The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict of the Novosibirsk regional court against the chairman of the board of directors of the Legal Consulting Agency Nikolai Efimenko. This was reported by the press service of the Armed Forces. As indicated in the investigation materials, in the fall of 2012, Efimenko was looking for the perpetrator of the murder of businessman Alexei Leonchikov, to whom he owed a large sum.

The leader of the LDPR party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, appealed to the President of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, with a request to install folding seats in the Sapsan high-speed trains so that officials could “work with papers and rest a little” on the way. “Please include in the Sapsan seats that can be reclined, reclining, like on an airplane. You pressed a button and you can rest during the flight. In Sapsan they made a small VIP in the first and last car, but the seats remained the same.

Mega regulator A new version of the text of the Central Bank's instructions on conducting inspections of financial market participants from among non-credit organizations was posted yesterday on the regulator's website. As Kommersant wrote on April 7, the previous version of the instructions caused a negative reaction from market participants, since it did not provide for the possibility of representatives of self-regulatory organizations (SROs) participating in inspections.

Evraz refuses regular payments until 2017 Evraz will not pay regular dividends until it reduces its leverage to a net debt to EBITDA ratio of less than 3. The company is expected to achieve this by 2017 by cutting costs and reducing capex. Other metallurgists, with the exception of the unprofitable Mechel, do not yet plan to limit payments. President of Evraz Group Alexander Frolov Photo: Dmitry Lekai, Kommersant / buy photo Evraz has revised its dividend policy.

On April 22, OJSC Vladivostok International Airport (MAV) will sum up the results of the competition for the provision of services to provide it with a revolving credit line for a period of up to 3 years with a limit of 100 million rubles. As stated in the company's statement, the maximum interest rate under the agreement should not exceed 12% per annum. Applications are accepted until April 15 inclusive.

The Board of Directors of Uralkali recommended that shareholders at the annual meeting approve dividends for 2013 in the amount of 1.63 rubles. per share in addition to interim, the company said in a statement. At the end of the first half of 2013, Uralkali paid 2.21 rubles per share. Thus, the total amount of dividends for 2013 may be 3.84 rubles per share, which is 2.2 times lower than the level of 2012 (8.61 rubles per share).

A delegation from the government of the Kaliningrad region has canceled a visit to Latvia planned for April, a source in the regional government told Interfax . “The visit of the Kaliningrad delegation (to Latvia - Kommersant ) scheduled for April 16-18, which was to be headed by Governor Nikolai Tsukanov, will not take place. Today we can say that it is postponed indefinitely,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Round table “Energy sales business in Russia: management of evolutionary development and growth points” Oleg Barkin Deputy Chairman of the Board, NP Market Council Biography Alexander Kalinin First Vice-President of the All-Russian public organization of small and medium-sized businesses "OPORA RUSSIA" for energy, infrastructure and cluster policy Andrey Kovalev General Director, Mosenergosbyt Dmitry Orlov Head of Retail Business Unit of Inter RAO Group Stepan Solzhenitsyn Partner,

The Moscow metro will be open until two o'clock in the morning for Easter, which is celebrated this year on April 20. This was stated by First Deputy General Director of Mosgortrans Boris Tkachuk. “This is traditional, but this year it was decided to extend the metro’s operation until two o’clock in the morning,” Interfax quotes Mr. Tkachuk. The official clarified that the work of ground transport will be extended until three o'clock in the morning.

One of the largest telecom operators in Russia, TTK, will hold an online broadcast of the international literacy test “Total Dictation”. This was said in a statement. The event will take place on April 12 in more than 350 cities in Russia and the world. It was invented several years ago at Novosibirsk State University (NSU), where this time the dictation will be conducted by the author of the text, the famous writer Alexey Ivanov. TTK will begin broadcasting from NSU at 12.00 Moscow time.

For residents of Crimea the call will be free As Kommersant expected, the direct line with Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place on April 17. For the first time in the history of direct lines, citizens will have the opportunity to send video messages to the head of state (Kommersant reported about this innovation on April 7). A separate hotline will operate for residents of Crimea and Sevastopol, through which they can ask questions to the head of state. Calling it will be free.

Today the authorities of Kerch signed a cooperation agreement with Tula. With Perm, whose head Igor Sapko announced the establishment of partnerships with the Crimean city, the Kerch authorities signed only a protocol of intent on cooperation in the economic, trade and humanitarian spheres. On behalf of Perm, the protocol was signed by the head of the Perm City Duma staff, Sergei Romanyuta. Kerch pins its greatest hopes on cooperation on Tula.

The traffic police reported on the accident rate for January -March 4.6 thousand people died in accidents in three months of 2014, in total 35.1 thousand accidents occurred on the roads. The increase in accident rate is still small, but the pace is gradually increasing. Against this background, the number of dead in “drunk” accidents drops sharply. Most affected by the accident - in Kalmykia, the absolute record holder in the number of car accidents is Moscow.

ARKS Group President Dmitry Simarev on Gennady Timchenko’s influence on the company’s business The general contracting group ARKS, created in the early 2000s, was practically not widely known. But as soon as businessman Gennady Timchenko became a co-owner of the company, ARKS received an increase in the volume of orders from the Moscow City Hall. In an interview with Kommersant, the president of the group, DMITRY SIMAREV, explained why US sanctions against Mr.

How Ukraine meets and sees off Russian journalists Yesterday in Kharkov at the Ukrainian border, Kommersant special correspondent ANDREY KOLESNIKOV and photojournalist DMITRY AZAROV were detained, removed from the Moscow-Donetsk train and deported to Russia. The amazing details of what happened are in the report from Kharkov and Belgorod.