While Baring Vostok is looking for ways to get its leaders out of jail, Artem Avetisyan goes on the attack. His company is seeking in court to exercise an option for 9.99% of Vostochny shares. This option is the main reason for the dispute between the bank's shareholders. Avetisyan decided to resolve it in his favor not in London, where Baring’s lawsuit is already being considered, but in a court in the Amur Region. London arbitration decisions are unenforceable in Russia, he believes.

The new methodology for calculating household incomes promised by Rosstat does not yet exist, but the level of discussion of the most unpleasant economic figure for the authorities can be reduced much more simply - the agency will simply refuse to publish monthly income data. They will now be published quarterly.

Nursultan Nazarbayev began the controlled transfer of power to the unknown successor. The Kremlin will follow his experience The resignation from the presidential post of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who headed Kazakhstan since 1989, begins the most significant episode of the controlled transfer of power in the post -Soviet space during the reign of Vladimir Putin (except for the “color revolutions”). In 2024, similar transit can be ahead of Russia.

On March 19, 2019, at 19 hours local time, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev announced a resignation. Nazarbayev handed over the presidential duties to a longtime associate, speaker of the upper house Kasym-Zhomart Tokaev. Nazarbayev himself will life for life, and will also remain the leader of the ruling Nur Otan party. Photo: kremlin.ru Main Nazarbayev agreed his decision with Vladimir Putin, are sure of the Bell Politicalians and sources in state authorities.

The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in an address to the nation, announced that he had decided to resign his presidential powers. The appeal was publicly announced just today. “I have made the decision to terminate my powers as President. Certainly, this is not an easy decision. This year marks 30 years since I hold the highest post in our country,” said Nazarbayev, who headed Kazakhstan back in 1989.

The annual meeting of Sberbank shareholders, at which German Gref is almost guaranteed to be re-elected as president of the bank for a fourth term, will be held on May 24 this year. The Supervisory Board of Sberbank will also be re-elected, which will not include RANEPA Rector Vladimir Mau, who wrote the recusal. MIPT Rector Nikolai Kudryavtsev will be nominated instead. Context. Gref joined Sberbank in 2007, and his current four-year term will end in November 2019.

The founder of the petrochemical company Ineos, Jim Ratcliffe, the richest Briton ($13.1 billion according to Forbes), is ready to buy the Chelsea football club from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, writes The Times. But he is again not satisfied with the price requested by Abramovich - 2.5 billion pounds ($ 3.3 billion), the publication reported. More.

Moscow dropped out of the hundred most expensive cities in the world, according to a study by The Economist magazine. The reason is the strong weakening of the ruble. The top three for the first time in history were Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. More. Singapore was the most expensive city in the world in 2018, followed by Hong Kong in second and Paris in third.

For the first time, the Bank of Russia disclosed statistics on the demand for shadow financial services by sectors of the economy for the whole year. The leader of the rating was the construction sector (29%), followed by a slight lag is the service sector - these two sectors account for half of the total number of suspicious transactions. The Central Bank estimated the total volume of funds withdrawn into the shadow at 176 billion rubles. More.

Publishing House "Kommersant" dismissed the correspondent of its St. Petersburg editorial office Maria Karpenko. Karpenko is sure that the dismissal is connected with dissatisfaction with the Kremlin and Smolny with the way she covered the election campaign. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov. The Publishing House explains the dismissal by the fact that the journalist ran a political telegram channel in parallel. Official reason for dismissal.

From April 2, Aeroflot will start selling cheaper tickets for flights to Italy and Germany, but without the right to carry luggage, the airline said in a press release. This should allow the company to enter the first lines of aircraft aggregators and raise falling revenues. More.

The owners of about 2% of London real estate are unknown - the assets belong to offshore companies, a study by Global Witness showed. It is timed to coincide with the discussion in the British Parliament of the stalled anti-corruption bill on a mandatory register of property owners in the country. More. Offshore companies own 87,000 properties in England and Wales worth £100bn. 40% of this property is located in London.

Yandex and the South Korean manufacturer of auto-complex Hyundai Mobis agreed to create a software and hardware complex for unmanned vehicles. This is quite unusual - traditionally, the customer receives ready -made drones from the car manufacturer, and does not collect him in pieces from suppliers at home. The Bell figured out why it was Yandex, and most importantly - why Hyundai, and why the partners chose each other.

The founder of investment fund Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey, continues to insist that his case is just a business conflict. Today it became known that Calvey is against the active participation of the US consulate, as it gives the case a political coloring. More.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again filed charges against Tesla CEO Elon Musk - this time the regulator reports that, contrary to a court decision, Musk never agreed on his messages about the company on his personal Twitter account. If the court again rules in favor of the SEC, Musk faces new large fines, further restrictions on social media, and even complete removal from the leadership of Tesla and other public companies. More.