Sheremetyevo International Airport (SIA) filed a claim with the Moscow Arbitration Court against VTB, which had previously refused to accept the loan debt from the airport ahead of schedule, according to the case file on the court’s website.

The Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow decided to recover 1 million rubles from journalist Viktor Shenderovich in favor of the head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Vasiliev, Interfax reported on Monday, April 7 . On February 10, Viktor Shenderovich published a text on his blog entitled “Putin and a girl on skates,” in which he expressed his opinion regarding the Winter Olympics in Sochi. This text caused a wide public outcry.

Based on the results of processing 100% of the ballots, the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Lokot, took first place in the early elections for the mayor of Novosibirsk, held on April 6, with 43.75% of the votes. Preliminary vote count data as of 04:39 local time (01:39 Moscow time) was published on the website of the Novosibirsk City Election Commission.

The protesters, who seized the building of the Donetsk Regional State Administration on Sunday, on Monday, April 7, declared the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic and appealed to the Russian leadership with a request to introduce a temporary peacekeeping contingent into the region. A video recording of the meeting, which took place in the building of the Donetsk regional administration on Monday, was posted on Youtube.

UCP demands that Durov's Telegram project be transferred to the ownership of VKontakte, Durov insists on the illegality of the purchase of almost half of the social network by the Shcherbovich Foundation Ilya Sherbovich's United Capital Partners (UCP) fund, which owns 48% of VKontakte, filed a lawsuit in the British Virgin Islands court to protect its economic rights in connection with the launch of the Telegram messenger against the founder of the social network Pavel Durov and the Mail.ru

Rospotrebnadzor suspended the import of cheese from six Ukrainian producers into Russia: Ros Private Enterprise, Akhtyrsky Cheese Factory branch, Piryatinsky Cheese Factory JSC, Gadyachsyr LLC, Zolotonoshsky Creamery Plant PJSC and Tekhmolprom LLC - due to claims against quality, as reported on the department’s website on Monday, April 7.

The investment division of VTB Group VTB Capital has begun reducing staff in its Moscow and foreign offices, RIA Novosti reported on Monday , citing two employees of the investment company. According to one of the agency's sources, layoffs began in March in the company's Moscow, London and New York offices.

Ukrainian border guards on Monday denied entry into the country to Russian Forbes journalists Pavel Sedakov and Artem Goloshchapov, who were going on a business trip to Dnepropetrovsk. The journalists were taken off the Moscow-Dnepropetrovsk train at the Kazachya Lopan station and sent to Belgorod on the first train heading towards Russia. According to Pavel Sedakov, the Ukrainian border service has practically blocked entry into the country for young men with Russian passports.

The Russian Gazprom is studying the possibility of more active use of the ruble in settlements with counterparties and may offer foreign clients to buy gas for rubles, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Monday, citing company representative Sergei Kupriyanov. According to the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, it is not the Kremlin that sets the task of switching to payments from dollars to rubles or euros. “This is a market,” the publication quotes him as saying.

The authorities of the unrecognized Transnistria abandoned negotiations scheduled for April 10-11 to resolve the Transnistrian conflict, accusing Moldova and Ukraine of sanctions and blockade, reported on Monday. the Kommersant newspaper “Transnistria is not ready to accept an invitation to the next meeting of the 5+2 format,” the publication cites an excerpt from a letter sent by the head of the Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry Nina Shtanski to all participants in the negotiation process.

The Dissernet community discovered signs of plagiarism in the dissertation of the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, community activist and journalist Sergei Parkhomenko reported in his LiveJournal blog on Monday.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes St. Petersburg residents Ivan Zhitenev and Dmitry Terekhin got the Streamer company for debts and brought losses for six years. The owners have endured and now supply their lightning protection devices even for export To see the effect of Streamer lightning protection, you need to slow down the video playback by 400,000 times. Bam, and dozens of thin plasma jets appear and disappear on the edge of a glass disk with an electrode edging.

reports on Monday, April 7 Gazprombank has registered the company GPB Financial Services Hong Kong Limited in Hong Kong, Interfax . The press service of Gazprombank explained that this company is a 100% subsidiary of the bank and plans that it “will apply for a number of licenses to carry out transactions on the securities market.” The representative of the press service added that there are no plans to obtain a banking license at the moment. The new company was headed by Artem Kormilitsyn.

Travel on the barque "Sedov". Concert on board a sailboat in the port of Nagasaki Happiness: —Can you call yourself a happy person? Why? — My grandmother always noted that you need to be very careful when talking about happiness, and she recently turned 91! So I'm inclined to trust her experience. — Give your definition of happiness. — It seems to me that continuing to move along the chosen course is already happiness. - What do you need to do to find your happiness?

Aeroflot airline has reduced the number of daily flights to Donetsk from two to one, ITAR-TASS reported on Monday, April 7, citing the carrier’s press service. Aeroflot has operated two flights every day since January 2013. Previously, the airline operated one flight daily. On Sunday, April 6, in Donetsk, Kharkov and Lugansk - the largest cities in eastern Ukraine - protesters demanded a referendum on the status of these regions and seized a number of administrative buildings.