photo TASS How Alexander Tkachev spent more than 14 years at the head of the Krasnodar Territory and what is now expected of him as Minister of Agriculture On a July evening in 2013, the square of the Kuban village of Vyselki was filled with festively dressed people. Popular musicians performed on stage.

Alfa Bank filed a statement of claim with the Moscow Arbitration Court with a request to recover 6.054 billion rubles and $39.722 million from Uralvagonzavod and its affiliated ChTZ-Uraltrak and the Traktorozavodsky technology park, as follows from the materials in the case file on the court’s website. The statement of claim was registered in court on April 14, 2015. A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for May 27.

The acting mayor of Kaluga, Konstantin Baranov, died in a car on the way from Moscow on April 22 at the age of 50, TASS reports , citing sources in Kaluga. According to the agency, the official was traveling to Kaluga and was in the car as a passenger when he suddenly became ill. “Baranov died in a car in the afternoon, whether it was a service vehicle or not is not known,” the interlocutor clarified. According to another source, the mayor has been feeling unwell recently.

Alfa Group of Mikhail Fridman , German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev reported on Thursday closed its investment company Alfa Capital Partners (ACP), which previously managed three funds with a total volume of over $700 million, Interfax with reference to the consortium’s report. Alfa Capital Partners closed in early 2015, the report says. Over the past year, Alfa Capital Partners has only managed the Great Circle Fund, which specializes in investments in transport infrastructure.

Russian Railways received only one application for the competition to design Russia’s first high-speed railway (HSR) Moscow-Kazan worth 20.9 billion rubles, TASS reports on Thursday, April 23, citing a source close to Russian Railways. “One application has been submitted - from a Russian-Chinese consortium, which includes the largest Chinese design institute,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

US President Barack Obama admitted on Thursday in his address to the nation that during a CIA special operation against the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, carried out on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan in January 2015, two hostages were killed, including American Warren Winestein and an Italian Giovanni Lo Porto, the White House said in a statement.

The Russian economy will reach pre-crisis levels in various macroeconomic parameters in 2017 or 2018, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, at a government meeting on Thursday, April 23. “We expect that the recession will last three quarters and at the end of the year an economic recovery will begin, which will develop into such compensatory demand in 2016,” Interfax quotes Ulyukaev .

Dalspetsstroy under Spetsstroy filed a lawsuit against the Pacific Bridge Construction Company (TMK) for 1 billion rubles for uncompleted work at the Vostochny cosmodrome, for which an advance was made, TASS reports with reference to the head of the public relations department of Dalspetsstroy » Valery Timokhov on Thursday, April 23. “Due to failure to fulfill the terms of the contract, the contractual relationship was terminated.

The Ministry of Finance has developed a plan to reduce government spending on healthcare, education and culture and plans to present it to the government commission on optimization and increasing the efficiency of budget expenditures under the leadership of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday, April 23.

Lawyers for the children of politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed on February 27 in Moscow, filed a petition with the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) to interrogate the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and a number of other high-ranking officials from the republic, Interfax reports with reference to lawyer Vadim Prokhorov on Thursday, 23 April.

Photo by Alexander Karnyukhin for Forbes The Norilsk Nickel company, which a few years ago was bursting at the seams due to a corporate conflict, made its CEO a leader in the Forbes list “The history of our conflict with Oleg Deripaska is very revealing. It can be used directly for a textbook,” Vladimir Potanin, president of the Interros holding and current general director of MMC Norilsk Nickel, says with a grin, sitting in the Interros office on Yakimanka overlooking the Kremlin.

Governor of the Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov at a press conference on Thursday spoke out against discussing the statement of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov about shooting at security forces from other regions, saying that his words were probably incorrectly interpreted, Interfax reports . “Under no circumstances should you be allowed to discuss another person. But if you want to know my own position on this matter, I'm sure it's all made up.

The situation of Russian taxpayers in the next three years should not worsen, and in many respects it will even improve, Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei Shatalov said on Thursday at a round table of the Budget Committee of the Federation Council on the main directions of tax policy for 2016-2018. Shatalov noted that the Ministry of Finance has taken a pause on major changes to tax legislation, Interfax reports . “The main basic solution is to pause.

The Rosneft board of directors approved changes to the composition of the company's board, reported on Thursday. the press service of the largest Russian oil company Instead of Igor Pavlov, who owns a minority stake in the company, and Vice President for Capital Construction Andrei Votinov, the company's board included Vice President for Energy and Localization Andrei Shishkin and Vice President for Internal Services Yuri Narushevich. In total, the board of Rosneft includes 13 people.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs published an official statement in which it called unacceptable the words of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, with which he allowed Chechen security forces to open fire to kill law enforcement officers from other regions working in Chechnya.