The court has not yet ordered the arrest of Michael Calvey, the founder of Baring Vostok, who was detained in Moscow today on suspicion of fraud . The detention period has been extended by three days, until February 18, The Bell correspondent reported from the courtroom. More details. The Kalvi case was heard by Basmanny District Court Judge Artur Karpov. Three days ago, he extended the arrest of the former head of the Serpukhov District of the Moscow Region, Alexander Shestun, for three months.

US President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency on the southern border of the United States in order to bypass Congress for money to build a wall to protect against immigrants on the border with Mexico. He signed the state of emergency at the same time as the compromise budget, which will allow the US to avoid another shutdown of the federal government (shutdown). “There is no problem with that - they (the US presidents) signed, and it was indifferent to everyone,” Trump said.

Friday joint press conference of the presidents of Russia and Belarus after negotiations on the investment forum in Sochi did not bring news about the deepening integration of countries and about the tax maneuver, but gave Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko a reason for dialogue about independence and sovereignty. Negotiations in Sochi are the seventh meeting of the presidents in six months.

The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, announced that he is ready to personally vouch for the founder of the Baring Vostok investment fund, Michael Calvey , who was detained in Moscow . Baring is one of the oldest and largest investment funds; since 1994, it has invested almost $4 billion in Russian companies. High-ranking officials reacted coolly to the start of the high-profile case - or did not react at all.

The Trump administration may ban foreign companies from doing business with the Venezuelan state oil monopoly PDVSA, writes Bloomberg. This is the next step of the American authorities in an attempt to remove the incumbent President Nicolas Maduro from power. One of the largest foreign partners of PDVSA is Rosneft. Detailed.

With the support Tatiana Gorokhovskaya Siberian Wellness "I am normal" - February 15, 2019 Tatyana Gorokhovskaya opened her business in Novosibirsk when she was 21 years old. Now it is one of the largest Russian entrepreneurs. Its company Siberian Wellness operates on a network marketing model and produces natural cosmetics, sports nutrition and dietary supplements.

Maria Butina, who is accused in the United States of illegal lobbying in favor of Russia, manipulated FSB agents in organizing the trip of a delegation of the US National Rifle Association to Russia in 2015, writes the Daily Beast. Her boyfriend Paul Erickson confidentially informed the head of the organization about this in a letter. Butina herself, in an interview with the New Republic, mentioned tensions in her relationship with the Russian special services. Detailed.

U.S. authorities are negotiating a fine with Facebook, payment of which would end an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of user privacy violations. about this The Washington Post writes , citing two anonymous sources familiar with the investigation. More. We are talking about a fine for numerous violations of user privacy. It will be the largest fine the FTC has ever imposed on a technology company, amounting to several billion dollars. The exact amount is still unknown.

In Moscow, the founder and many -year head of the largest Foreign Direct Foundation in Russia Baring Vostok, Michael Kalvi, was detained. He and several other top managers of the Fund were charged with the theft of 2.5 billion rubles from Vostochny Bank. Since 2017, Baring has been involved in the conflict with the second shareholder of the bank, the ex-owner of the Uniastrum Artem Avetisyan. Read more. The Basmanny Court may conclude Calvi and five more detainees in custody today.

In the UK, for the first time on legal grounds, a wholesale batch of medical marijuana was imported on legal grounds. This is stated in a press release from one of the importers-Grow Biotech Biotech-Startap. Read more. Grow Biotech, supplier of the IPS Specials dietary supplements and European Cannabis Holdings worked on the import. The exporter was the Dutch department that regulates the turnover of medical marijuana.

In the last quarter of last year, when the US stock market was in a fever, Warren Buffett bought up shares of US banks, insurance companies and sold Apple, writes Bloomberg . Now his Berkshire Hathaway is the largest shareholder in four of the top five US banks. What's sold: Berkshire Hathaway cuts stake in Apple by 1 p.p. in the fourth quarter, which was extremely unfortunate both for the company and for the entire technology sector.

The relevant departments responded to the instructions of Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov to work out new sanctions for violations of traffic rules. Among the proposals is the most painful innovation for motorists: lowering the non-penalized threshold for speeding, Kommersant writes . More. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Transport and the Moscow TsODD agreed with the idea to fine for speeding by 10–20 km/h (now over 20 km/h).

One of the richest businessmen in Russia and the head of Severstal, Alexei Mordashov, intends to transfer a controlling stake in the Nordgold gold mining company to his sons, learned Vedomosti . The representative of the billionaire did not rule out that in the future Kirill and Nikita Mordashovs would join the board of directors of the company. Detailed. The KN-Holding company, 50% of which is owned by Kirill and Nikita Mordashov, sent a request for a deal to the FAS.

Until 2020, the ruble exchange rate will not strengthen, Alfa-Bank predicted Photo: AGN "Moscow" It is not worth expecting the strengthening of the Russian currency in the near future-according to Alfa-Bank economists, by the end of 2019, the ruble exchange rate will be 67 rubles/$.

JPMorgan Chase this week became the first major US bank to create its own cryptocurrency. The new token is called JPM Coin and will be used for instant transactions between bank customers. More. JPMorgan Chase transfers more than $6 trillion daily, the cryptocurrency will be used to increase the speed of transactions. How it will work: Each JPM Coin will be worth a dollar . Its value will not change (this is the so-called stablecoin).