Vovan pranker (aka Vladimir Kuznetsov) wrote on his Facebook page that he had distributed information that Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro allegedly keeps money in the Russian Foundation Nurlan Baidilda.

The Bell found out what the scandal of the day could be provoked - performances in the State Duma of Minister Maxim Oreshkin and the speaker who reported him Vyacheslav Volodin. Oreshkin was punished that he allowed himself to neglect the deputies, the interlocutors of The Bell in the government were sure.

The scandal of the day - performances in the State Duma of Minister Maxim Oreshkin and the speaker who reported him Vyacheslav Volodin Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin. Photo: government.ru/(CC by 4.0) The public flogging of the minister turned out to be a homework. Oreshkin was punished that he allowed himself to neglect the deputies, the interlocutors of The Bell in the government were sure.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill that prohibits cash withdrawals from anonymous cards and electronic wallets and obliges them to undergo simplified identification for this. Market participants do not expect negative consequences from innovations, since this service is in little demand among clients. Read more.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declined to comment on the merits of the arrest of the founder of the investment company Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey. More. At a press conference after negotiations with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, he referred the case entirely to the competence of the court. “A court in any country has the right to make decisions based on the materials prepared by the investigation,” Medvedev said.

Russian billionaires invest very conservatively, preferring assets with guaranteed income (bonds and monetary instruments), says the international study on multimillionaires (net worth over $30 million) The Wealth Report 2019 from Knight Frank. This is also why the growth of their well-being in 2018 slowed down compared to the global average - only 40% reported an increase in income, while 63% of the world became richer.

Uber is innocent of last year's accident in Arizona, when a drone it was testing killed a pedestrian, state prosecutors said Tuesday. This is good news for a company that is betting on the development of unmanned technology to reduce costs. Especially given that this year Uber is planning an IPO, during which it claims a record $120 billion valuation. More. There is no basis for Uber to be held criminally liable, the Yavapai County District Attorney, Arizona, said in a letter.

The rapid growth of car sales in Russia has stopped - most likely for a long time, follows from the February report of the AEB Automobile Manufacturers Committee. Double-digit growth of the market, as in the previous two years, this year can no longer be expected. More. In February 2019, almost 5,000 cars and light commercial vehicles were sold in Russia less than in February 2018. This means a fall of 3.6% (yoy), to 128,406 vehicles. The decline occurred for the first time in two years.

The State Duma today approved in the third reading the law banning hostels in residential buildings in a "strict" version. At the meeting, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin said that the adoption of the law would bring losses to small businesses in the amount of 4 billion rubles, the author of the bill Galina Khovanskaya did not agree with him. More details.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin today reprimanded Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin at the government hour and called him to the State Duma with a new report in a month. It is possible that the tough meeting in the State Duma is connected with Oreshkin's answer to the question of whether he wants to be president. More.

Lawyers for former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn posted a court-set bail of ¥1 billion ($8.93 million), the largest ever in Japanese history. Now Ghosn will be under house arrest and will not be able to use a mobile phone, and a video camera will be placed at the entrance to the house to monitor him. More.

US-sanctioned Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, will spend the rest of her five-year term in jail rather than under house arrest. This was announced today by the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan. The country's authorities have been trying for several years to gain access to Karimova's foreign assets, and so far they seem to have been unsuccessful. More.

In the new DASKA sanctions bill, there was an unexpectedly threat of gas projects for tens of billions of dollars The owner of Novateka and No. 1 of the Russian Forbes list Leonid Michelson may suffer due to sanctions The new bill of the US Congress on sanctions against Russia threatens not only foreign, but also domestic projects of Russian gas companies, Vedomosti found out .

Rosalkogolregulirovanie (RAR) considered that Yandex.Market was violating the law by placing offers to sell alcoholic beverages, and issued a warning, while the Federal Antimonopoly Service found no violations, writes Kommersant . Public services disagreed on whether to consider a directory of links as an advertisement, but the site still faces a fine. More.

The United States is considering imposing secondary sanctions for cooperation with the regime of Nicolas Maduro. Venezuelan Russian counterparties have already begun to prepare for them - the accounts of Venezuelan companies have been transferred from Gazprombank to the Russian Financial Corporation bank, owned by Rostec - both are included in all sanctions lists anyway. More.