The Bank of Russia would like to ensure that people stop “shifting” savings from one currency to another. Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Ksenia Yudaeva spoke about this.

Emergency services put out a fire at an oil refinery in Saratov, owned by Rosneft. The causes of the diesel fuel tank fire are being established. Fire at the Saratov Oil Refinery. Archive photo (Photo: TASS) The fire on the territory of the Saratov Oil Refinery OJSC has been extinguished, according to a statement from the plant’s press service received by RBC.

The net loss of Mechel OAO attributable to shareholders in the 1st quarter of 2015 decreased by 53% in annual terms and amounted to $273 million, the company said in a statement . Adjusted net loss decreased by 31% to $99 million. Revenue decreased by 34% compared to the 1st quarter of 2014 and amounted to $1.113 billion. Compared to the previous quarter, revenue decreased by 20%.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks Russian during telephone conversations with foreign interlocutors, and his words are followed by the speech of an interpreter, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters. According to Peskov, the translator is not next to the president, but in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

An employee of the investigation department of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Georgy Alburov, was fined 22 thousand rubles in Magadan. this He announced on his Twitter. “Fine 22,000 rubles,” he wrote. Activist Anna Wellicock reported that Alburov was found guilty of violating Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violating the procedure for holding a rally). FBK employees plan to appeal. According to Alburov, he did not hold a rally, but distributed leaflets.

Rosrybolovstvo proposed introducing an embargo on the supply of canned fish from a number of Western countries. The head of the department, Ilya Shestakov, told reporters about this, Interfax reports. He added that this is just a proposal from the department. Shestakov noted that he does not know what list of products the Ministry of Agriculture will ultimately provide to the government.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) announced an escalation of military actions in Donbass. “Trenches have been dug, bridges have been blown up and mines have been laid on the front line,” Alexander Hug, deputy head of the OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine, said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday . He noted that the situation began to worsen from the end of April.

The Kalyazinsky district court of the Tver region liquidated in absentia the Kalyazin city public organization for the development of motorsports “Motorclub “Night Wolves”. This follows from the decision published on the court’s website. The Department of the Ministry of Justice for the Tver Region filed a corresponding claim. The reason was that the “Night Wolves” Motorcycle Club did not provide reports for 2011–2014, as well as information in 2014 about the continuation of activities.

The bank's IT expenses in 2014 amounted to 5% of operating income before provisions, Lev Khasis, first deputy chairman of Sberbank, told RBC. This is 65 billion rubles, and this is more than all the expenses of Yandex. Lev Khasis, First Vice President of Sberbank (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBK) “Our IT costs are in line with global benchmarks ,” says Khasis .

The number of people infected with the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in South Korea has increased by three people. Thus, it reached 175 people. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the country's Ministry of Health. The department also reported that 54 patients recovered and left the hospital. The country has reported 27 deaths from the MERS virus. These are mainly older people or those who had other illnesses at the time of infection.

Events in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions have closed access to Western capital markets for Russian companies. RBC spoke with representatives of foreign and Russian banks about how businesses are coping with the problems that have arisen, whether they have alternative markets for raising capital, and whether new tools have emerged that will help them survive the crisis.

Climate change could cause such harm to human health that all the gains in global health over the past 50 years could be reversed. This is stated in a report published in The Lancet . The report was compiled by a team of specialists, including European and Chinese climate scientists, geographers, ecologists, sociologists, energy experts and medical professionals.

Moscow authorities have abandoned the massive construction of parking lots. The mayor's office explained this by saying that construction cannot keep up with the growth of the vehicle fleet. Paid parking in the center of Moscow (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) There will be no mass construction of parking lots in Moscow in the coming years, said Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for urban planning policy and construction.

Gazprom will finance the construction of the main gas pipeline to Crimea.

Protests against rising electricity prices continue in Yerevan; slogans have been supplemented by demands to release those detained during the dispersal of the previous protest. Experts have not yet observed politicization of the protests Rally against increasing electricity tariffs in Yerevan (Photo: AP) Protests against increasing electricity tariffs have resumed in Yerevan. Hundreds of people took to Freedom Square in the city center on Tuesday.