A joint investigation published this week by journalists from The Bell , Meduza , Forbes and Vedomosti revealed how state-owned oil giant Rosneft calls the shots at Vedomosti, the country’s leading business newspaper.

Stores and malls clash over rent payments The main battle of the week is a dispute between large tenants and owners of shopping centers. Today, the State Duma was supposed to adopt in the second reading a law allowing the termination of lease agreements with shopping centers unilaterally and without any fees if the retailer's revenue after the introduction of the "high alert mode" fell by more than 50%.

The Moscow Health Department commented on the publication of the Financial Times about the incorrect calculation of the number of deaths from infection in the capital. The Russian Foreign Ministry will require the newspaper to refute the information it has published. The Metropolitan Department of Health responded to the publication in six points: Moscow does not hide information about mortality - on the contrary, it publishes it ahead of federal structures.

Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin will remain in charge of Russia's largest oil company for another five years, Vedomosti writes. According to the sources of the newspaper, the directive of the government on this has already been signed. The matter is only up to the decision of the board of directors of the company - it can meet before the weekend, on May 14 or 15. Sechin became head of Rosneft in May 2012, but before that he was chairman of the board of directors.

The main news about the spread of coronavirus in Russia and in the world is on May 13. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! In the world We give data from Jones Hopkins, which tracks the situation in real time: Infected: 4.29 million people (May 12 - 4.23 million, May 11 - 4.12 million). Recovered: 1.51 million (May 12 - 1.48 million, May 11 - 1.42 million).

The dates for the Unified State Exam in 2020 will be postponed from June 8, reported the Ministry of Education . New dates are not yet known. The USE will be taken by schoolchildren who are going to enter universities, and the exam will be limited to two subjects necessary for this. As reported in Rosobrnadzor, the exam may be scheduled for the second half of July. For ninth-graders, compulsory exams in the Russian language and mathematics will be canceled.

Russian-made artificial lung ventilation (IVL) devices are critically inferior to foreign ones in terms of ease of use, and the rush to manufacture and organize new places for patients with coronavirus could become a prerequisite for their ignition, writes The Moscow Times (MT ) . The publication interviewed doctors, who said that the devices arrived at the affected hospitals in early May and the staff was not trained to handle them.

President Vladimir Putin criticized the work of the Gosuslugi website: it has been working intermittently for the second day, and citizens cannot apply for the payment of benefits for children, which the president promised on May 11. “On the 11th, after a fairly serious study with the government, with the administration, I proposed a whole range of measures related to supporting citizens, our people, and businesses.

Five deputies from United Russia submitted amendments to the law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights” to the State Duma, which allow remote electronic voting in elections and by mail, including physical. UPD: The State Duma adopted the law in three readings on the same day. The cases and procedure for voting in this format will be established by the Central Election Commission. The document, posted on the website of the State Duma, allows for "by mail" and early voting.

One of the main business conflicts of the coronavirus crisis-between large tenants and owners of shopping centers-should be resolved in the near future. A compromise may be an option in which tenants will receive the right to break the lease unilaterally without sanctions, but only until October of this year. But it is possible that tenants will still be able to conquer the termination of contracts through the court.

Russia's GDP will decline by 4.5% in 2020, according to a report by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The reason for this fall is the “double whammy” of the coronavirus pandemic and the decline in oil prices and demand. Bank experts believe that in 2021 GDP will rebound, but only by 4%. Thus, the dynamics of the Russian economy will be worse than the average for the EBRD countries, with a decline in GDP of 3.5% this year and growth of 4.8% next.

Twitter has allowed its employees not to return to the offices and, if they wish, to permanently work remotely if they have such a desire. In an email to Twitter employees, CEO Jack Dorsey wrote that the company likely won't return to work from the office until September, and even after coronavirus restrictions are lifted, employees can continue to work from home. "The last few months have proven that we can make this work remote," the statement said.

The popular service “Kitchen in the area” can replenish the piggy bank of the assets of Sberbank and Mail.ru. The joint venture of Sberbank and Mail.Ru Group O2O Holding was invested in the Moscow Delivery Serving Service “Kitchen in the region”, having received a 30%share of the founders of business founders from Rocketbank, Alexei Kolesnikov and Oleg Kozyrev, learned Vedomosti.

In Russia, over the past 24 hours, another 10,028 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in 83 regions, of which almost half were again asymptomatic. In total, as of May 13, 242,271 cases were identified in the country in 85 regions. 4,703 new cases were recorded in Moscow, 962 in the Moscow region, 435 in St. Petersburg, 271 in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Yesterday, Russia took second place in the number of infected people in the world, overtaking Spain.

Popular service "Kitchen in the area" can replenish the piggy bank of the assets of Sberbank and Mail.ru The crisis is a time of possibilities, Sberbank and Mail.ru Group decided. Their joint venture, competing with Yandex, has been investing in the second popular service in the field of food delivery since April.