Artem Avetisyan decided to deal with Baring in court in the Amur Region. This can be an important precedent for companies with joint -stock agreements in English law A new turn in the Baring Vostok case can create an unpleasant precedent for Russian businessmen who formalize their joint -stock relations in English law. Avetisyan filed a lawsuit against the Russian court on the execution of an option to sell him 9.99% of the shares of the Vostochny disputed bank.

The British tourism holding Thomas Cook has agreed to purchase Biblio Globus, the largest Russian tour operator. For the deal, the company will create a joint venture with its partner, the Turkish travel agency Sarpedon Travel. The joint venture will buy 100% of Biblio Globus, but the payment will be divided into several parts, and the final amount of the transaction may differ greatly from the size of the first payment and will depend on what result Biblio Globus shows.

The Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) of Dmitry Pumpyansky has announced that it is selling its American business, a subsidiary of IPSCO Tubulars. Growing on the shale boom in the United States, the production of drill pipes showed good results, it turned out to be successfully monetized, follows from the company's message. Quotations of TMK on the Moscow Exchange jumped by 25%. More.

Rusagro, one of the largest agro-industrial holdings in Russia, could violate European sanctions due to work with Russian banks, found out RBC . Risks for the company may, in particular, arise from participation in a deal with the sanctioned Russian Agricultural Bank. More. The day before, the Rusagro group announced that it was conducting an internal investigation into the deal to purchase the debt of the agricultural holding Solnechnye Produkty for "unintentional" violation of EU sanctions.

Alex Debelov always wanted to do business, so he created Virool. She helped videos become more viral. At some point, the company had to be sold, and it was a painful experience. In an interview with Elizabeth Osetinskaya, Alex told how he coped with the failure, what interested Hillary Clinton and the Kremlin in Virool, and what new project he is currently working on. https://youtu.be/gh9HefMx3Yc Help . Alex Debelov moved to the USA while still at school.

The Bank of Russia on Friday, March 22, left the key rate at 7.75%. The regulator raised it to this level in December 2018. The Central Bank has significantly improved its assessment of the state of the Russian economy. He lowered his annual inflation forecast at the end of the year from 5.0-5.5% to 4.7-5.2% and predicts its return to 4% in the first half of 2020 (instead of the second half of the year).

Business associations asked Dmitry Medvedev to cancel criminal liability for currency violations. According to businessmen, the failure to return foreign exchange earnings cannot be considered as an independent crime, it can only be an aggravating circumstance. Because of the current regulations, entrepreneurs either incur high costs or refuse to enter the international market at all, experts say. More.

Russian companies and entrepreneurs have encountered problems when transferring money from foreign accounts to Russian ones, according to Frank Media, citing sources. Experts attribute this to the excessive caution of banks in compliance with anti-money laundering legislation and sanctions regimes. The situation is unlikely to improve in the foreseeable future. More. Individuals, individual entrepreneurs and companies have problems with servicing in foreign banks.

Self -employed Russians are facing blocking accounts We ask for forgiveness for the late exit of the mailing for technical reasons. The legalized self -employed problems: it turned out that it is difficult, or even impossible, to work in this status, the portal Banki.ru writes . The status of a self -employed united the worst from an individual (the inability to use a personal account for business) and from an individual entrepreneur (anti -missile control with blocking accounts).

The theme of the release is the chronicles of Pavel Durov. In the week since Facebook's global infrastructure outage , Telegram has gained millions of new users, mostly from Latin America, specifically Brazil and Panama. We covered the great exodus of Brazilians from non-working WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger in a separate article. According to The Bell, up to 15 million people in Latin America could have installed Telegram within five days of the failure.

As soon as the Federal Tax Service reported an increase in the number of officially registered self-employed to 40,000, it turned out that working in this status is difficult, if not impossible, writes Banki.ru. It turned out that the status of self-employed combines the worst of an individual (the inability to use a personal account for business) and of an individual entrepreneur (banking and anti-money laundering control with blocking of accounts).

The feminist Bella Rapoport this week spoke about the unsuccessful interaction with the Lush manual cosmetics brand, and have been arguing about this for several days in social networks. Large companies connected to the spontaneous flash mob, in which the situation is played out, including Sberbank, Aviasales, Alfa Bank, the Red and White network and many others. In response, Rapoport accused everyone of persecution and many supported her.

Roskomnadzor ordered a system for automatic control over how well VPN services and search engines block sites banned in Russia, writes RBC. The department is ready to allocate 25 million rubles for this. Experts believe that even with the new system, the service is unlikely to be able to effectively track the blocking of sites. More.