Instead of leaving Russia, Media Markt decided to invest in our market - why? Details in the evening newsletter The Bell Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Russian retail market has almost been growing for the past three years for the past three years, but the owner of the largest Media Markt electronics stores in Europe, the German Ceconomy Group, decided that it has prospects. Instead of, as planned, to leave Russia, Ceconomy will exchange the Russian Media Markt with 15% M.

Romania recognized Karina Turcan as its citizen, RBC was told at the republic's embassy in Moscow. The Bell’s interlocutors, who are familiar with Turcan, reported that around 2016 she withdrew from the citizenship of the Republic of Moldova and received Russian. And her colleagues told what they think about the accusation against her of espionage.

Igor Shuvalov’s plane at Vienna Airport. Photo: YouTube The family of the head of Web and former deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov had a new luxury private plane-Gulfstream G650, the largest business jet in the world worth almost $ 65 million, found Forbes. Details The materials of the Civil Aviation Director of Luxembourg dated May 11, 2018 stated that the Gulfstream G650 with the LX-MOW registration number is registered with the Bermud company Altitude X3.

In 2017, Oleg Deripaska's American lobbyist Adam Waldman met nine times at the Ecuadorian embassy in London with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to embassy visitor log data seen by The Guardian. Details Almost no one has met Assange more than Waldman. At the same time, it is not known why these meetings were held and whether they are connected with Deripaska, who has been under US sanctions since April, the newspaper emphasizes.

Three Moscow restaurants were included in the main annual international rating of restaurants The Worldʼs Best Restaurants. The list was headed by the Italian restaurant Osteria Francescana. Details The rating has been compiled by the British journal Restaurant Magazine annually since 2002 based on opinions of more than a thousand restaurateurs, chefs and gastronomes from 26 regions around the world.

The State Duma has adopted in the second reading an amendment to the criminal code, which equates one day in a pretrial detention facility to 1.5-3 days of various types of restriction of freedom. Details Currently, the term served in a pretrial detention facility, regardless of the sentence imposed, is counted on a "day for day" basis. The bill also assumes that one day in a pretrial detention facility will be equal to one and a half days in a general regime penal colony.

The German retail holding Media Saturn (MSH) announced the sale of the Russian chain through the Media Markt deal to the Safmar group of Mikhail Gutseriev, which owns M.video and Eldorado. In return, the German holding will receive 15% of M.video. Details As the German company explains in a statement , it will pay €258 million ($298 million) in cash for its stake in M.video; this amount could be reduced to €86 million depending on how M.video meets EBITDA targets in 2018 and 2019).

Even frugality is becoming a luxury available to a few Russians as the economy struggles to recover and incomes stagnate. The ability to save is emerging as a new dividing line between the haves and the have-nots in Russia after the country's longest recession this century, writes Bloomberg in a note titled "Putin's vanished miracle of the middle class has turned savings into a luxury" (End of Putin's Middle Class Miracle Turns Savings Into a Luxury).

The Russians believed the tax authorities: the new amnesty of capital has become very popular. Details - in the mailing of The Bell. Photo: Vedomosti/TASS When in 2015 the government first invited the Russians to tell tax authorities about their foreign accounts and assets, the Russians replied that there were no fools. But since then, the attitude to their money abroad has changed a lot, and the new amnesty of capital declared by Vladimir Putin was a real alternative.

The second capital amnesty is in “huge demand” among businesses, which will only grow, tax consultants told Vedomosti and a representative of the Federal Tax Service confirmed. But the main goal of the amnesty for the Russian authorities - the return of capital to the country - has not yet been achieved: business primarily uses the amnesty for the tax-free liquidation of controlled foreign companies (CFCs).