There are no accidents in the Baring case, we learned this week. This is bad news for more than 40 Russian companies Photo: kremlin.ru This week, those who still doubted the authorities received the most clear signals from the authorities: the Baring Vostok case is not an accident, and it makes no sense to write to Vladimir Putin that there was a monstrous mistake. The most serious reasons for excitement are more than 40 Russian companies, whose investor is Baring.

Both banks and retailers are against government regulation of commissions for payments in stores using cards. This is the main result of Friday’s meeting on acquiring regulation with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak. The participants decided that an agreement between banks and payment systems was needed. Read more. Kozak’s official representative Ilya Dzhus said that both banks and trading enterprises clearly spoke out against direct government regulation.

Russia and the United States have agreed on a significant reduction in visa prices for Russians. Now all types of visas will again cost $160, as it was before the January price increase . More. The Russian Foreign Ministry considered this step "a good example of mutually beneficial cooperation", and also expressed hope for the expansion of business, humanitarian, cultural and tourist contacts between citizens of the two countries.

Most private cinemas in Russia will not show the Russian cartoon "Gurvinek. The Magic Game" during the March school holidays unless the Ministry of Culture allows the joint release of the Belgian cartoon "The Royal Corgi". Cinema owners are unhappy with the policy of the Ministry of Culture, which is raising the box office for Russian cinema by postponing the release of foreign films - and at the expense of distributors' revenue, Vedomosti writes . More details.

Despite the scandal with the outbreak of dysentery in Moscow, structures associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin are signing new contracts to supply food to children's institutions and hospitals. The Bell calculated that since the beginning of the year they have signed contracts worth 10 billion rubles. More details. The Bell examined the results of state procurement for 2019 of 13 companies allegedly associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has returned to the top 500 richest people in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is in 490th place with a fortune of $ 3.93 billion. There are 25 Russians in the top 500, and Deripaska is in last place among them. Context. Deripaska's fortune in 2018 fell immediately by $5.7 billion after the imposition of tough US sanctions against him and En + and UC Rusal controlled by him, and the billionaire dropped out of Bloomberg's top 500.

Facebook is integrating its own stablecoin cryptocurrency into the company's WhatsApp messenger, The New York Times reports , citing five anonymous sources. It will become a direct competitor to the Gram cryptocurrency, which Telegram promised to launch in March 2019. And this is a very dangerous competitor: the Facebook project is able to reach 2.7 billion people (including integration with Instagram and Messenger), while Telegram has about 200 million users. More.

Sberbank lowered interest rates on unsecured consumer loans by a maximum of 1 p.p. depending on the amount, the bank said in a press release . But experts do not expect massive rate cuts by other banks. More. Sberbank has reduced interest rates on consumer loans as part of the Unsecured Consumer Loan campaign, which will run from March 1 to April 29. The promotion applies to loans in the amount of 300 thousand rubles for a period of 3 months to 5 years. The maximum decrease is by 1 p.p.

The family of the leader of the Duma faction of the LDPR, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, owns 51 premises worth 9.8 billion rubles. Apartments and office space are located in Moscow and the Moscow region, Sochi, Dubai, Barcelona and Ibiza. The Project spoke about this in its own investigation. Earlier, information about the Spanish real estate of the common-law wife of the politician's son, Igor Lebedev, was published by the Baza project.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of the European office of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in Lisbon and move it to Moscow, writes Reuters. This was announced by Vice-President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Context. The United States has increased sanctions against PDVSA after an attempted coup in Venezuela. The American authorities supported the opposition led by Juan Guido.

The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, was offered to act as a mediator between the conflicting shareholders of Vostochny Bank - the Baring Vostok fund and Artem Avetisyan, RBC learned . The RDIF press service denied this. More.

Taxi services Uber and Lyft on the eve of the IPO will offer to participate in it to their most loyal and active drivers. Both startups, which are expected to be listed this year, will provide drivers with money that can be spent on buying shares, writes The Wall Street Journal. Details Lyft intends to give its drivers $1,000 each if they make 10,000 trips and $10,000 (or the equivalent in shares) for 20,000 trips, WSJ writes, citing its sources.

The board of directors of Revolut, a fintech startup founded by Russian-born Nikolai Storonsky, found out during an internal investigation that last year the company mistakenly turned off a system that automatically blocks dubious transactions, The Telegraph found . out In addition, left CFO Peter O'Higgins the company. Revolut denied any connection between these events and argued that the changes in the compliance procedure did not lead to a violation of anti-money laundering rules. More.

With the support Ilya Sachkov Group-Ib "I am normal" - March 1, 2019 Group-Ib was founded by Ilya Sachkov in 2003, when he was in the first year of the university. The business began as an attempt to create the profession of a cybercriminal in Russia. For 15 years, the largest banks, media, universities and state -owned companies began to trust him. Group-Ib helps the Russian police, Interpol and Europol catch criminals, and the OSCE recommends them to cooperate.

Russian Post announced a competition for the development of a new international strategy, follows from the information on the public procurement website. Among the options considered by the customer is the creation of a marketplace with an international partner. The development of international business is one of the priorities of Russian Post. In the long term, she hopes that it will generate the same revenue as the domestic market. More.