The board of directors of Bank Vozrozhdenie recommended the candidacy of former deputy chairman of Rosbank Igor Antonov for the position of chairman of the bank's board, reported on Friday. the press service of the credit institution Until the Central Bank officially approves Antonov’s candidacy, the position of Chairman of the Board will continue to be held by Alexander Dolgopolov, who has worked at the bank for more than 20 years, the last two of which in this post.

Behind the detective intrigue, it’s easy to miss the important message that English TV series send to the world No matter what, I’ve been hooked on English detective series for a long time. Precisely English ones. Not all, but the best. I call them English, and not, as expected, British, since detective fiction is a signature English genre and the action most often develops in England.

Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a letter from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko regarding the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, told the TASS agency on Friday. press secretary of the Russian head of state Dmitry Peskov “The response signed by the President of the Russian Federation has already been prepared and sent,” Peskov said. He refused to provide details of the response, citing the fact that the contents of official correspondence at the highest level are not disclosed.

The decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on reducing the salaries of government staff by 10% from May 1, 2015 applies to State Duma deputies and members of the Federation Council, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, citing the head of the Duma department for public relations and media relations, Yuri Shuvalov. . Shuvalov also recalled that the State Duma had previously sent a letter to the President of Russia regarding the reduction of deputies’ salaries.

Former French Interior Minister Claude Guéant was detained in connection with Libya's financing, in particular its former leader Muammar Gaddafi, of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign, Le Monde reported on Friday, March 6. Gehan, in particular, must explain to the investigation who transferred €500,000 to him from abroad in 2008.

Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko, accused in Russia of complicity in the murder of VGTRK journalists, asked the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the pre-trial detention center to develop a balanced diet for her to break the hunger strike, according to a message from Savchenko’s lawyer Mark Feigin on his Twitter.

Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden said on Friday, March 6, during a Moscow-Geneva teleconference, that he had made a request for political asylum in Switzerland, where he worked for some time as an employee of the US National Security Agency (NSA), reports TASS . “I would like to return to Geneva, with which I have fond memories. I think Switzerland would be a great place politically because it has always tried to be neutral,” Snowden said.

photo by Yuri Chichkov for Forbes Woman The Chairman of the Accounts Chamber in a long interview with Forbes Woman - about disputes with the Ministry of Finance, sympathy for Elvira Nabiullina, the price of Crimea, the scale of theft, Navalny’s investigations and family life On the eve of the March 8 holiday, Forbes Woman continues to publish a series of interviews and materials about women managing Russian finance, the oil and gas industry and other strategic industries.

The Kremlin decided that Google and Apple were underpaying taxes to the budget, and therefore the authorities discussed plans to create an additional taxation mechanism for these companies, the Vedomosti newspaper reports , citing the results of a meeting in the Russian Presidential Administration.

The Swedish Ambassador to Moscow, Veronica Bard Bringus, on Friday, March 6, spoke about the creation in Russia of obstacles to the work of Swedish companies, in particular the cosmetics company Oriflame, Prime reports . Bringus also did not rule out that some Swedish enterprises may leave the Russian market.

The dollar exchange rate in the first minutes of trading on the Moscow Exchange on Friday, March 6, fell below 60 rubles for the first time since February 26, reports the website Finanz.ru . According to data at 10:17 Moscow time, the dollar with settlements tomorrow decreased by 84 kopecks - to 59.9780 rubles. By this time, the euro had fallen in price by 94 kopecks to 66.099 rubles.

Problems with the payment of scholarships to students were provoked by the government of Dmitry Medvedev, which in December 2014 decided to reduce the scholarship fund for all Russian universities by 10%, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday . The day before, on Thursday, Medvedev at a government meeting instructed Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs Olga Golodets to check information about delays in scholarships. “Maybe that's not true.

The official dollar-ruble exchange rate, set by the Central Bank of Russia for the weekend, decreased by 1.85 rubles and amounted to 59.9938 rubles, Finanz.ru reported on Friday, citing data from the regulator. The official dollar exchange rate fell below 60 rubles for the first time in 2015. The official dollar exchange rate for the New Year holidays, set by the Central Bank of Russia at the end of December 2014, was 56.2376 rubles.

The head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Sergei Kapkov, intends to leave his post in the Moscow government after March 10 due to disagreements with the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, RBC reported , citing two sources close to the mayor’s office on Friday, March 6.

The decision to cut salaries by 10% for the president, prime minister and other senior Russian officials “is temporary,” told the radio station “Moscow Speaks” on Friday, March 6.