The investigation into the disaster in which 53 people died has been completed. The Poronaisky City Court of the Sakhalin Region will consider the criminal case regarding the disaster of the Kola jack-up floating drilling rig, which killed 53 people. The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) believes that employees of Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka, which owned Kola, are to blame for the tragedy.

The Novosibirsk Regional Court changed the preventive measure for the managing partner of the B-52 marketing agency, Dmitry Petrov, returning him to the pre-trial detention center. This was reported by court representative Anastasia Panchenko. Dmitry Petrov, accused of embezzling 2.7 million rubles allocated by the regional budget for the Interra-2012 forum, was released on February 27: investigators petitioned the court to extend the arrest period for the entrepreneur, but this was denied.

A short circuit could have caused a fire in the Admiral shopping center in Kazan, said Andrey Sheptytsky, senior assistant to the head of the Russian Investigative Committee (ICR) department for the Republic of Tatarstan. “According to preliminary data, a short circuit in the electrical wiring could have caused a fire in the Admiral shopping center. This version is currently being developed. Investigative measures are being carried out,” TASS quotes Mr. Sheptytsky as saying.

Incidents involving intoxicated judges are reviewed regularly by the Qualification Board. The loudest scandal was caused by the judge of the Kirensky District Court of Irkutsk, Dmitry Malykh. In 2012, he was stripped of his powers after, while on a business trip, he used obscene language during a security check at the airport, and also “dropped a police officer” and “put out a cigarette” on another police officer. In the fall of 2014, the ex-judge was sentenced to four years probation.

The exchange's net profit increased to 15.99 billion rubles The Moscow Exchange turned out to be one of the few financial market participants who benefited from the crisis. Due to the increased activity of players against the background of the fall of the ruble and the stock market, its income has increased significantly, which for investors may result in record dividends. Photo: Anton Belitsky, Kommersant / buy photo The Moscow Exchange announced its financial results for 2014 under IFRS.

Connection MegaFon published results for the fourth quarter of 2014. The operator's revenue increased by 3.1% compared to the same period in 2013, to 82.187 billion rubles, OIBDA increased by 12.9%, to 34.456 billion rubles, profitability on it amounted to 41.9% instead of 38.3 % a year earlier. The company's net profit fell by 72%, to RUB 2.82 billion. MegaFon explained this as a loss caused by exchange rate differences as a result of a significant devaluation of the ruble.

Air Samara OJSC filed a lawsuit against the Federal Air Transport Agency with a demand to invalidate the body's decision to revoke the airline's air operator certificate, according to the website of the Arbitration Court of the Samara Region. Air Samara filed a lawsuit on March 3, 2015; on March 6, the court accepted the claim for proceedings. The Federal Air Transport Agency canceled the air operator certificate of Air Samara at the end of February.

blocked by finance correspondent Maria Yakovleva The period of sharp fluctuations in the foreign exchange market is over, financial authorities assure. But not only the December collapse, but also the February record rise in the ruble exchange rate, having remained in the past, continue to retroactively present surprises to market participants. Energobank, having lost money in currency trading, is trying to get it back through the courts.

Newspaper shareholders are studying a law to limit foreign ownership in the media The co-owners of Vedomosti, the American Dow Jones & Co and the British Financial Times came to Russia to understand how they could maintain their business under the 20% limit on the share of foreigners in Russian media. This issue was discussed yesterday with the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is initiating the maximum simplification of registration of foreign drugs in Russia, said the head of the department, Igor Artemyev. He made a corresponding statement while speaking at a round table dedicated to the development of the pharmaceutical market. “In a few hours I have a meeting with the chairman of the government, and one of the questions that I bring to the meeting is precisely this question,” RIA Novosti reports the words of Mr. Artemyev.

The Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region plans to introduce a moratorium on the termination of investment agreements between the regional government and enterprises in difficult situations. Chairman of the regional parliament Evgeny Lebedev announced this yesterday after a meeting on the results of industry work last year.

The Arbitration Court of the Omsk Region registered the application of Agroinnovation LLC to the Omsk administration, the department of architecture and urban planning and the department of property relations. In the statement of claim, the LLC demands that the municipality's decision be declared illegal.

Director of the Department of Priority Development Territories and Infrastructure of the Ministry of Eastern Development Rustam Makarov, at a meeting on the creation of priority development areas in the Khabarovsk Territory under the regional governor Vyacheslav Shport, called on potential investors to contact the department to obtain loans abroad.

The new application filed by Alfa Bank to the court to declare the carrier bankrupt will not affect the company’s work, a representative of UTair airline told TASS . He also added that negotiations with UTair airline’s creditors have reached the final stage. As of mid-December, UTair's direct debt obligations to banks exceeded 63 billion rubles; the total debt, including leasing, reached 167.9 billion rubles.

The draft order of the Federal Tariff Service (FTS) includes an increase in wholesale prices for Gazprom gas for the population by 7.5% from July 1. The current rates were approved on March 25, 2014, and the indexation of tariffs for 2015 was calculated using a formula based on the official September forecast of the Ministry of Economy for inflation for last year, which amounted to 7.5%. In fact, inflation in the country reached 11.4% at the end of last year.