The LDPR faction will initiate an appeal from the State Duma to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and will ask to stop the legal process of transferring 115,000 hectares of land in the Trans-Baikal Territory to the Chinese company Zoje Resources Investment, the Kommersant newspaper reports with reference to the deputy head of the LDPR Yaroslav Nilov on Monday, June 22 .

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, published on Monday, June 22, that the United States would not want Russia to exist as a country due to the fact that the country has natural resources.

photo TASS The manufacturer encountered difficulties obtaining seats, sensors and exhaust systems The AvtoVAZ automobile concern suspended production on Monday, June 22 due to problems with the supply of automotive components, Interfax reports citing the company’s press service. “Today the car assembly lines have been stopped. This is due to difficulties in the supply of automotive components, in particular, seats and exhaust systems, sensors,” said a company representative.

Daria Shirokova Author Miroshkina Nika Author Forbes photo report from parties of Sberbank, FC Otkritie and Mikhail Prokhorov The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is famous not only for its substantive discussions about the future of the global and Russian economy, but also for its loud parties. This year, FC Otkrytie organized an apartment party at the More club, at which Vyacheslav Butusov spoke.

photo by Evgeny Dudin for Forbes Woman Maria Piotrovskaya, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Renaissance Credit, - about the family of orientalists, an internship in Tunisia, a career as a trader, Matthias Warnig and Stephen Jennings My dad, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, is the director of the Hermitage, an Arabist, historian, and archaeologist.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with the film crews of the films “Territory” and “Battle for Sevastopol” on Monday, proposed thinking about the possibility of introducing a value added tax (VAT) on movie tickets, RIA Novosti reports . During the meeting, the producer of “The Battle of Sevastopol” Natalya Mokritskaya said that in Poland VAT is charged on movie tickets.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov on Monday, June 22, called “absurd” the recommendation of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights “Public Control,” which suggested that Russian tourists request permission from Ukraine to enter Crimea, Interfax reports . “Crimea, as you know, is a region of the Russian Federation, so the raising of the issue by the organization you mentioned is absolutely absurd,” Peskov said.

Former Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will head the board of directors of Gazprom for the eighth time, thus Gazprom will remain the only large state-owned company whose board of directors will not be led by a current official, Kommersant reports , citing sources on Monday, June 22. According to the newspaper, the government sent a corresponding directive to the new council, which will elect the shareholders meeting on June 26, last week.

Photo by Grigory Sysoev / RIA Novosti Sberbank, VTB and Gazprombank were unable to deprive the founder of Mechel of control over the company. Now Igor Zyuzin is closer than ever to victory over creditors Several years ago, a Russian businessman presented Igor Zyuzin with a gift with a hint - a gift edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “The Gambler.” Igor Vladimirovich then joked that he did not consider himself a player.

Washington is increasingly concerned that NATO ally Greece, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, will fall under Russian influence, the Financial Times reported Monday. The administration of US President Barack Obama has been patiently urging Germany and other EU members for months to resolve their debt conflict with Greece. Economic issues were in the foreground during these negotiations, but they also discussed Brussels’ position on Ukraine, the publication writes, citing diplomatic sources.

Turkey has issued Gazprom a permit for engineering surveys on the offshore section of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, June 22, citing the press service of the Russian energy company. This document provides for conducting research on the first string of the gas pipeline in the exclusive economic zone and territorial waters of Turkey.

The Moscow Magistrate's Court fined Evgeniy Yasin's Liberal Mission Foundation 300,000 rubles for refusing to independently register as a foreign agent, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, June 22 . The organization was included by the Ministry of Justice in the list of foreign agents at the end of May, along with Dmitry Zimin’s Dynasty Foundation, which financed educational programs, which was one of the main sponsors of the Liberal Mission.

Onexim group Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's is not interested in a merger between Uralkali, one of the world's largest potash producers, and Uralchem, Bloomberg reported, citing a source familiar with the plans of the potash company's shareholders and two bankers working with both companies. According to sources, Onexim does not see the point in a merger, because due to the size of Uralchem's debt, which is approximately $4 billion, the value of Uralkali will be diluted.

The market value of the 25% plus one share stake in Bashneft, which Bashkiria will receive by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is about 90 billion rubles, Interfax reported on Monday, citing the head of the republic, Rustem Khamitov. “Today, the market value of the package that Bashkiria will own is approaching 90 billion rubles,” the agency quotes him as saying.

The meeting of Aeroflot shareholders approved the recommendations of the company’s board of directors not to pay dividends based on the results of 2014, the TASS agency reported on Monday . Prior to this, the company paid dividends annually. This decision is in line with the airline’s dividend policy, according to which the basis for calculating dividend payments is the consolidated net profit of the Aeroflot group according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS).