Alibaba, Mail.ru Group and the RDIP signed documents on the creation of a joint venture in an online trade. At the first stage, Alibaba will receive 55.7% in the authorized capital The Chinese Alibaba Group and the Russian Mail.Ru Group, Megafon and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIPI) finally signed the obligatory documents on the creation of Russian joint venture in the online trade-it should become the main competitor of the Yandex and Sberbank joint venture.

The National Carrier of the Netherlands, the oldest air company KLM decided to support the development of a passenger aircraft with a fundamentally new circuit for civil aviation - a flying wing with top -deleted engines. The Flying-V project will conduct the Aerospace Faculty of the Delfta Technological University, a flying model and interior layout will be shown at the Schiphol Army Airport for the 100th anniversary of KLM in October this year. Why is this necessary?

Brent crude fell below $60 on Wednesday, June 5, for the first time since the end of January. In April, Brent briefly stood at around $75 a barrel. The immediate cause was an unexpected and unanticipated rise in U.S. inventories – by 3.5 million barrels at once according to API calculations and by 6.8 million barrels according to the EIA methodology. Stocks are at their highest in almost two years.

Alibaba Group, Mail.Ru Group, Megafon and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) signed an agreement to create a Russian joint venture. The main surprise: Alibaba will receive economic control in the merged company (55.7%). Alibaba's voting share will be 49.9%. The company will be managed by two general directors at once: one will be appointed by Mail.Ru Group, the second by Alibaba. Shareholder structure.

The fate of the main problematic asset of Russian oil refining, the country's largest independent Antipinsky Refinery, has been determined: the Azerbaijani state company SOCAR has received a share in it. Not just recycling A joint venture between Sberbank (40%) and SOCAR (60%) - the Russian company Sokar Energoresurs - bought the Cypriot structure of Vikay Industria lim, which controls 80% of the shares of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery, Vedomosti writes .

Large banks are gradually reducing rates on retail ruble deposits - by an average of 0.1–0.3 percentage points, Vedomosti reports . Rates began to fall after the Central Bank allowed a new reduction in its key rate. The next meeting on it will be held on June 14. Read more. Among the top 30 banks in terms of deposit portfolio size, rates were reduced by the Moscow Industrial Bank, Unicredit, FC Otkritie, Renaissance Credit, Absolut Bank and Home Credit.

Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko proposed to include funds in the federal budget for 2020 to help Russians abroad. Matvienko's proposal is connected with the case of Russian woman Maria Butina, convicted in the United States on charges of working as a foreign agent and forced to ask for money for lawyers. What Butina admitted, you can read here. Who will do it.

Acting Governor of the Astrakhan region Sergey Morozov wrote a letter of resignation, Igor Babushkin was appointed in his place. A presidential decree on this was published on the Kremlin website. Sergei Morozov is a native of the FSO, a former assistant to Sergei Shoigu and deputy head of the Federal Customs Service. He replaced the governor of the Astrakhan region, Alexander Zhilkin, who headed the region for 14 years in the fall of 2018.

The Accounts Chamber presented the first openness rating of Russian state structures. The Ministry of Internal Affairs turned out to be the most transparent ministry. What's happened? The Office of Alexei Kudrin for the first time assessed government agencies for transparency. ANO "Infokultura" and the Center for Advanced Management Decisions also participated in the study. In total, openness was measured in 22 ministries and 50 federal services. As they thought.

IKEA has launched a new line of robotic furniture for rooms ranging from 8 sq. m. The Rognan system is a cabinet that, on command from the touchpad, turns into a sofa or work area. The set includes a bed, a sofa, a work desk and several additional wardrobes for storing clothes. The robotic bedroom will be available from 2020 in Japan and Hong Kong, countries with small apartments and high incomes.

Tesla employees can't access Blind, an anonymous social network that can be used to complain about an employer and report violations in the workplace. Representatives of the service told Gismodo that Tesla blocks employee authorization through corporate mail. This means that they cannot confirm in the Blind community that they really work for Tesla. In addition, access to the site via Wi-Fi is closed.

In the "inner circle" of Vladimir Putin - "Politburo 2.0" there have been changes, follows from the report of the same name about the Russian elites from the political scientists "Minchenko Consulting". The new “politburo” over the past two years has included Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and businessman Gennady Timchenko. State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has dropped out of his inner circle, experts say. Signals.

Aide to the President of Russia Andrei Belousov told Forbes magazine that he knows exactly where the journalists got his last year letter to Vladimir Putin with a proposal to withdraw excess profits from exporters. The information was given to the media through employees of two companies from the list attached to this letter. Belousov did not disclose the names, but called the billionaires involved in the leak "fools" and "idiots." Quote. “Well, what fools!

The Ministry of Finance often says that currency control must be softened, but so far it becomes only stricter, and business is increasingly being held accountable. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov proposed upgrading currency control. Photo: kremlin.ru/(cc by 4.0) What's happened?

While the Ministry of Finance promises the liberalization of currency legislation, the Federal Tax Service tightens control and fines The Ministry of Finance often says that currency control must be softened, but so far it becomes only stricter, and business is increasingly being held accountable.