Friday's trading session, which began with strong growth on the Russian stock market, ended with indices rising within 1%, despite the decline in oil prices that followed Libya's declaration of a ceasefire, RIA Novosti reports . At the end of the day, the MICEX index rose by 0.56% to 1,747.32 points. The RTS index rose by 0.88% to 1962.92 points. Over the week, the MICEX index grew by 1.6%, the RTS index added 1.7%.

Most stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) have been rising since Friday morning, while government bonds and the yen are falling as risk appetite recovers on news of lower radiation levels in Japan and currency intervention by the Group of Seven (G7), reports Bloomberg agency. The MSCI Asia Pacific region's composite stock index increased from the opening of trading by 0.3% to 128.95 points.

Specialists from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations on Friday left the base camp in the Japanese city of Sendai on the island of Honshu, which suffered the most from the earthquake and tsunami, and moved to a new location in a westerly direction. this to RIA Novosti .

Rosneft cannot reach an agreement with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) regarding payments for the supply of Russian oil under a contract concluded in February 2009. newspaper about this . the Kommersant A source close to the Russian company told Russian oil is supplied to China through the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline. ESPO was built in accordance with a contract between Rosneft, Transneft and CNPC.

Bonuses paid to the heads of the 50 largest American companies grew by an average of 30.5% in 2010, which was a record increase in at least three years. These conclusions were reached by experts from the consulting firm Hay Group, who conducted an analysis for The Wall Street Journal . The study looked at companies with annual revenues of at least $4 billion. Their top managers received $126.1 million in bonuses in 2010, up from $83 million the year before.

Alisa Chumachenko started as a secretary and created a company that produces the most games in Russia A director by training, Alisa Chumachenko began her career on the Internet as a secretary. In 2009, she created her own online gaming company, Game Insight. Game Insight is a co-owner of 13 social game development studios, which employ more than 200 people; over the year of its existence, the company has released 27 projects, including for the social network Facebook.

On Friday, March 18, a bus carrying tourists overturned in Turkey. At least five people died as a result. Another 38 received injuries of varying severity. agency reports this The RIA Novosti with reference to local media. The bus was heading to the Mediterranean resort from the Turkish capital Istanbul. The accident occurred in the morning 100 kilometers from Antalya, at the exit of a tunnel, where the bus driver lost control on a sharp turn, causing the car to overturn.

Gazprom has sold its subsidiary Gazprom Burenie, the concern says in a press release. According to the message, as of March 11, the company withdrew from the authorized capital of the LLC, where it owned 100%. In December 2010, it became known that Gazprom plans to sell Gazprom Burenie, which carries out more than 70% of drilling work for the monopoly, in the first and second quarters of 2011. The initial price was set at 4 billion rubles, recalls RIA Novosti .

Big and very big money will be at stake in the upcoming FIFA presidential elections It is safe to say that he has never had such difficult elections as Sepp Blatter faces this year. Even in 1998, when Blatter first applied for the post of chief football official, it was easier for him. The aging FIFA President Joao Havelange, who had been in office for 24 years, was looking for a worthy successor and he could not find a better person than Blatter.

Assistant judge of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow Natalya Vasilyeva, who made a statement in February about pressure from the Moscow City Court on judge Viktor Danilkin in the “YUKOS case,” returned from vacation on Friday, March 17. She plans to take sick leave in the near future. Let us recall that Vasilyeva made sensational statements about the political nature of the second criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedeva on February 14.

Three people were murdered in a pawnshop on Bryanskaya Street in the center of Moscow, not far from the Kievsky railway station. The press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported this on Friday. To organize the investigation of the crime, the head of the Main Investigation Department of the RF Investigative Committee for Moscow, Vadim Yakovenko, went to the scene of the incident.

photo by Roman Shelomentsev for Forbes How the Yandex search engine became a billion-dollar business The average age of Yandex employees is 28 years. Most of them were not alive when the company's general director, Arkady Volozh, met technical director Ilya Segalovich. They are completely different - the reserved, reasonable Volozh and the loud, impulsive Segalovich.

French authorities have confirmed the possibility of launching the first airstrikes against the positions of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in the coming hours. As AFP reported, citing the words of the official representative of the Elysee Palace, Francois Baroin, it has not yet been clarified “when exactly, how and what targets” are planned to be attacked.

Investments in fixed assets in Russia in February 2011 decreased by 0.4% compared to February 2010, after a fall of 4.7% in January and an increase of 10.1% in December 2010. This data was provided on Friday by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). In nominal terms, the volume of investments in February amounted to 461.3 billion rubles. Compared to January 2011, they increased by 30.7% (January is traditionally the minimum month for investments).

The UN Security Council on the evening of Thursday, March 17, adopted a resolution on the situation in Libya. The adopted document provides for the closure of airspace to Libyan aviation, possible military operations without the use of ground forces, as well as the freezing of the accounts of the national oil company of Libya and its central bank. agency reports this The RIA Novosti .