Companies may be preparing for an IPO The cloud service Dropbox secured another $500 million in funding, bringing the total investment in the company to $1.1 billion. The Square payment system also announced its intention to raise about $200 million. Photo: ilamont / Flickr According to The Financial Times , two large American Internet projects have announced they are raising additional capital.

Vladimir Putin called on the Federal Security Service (FSB) to separate legitimate opposition activities from extremism. “We need to clearly distinguish between legitimate oppositional public activity, which exists in every democratic country, and extremism, which is based on hatred, inciting national and interethnic hatred, and denial of the law and constitution.

Residents of eastern Ukraine last weekend demanded a referendum on the status of their regions. According to Lenta.ru, in Kharkov, protesters took control of the regional state administration building. Activists hung a St. George ribbon and a Russian flag on the second floor window, demanding a referendum on the status of their region.

It will become easier to use data from cameras when considering administrative cases The White House supported a bill that would expand the opportunities for citizens to hear cases of administrative offenses in court. In particular, it will be easier for drivers defending their rights in controversial road accidents to include photographs and recordings from dashcams in their case. The State Duma rejected the bill, but will soon consider it again.

How unrecognized Transnistria lives and what it hopes for In telephone conversations with the heads of the United States and Germany, Vladimir Putin drew attention to the economic blockade of Transnistria. "Money" correspondent ALEXEY BOYARSKY went to the unrecognized republic and saw how they live there and what this blockade is like.

Place Name Assets, located in confidential management (billion rubles) Change behind 12 months (%) Share in the total volume of remote control (%) Individual ualInstitute national new Collection ivePension new accumulated nia 1 Interfin Capital 33.5 +1604.4 0.0 0.7 6.2 93.1 2 "EFG Asset Management" 17.0 +435.6 — 1.0 — 80.0 3 "Mercury Asset Management" 5.9 +122.6 — — 100.0 — 4 "Finam Management" 15.9 +118.9 3.6 — 96.1 0.3 5 "Mikhailovsky" 19.1 +106.8 — — 100.0 — 6 "Concordia Asset Management" 7.3

Executive Director of Petrocommerce Bank Pavel Neumyvakin left the credit institution, Interfax reports, citing a source. Mr. Neumyvakin confirmed this information. “I left the bank on April 1. During negotiations with the new management, it became clear that our points of view on the further development of Petrokommerts differed, so I decided to leave the bank,” he said. Pavel Neumyvakin noted that he is now considering job offers from several credit institutions.

Vasily Gushchin on the transition of the region’s economy to polymer rails The city of Ivanovo is the textile center of Russia, but in the 21st century it has become a hostage to its specialization; you can no longer make money on cotton. Regional authorities decided to combine textiles with polyethylene terephthalate in production. Vasily Gushchin, General Director of OJSC KTK Ivregionsintez, talks about the experiment.

Top shot Materials prepared by Alexander Belyaev Photo: AFP The World Cup for Street Children is being held for the second time in history in Rio de Janeiro. This is a real festival of charity: boys and girls from 18 countries, from Nicaragua to the Philippines, spend their free time studying with teachers and participating in a variety of clubs

According to the results of a survey by VTsIOM, 80% of Russians have experienced drivers not letting them pass at crossings. At the same time, motorists and pedestrians named each other’s poor culture as the main reasons for accidents on zebra crossings. Driving schools cannot be held responsible for rude drivers, experts say. Photo: Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant Russian pedestrians are not allowed to pass at the zebra crossing.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Andrei Dutov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Photo: Vasily Alexandrov, Kommersant The Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov congratulates him: — Please accept my most sincere congratulations on your 50th birthday! Your professional activity in recent years has been closely connected with shipbuilding. And the result is impressive.

Fares Kilzie on the consequences of polymer insulation in Russia Official Western sanctions against Russia should not affect business: so far only major officials are being punished. A much more serious threat is from informal sanctions, which the head of Creon Energy Fares Kilzie, who is not afraid to be branded as a dissident, warns about.

Voice Director Vitaly Mansky, who last week received the Nika film award for best non-fiction film (documentary "Trumpet") Photo: Alexander Shcherbak, Kommersant / buy photo Documentary cinema, if it is at least somewhat related to reality, can safely be called “Trumpet”. That's what they did

Czech President Milos Zeman in an interview called on NATO to deploy its troops on Ukrainian territory in the event of a Russian invasion of the east of the country. “If Russia decides to expand its territorial expansion into eastern Ukraine, then the jokes will be over.

Mikhail Serafimov found out what the writer Alexey Ivanov was thinking about when composing the text of the total dictation The annual educational event "Total Dictation" will be held on April 12 in two hundred cities of Russia, as well as in 60 countries around the world.