The wife of the co-founder of the NTV channel Igor Malashenko, who committed suicide in Spain, journalist Bozhena Rynska, spoke on one of her Facebook accounts about the circumstances preceding his death. According to her, Malashenko was afraid of going to court with his former wife Elena Malashenko (Pivovarova) and suffered from a break with their children, and suddenly flew to Spain. Read more.

Vladimir Putin first commented on the Baring Vostok case at a closed meeting with chief editors of the Russian media, The Bell found out. He referred to the position of the FSB, which does not believe that this is a simple corporate conflict that should be resolved in an arbitration court.

The Bell found out what Putin said about the Baring Vostok case at a closed meeting with the chief editors. “The FSB considers it differently,” he replied to the assumption that the case was supposed to understand the arbitration court Vladimir Putin publicly does not talk about his attitude to the Baring Vostok case, but, as The Bell found out, in the last Wednesday commented on him at a closed meeting with the main editors of the Russian media.

The import of palm oil to Russia in 2018 increased by 18.9% compared to 2017 and exceeded 1 million tons for the first time, Rosstat reported. The increase came despite new restrictions on animal fat substitutes in Russia. More. According to market participants , the growth of palm oil imports by Russia can be associated primarily with the growth in the production of confectionery products, in which, especially in baking, palm oil is widely used.

According to the plan of Vladimir Putin, large cultural centers with a total cost of at least 120 billion rubles will be built in three cities of Russia and Crimea in the next four years, writes the BBC Russian Service. The project will be financed by the most closed state company Rosneftegaz, the construction of the facilities will be carried out by Stroygazmontazh, a businessman and friend of Putin Arkady Rotenberg.

Elizaveta Peskova, daughter of the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov, works in the European Parliament as an intern for the far-right French politician Aymeric Choprade, found out European Radio Liberty . It is possible that European taxpayers pay her, the newspaper notes. Upd. “Here we are talking about an ordinary student and ordinary practice ...

Gazprom immediately leave two deputy Alexei Miller - Alexander Medvedev and Valery Golubev, the company said . Medvedev, who oversaw the export, and Golubev, who was responsible for the domestic market, came to Gazprom in fact with Miller. These are the largest personnel changes in the company in a few years. Read more.

Co-founder of the NTV channel, political scientist Igor Malashenko was found dead in Spain, Kommersant reported . According to the publication, 64-year-old Malashenko committed suicide. Information about the suicide was confirmed to the Moscow agency by Malashenko’s colleague, journalist Timur Valeev. He said that Malashenko’s death occurred on Monday night in his own home in Spain, where he was on vacation. “Igor voluntarily passed away.

Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding announced the purchase of the American biotech company Spark Therapeutics for $4.3 billion. Roche is paying a premium to gain a foothold in the field of gene therapy for congenital and hereditary diseases, one of the most promising and profitable branches of modern medicine. More: Roche will buy back shares of Spark Therapeutics at $114.5 per share, which is 2.2 times the value of the company's securities at the close of trading on Nasdaq on Friday.

Russia ranked 95th in Bloomberg's Healthiest Countries ranking , below Venezuela with its catastrophic economic situation. Spain has become the healthiest country in the world - according to experts, largely due to the healthy Mediterranean diet. Detailed. The Bloomberg ranking of healthy countries is based on factors such as life expectancy and access to clean water, as well as risks such as smoking and obesity.

Within a month, a little-known company from the third tier United Credit Systems (UCS) has risen in price on the stock exchange by 75 times and has overtaken the richest Russian company Surgutneftegaz in terms of capitalization. On Monday, the capitalization of OKS exceeded 1.3 trillion rubles. Detailed. From February 6, the cost of OKS securities jumped from 740 to 55,490 rubles. On Monday, the capitalization of this company grew by almost 40%.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the investigation "could not ignore" the suspicions against the founder of Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey, and top managers of the company arrested in Russia, writes Bloomberg. The first information about Putin's immediate reaction to the arrest is unlikely to encourage business. More. The President expressed his position on the Calvey case last week at a closed meeting, three Bloomberg sources said.

Experts from ANO Digital Economy, which was created to implement the national program of the same name, proposed expanding the rights of citizens and businesses to access a number of professional secrets - banking, medical, tax and communication secrets. Detailed. A separate bill has already been written for this, and RBC got acquainted with it .

The State Duma Committee on Information Policy proposed to exclude the requirement to create a national domain name system from the draft law on "sovereign Runet", writes . Kommersant More. The main meaning of the item that was decided to be abandoned is the right of Roskomnadzor or a body similar to it to control the registry of domain names in Runet, bypassing any other systems, including the ICANN international domain center and bodies authorized by it.

Baring Vostok addressed an open letter to Vladimir Putin asking the president to take personal control of the criminal case against founder Michael Calvey and other top managers of the fund. Detailed. The fund claims that the criminal case against top managers was initiated against the backdrop of a corporate dispute between the shareholders of Vostochny Bank.