The lawyers of the Russians convicted in Ukraine, Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev, abandoned the idea of ​​appealing the verdict, Interfax reports the words of lawyer Oksana Sokolovskaya, representing the interests of Erofeev. She noticed that she considers the verdict illegal, but, by joint decision of lawyers, the court decision will not be appealed.

The net profit of one of the largest American banks Goldman Sachs in the first quarter of 2016 amounted to $ 1.14 billion, or $ 2.68 per share. This was reported in a press release from a financial organization. Compared to the same period of 2015, the profit of Goldman Sachs decreased by 60% - in the first quarter of last year, the bank earned $ 2.84 billion, or $ 5.94 per share.

The American Standard & Poor's 500 Standard Acting Index at the beginning of the trading on April 19 for the first time since December last year rose above 2100 points. By 18:40 Moscow time, the indicator added 0.3% and reached 2100.97 points. The Dow Jones index of the same time was fixed above the psychologically important mark of 18 thousand points, which he struck the day before since July last year. On April 19, the indicator increased by 0.3% to 18063 points.

One of the largest US banks JPMorgan Chase & Co was chosen by the Saudi Arabian authorities by the organizer of the primary accommodation (IPO) of the State Corporation Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to unnamed sources. According to the agency, the IPO Saudi Aramco will also be involved in the investment banker Michael Klein who had previously worked in Citigroup - he will become a placement consultant.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that during a conversation with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the heads of state “managed to coordinate a certain algorithm of liberation” of Nadezhda Savchenko, TASS reports . “Yesterday I initiated a conversation with Putin, and on the basis of preliminary developments, it seemed to me that we managed to agree on a certain algorithm for the liberation of hope,” he said during a joint prime minister Lars Rasmusen press conference.

The Russian side at the summit in Brussels will raise the question of the participation of NATO instructors in the preparation of Ukrainian security forces for hostilities in the Donbass. This was announced by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, Interfax reports.

The messenger introduced End-to-End encryption for all users in group and secret chats, representatives of the company told VC.ru. The company promises to launch global encryption within a few weeks. In the new version of the Viber 6.0 messenger, users will see the level of protection of messages. For example, a gray lock in the chat window will mean that the messages are encrypted, the green lock will say that the contact authentication key is constantly monitored.

For the first time in eight years, the share of food products in the retail trade in Russia exceeded the share of non-food goods, reports monthly monitoring of the socio-economic situation and well-being of the population of the Institute of Social Analysis and Presidential Presidential Presidential. In February, 50.1% of the expenses of Russians were on products, alcohol and tobacco products.

All the helicopter missing in the Yamalo-Nenets district died during a rigid landing, Interfax reports the head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the region Ivan Skidanov. “All three people died,” he said. The dead were discovered by search engines who headed to the alleged landing site on the island of Bely. GPS coordinates handed over the helicopter emergency lighthouse.

In 2015, the Foundation for Corruption (FBK) of Alexei Navalny received 39 million rubles of voluntary contributions. This was reported in the report of the Fund. At the same time, a year earlier, the FBK received 28.5 million donations. In 2015, the average payment amount amounted to 985 rubles, and the average salary of an employee of the fund was 65.7 thousand rubles.

June futures for Brent oil oils in the second half of the trading on April 19 exceeded $ 44 per barrel. By 17:15 Moscow time, they went up by 2.9% to $ 44.16 per barrel. The last time the quotes of North Sea oil rose above $ 44 per barrel before the meeting of oil producers in Doha, which took place on April 17. After the negotiation participants could not coordinate the freezing of production at the level of January, the cost of Brent on April 18 collapsed by almost 5% to $ 40.9 per barrel.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to revise the list of imported goods prohibited for public procurement. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to the commission of the prime minister, a copy of which is at the disposal of the publication. One of the participants in the meeting at Medvedev told Vedomosti that the restrictions would be ordered and some prohibitions are canceled. They plan to review the previously published lists of prohibited goods by August.

Mark Galeotti is a British political scientist, professor of the Center for International Relations of the New York University, specializing in international crime and security issues related to Russia. It is also known thanks to the in Moscow Shadows blog. As part of his research, Galeotti often comes to Moscow - here he met with a Slon Magazine correspondent and spoke about the role and spread of organized crime in Russia. - There are many myths about the “Russian mafia”.

The agricultural complex named after N. I. Tkachev, belonging to the family of the former governor of the Krasnodar Territory, the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev, first entered the top ten largest owners of the agricultural lands of Russia, writes Vedomosti with reference to the Consulting company BEFL. The holding, according to Befl, has 456 thousand hectares of land, in the ranking it was in sixth place, a year earlier it took 16th place.

The Bank of Russia significantly reduced the courses of the main world currencies. April 20, the dollar will cost 65.65 rubles - 2.6 rubles less than the previous day. The official euro exchange rate was reduced by 2.8 rubles to 74.37 rubles. On April 19, the Russian currency is also strengthened at the Moscow exchange of the Moscow exchange. By 12:25 Moscow time, the dollar rate fell by 44 kopecks to 65.68 rubles, and the euro fell into 37 kopecks to 74.46 rubles.