Apple will provide the former head of Burberry and the company's new vice president, Angela Ahrendts, who oversees the stores, with stock awards potentially worth more than $68 million, Bloomberg reported, citing company materials. The documents show Ahrendts will receive 113,334 shares over four years. Taking into account the closing price of Apple shares on May 5 ($600.96), the total value of the package will be about $68.1 million.

The April government approved a national plan to combat tax evasion and concealment of beneficial owners, which includes a ban on the transfer of assets to opaque trusts, the writes , citing sources on Tuesday, May 6. Vedomosti newspaper The plan stipulates that by December 2014 a proposal should be prepared prohibiting Russian residents from transferring property to a trust or other similar arrangement if the latter does not meet transparency requirements.

The fare for public transport in Moscow will increase by 5-7% from June 1, reported on Tuesday, May 6. the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development Prices will rise for all types of capital public transport, including buses and monorails. The increases will affect “reusable” tickets, while the cost of travel for one and two trips, as well as for the Troika card, will remain unchanged.

Senior White House officials are directly calling the heads of the largest American energy, financial and industrial corporations, urging them to refuse to participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which will be held from May 22 to 24, the American newspaper The New York Times wrote on Tuesday .

The Crimean Titan plant, owned by the corporation of Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash (No. 14 in the Ukrainian Forbes billionaire ranking , fortune - $673 million), refuses to register as a legal entity in Russia and pay taxes in Crimea, said the first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev on Tuesday . “The question is that they are currently registered as legal entities in Kiev and do not want to pay us taxes,” ITAR-TASS quotes him .

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow on Tuesday will send to the head of the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, where Konstantin Lebedev, convicted of organizing mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012 in Moscow, is being held, documents for the parole of the prisoner, Interfax reports with reference to the press. court secretary Yulia Skotnikova. Skotnikova noted that the decision to release Lebedev on parole was not appealed by either party and entered into legal force.

REUTERS Gas, which until recently was perhaps the main “fuel” of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, now seems to be playing, if not a peacekeeping, then a deterrent role News about Ukraine in recent days has been divided into two categories. One is about skirmishes at checkpoints, storming of south-eastern cities, about the wounded and killed, arson and provocations. And after that - about menacing statements from the lawn of the White House or from a high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the creation of an open joint-stock company “Non-bank depository and credit organization Credit Guarantee Agency” in order to support small and medium-sized businesses; the corresponding document was posted on the government website on Tuesday.

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Ernst & Young Global Ltd Mark Weinberger refused to participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which will be held from May 22 to 24, 2014 in the city on the Neva, Interfax reported, citing an informed source. .

Acting President of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov signed on Tuesday, May 6, a decree appointing Anatoly Pushnyakov as commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Previously, Pushnyakov was appointed acting commander of the ground forces. His predecessor, Gennady Vorobyov, who held this position since 2009, was dismissed from his post on January 17, 2014. Anatoly Pushnyakov was born on March 3, 1954 in the Odessa region.

reported on Tuesday, May 6 The Tagansky Court of Moscow recognized as legal the blocking of the website of the online publication Grani.ru by Roskomnadzor and its inclusion, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, in the register of prohibited sites, Interfax .

Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSO) of Russia, whose director, Evgeny Murov, was subject to US sanctions, were banned from traveling to 108 countries with which the United States has concluded agreements on mutual extradition, the RBC agency reported , citing sources in the law enforcement agency. According to one of the agency’s interlocutors, FSO employees received a mailing from the HR department with a list of countries prohibited and allowed for visiting.

In 2014, the Russian Black Sea Fleet will be replenished with submarines and surface ships of a new generation in connection with the entry of Crimea into Russia, Russian Defense Minister, Army General Sergei Shoigu said at a conference call on Tuesday. Shoigu noted that in 2014, new air defense units and marine corps units will be created at the fleet's bases, RIA Novosti reports .

The new FATCA tax law, which comes into force in the United States on July 1, will be a more powerful blow to the Russian economy than sanctions unless Russia and the United States enter into an interstate agreement on the exchange of tax information, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

Anapa airport can become a transit point for air transportation to Crimea: from there it is planned to organize flights to Simferopol with a regularity of 30 minutes, Acting Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksenov said on Tuesday, May 6, in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. “There is an idea to establish shuttle flights from Anapa, and this idea was also expressed to us by a representative of the presidential administration.