Belarus will not be able to normalize its relations with the European Union without canceling the “black lists” of Belarusian officials who are prohibited from entering EU countries, told RIA Novosti on Monday. Foreign Minister of the Republic Vladimir Makei “These lists, in my understanding, are an absolute mixture of absurdity and fabrication,” Makei emphasized. He is convinced that without eliminating these lists, there will be no progress in relations between Minsk and Brussels.

Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Housing and Public Utilities and Public Improvement Pyotr Biryukov suggested that the snowfall that hit the capital on Monday be considered an April Fool's joke, Interfax reports . “Today in Moscow up to 12 mm of precipitation in the form of snow and rain may fall. Let’s consider this an April Fool’s joke,” Biryukov said. The deputy mayor noted that the snowfall will not prevent Moscow utility workers from carrying out the city improvement month planned for April.

Businessman Boris Berezovsky, who died in Great Britain, will be buried in London, the Dozhd TV channel reports , citing a source close to the businessman’s family. According to the channel’s interlocutor, the decision to bury Berezovsky in England has already been made by the businessman’s eldest daughters, Elizaveta and Ekaterina.

The Rosneftegaz company, whose board of directors is headed by Igor Sechin, acquired for 7 billion rubles 0.23% of the shares of Gazprom, which the state did not have enough for formal control over the company, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Monday, citing two close to the boards directors of both source companies. The deal was completed in the first half of March, and the Federal Property Management Agency was notified about it.

Georgian mineral water Borjomi has not yet managed to return to the Russian market. Rospotrebnadzor ordered a re-inspection of the mineral water, head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko said on Monday. “We have questions regarding Borjomi,” Interfax quotes Onishchenko . “We will require samples to be submitted again,” he said.

Illustration Fotobank/Getty Images Indigo Kids startup leader Timofey Ra on the company's move to Hong Kong Today I want to talk about the legal and formal side of our project, in particular, about how we found ourselves hostage to big politics. When we were just creating a company in Russia, our mentor, founder of Parallels, senior partner of the Runa Capital fund Sergey Belousov advised us to immediately enter the international market with our product.

Russia is ready for a new oil boom on a scale corresponding to the scale of the shale revolution in the United States. newspaper reports this with reference to LUKOIL Vice President Leonid Fedun ( No. 162 in the Forbes 2013 ranking of world billionaires, net worth: $7.1 billion ) The Financial Times .

Cyprus ceased to be an offshore zone a year before it joined the European Union in 2003, Cypriot Ambassador to Russia Petros Kestoras said at a press conference in Moscow on Monday. “In the Russian media, Cyprus is often called an offshore zone. We ceased to be an offshore zone after we joined the EU,” RIA Novosti quotes Kestoras .

Co-owner and head of Novatek OJSC Leonid Mikhelson ( No. 47 in the Forbes ranking of world billionaires, net worth: $15.4 billion ) joined the board of trustees of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in March, reports Bloomberg . The Russian businessman has experience collaborating with the museum: in 2011, he helped finance an exhibition by the Belgian artist Carsten Holler, which became the most popular in the 35-year history of the institution.

01 April 2013 ForbesLife Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites 10 offices that look the least like offices A company that looks like a space station; work reminiscent of a granny's apartment, a business center inside a green hill and other unusual concepts for office space Time for business, time for fun.

The largest Russian air carrier Aeroflot received subsidies from the federal budget in the amount of 1.1 billion rubles in 2012, which is more than 66% higher than in 2011, the Prime agency reported on Monday, citing data from the company’s report.

Former investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Konovalova, who was investigating the case of the ex-owner of the Marta holding Georgy Trefilov, herself became a suspect in this case, Kommersant reported on Monday.

The reverse scheme for the purchase of gas by Ukraine, which the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller called fraudulent on Saturday , is carried out in accordance with the law, the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper wrote on Monday , citing a source in the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy. According to the source, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine actually purchases gas from Europe according to the scheme described by Miller. “We do not see any violation of the law in this.

Photo by ITAR-TASS Russians will face a difficult but fun life in the coming year Since yesterday evening, social networks have been full of references to the brave performance of one of Kaveanov’s teams: “Putin is not in the hall! “I told you it doesn’t exist.” The audience and jury are laughing out loud, even seasoned Channel One presenter Alexander Maslyakov and general director Konstantin Ernst are laughing merrily.

The acquisition by Rosneftegaz, whose board of directors is headed by Igor Sechin, of 0.23% of Gazprom shares, and thereby returning control of the gas monopolist to the state, was fully agreed with the country's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady told reporters on Monday Dvorkovich.