Photo TASS / Alexey Druzhinin Why business and government got on skates: hockey history in three periods First period: box in the forest The referee blows the whistle to start the match, crushed ice flies out from under his skates, world hockey champion Alexei Yashin makes an accurate pass, and his team opens the scoring; by the end of the first period it is already leading 4:3. This is not a professional Kontinental Hockey League game, but a morning training session for two amateur teams.

UTair Airlines laid off more than a third of its employees over the year, according to a report published on the carrier’s website. The quarterly report indicated that at the end of March 2014, UTair employed 6,546 people, while at the end of March 2015, the airline's workforce had decreased to 4,171 people. In addition, the payroll fund at UTair decreased compared to 2014 from 6.93 billion rubles to 1.11 billion rubles. Airlines UTair is in a difficult financial situation.

The Facebook administration has blocked the posts of some Ukrainian users due to offensive content, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (No. 16 in the global ranking of billionaires according to Forbes, worth $33.4 billion) said during a question-and-answer session on Thursday. writes about this SiliconBeat . Zuckerberg said some of the posts violated Facebook's policy against hate speech on the social network's pages.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, May 15, that the Kremlin will be satisfied with any solution to the issue of France supplying two Mistral helicopter carriers, TASS reports . According to Peskov, Moscow agrees both to the implementation of the agreement for the supply of ships and to the payment of monetary compensation by Paris.

Ukraine intends to spend about 4 billion hryvnia (approximately $200 million) over three years on the construction of a “wall” on the border with Russia, according to a corresponding decree of the Ukrainian government, approved by the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers and published on Friday, May 15, on the government portal. UAH 1 billion of this amount is planned to be spent in 2015, notes Ukrayinska Pravda.

photo TASS The most profitable Hollywood film studio in 2014 was Walt Disney, whose profit amounted to $1.7 billion on revenue of $7.2 billion, the American Forbes reported on Friday . Such profitability of the film company was made possible thanks to the box office success of the film “Maleficent” starring Angelina Jolie. The film brought the studio $758 million from worldwide box office.

The US House of Representatives approved on Friday, May 15, a military budget bill for 2016 in the amount of $612 billion, The New York Times reported on Friday . Of this amount, $200 million is earmarked for providing military assistance to Ukraine, the text of the document says . 269 ​​congressmen voted for the bill, 151 voted against it. The document stipulates that funds allocated to help Ukraine can be used, among other things, to supply “defensive weapons” to Kyiv.

A Russian businessman was taken in handcuffs to the territory of a military base Sergei Polonsky's lawyer Sergei Vladi confirmed on Friday to Forbes that the Russian businessman, accused in Russia of stealing money from shareholders, was arrested on his yacht in Cambodia and taken to the territory of a military base along with a group of people with him. “There is reliable information that Sergei Polonsky has indeed been arrested,” Vladi emphasized.

Children under 14 years old from Monday, May 19, will be able to obtain a foreign passport in Moscow in one day, Interfax reports on Friday, May 15, citing the press service of the Federal Migration Service (FMS). The FMS clarified that this service will be provided by the passport and visa center on Novoslobodskaya Street.

Chairman of the Board of Novatek Leonid Mikhelson wrote a letter to President Vladimir Putin in which he asked to allow Vnesheconombank to provide guarantees for $3 billion on loans for Yamal LNG, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Friday, May 15, which has a copy of the letter.

The investigation team in the case of the murder of oppositionist Boris Nemtsov will be headed by Nikolai Tutevich instead of Igor Krasnov, who previously led this case, RIA Novosti reports on Friday, May 15, citing the lawyer of one of the accused, Shamsudin Tsakaev. This information was confirmed to the agency by a source in law enforcement agencies. “The investigation team was headed by Tutevich due to the fact that Krasnov left for a promotion,” he explained.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, May 15, held a closed meeting on the development of the Armed Forces, said press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov. “The topic of today’s part of the meetings is closed,” TASS quotes Peskov as saying . This is the third meeting on issues related to the Ministry of Defense and the military-industrial complex in recent days. The first two took place on May 12 and 13.

Photo by Yuri Chichkov for Forbes The owner of MKB is negotiating the purchase of Nikolai Tsvetkov’s assets The owner of the Uralsib financial corporation, Nikolai Tsvetkov, began negotiations on the sale of his assets to the owner of the Moscow Credit Bank, Roman Avdeev , the Kommersant newspaper reports , citing market participants on Friday, May 15. According to the newspaper, as a result of the transaction, Avdeev may become the owner of more than 75% of the financial corporation.

Rosstat preliminary estimates the fall in Russia's GDP in the first quarter of 2015 at 1.9%, as reported on the agency's website on Friday, May 15. The preliminary forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development was more pessimistic. At the end of April, at a government meeting, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev , said that in the first quarter, GDP decreased by 2.2%.

The Board of Directors of Gazprom decided to set the size of dividends for 2014 at the level of 2013 - 7.2 rubles per share, the reported on Friday, May 15. company’s press service “Thus, it is recommended to allocate 90.2% of the net profit of OJSC Gazprom (the parent company) according to RAS for 2014 to pay dividends,” the press release states. The company decided to compile a list of shareholders to receive dividends as of July 16, 2015.