Alfa-group co-owners will spend € 800 million on an attempt to become large European retailers Photo: Wikimedia / Letterone Group / CC by 2.0 Mikhail Friedman and his partners are taking a decisive step in the construction of the retail business in Europe - their Letterone offered to the shareholders of the second DIA retail network to redeem the control package of shares.

Alfa Group shareholders can gain control over Spain’s second retail chain, which was worth €5.5 billion back in 2015, for just €148 million. Read more. L1 Retail, a division of LetterOne of Mikhail Fridman and other co-owners of Alfa Group, offered shareholders of Spain's second retail chain Dia to buy a controlling stake. Now LetterOne owns 29% of the shares of the retailer, which is in deep crisis - over the past four years the company has fallen in price by 20 times.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has accepted a statement on the initiation of a criminal case against the leader of the "Ukrainian Choice" movement, Viktor Medvedchuk, the most famous pro-Russian politician of Ukraine, known as "Putin's godfather".

Consumer lending is starting to rise in price - rates on loans for any purpose have already been increased by Sberbank and Gazprombank. According to experts, other market players will certainly follow them, and this trend will continue until the Central Bank begins to reduce the key rate. Details.

Moscow has been included in the list of cities with the most affordable housing, according to a press release from the consulting company Knight Frank (available from The Bell). Experts note that the average income of Muscovites in the past five years has grown much faster than the cost of residential real estate in the capital. Detailed.

In 2018, Rosneft earned more than 649 billion rubles of net profit, follows from the statements of the oil state company under IFRS. the last profit record It set in 2013 - 555 billion rubles, and then oil cost more than $100 per barrel, and in 2017, quotes stayed above $80 for only a month. The company's revenue grew by 37%, to 8.2 trillion rubles, EBITDA - by 48.6%, to 2.08 trillion rubles.

US sanctions against state oil monopoly PDVSA effectively blocked oil exports from Venezuela, according to The Wall Street Journal. Since December, production has fallen by more than 10%, now the country produces less than 1 million barrels of oil per day. This is a disaster for the country: oil is the source of 95% of the country's foreign exchange earnings, the WSJ emphasizes . Detailed.

The Moscow Metro ordered the development of a new fare collection system, in which the ticket price will depend on the zone to which the passenger is sent, RBC learned . The phased introduction of new tariffs, according to the publication, will begin in 2020. The metro itself eventually announced that it was implementing a zonal tariffication system, but did not plan to tie tariffs to the travel distance. Detailed.

Constitutional judge Konstantin Aranovsky issued a dissenting opinion on the case of restricting the participation of foreigners in Russian media - the text of his dissenting opinion was published on the court's website. Vedomosti was the first to draw attention to it. Read more The court began reviewing Article 19 of the Law on Mass Media, which prohibits foreigners from owning more than 20% of Russian media, following a complaint from Yevgeny Finkelstein.

The search was put on the wanted list of the Otkritie Bank. Now the UK and the FSB "install his accomplices" Wikipedia / cc by-sa 4.0 In the criminal case of the largest banking collapse of the 2010s, the first accused appeared at the Otkritie bank. The search for embezzlement for 34 billion rubles was announced on the investigation of the bank Yevgeny Dankevich. Now the SK and the FSB are threatened to establish his accomplices.

The first person accused in the criminal case of Otkrytie Bank was its former chairman of the board, Evgeny Dankevich - he is wanted for embezzlement of 34 billion rubles, Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee Igor Krasnov said in an interview with Kommersant. Now, according to Krasnov, his department, together with the FSB, are trying to identify Dankevich’s accomplices. The essence of the accusation.

Economists did not expect such a result even after the last scandalous statistics of Rosstat and believe that the assessment is overestimated Rosstat announced the growth of the Russian GDP in 2018 by 2.3%, once again surpassing the expectations of economists. This is 0.3 pp. More than the Minister of Economics announced Maxim Oreshkin 10 days ago in Davos, and by 0.5 percentage points. More than the Ministry of Economy predicted before.