"News do not add optimism": officials, businessmen and statistics - about a new series of high -profile criminal cases Russia. Yekaterinburg. October 27, 2017. Investigative insulator No. 1 (pre -trial detention center). Photo: TASS 2019 at least fulfilled the usual plan for loud criminal cases - only this week two former higher -caliber officials were arrested, and one of them, Mikhail Abyzov, was also a large businessman.

The largest Russian business publication of RBC began to publish news marked “Made for aggregators”. It includes news on the “hot” topics unusual for the business publication, designed for the collection of traffic in Yandex.Nections and other aggregators. There are no links to this news on the main page of RBC - they can only be found in plots, tags and direct search. Read more.

The US Department of State and Treasury have prepared a draft of new sanctions, which is awaiting final approval from the White House, found out Bloomberg . Agency sources believe that they will be introduced in response to the poisoning in the UK of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. When the sanctions will be introduced and who they will affect is still unclear. More. One Bloomberg source said that the sanctions may affect the Russian banking sector.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held a live broadcast with users of the social network VKontakte today, March 29. They could ask him any question on the page "VKLive with Dmitry Medvedev" from March 23. However, users did not have the opportunity to comment on the broadcast in real time - it was hosted by TV presenter Yana Churikova. The Bell has collected the prime minister's main quotes. On the cases of Mikhail Abyzov and Michael Calvey.

British MPs have rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit proposal for the third time. This means that the UK will have to again ask the EU for a delay - or leave the union according to the "hard" option. But the parliament had already rejected the exit without an agreement. More. Theresa May's proposal to resign if MPs approve her Brexit deal with the EU has not worked. Parliamentarians rejected the prime minister's deal for the third time by 344 votes to 286.

Mail.Ru Group showed Dmitry Medvedev its voice assistant Marusya during the Prime Minister's visit to the company's office. More. Demonstrating its capabilities in response to a request from a company employee: “Marusya, tell me something,” the Mail.Ru voice assistant said: “I summed up the year, myself and the team.” “Well, the humor is specific,” the developers commented. “Does not apply to those present,” the prime minister said.

The debt burden of Russians has approached a historical maximum, said Elizaveta Danilova, director of the financial stability department of the Bank of Russia. Even strenuously saving, residents of the country could not reduce the level of debt. More. Now the total debt burden is 9.9%, Danilova said at a banking conference of the Rossiya Banks Association. This value is close to the record value of 10.4%, which was recorded in 2014.

On the last today, March 29, a direct line with users of VKontakte, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev connected the Abyzov case with his conflict with creditors. Alfa-Bank was the largest creditor of Abyzov's bankrupt E4 group. “Law enforcement agencies should comment on this, this is their competence. His commercial activities are completely unknown to me. But I heard about the conflict between him and the creditors, which eventually received such a criminal law development.

Taxi booking service Lyft today announced that it has completed its IPO at the high end of its range , at $72 per share. This is a strong opening for a year of big tech IPOs, but investors will be watching closely to see where Lyft's price moves. A big decline would be very bad news for the next big competitor, Uber, to be listed. More. Lyft raised its IPO share price to $72 per share.

From today, March 29, two laws came into force in Russia: on liability for the dissemination of fake news and insulting the authorities. Both of them concern ordinary users and both threaten with blocking and large fines. The Bell figured out what is considered a violation and how it can be avoided. Law on abuse of authority. Can. Constructively criticize the government, express an opinion on the activities of government bodies and individual politicians, point out specific problems.

The largest participant in the fast payment system (FPS), which allows you to instantly (and often free of charge) transfer money to each other by phone number, was Tinkoff Bank, which joined it among the first. It accounted for half of the transfers to the SBP in terms of amount, follows from the statistics of the Central Bank and the data of the bank itself. More.

This is the story of how a startup became a victim of its own great success. As Bloomberg found out , European banks are not ready to increase lending to WeWork, which has become the largest private tenant of commercial real estate in New York and London. Investors, stunned by too rapid growth, began to experience fears. It is also hard for the market to get used to the WeWork business model, which takes real estate on a long-term lease and rents it out to clients on a short-term basis.

The MCAS critical control system, which experts called the cause of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing-737 MAX crash on March 10, did automatically work before the crash. The Wall Street Journal wrote about this with reference to experts familiar with the results of a preliminary analysis of the black box data. Thus, MCAS was most likely the root cause of both crashes of these aircraft, and this puts Boeing in front of a wave of lawsuits, the scale of which is difficult to even imagine. More.

Gazprom will buy its contractors from Rotenberg and Timchenko Gazprom will buy out its largest contractors from Arkady Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko, writes RBC. The gas monopoly, which has entered into a fight with the United States for the European market, wants to get rid of at least formal reasons to accuse it of working with sanctions companies. Structure of Gazprom Gazstroyprom will buy Stroygazmontazh from Arkady Rotenberg and Stroytransneftegaz from Gennady Timchenko.

The Federal Tax Service is thinking about joining a new control mechanism - an international compliance program (International Compliance Assurance Program, ICAP) of tax legislation, writes Vedomosti , citing a representative of the department. With it, companies will be able to report taxes to several countries at once and receive a quick response from all departments at the same time.