The expectation of Michael Kalvi was the main theme of the first day of PMEF, the detention of journalist Ivan Golunov - the second Photo: Sergey Bobylev/TASS We have not yet seen such a St. Petersburg Economic Forum-the main characters of the news agenda of the two main days of PMEF instead of Putin with Xi Jinping took turns in turn-investor Michael Kalvi and journalist Ivan Golyunov.

The expectation of Michael Kalvi was the main theme of the first day of PMEF, the detention of journalist Ivan Golunov - the second We have not yet seen such a St. Petersburg Economic Forum-the main characters of the news agenda of the two main days of PMEF instead of Putin with Xi Jinping took turns in turn-investor Michael Kalvi and journalist Ivan Golyunov.

At the plenary session of the SPIEF, Vladimir Putin managed to comment on several questions at once, the answers to which were expected from him - the case of Michael Calvey, the new President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the unification of Russia and Belarus. Not to mention the confrontation with the US and the Russian business climate. We have chosen the most important. The full text of the plenary session can be read here . *About the Calvey case.

At the SPIEF plenary session, for the first time, President Vladimir Putin commented meaningfully on the circumstances of the case against the founder of the Baring Vostok investment fund, Michael Calvey. Moderator Sofiko Shevardnadze: Vladimir Vladimirovich, we are talking about Chinese investments, but there are investors from all over the world who want to invest in Russia. There was a recent case with American investor Mile Calvey and his partner Philippe Delpal.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow has released a new report regarding the detention of Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov.

Stroyproektholding of Arkady Rotenberg and VEB.RF agreed to create a joint venture, which will become the largest contractor in the market of infrastructure financing and construction. The memorandum was signed at SPIEF on Friday, June 7, the companies should receive 50% in the joint venture.

The founder of Telegram and VKontakte, Pavel Durov, invited developers from Yandex on his telegram channel to join the Telegram team to create a “free” analogue of the Yandex.News aggregator, which would not be limited by censorship and the Russian market. Quote: “Those Yandex specialists who are interested in this are invited to apply via @jobs_bot (Content Recommendation Engineer).

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin asked Oleg Baranov, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, to take the criminal case of Meduza investigative journalist Ivan Golunov under his personal control and investigate it as objectively as possible. This was reported to The Bell by Sobyanin's press secretary Gulnara Penkova. Read also Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov detained in Moscow Ivan Golunov was detained on the afternoon of June 6.

Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika asked to return the right to arrests to prosecutors, similar to the Soviet model, when the prosecutor arrests and his decision is only appealed in court. According to Chaika, this measure will help protect the business from pressure. This is what the participants of the SPIEF session asked for: they called on the prosecutor's office to actively object to the investigation when choosing a measure of restraint for businessmen.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tinkoff Oleg Tinkov and CEO of the Yandex Group of Companies Arkady Volozh discussed the merger at the SPIEF session “Technologies on a scale: playing ahead.” At the session, they were asked a question from the audience about the possibility of merging Tinkoff and Yandex. In response, the speakers began to be ironic. "What, should we kiss here, on stage?" Tinkov joked.

Michael Calvey is definitely not coming to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. His lawyer Dmitry Savochkin told The Bell that Calvey expressed his regret to his lawyers that his planned trip to SPIEF, apparently, would not take place due to reasons beyond his control. Lawyers said Calvey hoped he would be able to attend the forum, as he had been a regular participant in previous years.

The main event of the morning of the second day of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum was the traditional business breakfast of Sberbank with the session "Russia 2024: how to combine stability and reforms", moderated by German Gref. Participants talked about risk and stability, business and innovation, investment and the Calvey case. The Bell collected the main quotes from the participants. Andrey Makarov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes About stability.

The shareholder of Vostochny Bank Sherzod Yusupov, who initiated a criminal case against the founder of Baring Vostok Michael Calvey, responded to the decision of the Ethics Commission at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) that condemned him. The commission ruled that Yusupov violated business ethics by contacting law enforcement agencies before exhausting other possibilities to resolve a corporate dispute.

In Moscow, the special corner of the Medusa investigation department Ivan Kolunov was detained. The publication itself writes about this. Photo: from Facebook Ivan Golunov Golunov was detained on the night of June 7, when attempting a drug of Mephedron on the sale of a drug, the initial version of the investigation of the colleague of journalist Svetlana Reuters from the Russian BBC Service said.

The state has “corrupted” entrepreneurs with benefits, and businesses refuse to invest until they receive any preferences from the authorities, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at the Sberbank breakfast at SPIEF. Quote: “We still have, especially in business, some kind of nihilism, “everything is bad, everything is wrong.” We are underperforming. We still have a business that still works in the old fashioned way, according to the principle: earned - abroad, earned - offshore.