Chairman of the Board of Directors and co-owner of AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov admitted that he could return to the oil business. “Never say never,” he said, answering a related question Chairman of the Board of Directors and co-owner of AFK Sistema Vladimir Evtushenkov (Photo: TASS) Vladimir Yevtushenkov “There is a good phrase: never say never,” said Yevtushenkov, answering a question about a possible return to the oil business (quote from RIA Novosti ).

Photo: EPA On Thursday, March 19, the next European Council summit starts in Brussels. Key topics include the Energy Union and relations with Ukraine and Russia. The issue of extending sanctions against Russia threatens Europe with a new split. On Tuesday, the news portal EurActiv published a draft resolution of the summit, divided into three thematic blocks: energy, economic and foreign policy.

Pilots of the German airline Lufthansa have extended their strike, which will affect short- and medium-haul flights, until March 20, reports . The Wall Street Journal Lufthansa said it had to cancel 750 flights due to a strike on short- and long-haul routes on March 18. The airline stated that it would be forced to cancel 42 long-haul flights, but cargo flights would not be affected.

Roskomnadzor sent a letter to the editors of the publication “Orthodoxy and Peace” in which it demanded to edit the article with the heading “Two cancer patients committed suicide in Moscow.” The agency refers to the decision of Rospotrebnadzor Photo: Lori We are talking about a note published on February 20. about this The site's editor-in-chief, Anna Danilova , wrote on her Facebook page.

Russia's portfolio of military orders amounts to $48 billion, told RIA Novosti on Thursday. Alexander Fomin, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), According to him, anti-Russian sanctions “certainly have a negative impact on the work of the FSMTC,” but the plan was implemented.

AK Transneft responded to the Accounts Chamber's accusations that the company interacted poorly with the Ministry of Energy. The company's statement states that in the Transneft investment program for 2012–2020, the volume of construction of the linear part of pipelines as a whole amounts to 77% of that provided for by the General Scheme for the Development of the Oil Industry.

Russia has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council in support of the implementation of a set of measures to implement the Minsk agreements, said the representative of the Russian Federation to the world organization, Vitaly Churkin. He explained that this step was dictated by the failure of the Ukrainian authorities to comply with the agreements signed in Minsk following the meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four countries on February 12, TASS reports .

The National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine canceled the license of the Ukrainian-language version of the Euronews TV channel at the request of the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTKU), which broadcasts this TV channel. This decision was made at a meeting of the regulator on Thursday, reports .

Negotiations on the transition to settlements in national currencies between Russia and Egypt are temporarily suspended. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Tourism of the Republic Amr Elezaby, Interfax reports . According to him, this is a good idea, but “difficult to implement.” Elazabi expressed hope that the parties will return to discuss this issue in the future.

Investigators are going to interrogate ex-officer of the Sever battalion Ruslan Geremeev from an “influential Chechen family” in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov.

Russian embassies have been given instructions to compile lists of Russophobic foreign citizens with assets in Russia, a source close to the presidential administration told Izvestia. The decision was made following the results of several meetings in the government administration dedicated to sanctions. “We show no particular desire to play such prohibitive games with the West.

One of the leaders of the Islamist group Al-Shabab, Adnan Gharar, was killed by an American drone strike, the BBC reports, citing a report from the US Department of Defense. Garar, in particular, was suspected of organizing a terrorist attack on a shopping center in Kenya in 2013. The group's attack killed 67 people. In addition, the Pentagon considers Garar responsible in the group for planning the murders of American citizens.

On Thursday, Vladimir Putin will meet with the country's largest businessmen. It is expected that a capital amnesty, the Central Bank key rate and a package of anti-crisis measures will be discussed, a source told RBC President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin (from left to right) at the RSPP congress.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov explained the departure from General Motors from Russia by the insufficient level of localization. “The less localization, the more difficult it is to withstand competition in the market,” RIA Novosti quotes the minister. On Wednesday, General Motors announced the withdrawal of Opel and Chevrolet from the Russian market. This decision was made due to extremely low sales at the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015.

President Vladimir Putin, answering RBC’s question whether the masterminds and real killers of Boris Nemtsov will be found, said: “I hope.” “In any case, it seems to me that the investigation is on the right track and will act persistently,” Putin added after a meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.