Gunvor CEO Torbjorn Tornqvist paid himself $1 billion in dividends and paid Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko for his stake in the company, which was sold in 2014. The debt to Timchenko has been completely repaid Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko (Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS) Gunvor CEO Torbjörn Tornqvist appointed himself a special dividend of $1 billion to pay off debt to the former co-owner of the oil trader, Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko, reports the Financial Times.

Gunvor CEO Torbjorn Tornqvist, who owns a controlling stake in the company, intends to reduce his stake. this reports Bloomberg with reference to a statement from Gunvor. The company explained that Törnqvist's share will be reduced from 78 to 70%, while the share of the group of more than 200 Gunvor employees will increase. “Gunvor is now in the process of transitioning to a partnership model of company ownership,” the oil trader said in a statement.

After the EgyptAir A320 crash, Airbus decided to step up the development of alternatives to black boxes. Two options are being considered: data transmission via satellite or the creation of non-sinking recorders Airbus logo (Photo: Reuters/Pixstream) Airbus is intensifying its development of alternative ways to obtain information in the event of plane crashes after the flight recorders of the crashed Egyptian airliner could not be found after two weeks of searching.

Photo: RBC St. Petersburg The first days of summer in St. Petersburg will be warm, but overall June will be much rainier than usual. This was announced by the chief weather forecaster of St. Petersburg, Alexander Kolesov, during today's press conference. Forecasters from Roshydromet specified that on June 1 and 2 the thermometer will rise to 24-25 degrees in the Northern capital. There will be no precipitation in the city these days.

The referees who were “involved in the scandal” at the Russian freestyle wrestling championship match were suspended from work. The President of the Russian Wrestling Federation, Mikhail Mamiashvili, told Interfax about this. “There is a decision on the judges, it remains to be approved. These judges were suspended from work, the first and second teams. They will not participate in further maintenance of the Russian Championship.

North Korea's attempt to launch a ballistic missile failed, reports Seoul. North Korea's previous three attempts to test this type of missile also failed. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un together with military leaders at the test site during one of the ballistic missile launches, archive (Photo: Reuters/Pixstream) The DPRK's ballistic missile launch failed, the South Korean Yonhap agency reported on Tuesday, May 31, citing a statement by the country's Chiefs of Staff Committee.

The White House reviewed the petition for the repeal of the Magnitsky Act, which collected more than 200 thousand signatures, and published an official response stating that the petition will not be granted.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the current Russian-Chinese relations the best in history. The minister clarified that relations between Russia and China “represent a model of interstate cooperation in the 21st century,” Lavrov said during a speech at the international conference “Russia and China: towards a new quality of bilateral relations,” TASS reports .

The time for a tax on parasitism in Russia has not yet come, said the head of the Ministry of Labor Maxim Topilin. At the same time, he proposed an alternative - the redistribution of funds allocated for unemployment benefits Maxim Topilin, head of Mintrud (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBK) In Russia, the time has not yet come to introduce a tax on parasitism, said Russian Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin. “The time for such a tax has not come. He's not needed.

Nadezhda Savchenko, who returned to Ukraine last week after being pardoned by President Vladimir Putin, spoke for the first time in the Verkhovna Rada, where she was elected as a deputy while she was in custody in Russia. Deputy Nadezhda Savchenko near the Verkhovna Rada building (Photo: Vyacheslav Ratynsky/InA “Ukrainian Photo”) Deputy Nadezhda Savchenko spoke for the first time at a meeting of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Cellular communications in the medium term may become free for users, MTS President Andrey Dubovskov is sure. Operators may make money through partnerships with other companies or advertising MTS President Andrey Dubovskov (Photo: Yuri Mashkov/TASS) “I think that in the future, in the medium term, we [operators] should not take money from customers. We should not live on the money that the client has to pay to satisfy his communication needs.

Otto Hitler, considered Adolf Hitler's older brother, was actually younger than him and died in infancy. Historians have come to this conclusion, reports Reuters citing the Oberoesterreichische publication. It was previously believed that Adolf Hitler was the fourth of six siblings. However, records found in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, where he was born, show that the future Fuhrer was in fact the third child in the family. The historian Florian Kotanko came to this conclusion.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wants to improve relations with Russia, but does not understand what kind of “first step” Moscow expects from him.

The Greek visa center in Moscow will change the rules for submitting documents from June 1. This was reported by the press service of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR). The organization said that these changes will affect both individual applicants and travel companies.

State Duma candidate and coordinator of the human rights project of the Open Russia movement, Maria Baronova, nominated Pyotr Pavlensky’s “Threat” action, in which he set fire to the door of the FSB building on Lubyanka, for the FSB award in the field of art. this She reported on her Facebook page. “The main figure of contemporary art in Russia is, of course, Pyotr Pavlensky.