The Russian state company Rosneft has offered Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) to buy out part of its stake in the Petromonagas joint venture and increase its participation in the joint venture to 40%, the reported . press service of the Venezuelan state company The proposal was made during a meeting between the heads of the two companies, Igor Sechin and Eulogio del Pino, in Caracas.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa Bank Petr Aven said on Thursday, May 28, that the bank will protect the interests of depositors in the dispute with Uralvagonzavod, against which the organization filed two lawsuits, TASS reports . Aven recalled that the court hearing on the first claim took place on Wednesday, May 27, but did not report its results. In mid-April, Alfa Bank filed the first claim against Uralvagonzavod for an amount of more than 6 billion rubles and $39.7 million.

Billionaire Nikolai Tsvetkov refuses to sell 75% of Uralsib to the owner of the Moscow Credit Bank (MCB) Roman Avdeev for a symbolic price of one ruble, RBC reported on Thursday, citing informed sources. Tsvetkov and Avdeev cannot agree on the cost of the deal, which is why it may be in jeopardy, sources told the publication.

Evgeniya Pertseva Author Five companies that benefited from bets on falling costs of goods and services despite the crisis in the Russian economy In the minds of many entrepreneurs, lowering prices during a crisis is a direct path to ruin. But there are also business models that go from the opposite. Forbes found five companies that were able to benefit from the discount provided to consumers.

The head of the FSB border service, Vladimir Kuleshov, said on Thursday, May 28, in an interview with RIA Novosti that Russian border guards have taken additional measures to strengthen the border between Russia and Ukraine. “The fighting in the southeast of Ukraine to forcefully suppress the resistance of the people’s militia by Kiev has necessitated the need to take additional measures to strengthen the security of the Russian-Ukrainian state border,” Kuleshov said.

Photo TASS Previously, only information about losses in wartime was considered a state secret. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that classifies as a state secret information from the Ministry of Defense about losses during special operations in peacetime. The corresponding decree was published on the official portal of legal information on Thursday, May 28.

photo by Evgeny Dudin for Forbes Before reforms begin, it is necessary to create an effective management system, says the head of Sberbank The head of Sberbank, German Gref, spoke about the danger of serious and large-scale reforms with the current Russian management system. about this The president of Sberbank spoke in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper on Thursday, May 28. “The less money, the more incentives for reforms.

The organizers of the 2018 FIFA World Cup (2018 World Cup) supported the idea of ​​introducing large fines for failure to deliver facilities by the start of the competition, the wrote Vedomosti newspaper on Thursday, May 28, citing sources. According to them, the amount of the penalty will be, as in preparation for the Olympics in Sochi, 2 million rubles per day.

Photo by Andrey Maksimov / PhotoXPress A year ago, the oligarch seemed to be one of the main victims of the Maidan, but in the end he proved his ability to resolve issues with the new authorities If precision is the politeness of kings, then not all of them. Or this concept does not include financial accuracy. At least the richest Ukrainian, Rinat Akhmetov, demonstrated, not without brilliance, that it is possible to remain the “King of Donbass” without being able to pay off creditors on time.

The head of the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Alexander Savenkov, supported the idea of ​​arranging a sudden bribe check for officials, previously proposed by First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Alexei Alexandrov, RIA Novosti reports on Thursday, May 28 .

Confrontation with the West will lead Russia to a dead end, said former Finance Minister and head of the Committee of Civil Initiatives Alexei Kudrin at the presentation of the report “Values ​​of Perestroika in the Context of Modern Russia” at the Gorbachev Foundation. “It’s sad that today we are again in confrontation with the West. This is definitely a dead-end path,” Interfax quotes Kudrin as saying .

The Arbitration Court of the Rostov Region stopped proceedings on the application of the London branch of Deutsche Bank to collect about $500 million in debt from three companies, RAPSI reports , citing the court’s ruling. The proceedings were terminated due to the plaintiff's refusal of the demands.

Photo TASS The fourth antimonopoly package will allow the FAS to deal more with the “beloved” Gazprom and the “respected” Russian Railways, Artemyev said After the adoption of the fourth antimonopoly package, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) will be able to concentrate on the affairs of the “beloved” Gazprom, the “respected” Russian Railways and other major state corporations, FAS head Igor Artemyev said at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on Thursday.

Russneft, whose largest shareholder is Mikhail Gutseriev , will convert almost $1 billion in debt to Swiss commodity trader Glencore, transferring 46% of its shares to it, Interfax reported Thursday . “There will be no leftovers,” the agency quotes Gutseriev’s answer to the question of whether Russneft will still have debts to Glencore after the deal to transfer a 46% stake in the oil company to the trader is closed. Gutseriev said that Russneft’s debt to Glencore is almost $1 billion.

Photo by Maxim Blinov / RIA Novosti Everything frozen, postponed and hidden in the Kremlin basements will certainly explode in the new political season The great political season that began last winter in Kyiv ended on May 9 in Moscow with a grand triumph for the Kremlin. First, new missiles, tanks and howitzers drove along the guides drawn on the paving stones, and then half a million Muscovites, led by President Vladimir Putin, passed by.