Mechel metallurgical company increased tax on VTB, Gazprombank and Sberbank loans, Vedomosti write with reference to the company's financial report in 2015. This is done as part of debt restructuring, the newspaper indicates. So, Mechel up to 100% minus one action increased the share of the Yakutugul shares - earlier in the pledge were 50% plus two shares of a mining company.

This year, the growth of retail prices for medicines did not just stop, but turned back. According to Rosstat , the moderate increase in prices in the first two months of the year was replaced by their fall in the next two and the prices for medicines over these four months increased by one percent, while for medical services or food - by three. It seems that the pharmaceuticals almost learned to do without a price of prices. What kind of “magic pill” is this and does it have any side effects?

The investment company Warren Buffetus Berkshire Hathaway owns about 9.81 million shares of Apple Corporation. This is stated in the materials of Berkshire Hathaway, published on the website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The specified package is estimated at more than $ 1 billion. After the Buffet with the Buffet of the share in the iPhone manufacturer, the Apple Promarket has risen by more than 2%, the Financial Times points out .

On May sixteenth, 1966, the resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) on the fight against counter -revolutionary "revisionists", striving to create the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie", was issued. This day is considered the beginning of the “cultural revolution”, one of the most controversial and gloomy periods in the centuries -old history of China. Epo -struggle Of course, the idea belonged to Mao Zedong.

The investigation considers the financial motive as the main thing in the case of a mass fight in the Khovansky cemetery of Moscow. This was reported by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. “Information about the commission of crimes on national grounds did not find confirmation,” the UK specified. Earlier on May 16, the director of the Khovansky cemetery Yuri Kabuev, dismissed after a fight, was detained .

Rosneft plans to pay members of the board of directors a reward for 2015 in the amount of $ 2.27 million, the published agenda of the general meeting of shareholders of the company said . This amount is 43% less than the remuneration of 2014. “To approve the compensation of all expenses and costs incurred by members of the board of directors of NK Rosneft OJSC and related to the performance of their functions,” the project said.

Sberbank in January-March 2016 issued consumer loans for 156 billion rubles, which is three times higher than the first quarter of last year. This was stated by the director of the Department of Retail Non -Travel Products of the Bank Natalya Alymova during the telephone conference on May 16, Interfax reports. According to Alymova, on April 1, a portfolio of consumer battles of Sberbank reached 1.4 trillion rubles.

The police of the Kyiv region closed the case of the disappearance of values ​​from the residence of the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in Mezhigorye. This was reported by Ukrainian Pravda with reference to the answer from the prosecutor’s office to the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Dobrodomov. It is also about the disappearance of the Golden Baton-a two-kilogram press-fadier of gold in the form of a loaf of bread.

Ukraine will have to follow the rules for selecting Eurovision-2017 participants, since they are the same for all countries, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. It is reported by TASS.

The social network Twitter will stop taking into account photos and links in the 140-link limit for tweets. This was written by Bloomberg with reference to sources familiar with the situation. It is reported that changes can enter into force over the next two weeks. Representatives of the company refused to comment on the planned changes. Currently, links take up to 23 characters, even after Twitter automatically reduces them.

The Ministry of Energy offers the Ministry of Finance to mitigate new requirements for the tax burden for oil workers, Writes Vedomosti with reference to federal officials and sources in the industry. The interlocutors talked about the two main sentences of the Ministry of Energy. Firstly, to increase to 9520 rubles per ton (now-6953 rubles) the maximum costs, for which it is possible to reduce income when calculating additional income tax (NDD).

Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to discuss the issue of raising salaries to employees of the budget sphere in the near future. Putin himself stated this on May 16 at a meeting on the implementation of the “May decrees” of 2012, Interfax reports. The head of state also emphasized that the mentioned decrees should be carried out without links to a difficult current situation.

Residents of the village of Kenha, where Ramazan Jalaldinov lived, who recorded a video message to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, said that the village was cordoned off. About this writes "Kommersant". Entrance to the village, according to residents, is limited for several days. The villagers are called for a survey to the police, demanding to indicate where Jalaldin is located. “They stand at the entrance to the village from Saturday, here as in war.

A brief retelling of David Greber's book “Debt. The first 5000 years of history ”(M., Ad Marginem, 2015). Context The book of the American anthropologist David Greber was written after the global economic crisis of 2008, when the author became one of the ideologists and main speakers of the OcCupy Wall Street movement.

The demand for air tickets to Simferopol decreased by 25% compared to last year. In 2016, this direction accounts for no more than 35% of the reservation, Kommersant writes with reference to the data of tour operators.