On June 17, it became known that Belgium had seized Russian state assets in this country. As Tim Osborne, head of Group Menatep Limited, explained to RBC, state assets were seized by decision of the Hague Court of July 18, 2014. The arbitration ruled that Russia is obliged to pay the former owners of Yukos $50 billion, of which €1.6 billion is the claim of Yukos Universal Limited.

Low-cost carrier Pobeda has submitted an application to the Ministry of Transport for permission to operate flights abroad. Aeroflot CEO Vitaly Savelyev announced this in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel. He said that the application is now under consideration. According to Savelyev, internal Russian rules have been restricting flights abroad of newly created companies for two years, but Aeroflot hopes that an exception will be made for Pobeda.

Test results showed that a resident of Primorye, who recently returned from South Korea, is not infected with the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, Interfax reports, citing a statement by the head of the Rospotrebnadzor department for the Primorsky Territory, Dmitry Maslov.

The Kremlin has not ruled out expanding countermeasures in response to the extension of EU sanctions. Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev and Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that Moscow would limit itself to extending the food embargo Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC Commenting on the possible expansion of counter-sanctions from Russia, Belousov said that he “does not rule out anything,” RIA Novosti reports.

After unsuccessful negotiations at the level of finance ministers, the head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, convenes an extraordinary EU summit. European leaders will discuss how to prevent Greece from defaulting Head of the European Council Donald Tusk (Photo: REUTERS 2015) European leaders will hold an extraordinary meeting in Brussels on Monday, June 22, to discuss Greece's debt problem, Bloomberg reports .

The largest Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo is preparing to expand beyond Moscow. According to the company’s partners, St. Petersburg will be the first among the new cities in the network Photo: REUTERS 2015 Five years after entering the Russian clothing market, the Japanese retailer Uniqlo decided to expand regionally, Noriaki Koyama, executive vice president of the chain’s management company, Fast Retailing Co, told RBC.

Prosecutors provided the jury with evidence of the guilt of the alleged leader of the nationalist group BORN, Ilya Goryachev. The defense will respond by publishing the contents of the “death note” kept by Nikita Tikhonov The alleged leader of the nationalist group BORN Ilya Goryachev in the Basmanny court. Photo from 2014 (Photo: TASS) Witness Reduction Prosecutors on Thursday completed presenting evidence in the trial of the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN).

Photo: TASS The government is discussing the creation of a fund for the development of projects in the North Caucasus in the amount of 170 billion rubles. It is expected that it will replace budget subsidies to the Caucasian republics.

Governors will have strong opponents after the State Duma elections, and then gubernatorial campaigns will become more competitive, the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration said at a meeting with party political strategists First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin (Photo: TASS) First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin met with political strategists on Wednesday evening at the Civil Society Development Foundation (headed by

The government criticized the bill on criminal liability of legal entities. The White House is confident that the initiative has not been fully developed, and its implementation may require additional budget expenditures House of the Government of the Russian Federation (Photo: TASS) The government's official response, along with its comments, was published on the State Duma website on Thursday.

The Burda publishing house has decided to close the Computer Bild magazine in Russia. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to a representative of the press service of the publishing house. The newspaper's interlocutor explained that this decision was made by agreement with the licensor Axel Springer and is due to the difficult economic situation in the country and a drop in demand.

The “invisible line” of the end of the recession will be passed by the fourth quarter of 2015, but without reforms, economic growth will not exceed 2–3% in the coming years, head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev said in an interview with RBC Head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC) About sanctions and the YUKOS case — Alexey Valentinovich, how will the authorities react to the seizure of assets in Europe in the YUKOS case?

The US and EU authorities decided to speed up the procedure for introducing new sanctions against Russia. They also admit the possibility of disconnecting Russian banks from the international SWIFT system, but consider this as a last resort Photo: AP Washington and Brussels came to the conclusion that the main drawback of the already existing anti-Russian sanctions was the lengthy procedure for their introduction.

The company can receive a contract worth 2 billion rubles The St. Petersburg plant Elektrosila (part of Power Machines) may receive a contract worth up to 2 billion rubles for the production of equipment for the Rosseti Federal Test Center. RBC St. Petersburg was informed about this by the press service of the Federal Test Center (FTC). Information about the technical negotiations was confirmed by Maria Aleeva, a representative of the press service of OJSC Power Machines.

The Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML) is jointly developing new programs to provide cheaper mortgages, said AHML General Director Alexander Plutnik. “At the moment, AHML is preparing new programs for the development of mortgages, for the development of programs that will offer citizens mortgage loans cheaper than they are currently on the market,” Plutnik said on Thursday in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic forum.