The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Thursday, April 24, extended the house arrest of the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny by six months, RIA Novosti reports citing the oppositionist’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev. Thus, Judge Elena Korobchenko rejected the requests of the prosecutor’s office and the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), who believed that Navalny had violated the terms of the preventive measure. Navalny's house arrest expired on April 28.

reports on Thursday, April 24 The European Commission rejected Russia's statement about the illegality of future reverse gas supplies from Slovakia to Ukraine and insists on their legitimacy, Interfax-Ukraine . “The solution that we propose, which is enshrined in the memorandum of understanding (on reverse supplies from Slovakia to Ukraine), is of course legal,” said Sabine Berger, a representative of European Commissioner for Energy Gunter Ottinger.

photo by Andrey Kovalev for Forbes Rules of non-commodity business of two leading Russian entrepreneurs - founders of Magnit and Yandex Sergey Galitsky and Arkady Volozh are bright representatives of the new generation of billionaires who have grown up in the ten years since Forbes magazine has been published in Russia. Despite the fact that they work in different sectors of the economy, they have much in common. The basis of their fortune is non-resource companies.

Switzerland intends to send a group of highly qualified experts to Kiev in the near future to help Ukrainian investigators return assets withdrawn by Viktor Yanukovych’s inner circle, reported on Thursday, April 24. the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine This was announced by the director of the department of international law at the Swiss Foreign Ministry, Valentina Zellweger, during negotiations with the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Nikolai Golomsha.

How entrepreneurs make money on scientific developments thirty years ago It is believed that a successful startup only grows from a new idea. However, many large technology companies owe their existence to the developments of Soviet scientists. It still makes sense for new projects to pay attention to the past. Here are five illustrative examples.

The European Union may prohibit financial transactions with Crimean banks, Reuters reports on Thursday, April 24, citing a document from the European Commission at the agency’s disposal. In addition, according to the document, the European Union does not exclude the introduction of measures to ban investments in the EU by companies located or registered in Crimea, as well as a ban on European investments in Crimean facilities.

The UCP Foundation, which owns 48% of the shares of VKontakte, reported that Pavel Durov, fired from the post of general director of the social network, is trying to present himself “as a political dissident” due to the threat of legal proceedings hanging over him, according to a press release from the fund received by Forbes on Thursday, April 24.

Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin's carried out exploration of the Maslovskoye platinum deposit in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in fact illegally, since a completely different territory was included in the license by mistake from Rosnedra, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday with reference to the February inspection report of Rosprirodnadzor.

The founder of VKontakte temporarily settled in Central Europe and, through Facebook, began looking for a new base for his team VKontakte founder Pavel Durov, who was fired from his post as general director of the social network on April 21, said on Thursday that he, along with his brother Nikolai and several other programmers, was looking for a country where they could create a new project. about this Durov wrote early on Thursday morning on his personal page on the social network Facebook.

The loss of VK.com Limited, which owns the largest Russian social network VKontakte, at the end of 2013 amounted to 137 million rubles, with revenue growing by almost 15% to 3.825 billion rubles, follows from the financial statements of Mail.Ru Group, which owns 51.99% of the social network . The loss of VKontakte in 2012 amounted to 210 million rubles. On Thursday, Mail.Ru Group published its audited financial results for 2013.

Photo Ukrainian photo Report from the opening of the Congress “Ukraine-Russia. Dialogue" The Congress of Russian and Ukrainian intelligentsia opened in Kyiv on Thursday, April 24. The list of guests on both sides includes writers, businessmen, journalists, and public figures. For two days they will discuss how to maintain dialogue between Ukraine and Russia. The conference is divided into sections “Politics”, “Culture”, “Business”, “Media”, “Society and Religion”.

If the Ukrainian authorities began to use the army against the population inside the country, this is “a very serious crime against their people,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said, speaking at the media forum of the All-Russian Popular Front on Thursday, commenting on the events in Slavyansk. This is reported by ITAR-TASS . According to the head of state, events in eastern Ukraine once again indicate that Russia made the right and timely decision in the case of Crimea and Sevastopol.

The United States and the European Union in Ukraine made “an attempt to carry out another “color revolution”, an operation for unconstitutional regime change,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the Global University Forum 2014, which takes place on Thursday at MGIMO.

The Russian Gazprom on Wednesday issued an invoice to Naftogaz of Ukraine for $11.388 billion for non-discharge of gas in 2013, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the gas monopolist Alexander Medvedev told reporters. The bill for non-sampling of gas under the “take-or-pay” condition for last year is $11.388 billion, Interfax quotes him as saying . Under the terms of the contract with Gazprom, the Ukrainian Naftogaz was supposed to select 41.6 billion cubic meters of gas in 2013.

Facebook announced the purchase of PhotoGeo Oy, the Finnish developer of the fitness application for smartphones Moves, follows from a message published on Thursday, April 24, on the company's website. The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but as the Wall Street Journal writes , citing a company representative, it is significantly less than the company’s recent acquisitions.