The largest Russian cognac producer, Kaliningrad-based Alliance-1892, will build Russia’s first whiskey factory.

Moscow businessman Dmitry Lerner found a grenade under the windshield wiper of his car in the parking lot near the Nash supermarket in Lianozovo, Lerner told RBC. He claims that this is an F-1 grenade. At the moment, according to Lerner, employees of the Lianozovo Department of Internal Affairs are investigating the circumstances of the incident. The duty station at the Lianozovo police station did not answer calls from an RBC correspondent.

The Russian Ministry of Transport hopes to resume flights to Egypt this year, provided that the Egyptian authorities ensure safety for Russian citizens. Deputy Minister of Transport Nikolai Asaul told reporters about this. “We are now actively working with Egyptian airports to make sure that security at these airports meets global and Russian requirements. And when there is one hundred percent confidence, flights to this country will resume.

A member of the Forbes list is demanding in court that a painting allegedly stolen from her apartment be returned to her. According to her, the painting could have been stolen within the last six years, but she does not know exactly when the alleged theft occurred.

Ivan Tavrin, business partner of Alisher Usmanov, will leave the post of head of the mobile operator MegaFon by the end of April, Vedomosti reported and RBC sources confirmed Ivan Tavrin (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) Ivan Tavrin is leaving the post of CEO of the MegaFon operator, Vedomosti newspaper reported on April 21 , citing two sources closely familiar with the top manager.

Photo: RBC St. Petersburg The Smolninsky court of St. Petersburg arrested the head of the security service of the Russian Museum, Irina Kuznetsova, until May 15, 2016. Her lawyer Joseph Gabunia told an RBC St. Petersburg correspondent about this. According to him, the defense asked for 1 million rubles bail, house arrest or a written undertaking not to leave, but the court refused. “The chosen preventive measure will be appealed. We will seek to cancel the court ruling,” said I. Gabunia.

The American media drew attention to the fact that in Riyadh, Barack Obama was met by low-level officials, while King Salman personally greeted the leaders of the Gulf countries at the airport US President Barack Obama arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Photo: AP) US President Barack Obama's arrival in Riyadh on Wednesday took place without much of the pomp and circumstance that often accompanies his official trips, wrote Journal The Wall Street .

What can be considered the main event of the year in the Russian technology industry? Of course, options for answering this question are possible, but one will win by a wide margin - Russia’s military operation in Syria Photo: Artem Goloshchapov for RBC The costs of its implementation, according to President Vladimir Putin, amounted to 33 billion rubles. Much of this money was spent on moving people and equipment into Syria - the Syrian campaign became a huge logistics operation.

The Department of Culture of the Russian Ministry of Defense considers it possible to hold corporate events on the cruiser Aurora, but under certain conditions Repair of the cruiser "Aurora" in the Kronstadt dock, October 2014 (Photo: Yuri Belinsky/TASS) As Anton Gubankov, head of the culture department of the military department, said at a press conference in St.

The large privatization of large assets announced by the authorities is being hampered by sanctions and a poor market. Most likely, the only thing that the state will be able to sell this year is Bashneft.

The Association of Print Distributors (ARPP; unites press distributors, publishers, etc.) sent a letter to Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, in which it asks to consider the possibility of “including subsidies for the delivery of subscription editions of newspapers and magazines in the country’s budget for 2017.” We are talking about 6 billion rubles.

The Russian Security Council expressed “serious concern” about the “serious degradation of the situation” at the Syria talks in Geneva. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told reporters about this, TASS reports . Vladimir Putin's meeting with members of the Security Council took place on Thursday.

The new Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Alexander Danylyuk, apologized for the offshore companies found in his possession. about this He wrote on his Facebook page. On April 14, the leader of the Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko, spoke about the minister’s offshores. On the air of the 112 Ukraine TV channel, he claimed that Danylyuk did not declare two offshore companies .

The Mail.Ru Group holding decreased its annual profit in 2015 for the first time since its IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2010. Yandex also reflected negative dynamics in its reporting earlier. Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC The Internet holding Mail.Ru Group in 2015 compared to 2014 decreased its net profit by 13.6% - from 11.5 billion to 9.9 billion rubles, as follows from the company’s financial report for 2015.

Türkiye has deployed additional units to the Syrian border. According to the publication Hurriyet , we are talking about new tanks from the Fifth Tank Division, as well as howitzers and 120-mm guns, which will be deployed on the border with Syria in the province of Kilis.