visa that last year did not extend to Roman Abramovich. The new order will enter into force on March 29. As before, those who want to get a “gold visa” will need to invest at least £ 2 million in the country, but now the candidates will need to prove that they own these funds for at least two years and disclose the source of income. The former threshold was only 90 days. In addition, the British authorities will no longer “sell” visas in exchange for investments in the government bond, the money will have to be invested in a local business. This, they believe, will bring more benefit to the economy.

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"Russian norms!"

New Hero of the project - Nikita Shamgunov

Shamgunov is one of the best Russian programmers. In 2001, he, along with the team, received bronze at the World Sports Programming Championship, and after 10 years he created an accelerator of the MemSQL database, which has been used by Morgan Stanley, Uber, Samsung, Cisco and Sony. Memsql invested Yuri Milner and Max Levchin, and its cost is estimated at $ 400 million. In an interview with Lisa Ossetian Shamgunov, he told what it was - to refuse $ 2 million and build a company from scratch, why there are fewer women than men in programming, and what he talked about with Bill Gates.

PRACTICE

Y Combinator leaves the valley

The flight of investors from Silicon Valley continues. To transport your head office from the technological hub to San Francisco, his long-standing resident is gathering-one of the world's most famous startup accelerators Y Combinator, writes Techncrunch (in English). Due to exorbitant real estate prices and difficulties with the search for staff, both starters and investors leave the valley. In San Francisco-closer to their startups-heavyweights like Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins have already moved.

Thefts on business jets

Mysterious sushi for $ 5000, plastic cups for $ 7000 and huge fuel reserves-Bloomberg tells (paid in English), as business jack operators cut their ultra-worn customers, overestimating the cost of various services. It is quite simple to do this because of a large number of accounts for using a private aircraft-wealthy travelers do not have time to check each of them. The amount of damage in the aggregate can be billions a year. If you optimize the expenses of operators, wealthy customers will be able to reduce their aircraft expenses by $ 8 billion, says My Sky, which is just developing software for accounting for business dresses.

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