The bank filed a claim for 355 million rubles Photo: TASS Joint-stock bank Rossiya (co-owned by businessman Yuri Kovalchuk) filed a claim against the airline company UTair and the leasing company UTair-Leasing for 355.2 million rubles. According to the case materials on the website of the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the claim has not yet been accepted for proceedings. The contents of the claim have not yet been disclosed in the case materials. RBC St.

The head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, believes that the dollar exchange rate will not reach 80 rubles. According to her, the Central Bank does not expect “such a sharp” weakening of the ruble in the near future. Head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina (Photo: Getty Images) “Of course, we do not expect such a sharp depreciation,” Nabiullina said in an interview with Bloomberg TV .

MegaFon has announced an increase in tariffs for international roaming services. According to Content-review, 57% of the tariff is transferred by Russian operators to foreign partners in dollars Photo: REUTERS 2015 One of the "troika" As RBC was informed by the press service of MegaFon, the cost of international calls for the operator’s subscribers will increase from February 20.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko accepted the resignation of Prosecutor General Vitaly Yarema. about this on his Facebook page on Monday . wrote Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Sergei Kaplin “The President approved Yarema’s resignation. Lutsenko [the head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction] announced this at a faction meeting,” Kaplin wrote. Previously, Yarema was criticized by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc for ineffective work.

One of the most famous concert clubs in St. Petersburg, Aurora Concert Hall, located on Pirogovskaya Embankment, is suspending operations. Photo: aurora-hall.ru The general director of the club, Veniamin Bogdanov, told an RBC St. Petersburg correspondent about this. Anastasia Derkach, an employee of the club’s advertising and marketing department, explained that the suspension of activities is due to financial difficulties.

Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina/RBC Further attempts to achieve compliance with the Minsk agreements will only lead to the collapse of Ukraine as a state. The only chance for Kyiv is to recognize the independence of Donbass and abandon it. Federalization is a dead end for Ukraine Next week will mark a year since the start of direct Russian intervention in events in Ukraine: the date February 20 is stamped on the medals that were awarded to ordinary participants in the annexation of Crimea.

The order of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev states that Olga Dergunova did not ensure the proper quality of execution of government orders.

In 2014, Russians began to choose cheaper cars - sales decreased by 10%, and dollar revenue decreased by 16%. In 2015, sales will decline by another 25–35% Photo: Maria Ionova-Gribina for RBC In 2015, sales of new passenger cars in Russia will decline by another 25–35%, experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) predict. The report they prepared, “Russian Automotive Market: Results of 2014 and Development Prospects,” notes that in 2015, 1.52–1.75 million such cars will be sold in Russia.

Is there any hope that Moscow will move faster when there are enough parking spaces in the city, what conclusions were drawn from last year’s accident in the metro and why Transmashholding honestly wins Moscow competitions without competition, says Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport Maxim Liksutov. “Some agreed to participate in competitions at 2014 prices” – In November, Moscow approved a budget with expenses of 1.633 trillion rubles.

Apple is going to issue bonds in Swiss francs for the first time. Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse will manage the issue of securities, told The Wall Street Journal. a source at one of the banks involved in preparing the placement The maturity dates of the bonds have not yet been established, but short-term securities may be issued with a negative yield, the publication writes.

An RBC St. Petersburg correspondent was informed about this at the reception of the Russian Foreign Ministry's representative office in St. Petersburg. However, diplomats do not say who will take the position of honorary consul. “When this person arrives and introduces himself, then we can name him. We are waiting for now,” the representative office said. The Honorary Consulate of Austria had previously worked in St. Petersburg, but suspended work five years ago.

More than a third of banks will turn to the state for help this year. The Central Bank's reduction of the key rate will no longer help them, says the report of the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMAF) Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC 220–230 banks may request government assistance this year, the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMACF) predicts in its report.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov responded to a publication in The Wall Street Journal, according to which, at negotiations in Moscow, Angela Merkel invited Vladimir Putin to accept a peace plan for Ukraine by Wednesday Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov (Photo: TASS) In an interview with the Govorit Moskva radio station , Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that no one can communicate with the head of state in the form of an

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow was headed by Alexander Drymanov, said on Twitter. Alexander Bastrykin TFR press secretary Vladimir Markin The order appointing Drymanov as the acting head of the capital's State Investigative Directorate was signed by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin.

More than 40 people were killed as a result of clashes near a football stadium in Cairo, Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera reports. The Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs claims that the riots were provoked by a hooligan group of the capital's Zamalek football club. Its members tried to enter the national championship match without tickets, but were met with rebuff from the police. In response, the hooligans began throwing stones at the law enforcement officers, who in turn used tear gas.